Avira, CCleaner, and Malwarebytes are the first three things I put on a new machine.
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Avira, CCleaner, and Malwarebytes are the first three things I put on a new machine.
My iMac runs Fedora. :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by W2IBC
"...it would not be around very long if everyone was a parasitic bottomfeeding freerider."
Down here they all float.
Getting to the point, so far the best non bloated combination I have found is Microsoft Security Essentials memory resident and on demand with CCleaner run at start-up and Malwarebytes on demand only. Never run two memory resident AV programs to avoid conflicts. CCleaner has the best option for cleaning leftovers out of the registry I've seen and it has a backup feature just in case. The LAST thing you need is a registry error, that's the computer version of a heart attack.
AE1PT has already commented on other bits for me so no sense being redundant. I'll make one comment though having been to Bath, when will they ever supply water that doesn't smell like it came out of the sewer? (;->)
My MacBook Pro runs Ubuntu (along with OS X) but I'd be open to trying Fedora. Red Hat was the first Linux distro I ever played with.Quote:
Originally Posted by W4GPL
My ibook is the fastest/easiest machine for the resources I have ever had. It has half the ass my pc has, and runs 4x faster. Mine is an older 32 bit Intel processor. It takes 48 seconds to boot up from cold dead start. running side by side to my BIL's $2000 64 bit processor with 8 gigs of ram I think, with win7, my old tired, ibook downloads a web page almost twice as fast.
I have very strong philosophical issues against Canonical (Ubuntu). Ubuntu seems like a fine distribution, but Canonical pays absolutely no respect to open source or the people who have put them where they are. They hardly even recognize that they're a Linux distribution -- goto ubuntu.com and and find me the word "Linux" on their main page. It ain't there.. Now with this latest ploy to incorporate Amazon promotion into their desktop is purely over the top. RedHat has stayed true to Linux and F/OSS in general. The only folly RedHat has had in recent memory is cooperating with Microsoft with the UEFI secure boot; which I'm firmly against.
And Mark Shuttleworth is also a bit of a douche. But not in a cool geeky way like Linus and Andrew Morton, and others.. :)
Also.. I've been using RedHat for nearly 16 years.. so I know most of the components inside and out; so I obviously favor rpm/yum/koji/mock, etc. Over whatever silliness Ubuntu is using. ;)
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PS - Fedora's main page mentions Linux 8 times and even links directly to linux.com [Linux Foundation]. They know who and what allows them to create their distribution in such an effective way.
which is why i moved over to fedora. with ubuntu doing the amazon shit with that crappy unity de. it wont be long till they are doing it in kde,xfce,lxdeQuote:
Originally Posted by W4GPL
linux mint is better then ubuntu but with ubuntu doing what they are doing IMO makes it hard to trust any ubuntu derivatives
debian is still good. but dont quite play well with this system for some reason.
only bad thing I can say about redhat is cooperating with microshit with the secure boot crap.
I feel so dirty...Quote:
Originally Posted by W4GPL
My name is Luke and I'm an Ubuntu user. :lol:
Can't "trust" any Ubuntu derivitives? What, you think they are going to steal your boogers?Quote:
Originally Posted by W2IBC
WTF, over?
Ive heard so many different opinions of the various firewalls...Norton has yet to let me down. McCaffee (sp), Kapersky (sp), and as few others ive tried have been junk. Havent had an issue with Norton yet, been using it for years.
And i only get CC right from the Piriform website.