Anti-virus software recommendations

rooneypoo wrote:Solution: buy a Mac, and don't ever worry about anti-virus software ever again.

Seriously. That's what I did. I don't ever look back, either.

SensFan71 wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:Solution: buy a Mac, and don't ever worry about anti-virus software ever again.

Seriously. That's what I did. I don't ever look back, either.

well you could do that, but a lot of us are afraid of change :^^^^:

rooneypoo wrote:

SensFan71 wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:Solution: buy a Mac, and don't ever worry about anti-virus software ever again.

Seriously. That's what I did. I don't ever look back, either.

well you could do that, but a lot of us are afraid of change :^^^^:

Yes, but when the change is from a long cloudy week to a sunshiny day, or a long cold winter to hot summer day, you should welcome it.

Seriously, it's nice out here. Come try it. No anti-virus crap eating up RAM, no firewalls, no blue-screens-of-death, no freezing whatsoever.

Yes, I am a brand new Mac user. I never used one a day in my life before last week, and already it feels like home.

wprager wrote:Shabbs and SF71, thanks a bunch. Avast is installed, licensed, and scheduled to run early Monday mornings. Now, if it finishes the scan before I get up on Monday I'll be impressed. With AVG I first started running it at 5AM, then moved it back to 3, then finally 1AM, and it would still (usually) be chugging away when I got up at 5:30 or 6. That's with a half-full 80 GB drive. I think I need to get rid of some crap. Like Microsoft Works -- don't think I ever used it.

rooneypoo wrote:

SensFan71 wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:Solution: buy a Mac, and don't ever worry about anti-virus software ever again.

Seriously. That's what I did. I don't ever look back, either.

well you could do that, but a lot of us are afraid of change :^^^^:

Yes, but when the change is from a long cloudy week to a sunshiny day, or a long cold winter to hot summer day, you should welcome it.

Seriously, it's nice out here. Come try it. No anti-virus crap eating up RAM, no firewalls, no blue-screens-of-death, no freezing whatsoever.

Yes, I am a brand new Mac user. I never used one a day in my life before last week, and already it feels like home.

SeawaySensFan wrote:If I were some kind of Rockefeller or other big-shot I would have bought a Mac years ago.

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:If I were some kind of Rockefeller or other big-shot I would have bought a Mac years ago.

Haha, dude, I'm a just-finished graduate student, and have lived as a student for 11 years. I lived on, and continue to live on, less than $30,000 a year. If you work at Subway 40 hours a week, you can afford a Mac -- and NHL Centre Ice.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:If I were some kind of Rockefeller or other big-shot I would have bought a Mac years ago.

Haha, dude, I'm a just-finished graduate student, and have lived as a student for 11 years. I lived on, and continue to live on, less than $30,000 a year. If you work at Subway 40 hours a week, you can afford a Mac -- and NHL Centre Ice.

Not with 3 kids (one goalie), a mortgage and 2 car payments you can't, Your Majesty.

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:If I were some kind of Rockefeller or other big-shot I would have bought a Mac years ago.

Haha, dude, I'm a just-finished graduate student, and have lived as a student for 11 years. I lived on, and continue to live on, less than $30,000 a year. If you work at Subway 40 hours a week, you can afford a Mac -- and NHL Centre Ice.

Not with 3 kids (one goalie), a mortgage and 2 car payments you can't, Your Majesty.

I'm paying for half the mortgage and the car, peon.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:If I were some kind of Rockefeller or other big-shot I would have bought a Mac years ago.

Haha, dude, I'm a just-finished graduate student, and have lived as a student for 11 years. I lived on, and continue to live on, less than $30,000 a year. If you work at Subway 40 hours a week, you can afford a Mac -- and NHL Centre Ice.

Not with 3 kids (one goalie), a mortgage and 2 car payments you can't, Your Majesty.

I'm paying for half the mortgage and the car, peon.

Peon is a little mean. You could have went easy and compared me to the fat, be-spectacled nerd who represents the PC.

rooneypoo wrote:Well, my point about the Mac decision is that it's all about the priorities you set for yourself. Anyone who works can afford one. Or NHL CI. Even if it takes time (i.e., savings). Tho' kids complicate that a lot, I agree.

rooneypoo wrote:Yeah, I'm telling ya, 'once you go Mac, you never go back (to PC).'

SensFan71 wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:Yeah, I'm telling ya, 'once you go Mac, you never go back (to PC).'

are the MACs still linux based or have they moved onto more of hte GUI based system?

rooneypoo wrote:

SensFan71 wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:Yeah, I'm telling ya, 'once you go Mac, you never go back (to PC).'

are the MACs still linux based or have they moved onto more of hte GUI based system?

To tell the truth, SF71, I have no idea what you just asked me.

I use a Mac because it's simple, direct, and hassle free. And that's because it's not Windows based. That's about all I know.

Microsoft was deeply involved in the development of the Macintosh. Microsoft had been the first outside developer to get a Macintosh prototype. The prototype was promptly nicknamed SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device) by Bill Gates and Charles Simonyi.

Microsoft developed productivity software that the Macintosh desperately needed to make the Macintosh a contender in corporate markets.

After the public unveiling of the Macintosh, Bill Gates personally wrote John Sculley, urging him to license the software and ROMs to outside manufacturers so that the Macintosh would become the new standard in personal computing. This was two years after Microsoft began development of Interface Manager, renamed Windows shortly before release.)

The proposal, dated June 25, 1985, was soundly rejected by Jean-Louis Gassée, who was given control of the Macintosh and Lisa after Steve Jobs had been stripped of management responsibilities. Gassée reasoned that the Macintosh was so vastly superior to the existing PC graphical environments that Apple would never face any serious competition and would be able to rely on profit-rich hardware sales (with margins over 55% until the early 90s).

Besides protecting profits, Gassée was probably a little distrustful of Microsoft's motives. It was in Microsoft's interest to maintain the IBM PC standard for as long as possible, since Microsoft controlled most of the operating system market and most of the developer's tools market. In Gassée's mind, the proposal could have been an attempt to sabotage the Macintosh.

In later interviews, however, Bill Gates himself points out that Microsoft made a lot more money selling a Mac user a copy of Word and MultiPlan (the predecessor of Excel), than selling an OEM DOS licenses, so a Macintosh standard would have benefited both companies in the long term.

Despite Gassée's objections to the plan, Sculley believed that it could help Apple establish the Macintosh as the personal computer standard, supplanting the IBM PC and MS-DOS. Sculley had Dan Eilers, one of his aides, prepare a list of possible licensing deals. The list of suggestions included selling entire system boards to manufacturers, porting the Macintosh software to the IBM PC and selling the software to consumers, partnering with a workstation vendor, and others.