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Old January 12th 05, 02:35 PM
jane
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
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To be clear, I wouldn't use the additional protections because I am
satisfied with the protections I have in place. I find that duplication of
active scanning/blocking protection software usually leads to problems. I
use SpywareBlaster and the MVP HOSTS file, along with eTrust antivirus and
Firewall as active protection, all on top of properly conservative IE/OE
settings, and they seem to cover all the bases. Any more than that, Spybot's
additional tools like Immunization and TeaTime, for instance, tends to get
in my way without providing any additional protection.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

hello,
very little 'hello',
do not know if I am going to get way out of my depth,
but could you tell me what MVP HOSTs file means?
Is it somethng we all should have?;
I think I mentioned also once before that I dont have a firewall,
(kids are kept well away from matches in my house) and I havent
yet suffered any Internet Inconvenience due to it...
I know most people here have told me I should have one, I even
got told the same thing tonight from the person who gave me linux
disks, but I am yet to get past all the posts this newsgroup has
regarding the interference and problems caused by actually having
a fire-wall. (especially the problems it causes with a persons own ISP.)

That was not the reason for my post, my curiousity lies in the
the MVP hosts file. (& what is it?)

regards Jane