Re: Thunderbird won't run
- From: Derek Moody <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:54:57 +0100
In article <ZfOdndalkIotYmHbnZ2dnUVZ8tGqnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>,
<URL:mailto:srawlings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <ant280628d07BxcK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Derek Moody) wrote:
I have to disagre with you on that Derek. I have been running XPPro on this machine for some 4 years and it is the most reliable OS
I have ever had. (fingers x'd) As an inveterate fiddler and
player with different
If it works for you then fine, you're one of the lucky ones.
Dunno about luck, more long experience, reading articles and of taking
advice from knowlegeable people
software, it does seem reliable. Good AV and zero use of Outlook
and IE5,6 and7 probably helps :-)
That's the other thing. Of the two operating systems open to the
internet
here one has no antivirus software (and needs none) and the other
is fully
up to date as I upgraded the definitions only eighteen months ago.
But I do have excellent firewalls and monitor traffic levels.
As I said, not luck! :-) Not sure that I would agree that an 18month old
set of definitions for AV is up to date however...
It is if there have been no new viruses on the platform in the intervening
period. Mind you it's hardly worth having the av software as even the
viruses there are cannot breach the core operating system and so can be dug
out by hand if need be. One of the advantages of an OS in rom.
Cheerio,
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http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/
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