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penguendedektifApr 16th 2010 2:56PM
I think this statement is very misleading. He is talking about both systems' vulnerabilities for hacking. But for an average user, vulnerabilities for viruses are much more important. Most of us are using wireless modems or routers with built-in firewalls. I used Windows (95-98-XP-7) all my computer using life (13 years) and not once my system was hacked by some 14-year-old. But without a regularly updated anti-virus software, no matter what sort of windows we use, we all now what happens. I'm not even gonna mention Internet Explorer. I've started using an Apple next to my PC two weeks ago and I can testify how a system gains speed by not running an anti-virus software. I also have a low-end ultra portable with windows 7, whenever I turn my system on, it virtually locks me out for at least 4-5 minutes for system and anti-virus update checks (damn that svchost). I really started to find this unbearable. Even though I'm not an apple fanboy and also find osx's some aspects very annoying, almost virus-free environment is something to love...
AlienSixApr 16th 2010 3:12PM
And tell me how in 2010 an anti virus is slowing down the speed of your computer. Thats a horrible reason to not have it on your computer. In the age of dual and quad core, or 2Gb-6GB of ram you have no excuse.
"I also have a low-end ultra portable with windows 7, whenever I turn my system on, it virtually locks me out for at least 4-5 minutes for system and anti-virus update checks"
Oh really? I have Comodo Firewall (free), Microsoft Security Essentials (free) and Avast 5.0 (free) and when I turn on my Windows 7 Laptop, everything loads up just fine and it does all its scanning and updates in the background and I dont skip a beat, and I have 4GB of ram on my machine.
penguendedektifApr 16th 2010 3:30PM
>And tell me how in 2010 an anti virus is slowing down the speed of your >computer. Thats a horrible reason to not have it on your computer. In the age >of dual and quad core, or 2Gb-6GB of ram you have no excuse.
And what part of "low-end portable" should I explain? It's a celeron 743 with 2gb's of ram and a low-speed hdd. As an obsessive user I use a cpu monitor constantly and I'm sick of seeing it in 30s or 40s (%) whenever the OS or AV please so. Of course I don't have the same problem in my PhenomIIX4 but not every system is that strong.
And as a reply to your question please do answer that how in 2010 we are still in need of resource consuming anti-virus software for windows while the other two major OSs don't have that problem?
AlienSixApr 16th 2010 3:45PM
"how in 2010 we are still in need of resource consuming anti-virus software for windows while the other two major OSs don't have that problem?"
Resource consuming?
Im running Avast and it consumes 3k or resources.
Anti Virus exists for Mac and Linux so please explain to me this "resource" hog issue"
Also you want to talk about resource hog? Have you tried Firefox 3.6?
(Unverified)Apr 16th 2010 3:46PM
You mean like my Windows computer since ages past? Sure, occasionally I install a free AV application and does some scanning after viruses but alas, it all comes up with nothing. I haven't had a permanent AV in years.
I'm by no means an average computer user but the only times I'm getting infected by viruses on my Windows computer is when I'm out cruising the web for a specific purpose which includes browsing through quite dangerously websites. The fact that they are so obvious also makes me a bit sad. Who would think that the only way I can get infected by viruses is by searching for them by my own accord.
penguendedektifApr 16th 2010 3:54PM
well as I've said I'm obsessive about 0% idle computing and minimum memory usage, so after one day of trying 3.6, I switched back to firefox 3.5 :)
All I'm saying is unless you are dealing with sensitive information (i.e. government stuff or commercial secrets), strength against viruses are much more important than strength against hacks in my opinion. And in this context, OSX and Linux are more reliable than good old Windows...