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Headphoneus Supremus
I just picked up a new PC. I was cleaning out some of the trash that Dell and Microsoft had installed on the hard drive, when I got fed up with all of the components trying to find a way to report in to the mother ship. I can firewall incoming pests, but I have never been successful in keeping things from getting out. Firewalls help, as does adaware. Still I have to allow a certain amount of duplex communication for my network to function. That is a sufficient path for resident software to ship out info. For reasons that I do not fully understand, this pisses me off!
Options:
1 - Quit being paranoid and get used to big brother looking out for my best interests.
2 - Set up a second network, internal only. The main machine gets access to the internal net, with the shared drives and music nodes (airport expresses in wds). Laptop can switch between intranet and internet access, but never both at once. Laptop has no critical files.
Something in between?
It would be a shame not having access to the web with the new machine, what with the dual 20" FP displays and all. Hence the dilemma.
Suggestions?
gerG
Options:
1 - Quit being paranoid and get used to big brother looking out for my best interests.
2 - Set up a second network, internal only. The main machine gets access to the internal net, with the shared drives and music nodes (airport expresses in wds). Laptop can switch between intranet and internet access, but never both at once. Laptop has no critical files.
Something in between?
It would be a shame not having access to the web with the new machine, what with the dual 20" FP displays and all. Hence the dilemma.
Suggestions?
gerG