Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Oct 2009 12:45 UTC
A little over two weeks ago, Microsoft released Microsoft Security Essentials, a security software suite protecting users of Windows against malware and viruses. The company has released data about the number of downloads and fixed infections, and the results are encouraging.
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Member since:2007-02-17
I suspect that you'd be no more virus-ridden on Windows. I'm sure that you'd have no trouble keeping a machine equally clean on Vista or Win7 without the need for antivirus, Defender or anything else.
On behalf of other people, I've had to restore any number of computers to a useable state over some years now. I've fixed many different types of software and hardware problems.
The only consistent factor is that if it is a case of software that used to work fine, and doesn't work or is horribly slow now, yet the hardware is working the same as it has always has, then the software system that has got screwed up is Windows.
Windows every time. Something different every time, but always Windows. I'm a bit sick of it, frankly. I wish people would use something better.
Edited 2009-10-19 10:08 UTC
Member since:2006-01-19
My experience is the same. But lies 7 years in the past.
Had windows machines crashing on me, and I also had 2 Linux machines crashing on me, one of them brand new.
It turned out, with Windows it happened much more often, and >90% of the issues have been software related. With Linux, both crashing machines have been hardware faults (one memory/CPU and one graphic chip failure).
I am amazed, that you seem to have similar experiences with current windows systems, as the song on the street sings of the "great stability" windows now is supposed to have.
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I suspect that you'd be no more virus-ridden on Windows. I'm sure that you'd have no trouble keeping a machine equally clean on Vista or Win7 without the need for antivirus, Defender or anything else.