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On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:50:40AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Technically, he's not wrong - any OS is just as susceptible to viruses |
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> as any other, you just have to get over the first hurdle which is |
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> getting code to run. The overall design of Windows has historically made |
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> this somewhat easy, and the overall design of Windows users made it |
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> easier still. |
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> Using Occam's Razor, I'd guess the fellow behind the counter is not too |
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> different from fellows behind counters everywhere, and he's running on |
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> one of these motivations: |
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> 1. He will punt what earns him more money (he's in sales after all) |
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> 2. He will defend the thing he sells (usually by talking down the |
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> competition) |
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> 3. Just repeats some line he heard somewhere and doesn't really |
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> understand the topic (but is convinced he does) |
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Ack! |
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I built my first PC in 1984, and have worked on a couple since. I could write |
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a book on all the FUD I've heard since then. People come into my computer |
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shop and tell me what "they" told them all the time. The bottom line of WHY |
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"they" tell "them" such things is all ignorance. Without the "business model" |
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that Bill Gates created, there would be no "computer repair shop industry" |
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such as we have now. Big Ears Billy is my freeeeend. ;-) |
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Mickey$oft has purposed to create millions of ignorant computer users who will |
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buy any piece of garbage software they can click and install with their index |
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finger. Prime example: |
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http://www.speedtest.net/ |
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Running a Windoze OS you'll find at least 3 pieces of software advertised |
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before the real test loads on your computer. That's on a Windoze box which |
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doesn't allow cookies or tracking software of any kind. On a Gentoo box, |
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running Firefox 22.0, NONE of those "software offers" loaded at all. |
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Since 2003 the only customer of mine who got a virus/trojan/worm/etc is the |
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ONE college student who turned off the software his Mom bought from me when it |
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kept him from going to a certain website. He now has a password on the A/V |
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software known only to me, and hasn't had a problem since. NB: I only sell the |
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best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since |
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it's inception. |
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Many people, like the boy Dale talked to, make their living off virii. Mine is |
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made off of referrals. "They" make more money than I, but I sleep better. |
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662-269-2706 662-491-8613 |
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http://happypenguincomputers.com/ |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |
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Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting |
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