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1. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
DVDmike Apr 30, 2010 5:04 AM (in response to hewiepro)It may be "best/safest" to disconnect. But for me this is just too unrealistic. I do not, however, use an e-mail program on my editing workstation. I occasionally do retrieve browser based e-mail on this workstation. My e-mail provider provides the virus checking. I try to be intelligent about what files that I execute and open. I never let anyone, especially kids and teens, use this machine for any reason. And I do not have any virus software running on that PC. To my knowledge, I have never had a virus on the machine.
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2. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Bill Hunt Apr 30, 2010 9:20 AM (in response to DVDmike)I am sort of like you - no e-mail, no kids (in my case), with only limited Internet presence. I do run Norton from bootup, BUT turn it, plus all pop-up blockers, spysweeping, etc. software OFF, prior to any editing session. During those, if I need Internet access, I just do so from another machine. To date, that has worked 100% for me.
Hunt
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3. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Harm Millaard Apr 30, 2010 9:52 AM (in response to Bill Hunt)Jeez,
I must reconsider my usual practice if I hear you all. I regularly have Firefox open with 10+ tabs, Skype on, and OWA in use (Outlook Web Access via Exchange server) while editing.
For protection I use GFI and NEP, plus firewalls, but have never had a problem with spam, virus or the like.
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4. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
hewiepro May 2, 2010 5:12 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Harm,
how big/fastis is your machine...and does not all that stuff slow it down a bit?
thx
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5. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Harm Millaard May 2, 2010 10:31 AM (in response to hewiepro)Look at the results of the http://ppbm4.com benchmark. It is Harm's Beast.
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6. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Bill Hunt May 2, 2010 11:15 AM (in response to hewiepro)how big/fastis is your machine.. ?
Let's just say that NASA rents it from him, when they have heavy computing to do.
Hunt
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7. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Bill Gehrke May 2, 2010 11:19 AM (in response to Bill Hunt)Bill, that is wonderful!
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8. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Harm Millaard May 2, 2010 2:52 PM (in response to hewiepro)Hewie,
I have to make one correction to my post that I was not aware of, but got notified by my son. We recently switched from GFI to ForeFront with Exchange 2010.
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9. Re: To connect or not to and how and w/what??
Bill Hunt May 2, 2010 5:40 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)Ah, at last your son is paying you back for all those years of parenting!
Hunt




