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Well, I was affected. My laptop is a brick.
It’s not so much windows that sucks it’s, all the IT crapware that gets installed.
This instance is as close to a poison pill I’ve ever seen. I fault McAfee for allowing an untested DAT file get pushed to full deployment. What were they thinking.
Companies should also learn not to push this out this stuff out like this as well.
Funny as ever, John. Anyone who owns AAPL loves Apple. that’s a whole lotta 9’s.
I will regularly spend multiple hours ‘disinfecting’ peoples’ notebooks from the crapware and trialware they always seem to come with these days.
HP are the worst, followed by Toshiba who just love to stick on 30 or so programs that replicate functions that windows already provides.
Dell are pretty good now however.
Most anti-virus packages have become so fat and bloated that you’re better off just putting up with the virus instead of being protected. Whats the point in buyinfg a $1400 notebook only to have it perform like a $400 one thanks to the AV and crapware.
Microsoft Security Essentials is my personal choice, its fast, detects well and because its MS they have better insider knowledge of the hooks that windows has and can access more deeply into the OS.
MSSE has also never killed a windows install because its coders were too damn lazy to test the updates thoroughly. McAfee seem to do this on a regular basis though.
lol McAfee
+1 for Microsoft Security Essentials. Nice little AV.
Between User Account Control and Microsoft Security Essentials Windows Vista/7 is pretty damn secure. I’m won’t be surprised if the virus/anti-virus makers go to the EU and complain that Microsoft is being too monopolistic by protecting its users…
I wonder how long it will before AAPL’s market cap passes MSFT’s? That would be ironic. I wonder how much that $150 million would be worth now?
I put together my PC from a “bare bones” site and got the hard drive and OS separately. Thus, almost no trial-ware, plus when I need to re-install, I have the actual OS media, not “restore discs” to return the machine to the “loaded with crapware” state most are sold in.
Figured it out. The $150 million Microsoft invested in Apple in 1997 would be worth $5.9 billion today.
another big win for people like me who build their own systems and choose what crap-ware gets loaded.