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Microsoft and Security. Ha!
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Mechcozmo said:
I wasn't really surprised, but I'm glad to have had your permission to be such.
"Go figure, eh?" was intended as a sardonic statement. I am in no way surprised by M$'s ineptitude.
However, I left my parent's place without burning a copy of the images - so apparently I'm not that bright either. MS SP2 takes 1hour and 9minutes to install, which is about twice as long as XP itself. Ugh... what a horrible solution, I can't believe I'm going to switch back.
This has happens to Norton and McAfee anti-virus software before. Some virus prevents you from visiting common anti-virus websites. There are virus that disables other virus. Some virus disable your browsers (IE) displaying a page showing that you have been infected with viruses.... Worst scenario is when you get infected with all those different viruses, making it easier just to reformat.Mechcozmo said:
Its like a warzone using windows.
grapes911 said:
there are A LOT of linux servers out there, a great deal more than osx computers. guess what? there are very little linux virii too, mainly some network worms that do no other harm than jam networking.
it's not about jobs vs gates, it's about hackers love to unix and hatred to windows, and that's because unix is cleverly built and windows architechture just plain sucks.
unix is not invulnerable, too. all software written by man has flaws and unix can be hacked as well. it has just been an unwritten rule that should someone break into another one's unix server, that someone fixes the hole behind and leaves a note for that poor system administrator whose system has been compromised. in other words, colelctively making things better. unfortunately, this unwritten rule has also lately become compromised and the hackers of today are not the same thing they were back in 70's and 80's.
it's so easy to destroy a windows system. it's a lot harder to even gain unauthorized access to an unix system, let alone break it. however, user stupidity is the hacker's easiest way out. it always has, it always will.
redAPPLE said:
By that reasoning, XP is also still in beta.
angelneo said:
I've seen a nasty example of those before. Virus killed IE, killed the anti viral stuff on there (30 day free trial anyway), and the CD drive didn't read anymore. Thank G-d I didn't need to fix that box up.
dejo said:
Do you really believe that's a PowerBook pictured there? Cuz it ain't.
That picture is a great reflection of M$. Apple shows pictures of people having fun and creating things--Microsoft shows pictures of people being 'cautious' with their computers. Wow. This company is so dead. I love it.
Phobophobia said:
Not that I don't love Apple, but I don't see anybody having fun and creating things on their homepage:
I'm glad they're making an attempt, but it might be better to just, I don't know... FIX THEIR OS! Yeah, I'm going to trust them with anti-spyware/virus software when they can't even fix it in their other software in the first place. 
Who's bright idea was this?
Who's bright idea was this?
grapes911 said:
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