Virus protection

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fuck man, this year at school as been the worst in the school districts history, probably at least a third of the 125 teacher machines in my school were infected (graduate student teachers, not best idea kthx...fuc en 'bud lite laptops').

Symantec Enterprise version is a useless piece of shit.

I've had good experiences with <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.malwarebytes.org/">http://www.malwarebytes.org/</a><!-- m --> when infections are found early. However I've not seen any program that can remove medium-bad infections, its always reformating.

Microsoft better get their shit together in Windows7 or I see Mac and Google picking them apart finally.

Sounds more like idiotic user error to me. I have used the latest versions of Windows and Norton Security for the past 10 years, always keeping them up to date, and have never had a virus. But again, I keep it on at all times and always keep it updated.

My father, on the other hand, had Norton installed on his school laptop by me, and everything worked fine, until the school's IT guy uninstalled it, installed some POS school sponsored anti-virus app, and he then got two viruses, and his machine has been borked ever since.


If you think Windows has more flaws than MacOS, you're crazy. There just happens to be far more "zomg im so leet hacker and antimicrocrap so ima hack em" people out there to exploit the Windows holes. Sure, Macs might become more popular with the computer illiterate, or people who are more into fads (I'm a Mac) than they are with functionality, but eventually people will start exploiting Mac flaws as well.

Macs are 95% idiot proof. They are designed around the fact that hardly anyone needs admin rights to the computer and protect it well...preventing 90-95% of harmful programs.

Windows on the other hand gives anyone and anything full admin rights to the computer...which is why its in such a sad state. They tried fixing/redesigning it in Vista and the developers are too used to easy/bad programming from previous versions. Now all you get it some stupid annoying allow/deny box every time you want to do something.