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NIS almost single handedly moved me to Linux
After reinstalling NIS 2005 about 5 times on my 2 year old Sony laptop, I switched to the ZoneAlarm Security Suite. NIS kept crashing my boot processes and losing the configuration settings... among other things I can't remember at the moment. ZoneAlarm was better... but not much. Both of these products run fine on my wife's brand new P4. I'm now running Fedora Core 4 on the laptop. The laptop now starts when I want it, stops (without hanging) when I want it, and it doesn't waste my time with periodic 'virus scans.' I'm sure that Linux has all sorts of security vulnerabilities of it's own but viruses are a peculier vulnerability of MS software.

PS: I've run Norton products for somewhere between 5 and 10 years. My trouble started with SP2.
Posted by: palmwarrior   Posted on: 07/29/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Has anyone looked at OSS?  bill@... | 07/27/05
Antivirus  Loverock Davidson | 07/27/05
Apples to oranges  ibabadur1 | 07/27/05
Only one *automated* dbase update...  ordaj@... | 07/27/05
Thank you  Loverock Davidson | 07/27/05
Not ClamWin, CLAMMAIL  bill@... | 07/27/05
Many chances in NIS  zmud | 07/27/05
NIS almost single handedly moved me to Linux  palmwarrior | 07/29/05
Stupid Question?  ibabadur1 | 07/27/05
cuz they aint as bold...  linuxoverwindows | 07/27/05

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