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Re: What's your modus operandi?
de philo 05/22/2006 11:22
"Susan Bugher" <sebugher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4de4sbF1a27svU1@individual.net...
> Software is a "black box" - a door that's waiting to be opened. What's
> the best way to find out what's behind the door? (Is it a lady or a
tiger?)
>
> What's your modus operandi before downloading/ installing a program?
> What checks do you make? What order do you make them in? IMO (YMMV) the
> first order of business is to find out about the author. If they are
> well known and trusted little additional checking is needed. . .
I have quite a few older computers here with no real value...
If some software comes out that I'd not want to test on one of my good
machines...
I try it on one of my old junkers...
If worst comes to worst...I can just format the drive and reinstall the OS.
Heck...out of curiosity I even tried one of those free AOL cd's...
and can assure you that you DO NOT...want to even try one.
There is NO way to cancel out once you start