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Story: Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain

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I've had BB (ADSL) for almost two years
and I would have to agree that spam can be a nuisance, as can pop-ups/unders, spyware and all the rest of the intrusive garbage. BUT I've learned to deal with it. There are programs available, many of them free which can make all these nasties significantly less of an inconvenience.
ALL BB users should install afirewall.
ALL BB users should install an anti-virus
program.
ALL BB users should install a cookie control program.
Once these are in place and set up correctly the web experience is much nicer.
I come across people who just can't be bothered to learn enough about their computers to operate them competently. These people treat their computer as a sort of TV which they just turn on and look at with scant regard for security, which in the main their entirely ignorant about. THESE are the people who complain about unpleasant images turning up on their desk top. THESE are the people who get virii. These are the people who get tagetted by spyware. The rest of us are immune. In ten years of heavy use, two of which I was connected to an "always on" ADSL connection I have had ONE virus and that came from a friend who inadvertently picked it up in a malicious email
while his virus program was switched off.
Trouble is PC's are sold and touted as being easy to use...and really that's not true, I still consider myself to be a novice user, but one who is aware of the downside and careful to protect myself from it.

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