On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:40, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
It's well known that Linux is not affected by any of the viruses that catch Windows as soon as the computer is turned on ... Nevertheless Linux is affected by spyware. My computer is unfortunately a victim of this form of advertising although I've been running SuSE since I bought it 3 years ago. I'd appreciate some help to get rid of these parasitic processes dwelling in my computer. Thank you in advance.
What kinds of problems have you had? I also use SuSE, and I don't have a clue to your problem using SuSE, but Linspire I think has some stuff that they sell extra for their OS. I am a simple end user, but I am guessing that if you have SuSE 9.1 you can configure the firewall to block spyware, if you have the skill to do it. I use the SuSE Pro 9.1, and it is definitely worth the $90.00 or whatever I paid for it. 9.1 is faster, more stable, YAST 2 is better. 9.1 has the latest major kernal release, 2.6 I think it is. 2.6 is much faster than 2.4. KDE 3.2 is much better than KDE 3.1. I just wish I was sophisticated enough to be able to add KDE 3.4, but I have to wait for the next SuSE upgrade.
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