Hello Peter: and other interested parties:
I will agree with Michael. It looks like you would be throwing bad money
after good. Earth link want be doing any more than what you are doing
already. It would be like buying an extended warranty for an electronic
product. I bought a $12.95 set of headphones at my local Radio Shack. What
did they ask me? You want fries with that? Smile. If It isn't going to break
in the next 3 months it isn't going to brake.
If you are doing the four security components I mentioned in a earlier
posting plus just being darn careful about your downloads and opening
attachments being the fifth component. That should be enough.
Someone posted saying he does his clean up once a day. How correct he is.
However, I am not going to quibble over the frequency of how often this
should be done. Once a week works for me. Now if someone wants to do there
clean up once a month, I would need to ask him or her "How often do you go
on to the Internet during the month?" Now if you are just driving this thing
to church on Sundays, then once a month may work for you. Smile. If you get
peace of mind by doing your clean up chores once a day then you most likely
sleep better than I do at night. Smile. It takes a good hour to run my anti
virus and anti spy ware programs to get my clean sweep. By saying once a
week I was trying to emphasize the routine nature or adding it to your
schedule of things you do with your computer It is important that you run
these programs on a routine basis And also remember to download your anti
virus and anti spy ware updates along with Your window updates. If you don't
go out and check for the new updates you are wasting your time for that
clean up session.
At lease two of these four security components can be automated. Windows can
do updates along with AVG automatically. You will just need to give your
firewall permission to let the dogs out so to speak.
If you are doing all this there is no reason for you to pay someone else to
do it remotely.
I feel like I am preaching to the choir now.
I'm getting off my soapbox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Barber" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: How much is additional protection worth?
:I wouldn't do it. Keep your $5.95 per month. As long as you do regular
: live updates with Norton and regular scans, you should be okay.
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
: [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Seymour
: Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:20 AM
: To: [log in to unmask]
: Subject: How much is additional protection worth?
:
:
: Hello All.
:
: Something tells me that this has happened to many of you, too.
:
: I recently updated my credit card's expiration date for my Earthlink
: dial-up account. After doing so, the woman there tried to sell me
: anti-virus and firewall protection.
:
: When I asked her if Earthlink doesn't provide some kind of overall
: protection, she reassured me that it does. Then I told her that I have
: Norton installed on my computer. However, the woman still said that it
: is a good idea for me to have this additional protection for only $5.95
: per month, regularly updated, for the indefinite future.
:
: Now, how much truth is in that, and what is it worth to me? I've never
: had any problem with my computer getting infected.
:
: Thanks,
: Peter
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