Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] good free virus protection for Win XP?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:51:28 -0800, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I can resist it. I hate OS X. I have had some working with it, and
> frankly give me a stripped down version of Linux that just does what I
> need it to do.

Hmm.  Stripped down in what way?  As best as I can tell, it's FreeBSD
with bells and whistles attached and (I'll admit) different ideas
about how applications should be packaged and how user password data
is handled.
 
> Windows XP went nuts trying to make their system more Mac-like. I hate
> the soft warm and fuzzy graphics and the transitions, zips, fades,
> icons that jump around and so on and on and on.

Well, I think XP is fairly lame, but to be honest, I'm pretty gung-ho
about the Mac now because I can completely ignore the GUI interface
and do almost everything from the keyboard if I want.

Obviously tastes differ, and the Mac OS X interface ain't perfect, but
I'll take the PDF-based display with full screen windows and Expose
any day of the week.
Meanwhile:

> OS X is worse than Windows when it comes to this nonsense. I don't
> need a leaping Icon to tell me what program I just clicked on.

So turn it off.  Go to "Dock" under system preferences and uncheck
"animate opening applications".   Meanwhile, I also highly recommend
"Automatically hide and show dock" (especially on a notebook screen). 
Then you don't even see the sucker 99% of the time, which I'm guessing
you'd be very happy with...

jking


 
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:40:44 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
> 
> 
> <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jonathan King wrote:
> >
> > >>> Well, you could always sell the XP Laptop, buy a tricked out iBook and
> > >>> get an OS that is essentially virus-free and puts out free feature and
> > >>> security updates on a very regular basis.
> > >>
> > >> Not always.  The laptop was supplied by her employer!
> > >
> > > "I have saved you $300 in virus removal and data recovery charges by
> > > buying this iBook to replace my unusably slow adware-encrusted notebook
> > > with this notebook.  Oh yeah, and here's the extra money I got from the
> > > trade-in."
> >
> > If we could trade in her Dell for an iBook and have money left over, it
> > might be something we could try.
> >
> > I agree that the Macs are better.  Who can resist OS X when the other
> > major option is MS XP?
> >
> > Mike
> >
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