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Intel Head Recommends Apple
pboulang writes "noted in this
article in the WSJ:
Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, "If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.""
Linux would be better. They get educated, participate in an open source community, and, bext of all, IT'S FREE!
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If this is an every-weekend thing, he really needs to consider a change of tactics: Spend an hour a weekend beating some sense into his stupid stupid daughter! (and/or himself)
Even the *really* dumb punters that come to me with computers loaded to the gills with spyware crap don't come back with repeat problems after the first time. Clean the computers, put a couple of blocking whassnames, remove MSIE, MS Lookout Express, MSN Messenger, MS Media Player, replace with Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM or Miranda IM and Media Player Classic/Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative. Beat a bit of sense into the punter (not much, just an inkling of a clue is usually enough) and they go away... usually never to be re-infected.
This isn't rocket science.
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no. i dont get loads of viruses or spyware on my computer and i don't devote unecessary time to un-crappifying my computer. if she doesn't have a firewall and a virus scanner, then she needs to be slapped and told to stop doing whatever she's doing as i already said. and people who get BSODs all the time need to stop deleting random files or shoving poptarts into their computers' drives
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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5. See them complain that the off-the-shelf program they bought won't run on their new Apple computer, since they failed to read the program's requirements that were on the box.