You use Symantec/Norton products, right?
What Charlie or the other poster said is not FUD.
-Michael
"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:OV6zYCXaHHA.4692@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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>> MeNotKnow wrote:
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>>> 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 
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