[Info-vax] Tired of virus and worm issues!! Want to replace my PC with OVMS Workstation. (Needs)

[Arne Vajhøj]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> First off, I have never seen any kind of PC run properly when MS
> Outlook (not express) was running. It saps the system of all resources
> so that almost nothing else will run.

I have. It takes about 60 MB mem and no noticeable slow down. And that
is on a 3 year old laptop.

That seems to be rather common.

The only think I have seen that can make Outlook really frustrating
is a slow or flaky connection to the exchange server.

> All my complaints are vindicated when a contractor comes on site with
> a Linux laptop. At first it seems a little odd to watch someone
> connect a laptop to the public internet with no anti-virus or anti-
> spam software until you realize that it is the windows user who has
> the wrong point of view.

You have just as much need for anti-spam software on Linux as on
Windows.

I assume you meant anti-spyware softeare.

> p.s. It would be a whole lot better for all concerned if OpenVMS ran
> on x86-64

Absolutely.

Arne