From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem during C source code compilation
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+sc5mkWxoB+b1UnfqbwT4Z7vV8NxM0ULDXsdNAKWscypnG7TA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504C2D61.6080407@dancol.org>
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 9/7/12 1:17 PM, Fausto Arinos Barbuto wrote:
>>> You need *a* firewall and *an* antivirus, but not necessarily *those*
>>> specific products. If you're serious about using Cygwin, you'll
>> want to
>>> find alternatives that aren't BLODA.
>>
>> You are right on spot as for that, but unfortunately Zone Alarm (my
>> 2nd firewall option) is also BLODA. I can easily live without McAfee
>> (and I'm seriously decided to replace it by another non-BLODA product),
>> but really good, *non-leaky* firewalls aren't that easy to find. I
>> will see what I can do.
>
> You realize that Windows comes with a perfectly good firewall, right?
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with that thought.
> I really don't think people need the security bolt-ons they think they
> need. All they do is slow things down and cause problems.
>
Fear of the unknown is a great sale pitch. What I really dislike are
those who distribute things like virus protection embedded in their
own product installation. I upgraded Java and ended up requesting an
install of McAfee.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 20:27 Fausto Arinos Barbuto
2012-09-05 20:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-09-06 12:51 ` Fausto Arinos Barbuto
2012-09-06 12:59 ` Cliff Hones
2012-09-06 13:56 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-09-06 21:45 ` Fausto Arinos Barbuto
2012-09-07 2:38 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-09-08 1:30 ` Fausto Arinos Barbuto
2012-09-09 12:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-09 17:30 ` Earnie Boyd [this message]
2012-09-10 2:38 ` JonY
2012-09-10 13:25 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-09-10 13:36 ` Sean Murphy
2012-09-06 14:58 ` Fausto Arinos Barbuto
2012-09-06 15:09 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-09-06 21:38 ` Fausto Arinos Barbuto
2012-09-06 20:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-09-10 12:55 ` SOLVED: " Fausto
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