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Subject: Re: Spyware, viruses etc . . .
From: Klas Strandberg <>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:23:10 +0200
May I recommend XoftSpy, which solved all my spyware problems, incl. the
nasty 540.filost worm.

Klas.

At 19:43 2005-04-05, you wrote:

>Walt is correct that most of the nasty programs out there are
>windows-based. Using a Mac is one way to avoid them, but there are other
>alternatives (Linux and other UNIXes, BeOS, etc.) many of which are
>available at no cost and run on the intel hardware that windows runs on.
>
>And they really are worth considering; since there's a long tradition of
>using unix in academic and engineering settings, there is lots of good
>(and free) DSP software available for these OS's.
>
>I'm not trying to start a "my OS is superior" debate at all, just to
>follow up on and strongly agree with Walt's important observation that
>there are a number of ways you can avoid problems by avoiding windows.
>
>
>Cheers!
>
>Steve P
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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>

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