From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,452860c2cffef8e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-26 20:46:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:46:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:47:30 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Virus Resistive Software References: <3F4A55D7.2060404@spam.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <5R-cnVMdsb4ItNGiU-KYvg@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.92 X-Trace: sv3-hg3z6R707j7E8DhB7ym+gF5k7A3JjpXq3K7R4MqTbWXgDjOiOOIx74wn7g6WbEclreAi1A8ueol1SlN!KSXEL6Ji+5U/Jm4YNtkZiFBrRcD8WXaWDckenOk52msCtufIjSba1ekPmBvjejQjxHIv+4PY0ds7 X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41875 Date: 2003-08-26T22:47:30-05:00 List-Id: > The best way to get rid of Outlook, is to yank it out or disable it, pop > something like Mozilla Mail in. If that's too bizzarre skin it to look > like outlook and see how it goes. It's got to configure out the box, do It has to WORK out of the box AND be EASY to install. I spent seven hours on the phone talking my mother through the settings before she could even _get_ any mail. Then I sent her Norton Anti-Virus for Christmas, and she won't attempt to install it until I get back on the phone with her to talk her through that. It's not that she's stupid--but she didn't even give up her manual typewriter [1] until five years ago, so a computer is a major culture shift! [2] My father's not stupid either--has a master's in education--but he never even typed in his life until they bought that thing. And there are thousands like them. It's very likely they are hosting a virus or two. And will be, until I get down there and clean it for them. I'd tell them to get somebody who knows computers to stop in, but unfortunately, most of the people who are able to _use_ a computer have not a clue about security. [1] For you young folks, that's a typewriter that functions only by physical force--no electricity. [2] I can't say "close the window," I have to say "See the little 'X' in the upper right corner of the window?" "Window? Is that the big rectangle?" "Yes, move the mouse until the arrow points to the X in the corner of it and press and release the left button" -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/Wes