On Monday 29 November 2004 18:58, Rony Bill wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vivek J.Patankar" vivekpatankar@spymac.com
That's not quite correct. The two most popular AV solutions, Norton & McAfee, both check files as soon as they are accessed.
IF the virus is in the database the AV program will find it. Usually u get infected by some uknown mutant of existing virii. And often by a new one. The average time to infection is 4 minutes on a dialup. The average time to download a patch on a dialup is several times longer - a rather idiotic situation. And this does not include the great OS killer win XP - SP2.
Migrating a customer to linux is not so easy even if the driver issues are resolved, as all his old data has to be converted to the linux format which his new non-microsoft programs in linux should read and edit just as before.
OO does that quite well. And issues if any are very minor. Just be clear that when you change to linux u have to learn to do things differently - a small price to pay for freedom, reliability, stability, security etc. If ur customer prefers to stew in the microsoft pot well happy boiling. And guess what it's u the support guy who will get the flack not Billybhai. He will be preaching homilies about security, piracy, innovation etc., at some lackey seminar.
Many use Tally or QFA or similar custom accounting software and this data will go waste in linux without the program being able to run. Outlook Express has one unique feature where you can have multiple accounts with their own individual smtp settings. If there is a suspicious mail you can right click on the header and view its entire source code without opening it. I have downloaded and tried out different email clients but OE was most feature rich.
Yeah features like executing random vb scripts - man wake up.
Regarding printers, peripherals etc. Check if the stuff u plan to buy works under Gnu/Linux before u pay.
rgds jtd