windows xp = shite!!

Former Member

Originally posted by Zalbor
Maybe then I can blame it for having so many holes that I get attacked by viruses every 15 minutes (which my AV luckily deletes) or for using my modem without my permission to send info to MS?

thats funny, i dont even have a virus scanner installed, but every week or so i will do two online virus scans and they always come out with no viruses, why? because im carefull with what i do with my computer ,(i.e wont install random programs unless i know they are, wont use that exploit ridden internet explorer) and things like that.

If your getting viruses every 15 minutes or so and no-one else is surely you can see that its your actions on the computer that are causing these viruses to arise and not windows XP's ?

Think about it, if windows XP on its own was riddled with bugs and stuff that allow viruses to be installed every 15 minutes like you say then surely microsoft would know about it and produce a vitual system update to stop it from happening?

I dont think you can place blame on the OS for what the repocussions of your actions on the computer.

Former Member

I much prefer Windows XP to older versions. It doesn't crash every five minutes, like most other versions seem to. It's a good operating system, I am very happy with it.

Former Member

Originally posted by jake0
If your getting viruses every 15 minutes or so and no-one else is surely you can see that its your actions on the computer that are causing these viruses to arise and not windows XP's ?

If you replace IE + OE with the Mozilla suite then that will cut most of the problems out. Oh and of course replace that bloody Kazaa thing with Winmx.

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jake0

>"If your getting viruses every 15 minutes or so and no-one else is surely you can see that its your actions on the computer that are causing these viruses to arise and not windows XP's ?"

There are plenty of viruses and trojans that can infect a computer without any action from its user. They can easily be installed by websites on computers that run earlier versions of Internet Explorer 6. MS Blaster installed itself onto machines by exploiting a security hole.

>"surely microsoft would know about it and produce a vitual system update to stop it from happening?"
They have. It's called Service Pack 2

Indrid Cold

Originally posted by jake0
they always come out with no viruses, why? because im carefull with what i do with my computer ,(i.e wont install random programs unless i know they are, wont use that exploit ridden internet explorer) and things like that.

Ok, can you please please tell me which of the following is a "random program which I don't know what it is"?
Firefox
Netscape
Winzip
Yahoo Messenger
GetRight
Norton Antivirus
Norton Ghost

And some games I've had for years and the drivers for my devices (from CD).

Former Member

Getright.

if you read this page

http://home.tvd.be/ws36178/security/spylist.html

you can see that getright has been confirmed to have spyware in it,

Indrid Cold

Originally posted by jake0
Getright.

if you read this page

http://home.tvd.be/ws36178/security/spylist.html

you can see that getright has been confirmed to have spyware in it,

Hm, Interesting. I had it before too and never had a problem, though I used to run Ad-aware often then. I'll try downloading it again. If GR is the problem, and it didn't cause a problem in 98, then after that it won't cause a problem here either, right?

Former Member

I run getright on my pc too although it's not monitoring clicks or anything, i use it for those super big downloads, 1gb+ . never had any real problems with it

Former Member

Windows XP isn't all that bad. Nor is 2000. Compared to '95, '98, '98 SE, and ME, they're a godsend. So much more stable, and have a lot of nice little features and software built in. I can understand peoples whinges about Microsoft and their operating systems, but XP is the best so far. Having said that, I'm still suffering a couple of glitches with system tray icons, and random crash/reboots.

The first time I tried to install XP on this machine it all went wrong. Kept on crashing, running CHKDSK and deleting/renaming files all over the place. Very frustrating. So I started from scratch with fdisking the drives (actually used Maxtor's Maxblast, as they're Maxtor drives), and a fresh install, and all's been fairly well since then, apart from the aforementioned random crash/reboot and icon thing.

I used to dual boot Linux Mandrake, and want to again in the near future (when I get a copy of the latest version), and was sooo impressed with its stability. It wasn't immune to glitches, lock ups, and crashes, but they were next to nothing, even when compared to 2000 & XP.