Avira, CCleaner, and Malwarebytes are the first three things I put on a new machine.
Avira, CCleaner, and Malwarebytes are the first three things I put on a new machine.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My iMac runs Fedora. :-POriginally 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? (;->)
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Station powered by atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
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.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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.
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"Sadly, it always takes a few martyrs to get the ball rolling." Colonel Tim Boldman 2001
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."--William James
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." Victor J. Stenger
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,lxde
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 AM THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS!
I feel so dirty...
My name is Luke and I'm an Ubuntu user.
QAnon / GOP Republicans mentally lack the necessary intelligence to even tell a decent lie (Ex: A cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles run a global child sex trafficking ring and conspired against former President Dotard dRUMPf during his term in office... Jewish space lasers, etc.). What in the hell makes anyone believe these melon heads can actually govern?
Can't "trust" any Ubuntu derivitives? What, you think they are going to steal your boogers?
WTF, over?
QAnon / GOP Republicans mentally lack the necessary intelligence to even tell a decent lie (Ex: A cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles run a global child sex trafficking ring and conspired against former President Dotard dRUMPf during his term in office... Jewish space lasers, etc.). What in the hell makes anyone believe these melon heads can actually govern?
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.
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
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