Anti-virus software recommendations

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.

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?

wprager wrote:Umm, "X Window" actually. No 's'. I never understood that, but that's what it is.

wprager wrote:Umm, "X Window" actually. No 's'. I never understood that, but that's what it is.

wprager wrote:I just got my son's laptop (Vista Home 64-bit version). and am setting it up with Avast. Unfortunately there is a nasty side-effect that Control Panel (and quite possibly anything that requires Windows Explorer) just hangs. I googled "vista control panel hangs" and found the avast link. Disabling avast "fixes" the problem. The issue is that I already de-installed the trial version of McAfee that came with the laptop. I really want to get avast to qork with vista. Their website says it's compatible since version 4.7.892 and I've downloaded 4.8.

I'm sure I can figure this out given enough time, but I was hoping someone's already gone through this and figured it out.

Vandelay wrote:

wprager wrote:I just got my son's laptop (Vista Home 64-bit version). and am setting it up with Avast. Unfortunately there is a nasty side-effect that Control Panel (and quite possibly anything that requires Windows Explorer) just hangs. I googled "vista control panel hangs" and found the avast link. Disabling avast "fixes" the problem. The issue is that I already de-installed the trial version of McAfee that came with the laptop. I really want to get avast to qork with vista. Their website says it's compatible since version 4.7.892 and I've downloaded 4.8.

I'm sure I can figure this out given enough time, but I was hoping someone's already gone through this and figured it out.

Hmmm...are you running avast home or professional? I have vista 64 bit as well, running avast professional and control panel never hangs...

wprager wrote:

Vandelay wrote:

wprager wrote:I just got my son's laptop (Vista Home 64-bit version). and am setting it up with Avast. Unfortunately there is a nasty side-effect that Control Panel (and quite possibly anything that requires Windows Explorer) just hangs. I googled "vista control panel hangs" and found the avast link. Disabling avast "fixes" the problem. The issue is that I already de-installed the trial version of McAfee that came with the laptop. I really want to get avast to qork with vista. Their website says it's compatible since version 4.7.892 and I've downloaded 4.8.

I'm sure I can figure this out given enough time, but I was hoping someone's already gone through this and figured it out.

Hmmm...are you running avast home or professional? I have vista 64 bit as well, running avast professional and control panel never hangs...

Home 64-bit (it's actually in my post).

shabbs wrote:

wprager wrote:

Vandelay wrote:

wprager wrote:I just got my son's laptop (Vista Home 64-bit version). and am setting it up with Avast. Unfortunately there is a nasty side-effect that Control Panel (and quite possibly anything that requires Windows Explorer) just hangs. I googled "vista control panel hangs" and found the avast link. Disabling avast "fixes" the problem. The issue is that I already de-installed the trial version of McAfee that came with the laptop. I really want to get avast to qork with vista. Their website says it's compatible since version 4.7.892 and I've downloaded 4.8.

I'm sure I can figure this out given enough time, but I was hoping someone's already gone through this and figured it out.

Hmmm...are you running avast home or professional? I have vista 64 bit as well, running avast professional and control panel never hangs...

Home 64-bit (it's actually in my post).

He asked which version of Avast, not Vista. Vandelay - I'm pretty sure he's running Avast Home (free) edition.

wprager wrote:Yeah, sorry about that. Not sure why I thought you were asking about the OS.

Anyhow, it seems to be OK now.

Vista + Avast = Control Panel not responding « on: May 29, 2009, 10:35:05 PM » Have a new Dell 1545 Laptop (4Gb Ram; 32 bit OS) with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed. Laptop is 2 months old and when I re-booted Avast after installation there weren't any infected files found. Downloaded and installed Avast Anti Virus (Avast Home Edition - Free 4.8.1335.90414) today. Now Control Panel won't show any options and keeps showing as 'Not Responding'. Just shows the main panel but is all white where the icons should be!!! Is there a cure or a simple solution to resolve this or is there some sort of incompatibility issue? Note: this laptop came with a trial version of McAfee pre-installed which I've done nothing with. Should this have been un-installed first??

Re: Vista + Avast = Control Panel not responding « Reply #1 on: May 29, 2009, 11:14:04 PM » Yes it should have been uninstalled first as two AVs can conflict, even after an uninstall some remnants can be left behind.