[ale] OT: Win98 + Infections

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Everytime I come to my parents house I have to clean crap off their
> win98 machine.  All of it is adware. I'm using a D-Link firewall and
> I do not think a firewall will solve this problem since most of 
> this mess comes through port 80.  Is there a way?
> 
> One solution is to have 2 machines.  One for Win98 for their windows
> stuff that is not connected to the internet.  The other running Linux
> for browsing and such.  Or dual-boot may work?

My daughter has a dual boot box, no networking for windows installed. 
She plays her windows games there, does all her internet/email/chat on 
Linux.

I flat told my mother-in-law I would not 'support' her if she was 
running windows.  She only does email/browser.  She's on SuSE 9.0.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft