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It seems kind of fake to me... what's with the crowd laughing?

Also, I have a 1.6 Ghz Dell laptop, and I haven't used it in the past month.

I also have a Dell laptop, I use it for BOINC and playing Knights Of The Old Republic.

I use my old dell latop for little games that came with ubuntu. It runs twice as fast with ubuntu on it than it did with Windows ME.

I put my old Dell on a low coffee table in the corner so my three-year-old can bang around on it.  I just set the homepage to pbskids.com and she's good to go.

My Mac does pr0n just fine, thank you.

Half of the time we do with the Dell machines at my office is removing viruses or trojans and stupid spyware. Because we take in customer CDs or memory cards, the machines are constantly under attack, even with updated virus definitions, viruses or malware sometimes win.

Not all machines we have are Dell, but they all taste the same. The thread might as well be "What do you use your PC for?"

digisane wrote:

Half of the time we do with the Dell machines at my office is removing viruses or trojans and stupid spyware. Because we take in customer CDs or memory cards, the machines are constantly under attack, even with updated virus definitions, viruses or malware sometimes win.

Not all machines we have are Dell, but they all taste the same. The thread might as well be "What do you use your PC for?"

I don't have anti-virus software installed on my pc, but it still acts fine all the time.


WHY!?!?!?!?

The Cynic wrote:

digisane wrote:

Half of the time we do with the Dell machines at my office is removing viruses or trojans and stupid spyware. Because we take in customer CDs or memory cards, the machines are constantly under attack, even with updated virus definitions, viruses or malware sometimes win.

Not all machines we have are Dell, but they all taste the same. The thread might as well be "What do you use your PC for?"

I don't have anti-virus software installed on my pc, but it still acts fine all the time.

WHY!?!?!?!?

To answer your question, let me highlight:

digisane wrote:

Because we take in customer CDs or memory cards,

Cynic, I don't like how people who claims their PC runs fine all this while especially without firewall or anti-virius installed. Usually when these people pass files to me I get a ton of warnings and have to disinfect the files for them. And usually these are gamers. That's fine with me. But we have PCs here for business and can't afford to format every single month to clean it from viruses we get everyday.

I had to take down all machines to remove the w32.rontokbro virus/worm all because it was passed onto a pc, and because that virus pretends to be a folder, it spreads quickly. The very updated anti-virus (THANKS A LOT NORTON) caught it, but it spread anyway somehow. Very quickly. The virus determines what you are doing, and reboots the computer if you attempt to remove it manually (regedit) or under certain conditions.

-EDIT - to clarify - the Norton antivirus caught the virus, but when it cleans, the virus spreads, and it cleans THAT, and the virus spreads again.. etc etc etc until the PC ran slow as hell. Its like a cat and mouse chasing over and over again in the PC. -

It's very annoying. And to top it off, the thought that we were paying for the subsriptions, the software licenses just agitates me.

So if your PC is fine without all these defenses, it's fine with me. But don't go on bragging about how you've never been hit or had to format, or stuff like that, because, i don't like it. Occassionally I had to work till night just to get everything clean and fixed, because the people who passed the files over did not keep their PCs clean. And it's not even my job to do it, but I do it far too many times.

Windows is like an AIDs patient. Without all these extra drug doses it'd die a painful death.

Last edited by digisane (2006-03-20 3:52 am)

digisane wrote:

The Cynic wrote:

digisane wrote:

Half of the time we do with the Dell machines at my office is removing viruses or trojans and stupid spyware. Because we take in customer CDs or memory cards, the machines are constantly under attack, even with updated virus definitions, viruses or malware sometimes win.

Not all machines we have are Dell, but they all taste the same. The thread might as well be "What do you use your PC for?"

I don't have anti-virus software installed on my pc, but it still acts fine all the time.

WHY!?!?!?!?

To answer your question, let me highlight:

digisane wrote:

Because we take in customer CDs or memory cards,

Cynic, I don't like how people who claims their PC runs fine all this while especially without firewall or anti-virius installed. Usually when these people pass files to me I get a ton of warnings and have to disinfect the files for them. And usually these are gamers. That's fine with me. But we have PCs here for business and can't afford to format every single month to clean it from viruses we get everyday.

I had to take down all machines to remove the w32.rontokbro virus/worm all because it was passed onto a pc, and because that virus pretends to be a folder, it spreads quickly. The very updated anti-virus (THANKS A LOT NORTON) caught it, but it spread anyway somehow. Very quickly. The virus determines what you are doing, and reboots the computer if you attempt to remove it manually (regedit) or under certain conditions.

-EDIT - to clarify - the Norton antivirus caught the virus, but when it cleans, the virus spreads, and it cleans THAT, and the virus spreads again.. etc etc etc until the PC ran slow as hell. Its like a cat and mouse chasing over and over again in the PC. -

It's very annoying. And to top it off, the thought that we were paying for the subsriptions, the software licenses just agitates me.

So if your PC is fine without all these defenses, it's fine with me. But don't go on bragging about how you've never been hit or had to format, or stuff like that, because, i don't like it. Occassionally I had to work till night just to get everything clean and fixed, because the people who passed the files over did not keep their PCs clean. And it's not even my job to do it, but I do it far too many times.

Windows is like an AIDs patient. Without all these extra drug doses it'd die a painful death.

If you don't have antivirus software, how do you know you don't have a virus?

I installed Ubuntu on my old Dell (P3 500 mHZ, 256 KB RAM) last night.  This machine takes well over a full minute just to open Internet Explorer in XP, but it's really zippy running Mozilla under Ubuntu.

One thing I was very pleased with was how easy Ubuntu was to configure.  I installed a wireless card in this PC last year, and it took me an hour to get XP configured to recognize my home network.  Ubuntu immediately recognized my wireless card.  I just entered my WEP password and I was connected.

I think I'm going to offload whatever files are on the Windows partition and repartition the drive as a Linux only volume.

Macskeeball wrote:

You do realize that WEP can easily be cracked in three minutes, right? It is not good protection at all, and you should really be using WPA instead.

I think it probably is actually WPA; my router is an AirPort Extreme with current firmware.  Honestly, I haven't really paid attention because I live in the middle of suburbia with a retired couple on one side and the developers model home on the other.  There's a golf course out back, but I doubt the signal would reach that far.

At any rate, I probably should check to see what type of protection I'm actually running.

Macskeeball wrote:

DevoDoc wrote:

I installed Ubuntu on my old Dell (P3 500 mHZ, 256 KB RAM) last night.  This machine takes well over a full minute just to open Internet Explorer in XP, but it's really zippy running Mozilla under Ubuntu.

One thing I was very pleased with was how easy Ubuntu was to configure.  I installed a wireless card in this PC last year, and it took me an hour to get XP configured to recognize my home network.  Ubuntu immediately recognized my wireless card.  I just entered my WEP password and I was connected.

I think I'm going to offload whatever files are on the Windows partition and repartition the drive as a Linux only volume.

You do realize that WEP can easily be cracked in three minutes, right? It is not good protection at all, and you should really be using WPA instead. I also recommend listening to the older episodes of the Security Now podcast, which you can find in the iTunes directory.

And MAC filtering is even better.