| From: | Glenn Carey |
| Date: | 18 May 2000 at 06:06:07 |
| Subject: | Re: Is Internet Safe? |
Lets see in almost 10 years on the internet with the Amiga I have got
about 0 viri, if you stick to sites like Aminet you are fairly safe
Jay wrote:
>
> So I have my Hard Drive running, and I found a couple of unpackers
> (X-Arc.lha and Menu-Lzx_Lha.lha) on Aminet that should unpack BoingBag1...
>
> http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/info/www/dirs/util_arc.html
>
> But I'm not about to try to get Miami running over a null-modem until it is
> safe to venture onto the internet. Has anyone had bad run-ins with viruses?
> Do you recommend a good virus protection program? I've never heard of
> anything like Norton for Amigas, but something that extensive may not be
> necessary.
>
> By "good" I mean something that can check for everything on or off schedule
> and something I can easily turn off when I don't want it. I would think a
> virus detection program that works like one of the exchange programs would
> be useful.
>
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