3/14/2023 0 Comments Avg antivirus for mac free 2012The things is that people forgot that virus are using security hole in the OS to work. In fact, I think if this protection is working and can’t be breached, this will put Windows Vista near Linux and MacOS X in term of virus resistance. Viruses and worms need to be confined in user-space. This is good will they are putting in Vista. Still, I don’t like Symantec at all, nor Microsft, but still I think I respect Microsoft decisision. If this OS become more secure, will it make your software useless? Yes! Will it be bad for the end-user? We’ll see. Seriously, Symantec is blaming Microsoft for doing the job it should do? Microsoft is securing up is own kernel and instead of saying bravo, Symantec is crying because it will lose it’s business? Man, wake up Symantec, your software are made for securing up an other vendor OS. I replaced the drive and the machine returned to normal.ĭoes any of this makes Linux suitable for -your- needs? No.īut at least I didn’t blame you for having a bad experience with Linux. For the life of me I couldn’t find out what’s wrong with the machine.Ī week ago I gave up, I boot the machine using DSL (Damn Small Linux CD) LiveCD and started following the kernel log while I worked.Īfter a couple of hours the Kernel log start spewing IDE errors: Seems that the IDE drive was slowly dieing, taking Windows XP with it. I checked the drivers, the eventlog, ran Sandra, memtest86 and even 3D mark. Took me 5 minutes to find the drivers.īeing a cross platform developer, I have a Windows XP based workstation which I use on a daily basis.Ī couple of weeks ago the machine started BSOD’ing once or twice every day. I fired-up usbview, wrote down the chipset and manufacturer ID(s), and used this information to track down XP drivers for the webcam. I was about to send him to the nearest computer store when I decide to give Linux a chance, and look and behold, not only did Fedora Core 5 detect the webcam chipset (or actually udev did), it also installed the right drivers for it – in short, it worked out of the box. (He lost/throw away the driver CD + box XP’s search didn’t come up with anything and the webcam’s name didn’t come in Google) The installation itself was rather event-less, but no matter what I tried, I couldn’t find drivers for his no-name webcam. Here’s a couple of stories to prove my point.Ī couple of months ago a friend of mine brought his dead PC, asking me to fix (read: reinstall XP) on it. Ignoring for a second the “free” (Free as beer, free as speech) and security factors, Windows severely lacks diagnostic tools. I doubt that it’ll be able to -boot- the XP installer on this machine. We both know that out of the box, using no 3rd-party drivers, XP is POS.
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