On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:12:25PM +0000, Drsolly wrote: > > Daughter.1 has picked up a nasty, that wants her to pay for an antivirus, > > and keeps nagging at her. She already had Norton, but that doesn't seem to > > want to know. I don't know if she's updated it - probably not. > > Congratulations. All my daughter.1 picks up is a cold. > > Modern viruses seem to take down the antivirus first. Much like > real life. > > > I didn't fancy wrestling with the malware to try to remove it, or go back > > to some previous checkpoint (there probably isn't one). > > I offered her two solutions. > > > 1) reinstall XP. She doesn't have the CDs (I don't think they came with > > the computer). I suspect you can't buy XP now. Vista will cost her about a > > hundred pounds, and then she'll need to buy a new word processor, I'd > > guess. Probably another hundred or two. > > You can buy it still, avoid vista and install W7 instead. > use open office for a word processor. > > If you were nearer, I'd GIVE you my copy of VISTA ultimate, never > been used, never will be. > > If it's a wimpy laptop, get more memory. You can never have enough > memory when opera slowly bloats to 1.3gb (yet process exploder says > its only using 130mb...) My laptop when I worked at MSN had XP running > (I use the word loosely) in 256mb of ram. I could use 1 application at > a time and cannot possibly think of anything nice to say about OneNote. > > [I did peering for MSN Asia and the UK for half a year back in 200x?] > > > > 2) I install Linux. Zero cost, and she most likely won't ever see another > > malware. It's a no-brainer, really. > > Only until you realise that you can count the number of useful > productive programs on linux on thumbs on your left foot.
She uses a browser and a WP. Both of those are useful and productive. > For that matter, linux has no decent games at all. No incentive there. She doesn't play games. Well, not on her computer, anyway. > Toss in all that in your face advocacy and they are doing themselves > no favours. Mentioning no names, Firefox. No advocacy needed. I just don't want to have to do all that tech support that Windows seems to need. > > Do the folks at MS realise what this is doing to them? > > They are probably laughing. Linux is the token opposition. Like > the green party only not as entertaining. They provide entertainment > for the evil overlords on those boring nights when rain stops play. Still, they've lost one customer. No, two - I moved ladysolly to Linux a few months ago. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
