Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:51:00 -0600 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless interface Message-ID: <afe6eca2-cf0e-acc7-98ab-87b09f335b34@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <23629.62237.774384.921659@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <CAPu-kW-0u=Eoj8NtASnD_WDnsosj_WcTEh=Zhby1DnBV3d2rdg@mail.gmail.com> <MWHPR04MB04954E8E691D98C40B68607780940@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> <ca52dc16-1f7b-7397-2106-76a22bf8579a@kicp.uchicago.edu> <23629.62237.774384.921659@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 1/27/19 12:06 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Valeri Galtsev writes: > >> As one clever man said, you will pay, one way or another. With MS >> Windows system you will pay money for using it. You will also pay >> money for using 3rd party software - antivirus. MS is the only >> system vendor I know of who explicitly tells you it is not safe to >> use their system without 3rd party software (antivirus). > > A "free for personal use" edition of one of the well-known > antivirus products was the first thing I installed on my Windows 10 > systen after the OS itself. Elapsed time less then five minutes, and > it auto-updates. I recommend free.avg.com for home users (they allow one instance free per household). I recommend to stay away from kaspersky for obvious reasons (Karpersky is KGB guy; is not was, there is no was in that line of work). Just my $0.02 Valeri > While this system sits behind a FreeBSD gateway that provides > limited firewall/anti-virus protection, it's been running for over a > year - including browsing and e-mail - with no apparent problems. > Is there something I am perhaps unaware of? > > > Respectfully, > > > Robert Huff > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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