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Just the windows built in thingy, plus Trusteer and BT protect. Occasionally run Malwarebytes. Think being ancient with diminished interest in porn is main protection.
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostMore forgetful ladies.
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostMore forgetful ladies.
Redirect from spaces.slimspot again
127.0.0.1 spaces.slimspots.com
127.0.0.1 www .spaces.slimspots.com
We'll see...
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When it comes to dealing with serious viruses, the question should be:
WWAWMD?
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I haven't had a virus since the days of passing these or getting them off of top shelf magazines:
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostWho installed it you, or some bod in IBM?
All the linux distros I've used have been faster than booting windows especially as they allow me to use cheap crappy hardware. (I'm currently writing this on an Ubuntu laptop)
TBF it's laudable what they are trying to do, just it's too slow and half the things don't work, i.e. need a Windows VM for vSphere, need Windows VM for Notes cos it's quicker, etc. It's mental because they are saying Windows is insecure etc, but let you run Windows in KVM.....
At current clientco it's BYOD and I have all I want on my MacBook Pro with zero issues apart from lack of space on the 512mb SSD.
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Originally posted by stek View PostNo it it was pukka Red Hat with mods and registered with a proper RHN subscription. We had Windows 7 originally and had to 'update' to OC.
It deffo slowed lappy down, and we were all Unix heads! Number one was disk access was lamentably slow, cured by SSD but not for contractors, permies only. The worst was RDP access and multiscreens, res wrong, appearing on wrong screen, and another was Notes, awful.
We all hated it. I'm not anti 'it', had OpenSolaris on my lappy in my Sun days that was fine apart from StarOffice but on the whole I think there's too many distros, libraries, I mean WTF is Cairo, Pango and cracklib?
All the linux distros I've used have been faster than booting windows especially as they allow me to use cheap crappy hardware. (I'm currently writing this on an Ubuntu laptop)
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Originally posted by stek View PostNo it it was pukka Red Hat with mods and registered with a proper RHN subscription. We had Windows 7 originally and had to 'update' to OC.
It deffo slowed lappy down, and we were all Unix heads! Number one was disk access was lamentably slow, cured by SSD but not for contractors, permies only. The worst was RDP access and multiscreens, res wrong, appearing on wrong screen, and another was Notes, awful.
We all hated it. I'm not anti 'it', had OpenSolaris on my lappy in my Sun days that was fine apart from StarOffice but on the whole I think there's too many distros, libraries, I mean WTF is Cairo, Pango and cracklib?
I dont have any influence over clients but I wont be going back to windoz for a non commercial perspective.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostI have oSX and I still have Avast Anti Virus, mainly because my NAS kept picking up (Wintel) viruses out of my junk mail folder when Time Machine backed up my Mac
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I have oSX and I still have Avast Anti Virus, mainly because my NAS kept picking up (Wintel) viruses out of my junk mail folder when Time Machine backed up my Mac
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostIs it even possible to get a virus without explicitly downloading and installing something these days? It shouldn't be.
Did a scan which seemed to clean some bits up, but then I noticed when I went to my internet banking, there was an extra text box under the usual "select digits 1, 6, 9 from your memorable information" asking for the full phrase!! I think it was a rootkit, think I had to rebuild it in the end as nothing would shift it.
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostLOL! You mean a client was using Linux Mint v 17 for commercial purposes! Im not surprised they \ you had issues.
However, for non commercial use Id say its far superior to windoz. Sure, some of it is different to what you may be used to but to claim its a POS is, well, a POS in itself.
It deffo slowed lappy down, and we were all Unix heads! Number one was disk access was lamentably slow, cured by SSD but not for contractors, permies only. The worst was RDP access and multiscreens, res wrong, appearing on wrong screen, and another was Notes, awful.
We all hated it. I'm not anti 'it', had OpenSolaris on my lappy in my Sun days that was fine apart from StarOffice but on the whole I think there's too many distros, libraries, I mean WTF is Cairo, Pango and cracklib?
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Originally posted by stek View PostWhen I was at IBM we had to have their Open Client Red Hat install on our laptops, what a total POS that was, ask Scruff, he was almost driven to suicide because of it!
I actually preferred Windows, and that's saying something.
However, for non commercial use Id say its far superior to windoz. Sure, some of it is different to what you may be used to but to claim its a POS is, well, a POS in itself.
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