Microsoft!!!!!!! Please sell Windows 7 at $29.95!!!!!!!!!
Wake up and smell the coffee! 2bit geeks like me are already dual booting Ubuntu and Windows. I have accounts at slashdot and digg so I am geeky enough not to buy music or porn and know just enough to build a website and create software with free stuff! SO WHY THE H would I pay big $ bill for an OS???
The real world is this: 20 year olds that I know think that anyone that builds a website is working for Microsoft (not kidding). Microsoft is so generic that it is pitiful. These people point at the tallest building in a city and say that it is Microsoft.
Now back to my point: If you charge $X00.00 dollars for Window Heaven, then why would I buy and download it when I already have what it does on my system? If you charge something simple like $20 bucks or so (like drug dealers know to do) then you will have a sell and I may pass the advice to my not a clue friends that they can get this system that works.
Enough said!
In 80's and 90's everyone was like "get a compatible" meaning get a PC with DOS or Windows. Now it seems like Microsoft is the incompatible company! Examples: Internet Explorer not standards compliant, Vista not compatible with many business applications that ran well on XP, MS Office not supporting ODF...
Does this mean that Microsoft is going down the same path as Commodore and OS/2?
Just take a look around... Linux is popping up everywhere these days! Just tonight I happen to land myself at Tucows.com (second only to download.com). Just take a good look at what it says on the front page.:)
If the top shareware, freeware, and whateverware sites on the web start promoting "Linux Software" to the masses (Mom and Pop, everyone in general), then what is going on?
"Keyloggers are designed to hide." Yes, especially those using a rootkit, in which case even experts have a hard time detecting them.
It is really amazing how far hacking/monitoring and security technology has come.
In the most probable case that this spouse just installed some googled or popular download site keylogger, then the standard fair anti-crap programs should do the trick. But if this guy put any thought into it and downloaded some trojan or keylogger off a hacker board somewhere then nothing you do will help. Something like that is usually configurable (name change, size of executable, registry keys used...). I highly doubt any anti-crapware (free or not) would suffice. In this day and age it is better to just reinstall Windows.
Here lately, all browsing is considered "dangerous" browsing. Malware isn't limited to just porn sites. Just browsing any popular nontechnical forum can set off the bells and whistles.
I'm begining to think that eventually all users will be using virtual machines by default. Something along the lines of everytime you sit down you get a clean slate system, and when you leave it erases everything (except the things you told it to save).
If Vista is FAR more secure than XP, then why do Vista users continually insist that you must have anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, and anti-thisandthat? If security is the one super duper feature that is to compell me to upgrade, then why not allow me to do away with the anti-crap?
Why do they drag Google into this mess? I just did a search for a particular social taboo for some research I'm doing and the first thing that came up is dated April 4, 1999. No censorship here! No way! Those high profile cases plastered all over the news last summer did not happen at all according to google!
Google is the answer! You get old out dated results for your research! Use it everyday!
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Microsoft!!!!!!! Please sell Windows 7 at $29.95!!!!!!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee! 2bit geeks like me are already dual booting Ubuntu and Windows. I have accounts at slashdot and digg so I am geeky enough not to buy music or porn and know just enough to build a website and create software with free stuff! SO WHY THE H would I pay big $ bill for an OS??? The real world is this: 20 year olds that I know think that anyone that builds a website is working for Microsoft (not kidding). Microsoft is so generic that it is pitiful. These people point at the tallest building in a city and say that it is Microsoft. Now back to my point: If you charge $X00.00 dollars for Window Heaven, then why would I buy and download it when I already have what it does on my system? If you charge something simple like $20 bucks or so (like drug dealers know to do) then you will have a sell and I may pass the advice to my not a clue friends that they can get this system that works. Enough said!
In 80's and 90's everyone was like "get a compatible" meaning get a PC with DOS or Windows. Now it seems like Microsoft is the incompatible company! Examples: Internet Explorer not standards compliant, Vista not compatible with many business applications that ran well on XP, MS Office not supporting ODF... Does this mean that Microsoft is going down the same path as Commodore and OS/2?
Just take a look around... Linux is popping up everywhere these days! Just tonight I happen to land myself at Tucows.com (second only to download.com). Just take a good look at what it says on the front page. :)
If the top shareware, freeware, and whateverware sites on the web start promoting "Linux Software" to the masses (Mom and Pop, everyone in general), then what is going on?
"Keyloggers are designed to hide." Yes, especially those using a rootkit, in which case even experts have a hard time detecting them. It is really amazing how far hacking/monitoring and security technology has come.
In the most probable case that this spouse just installed some googled or popular download site keylogger, then the standard fair anti-crap programs should do the trick. But if this guy put any thought into it and downloaded some trojan or keylogger off a hacker board somewhere then nothing you do will help. Something like that is usually configurable (name change, size of executable, registry keys used...). I highly doubt any anti-crapware (free or not) would suffice. In this day and age it is better to just reinstall Windows.
Here lately, all browsing is considered "dangerous" browsing. Malware isn't limited to just porn sites. Just browsing any popular nontechnical forum can set off the bells and whistles. I'm begining to think that eventually all users will be using virtual machines by default. Something along the lines of everytime you sit down you get a clean slate system, and when you leave it erases everything (except the things you told it to save).
If Vista is FAR more secure than XP, then why do Vista users continually insist that you must have anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, and anti-thisandthat? If security is the one super duper feature that is to compell me to upgrade, then why not allow me to do away with the anti-crap?
Why do they drag Google into this mess? I just did a search for a particular social taboo for some research I'm doing and the first thing that came up is dated April 4, 1999. No censorship here! No way! Those high profile cases plastered all over the news last summer did not happen at all according to google! Google is the answer! You get old out dated results for your research! Use it everyday!