I've seen it time and again from users... when will flash just go away?!

Not soon enough.

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Virus protection as it relates to computers is a huge joke.  Go get any "free" anti-virus software (bloatware) or be stupid naive enough to pay for it.  I also don't think that users of open source browsers or operating systems is a "small" community.

 

I have Norton Security Suite through Comcast so I'm pretty well protected

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I have Norton Security Suite through Comcast so I'm pretty well protected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNdw4DaUM8

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Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

I usually just use this

 

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I usually just use this

 

 

Thanks for the chuckle.   :thanks:

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Virus protection as it relates to computers is a huge joke.  Go get any "free" anti-virus software (bloatware) or be stupid naive enough to pay for it.  I also don't think that users of open source browsers or operating systems is a "small" community.

I guess market share would be a better description rather than user base. Fact of the matter is Linux and all other forms of open source OS make up less than 2% of the market share on desktop computers. Mac OSX has about 7% with the remaining 91% being various versions of Windows. Anyone targeting ordinary consumers isn't going to bother with anything other than Windows.

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I guess market share would be a better description rather than user base. Fact of the matter is Linux and all other forms of open source OS make up less than 2% of the market share on desktop computers. Mac OSX has about 7% with the remaining 91% being various versions of Windows. Anyone targeting ordinary consumers isn't going to bother with anything other than Windows.

 

That is true to a point, that being desktop users.  What percentage of servers, devices, etc. dominates the real market?  I would wager that most consumers and/or businesses have Linux in their homes and on their networks and don't even know it.  Have a smart tv?  Chances are pretty good that it's running Linux.  Have a modem or a router, especially wireless?  Linux.  Go to Google, Amazon or many other websites?  Linux.  Use Dropbox, Google Drive or "the cloud" (however Apple describes it)?  Linux.

 

There is the belief that hackers target home users to "get their stuff".  That's not the case at all.  Personal computers are attacked to be used within what is called a "bot-net".  The way that identity theft, credit card fraud, etc. happens as it relates to computers is not always related to individuals (there is a small number that still use such attacks).  They usually want to use your computer to either attack somewhere else, mine bitcoins or hide their identity.

 

The biggest problem with home computers, especially Windows computers is that people use them with full Administrative privileges.  All it takes is people opening up an email attachment, clicking on a link or visiting a website for them to be compromised.

 

Anti-virus software for the most part will only protect against known vulnerabilities.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Is anyone using this right now?

 

I downloaded and installed it into a virtual machine to check it out, and let's just say that I don't like what I see.  I allocated 8GB of RAM and 4 processors to the virtual machine, and even with those resources, it seems to be kind of sluggish.

 

Internet Explorer is now called Microsoft Edge.  This has got to be the absolute worst browser that I've ever used.  I would even call some of the "default" settings reckless if not dangerous.

 

Probably the most disturbing is the many areas where "default settings" for applications contact the "mother ship" that being Microsoft.  Want a bit of privacy regarding your browsing, writing and usage habits when using your computer?  You better explore the settings.

 

I would encourage people to actually read Microsoft's Privacy (or lack thereof) Statement.  Here are a few relevant things that I don't like.

 

 

 

Some may call me paranoid or whatever, but I'm one that fully believes that a computer operating system should just run the computer, not report in to the creator of said operating system.  It should be efficient, do it's job well and allow me to decide which programs and/or applications that I want to use.  The default settings should be safe in order to protect the user.

 

It's only a matter of time when several zero days emerge that will make this operating system even more vulnerable than previous versions of Windows.  I myself have already seen a potential exploit.

 

Microsoft has become too complacent, and over estimates customer's unwillingness to change when quality continues to fail over a decade.

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The only virus protection I use is just assuming I'm infected from the jump.  Microsoft defender does ok enough, and it's built into 8 and 10, but every month or so I just clean install windows, 8 and 10 made it much easier to do so.  Not the best thing for an SSD but I only have my OS's (currently win 10 and yosemite) stored on it, so when it does die it's no biggie.

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The only virus protection I use is just assuming I'm infected from the jump.  Microsoft defender does ok enough, and it's built into 8 and 10, but every month or so I just clean install windows, 8 and 10 made it much easier to do so.  Not the best thing for an SSD but I only have my OS's (currently win 10 and yosemite) stored on it, so when it does die it's no biggie.

 

Your approach is horrible, but better than most people do.  I couldn't imagine having to do a clean install every month.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Your approach is horrible, but better than most people do.  I couldn't imagine having to do a clean install every month.

The best approach is to go to the seediest sights you can think of at least 15 times a week. That way you get all the viruses to fight each other leaving anti-bodies behind..... Right?

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Your approach is horrible, but better than most people do.  I couldn't imagine having to do a clean install every month.

 

Just the time aspect?  The from 8 forward it makes it easy to do a clean install.  I just need to grab chrome and a few other programs out of onedrive which is integrated (I only keep those types of programs in the cloud storage anyways for this reason) and I'm set.  It takes maybe 20 minutes to do a clean install, most of which you don't need to be present for, I usually do it if I'm heading out, or watching something.  

 

I check the majority of my email accounts and do any shopping on the OSX partition, which is also where I change my passwords after I clean install that partition. It works out because Windows without third party software can't read or access the hfs+ partition.   

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Just the time aspect?  The from 8 forward it makes it easy to do a clean install.  I just need to grab chrome and a few other programs out of onedrive which is integrated (I only keep those types of programs in the cloud storage anyways for this reason) and I'm set.  It takes maybe 20 minutes to do a clean install, most of which you don't need to be present for, I usually do it if I'm heading out, or watching something.  

 

I check the majority of my email accounts and do any shopping on the OSX partition, which is also where I change my passwords after I clean install that partition. It works out because Windows without third party software can't read or access the hfs+ partition.   

After reading your posts I feel the need for you to clean my laptop up. Too bad I live 8 hours away. 

 

I got lazy with this laptop and didn't make a user profile so I'm not always logged in as administrator. I haven't fixed that yet because of all the favorites, documents and such I have that is a pain to switch over.

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