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Quote by Speedy2008
lol, thats a good one, i like ;) I'm not taking it personally i just don't like peoples choices when it comes to software. They simply follow the media and the marketing but don't really do their homework, if you catch my drift.
E.g. when people say Vista is buggy? From the top of your heads can anyone here name 1 bug? I very much doubt it, many people will only say that because of what they here on the media.
E.g. Microsh*te have a strangle hold on the OS market with their marketing. Windows is actually the worst OS someone can use. Apple's OS's are much much better but the marketing isn't as good and the daddy of OS's being Ubuntu from Linux which btw is free on the open source, so the marketing is very limited.
I'm very very surprised by your results, guess you win. Quite happy really because firstly you proved me wrong with the results and secondly i was going to offer a free piece of software if anybody proved me wrong.
I'm going to shut up now on this thread before you guys decide to gang up and crucify me lol wink

While I could easily download commercial software from the inet, without paying, I prefer to use the free offerings. Ok, they have limited functionality, but they work. I use a router, with a hardware firewall but also run a software firewall on each pc. It used to run the XP firewall....except it had the alarming ability to download annoying things that stopped me running my music on mediaplayer (without asking). Now, as for Vista. Apart from it being a MS product, it seems to be quite operable (playing on a dell laptop in tesco y/day) but I doubt that the DRM functions are any different to the ones that MS still tries to dump on people. In any case, I have no interest in upgrading to something that will not improve things on the pc I have at the moment. Maybe when the dual-core thing comes along....maybe. As for linux....I know a few people who have it installed and running, and more who HAD it installed and running. Windows, for all its faults, is an OS that people do not have to spend too much time reading about before they use. When more people use linux, more time wil be spent by the asshole part of society to ruin its operation....for the moment there are too few people using it for it to mean much to the mal/virus-ware turds....but that will change.
Have you considered a career change ?
Maybe going into the climate change warn-the-people-they're-turds market ?
Quote by Freckledbird
You're not really helping yourself by being so arrogant as to think that you know what's best for everyone.

I suppose that was my problem with speedy's posts, I felt there was an assumption that he know's more than me. However it can be hard to word things in the way you meant it. Speedy probably didn't mean to come across that way.
Quote by MaidstoneCouple
You're not really helping yourself by being so arrogant as to think that you know what's best for everyone.

I suppose that was my problem with speedy's posts, I felt there was an assumption that he know's more than me. However it can be hard to word things in the way you meant it. Speedy probably didn't mean to come across that way.
Well, that's very generous of you. biggrin
Quote by Speedy2008
As cu3b4ll mentioned. The best way of protecting yourself from Viruses is to change how you use the internet. Don't download cracked software, don't visit free porn sites, etc. Have a hardware firewall, but still ensure that your OS's firewall is enabled.

I'm very very surprised by your results, guess you win. Quite happy really because firstly you proved me wrong with the results and secondly i was going to offer a free piece of software if anybody proved me wrong.
I have to disagree with the highlighted comment above, it depends on where the software comes from. If you downloaded from Warez then you are very very safe, if you used torrents from a private tracker then you are also very safe. But torrents with public trackers and any other source you use to download software are very dangerous.

To a certain degree you are correct but there are two points I considered when writing my post.
1) This forum is read by a fair few people who would not have understood what you said. It's easier to be generalistic in an effort to help people avoid the things that are likely to feck up their machine. After all the more we can do to stop machines becoming zombies the better.
2) Cracked software is illegal... biggrin
Quote by Freckledbird
You're not really helping yourself by being so arrogant as to think that you know what's best for everyone.

I suppose that was my problem with speedy's posts, I felt there was an assumption that he know's more than me. However it can be hard to word things in the way you meant it. Speedy probably didn't mean to come across that way.
Well, that's very generous of you. biggrin
I try. And then after I've got my breath back, I try again