Windows 7 or vista..?

[jleaman]

Originally Posted by planet10

What happens to the numbers when you eliminate all the Windows anti-virus programs & all the virus, trojans, etc from the list.

dave

Do you run any av software on your mac

LOL!

[human.bin]

Originally Posted by jleaman

these graphix car

indeed they need too much fuel the atom/ion platforms spreading these days look in the direction of efficency, but althought optimal for an home theater setup, their processor's architecture is way too slow even for home use

ostripper, why do you stay with media center? heve you tried xmbc?
http://xbmc.org/download/

[ostripper]

By planet 10 - What happens to the numbers when you eliminate all the Windows anti-virus programs & all the virus, trojans, etc from the list.

Omitting all searches that include the words "virus/trojan" you lose about 10 million hits.

Security is a two ended stick. An OS can be MADE secure or hardened (windows), but not be that way "out of the box" (windows again) . The fact that it is this way natively makes it a social engineering target (windows). As windows is still 90% ....

[blues are microsoft OS'es]
If you were a punk virus- trojan coder workin' for the russian mob , would you bother with the 10% ?? Also, you would assume that 10% is WAY more knowledgeable (a bad target), considering their choice in a operating system.

Windows XP "out of the box" is horrible. "remote registry service" "remote assistance" and a few other scary services are on by default.. what a gaping hole. Xp's firewall won't block any outgoing communications , and IE sucks. So , after a day , most XP users are hijacked by an active X control and either get redirected or end up in somebodies "botnet".

being the main target (90%) ,Microsoft countered this with server 2K3 / Vista -IE7/8. This was good , but they did not anticipate the negative reaction of forcing the public to learn basic security protocol and releasing a "BETA" . VISTA .. ALL of IT - is a beta .. leading up to WIN 7.. SHAME on redmond rip offs!!!

UAC in win 7 is just the right balance , not too intrusive , but sufficient to surf endlessly with a daily IE8 crash (Warez site - porno).

NO Antivirus software here !!!

I have never used a antivirus program , between 2001 - 2009 , only 1 event(2002)...I downloaded and launched a infected pirated item , it cloned itself to all 6 of my HDD's (hard to get rid of). This was my fault , I learned .. moved on. IE has been compromised (hijacked) 100's of times in the same 8 years , and this was the only route the bad guys still had with me until I found Chrome.

Now I can visit any site , even the ones google identifies as "evil" , the worst that will happen is the "sandboxed" tab on chrome will freeze and tell me to close it.

OS

[theAnonymous1]

Originally Posted by human.bin

ostripper, why do you stay with media center? heve you tried xmbc?
Downloads | XBMC

I just tried XBMC....... what a lame program.

It doesn't even have native support for TV tuners, which is what I use Media Center for 99% of the time (Live TV).

[ostripper]

ostripper, why do you stay with media center? heve you tried xmbc?

Too bloated (81megs) , for my divx , mpeg .. B S player at 5megs does the job and is instant.
OS

[jleaman]

Originally Posted by ostripper

Too bloated (81megs) , for my divx , mpeg .. B S player at 5megs does the job and is instant.
OS

ever notice how softare is getting SOOOOOO beloated DAM like no wonder hard drives are up to 2tb's now.! I remember when a 40gig was huge.!

[Netlist]

I paid something like 2.500 euro for a 20Mb long ago.
We thought it would last forever...

[rdf]

Originally Posted by jleaman

ever notice how softare is getting SOOOOOO beloated DAM like no wonder hard drives are up to 2tb's now.! I remember when a 40gig was huge.!

Compare BSplayer on Windows 7 against xbmc live's 340 megs...

[ostripper]

ever notice how softare is getting SOOOOOO beloated

But we , and open source developers , can fight back.
Some examples ..

combined with win7's native burning ...
burrrn.net - The home of Burrrn and Mr QuestionMan » Downloads At a whole 2megs ..
and - ISO Recorder v 2 at 775K !!

I can do all of NERO's work without installing 371 megs of B$.

Other "LITE" win32 goodies... all under 10megs

Privoxy - rock solid network proxy server (used 3 years)
Privoxy - Home Page

HFS - port 80 web server , too many features to mention.
HFS ~ HTTP File Server

AC3 filter - movies never sounded so good.
AC3Filter
B S player - At 12megs - it can use ALL codecs , winamp DSP's , SPDIF , all filetypes .. used it for 4 years now .. flawless - even dualscreen HT use.
www.bsplayer.com

I also use winamp , paint shop pro 7/8 , NFODIZ ,Winrar , Microangelo (icons),O&O HDD defrag ,Chrome , foxit PDF (3 megs) Foxit Software - Foxit Reader for Windows
Frontpage/word 2003 , LT spice (of course) .. ALL my main 3'rd party programs open every filetype ,run in 100ms, take no more than 100meg space and NEVER fail (many years of use and abuse). BTW , all these perform flawlessly with win 7.
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[theAnonymous1]

I see **.Player has TV tuner support; I might have to give it a try.

I will admit I really do like Media Center. Microsoft needs to stop treating it like some beta project on the back burner and fix all the things users are complaining about.