Perhaps it's just because dial-up users may be less computer savvy and
sophisticated and don't always keep adware, spyware and antivirus
capabilities updated regularly.
Lots of FUD below.
DSH
"Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
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> MeNotKnow wrote:
>> Some people seem to think that a slow connection, or part time connection
>> is more secure. But it's not. Dial-up users get eaten alive by malware
>> all the time. The "safer" thing is a total urban myth.
>>
>> (Take it from a guy who has pulled tons of malware of computers on
>> dial-up connections. Many of which, I might add, had a mountain of
>> Norton/Symantec security crap piled onto them. Not only did it not block
>> the stuff, it couldn't get rid of the stuff after it let it through).
>
> You can say that again. For some reason though it seems that many times
> you remove the worthless crap, get the machine running well again and give
> it back, then the first thing they do is reinstall Systemworks because
> they didn't feel safe without it 