It had 3 viruses and a dozen pieces of spyware on it.
I did wait 10 days to buy Norton Anti-virus to put on it, but god damn. Is this normal?

For fucks sake.



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i would never do anything computer related if i had a PC.
that shit gives me migraines/severe tension headaches.
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No that's not normal.
You should be able to own your computer for years and not get a virus.
Okay, I'm exaggerating, but 10 days without anti virus shouldn't hurt unless you only hang around the pure ghetto of the internet.
I really hope you've put firewall's and anti spy ware on it as well.
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at our place only the mac is on the internet, the pcs are kept well away from it

The Internet is a dangerous place Cheeky.

ToraToraDreams said:

I've had my mac for two years, and no issues. No slowdowns, nothing.

But I bought a simple little eee box so I could run Microsoft Project and a few other developer software titles.

I'm used to my PCs crapping out and whatnot after a few months of use, but not 2 weeks. I didn't load norton right away cause I rarely even touch the Pc. Like I said, I only use it really for the afore mentioned things.

But this just seemed very unusually, even for a PC


I love the little thing though
Not a powerful device, but super silent and energy efficient.
I just wished these things could run Os-x.

ZombieKitten said:

I bought Norton and installed it. It cleaned everything up after two reboots.

But it slows everything down.

I think since I'm using this strictly for business apps and self-training, removing doing an ip-config /release after bootup would be prudent indeed.

littlemissG said:

Imago said:

Dude!!! That avatar is making me sick! That dog is so damn ugly! And it's bark...


My wimpy ass dog, a mini schnauzer, did absolutely nothing when I let her here that.





I was about to apologize for jacking this thread and I realized who started it. The King Jacker of the jackers.

hokie said:

It is a remarkably ugly dog



I haven't jacked a thread in ages

Imago said:

Do you have to put anti virus on Macs? From what I understand, viruses are made to be compatible with PC's. So even if you get a virus on a MAC, it doesn't affect it? Is that true? What's the deal with MACS, I've never heard a bad word about them?

ToraToraDreams said:

There ARE viruses that infect macs from time to time.
But it's very rare. When it happens on a mAC it's big news.

The viruses which infect Pcs are .exe binaries and these don't run on MACS.
So a large part of it is that it's a numbers game. PCS dominate the market.


But regardless, it's normally taken me at least 4 months or so for something shity to happen to a PC that I hammered away at.
On this Pc, I didn't do anything. I installed 4 software titles, avoided any of the torrent or download sites. And behaved. And bam! 2 weeks.

Imago said:

all those OS uprgades they keep sending us come with built-in anti-virus definitions isn't it?

our PCs all had a virus, and I could see the files with my mac, but they won't autorun because they are .exes

ZombieKitten said:

Yup. Same here.
I had a trojan virus download to my mac, but .exe for PCs are benign on macs. They don't do anything.
I wasn't aware that MAC had frequent virus definition updates. I've seen the Mac updates several times, but didn't realize that's what was meant by "Security updates".

I wonder why Norton makes a product for mac. Does this mean that Macs are still vunerable?
This is the longest I've ever owned a computer since Ive been on the Internet where nothing..And I mean NOTHING bad has happenned to it. I do love my mac


But like I said, the PC I bought was specifically so I could run certain business titles that aren't offered on MAC. So I needed a PC as well.
And I don't *hate* PCS. I rather like Microsoft software too. Its just, I LOVE my mac .
I do hate Norton Internet software though

Imago said:

Good Lord, that's magical.

Imago said:

no computer is without its vulnerabilities
I think that apple has a big job keeping the mac virus free reputation, mac users shouldn't be so blasé, but yeah, I wonder if using 3rd party products is just doubling up? or for peace of mind for the truly paranoid.

Imago said:

in that time lets see you looked at about 10sites devoted to porn 3 times day with no protection for your pc?... then yeh pretty much about right

No. It is not normal. What brand is your new PC?

Imago said:

I may have solved your problem - have you bought a Nintendo Wii with 'Asus' stickers on it?

Imago said:

You KNOW you should be using a MacBook.

get Kaspersky , i NEVER have any problems with my pc !!

You've already gone all faggy and veg-y and stuff, would you just give it up and get a gawddamned Mac already? Been using them for 15 years and have never, ever had a virus. Plus they're, you know, better.

Fer fuck's sake.

tackam said:

I own a mac.
I love my mac.

But as I mentioned there's some software that I need to run for business reasons. And I'm didn't want to run Windows on Mac to do it.

But yeah--I love my mac

Imago said:

Oh. Ok then. Sorry. Good work. PCs suck.

Dewrede said:

All the reviews for this seem to state that it's better than Norton

^
it's supposedly one of the best anti virus programs

Imago said:

running windows on mac will allow it to get PC viruses?

You should have gotten a macbook. It's so pretty like you.

Imago said:

Norton is shit