hell, i'll be doing that soon and i mostly use a mac, which so far has
been nearly bullet proof (but i'm not stupid enough to think that will
last for ever!).  i'll also be using a pc regularly starting in the next
few days, i don't plan to let it anywhere near the net!  the pc's (what
is the "proper" plural for pc?) will be on my local network, all will be
behind a firewall, and only one mac will be used online.  downloads will
be done to the mac and then sent over the network, preferably when i'm
offline.

you may think that's paranoid, but i'm on dialup and my current firewall
logs are still terrifying!  even on a slow, 26k dialup line with a
dynamic ip i'm getting constant incursion attempts, so bad that they
have interrupted things and slowed things down before, there are simply
too many people spending too much time cracking out there (and i do mean
"cracking", not hacking like i do which is totally legit and not an
attempt to break into anything that's not mine).

your only a paranoid until the spanish inquisition, or nazi germany, or
post 911 america with a cia stooge's son in the white house..... (do you
really think any former associate of the cia can be "out" if they are
still breathing?).  seriously, "it can't happen here" is usually the
fastest formula to make sure something will happen here.

Dave Dilatush wrote:
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>
> I'm still inclined to do what I mentioned before: get a second,
> "no-frills" machine to serve as my Internet box, while keeping
> all my CAD/WP/graphics applications and data on this one.  But
> rather than go through a complete WinXP install when it becomes
> necessary to clean out the Internet box, use Ghost or Drive Image
> to restore it instead.
>
> I **think** that makes sense as a tactic...
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