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Old Aug 25, 2003 | 7:56 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
I am participating in their PC Satisfaction trials, it's an all-in-one application that has backup, anti-virus and a firewall.</font>
Given the microsquish penchant for providing a perfect host platform for remote security exploits and the associated virii, do you really want to trust your data to an MS firewall/virus scanner?

It's an ancillary point, I know, but I'll be buying Trend products, Veritas products, and a real firewall to sit in front of my windows farm until a snowball survives in hades .

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