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1. Comment - AOL Releases Standalone Security App

   (Dec 3, 2005 - 6:04 PM)

   Most people switch to a broadband internet service from AOL, by far the biggest account of user loss in AOL's base.
   
   I must add that your entry is well written and a welcome change to the normal incoherent and bigoted flamings that most users on this forum tend to fall back on. Justifications are nice in supporting opinions

2. Comment - AOL Releases Standalone Security App

   (Dec 3, 2005 - 5:54 PM)

   It's interesting to see how the evolution of AOL over the last 10 years has been less severe than the companies changes in this last year.
   
   A lot of people have become alienated by AOL, and granted it's mostly for several good reasons, at the time: versions 6.0 - 8.0 have been quite a bit more buggy than it should have been.
   
   However, 9.0 security edition happens to be much more solid in stability and has gotten quite a few good reviews, including from such impartial sources such as Consumer Reports... and their security suites are effective, though geared toward higher powered machines with more available resources than what most people on this forum are probably using (I myself am find with my 700 mhz Athlon).
   
   You've also got to remember that their programming is aimed toward less experienced users and as such, they have to build more idiot-proof software solutions which have to be aesthetically pleasing (what you call "bloat") to appease the tastes of it's user class, and as non-intrusive as possible (which relies on a lot of the behind the scenes processing). This is software that is neither designed nor marketed toward the more mature computing population out there... a fact you must remember before you decide to critique it on grounds that it's design is overly simplified and ineffective.
   
   The comparison you also fail to make in terms of resource usage is how much you're computer's internet connection, firewall, spyware, and anti-virus use COMBINED compared to AOL's suite. I think you'll find that you're computer has just as many tsr's, using a similar amount of resources, from those afforementioned programs as AOL's suite does.
   
   So, before you obstinately condemn AOL, check out the new version using the recommended system requirements... AOL has made it's $20 per month fee much more affordable with it's included spyware, firewall, and antivirus applications.
   
   There is a reason Micorsoft, Yahoo, and Google were all looking at AOL as part of an acquisition... and why Time Warner refuses to sell it off.
   
   In fact, there was a recent article in the New York Times that listed AOL as the most undervalued compartment of Time Warner.

3. Comment - Blaster Author Sentenced to 18 Months

   (Jan 28, 2005 - 4:50 PM)

   Agreed... We (The States)really gotta make a point that if you write/modify a virus which causes any sort infection small or big, yout pay for it... How much money and man hours have companies spent this last year on security and antivirus? Too much... 5 years minimum, computer isolation for at least 20, 500 community service hours min... yeah, that sounds about right.

4. Comment - Mandrakesoft Linux is on the Move

   (Oct 7, 2004 - 2:48 PM)

   Even the USB key is not novel...Knoppix has had that option for awhile. In fact, there are a couple of distrobutions that run *solely* from a USB key.