The Mutt wrote:I've had malware remove all system restore points.
Glenn
Oh, my wife got a virus on her computer that was pure evil. It disabled system restore and task manager so you couldn't even close it down. I had to boot from a recovery CD to get rid of it.
And I keep our virus defs up to date, but that nasty thing got past. And it was on a normal web site, something she clicked on.
I know Mac (computer) owners swear by them. I'd get one if all I did was surf the net or write documents, but I need my PC apps.
VMware Fusion runs windows better than Windows. Or at least that has been my experience. Visio is really the only application that I use it for. Office 2008 Mac has its limitations but it works for me.
Windows suffers from a poor OS architecture that Unix, Linux and MacOSX (which is actually Unix based) do not. That's why Windows is so easily exploited. Anything can be exploited, some are just easier than others. If you can get a user to click on a link and voluntarily download a virus all bets are off on any platform.
jschrade wrote:VMware Fusion runs windows better than Windows. Or at least that has been my experience.
Nice. I've heard it runs well on a Mac. It just seems clumsy to run an OS under another OS.
XP runs better in VMWare under Vista than Vista runs native on the box. Win 7 is vastly better than Vista which will go down as one huge MS blunder.
I'm going Macintosh from a different direction, we bought an Acer Aspire One laptop loaded with Windows 7 in Hong Kong a few weeks back, I swapped out the 250Gig drive for a new 320Gig and installed iATKOSi software with OS X Mac operating system, at the moment everything is working except the WiFi, the reason I'm going this way, I like to play with different tech, if I get everything working fully I will be using the Hackintosh for e-mails etc while travelling till I get bored with it.
Linux with OpenOffice, Firefox, and Skype installed does everything I need with none of the drama of viruses and malware.
It's free. I happily running Ubuntu 10.04 on a couple of machines.
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