How do you windows lot stand it?
 

I had a mac for four years, never had any problem with malware, or sneeky downloads. Now have a work PC and its taken about 4 week for some crappy malware to get in there. I was just installing skype and I now have the ruddy Trovi 'virus'. how does this not just get old really fast?

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

Before using my Windows computer I learnt how to use it.

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

Such as installing anti virus software, firewall, only downloading from trusted sites (I downloaded directly from the skype site, which I have done before on my mac and older windows machines.)

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

You don't miss what you never had.

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

I would very much doubt that Skype installed a trojan, if it did it would have to be included in the Skype installer.
I have used Windows since 3.1 and the only virus I had was cause by a bug in XP which Microsoft fixed pretty quickly. Probably wouldn't have even got that if I had auto updates on.
Someone has installed something on there which has included the Trovi software.

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

It was the skype download. I Un-installed skype, restarted and its gone.

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

I install Ubuntu. First thing I've done with my last 3 laptops (going back nearly 10 years now!).

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

Sounds appealing, but I am not sure I have the skill to then install the other bits of software that I need.

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

get hackintosh on it and run parallels ;)

Re: How do you windows lot stand it?
 

Almost all development related stuff is easier in Ubuntu than Windows (with the exception of writing Windows desktop programs or Apple Apps).

But yeah, sometimes it can be a pain to get things to work.