How do you windows lot stand it?

[NTECUK]

It's a fact of life. The more popular you are the more people want to bring you down.

[Littlepeahead]

Are you talking about Spank?

[NTECUK]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Are you talking about Spank?

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Are you talking about Spank?

In certain circles I'm incredibly popular.

These are quite small circles of course, some might call them dots.

Never owned a Mac. Nothing particularly against them - I love my iPod - but I've always been happy enough with Windows. I would love to give Linux, in one of it's many flavours, a go but our laptop is allergic to it. Windows can cope with a soft-touch button to switch the wireless on and off. No Linux distro that I have tried (various versions of Ubuntu, openSUSE, Zorin, Cinnamon) can do that simple task. So Windows 7 it is.

[BanannaMan]

Think of Windows as your new trashy girl friend.

Windows is popular so you're going to need some protection or she'll likely leave you with some nasty virus or such.

(mostly malware tbh)

Enjoy it! It's all part of the Winows experiance, innit?

[yorkie_chris]

Well when you're sat on a chair made of money from all the hardware savings, installing a bit of anti-malware isn't so hard...


I've had this machine for >2 years with no anti virus/anti malware on there at all and not had a problem, I think you must just be looking at ladyboys or something.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Well when you're sat on a chair made of money from all the hardware savings, installing a bit of anti-malware isn't so hard...


I've had this machine for >2 years with no anti virus/anti malware on there at all and not had a problem, I think you must just be looking at ladyboys or something.

How do you know you don't have a problem if you don't have any software installed that will tell you if you have a problem?

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK

It was a dodgy install, Skype itself did not contain it, but additional software from Conduit (apparently) was installed at the same time. It just adds something to the browser so that all your searches go through trovit so they get advertising revenues not google. It therefore messes up your browser and gets rid of the standard google new tab (so you have to search through their software).

Not a major virus attack but a pain in the rear end. I know Macs are just as suseptable to this type of attack, but they don't seem to be made as much. It annoyed me because I needed to use skype to make a call this morning.

I had this Conduit self install itself, probably through a download through Cnet, which was usually free of this kinda crap.

Its a browser hijacker, which was reasonably simple to remove, but still a pain in the neck.

In all my years of Windows use, I've only had a virus infect my system twice & both times my Anti Virus has quarantined it. Most of my problems arise from stupid chain mails that my wife's friends forward onto her.

I've not downloaded any viruses from the sites I download software from & I don't bother with pron sites, as that's where the problems usually emanate from.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK

It was a dodgy install, Skype itself did not contain it, but additional software from Conduit (apparently) was installed at the same time. It just adds something to the browser so that all your searches go through trovit so they get advertising revenues not google. It therefore messes up your browser and gets rid of the standard google new tab (so you have to search through their software).

Not a major virus attack but a pain in the rear end. I know Macs are just as suseptable to this type of attack, but they don't seem to be made as much. It annoyed me because I needed to use skype to make a call this morning.

User error then Always check what you're about to install. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many packages now have a tick box that you MUST untick (Or the clever ones...Tick) to stop you loading erroneous Chite. My mates laptop was full of the stuff.