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Greekfreak
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 Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: My desktop files got completely wiped out... new virus? |
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I'm far from a computer dummy, but this afternoon my computer was chock full of stuff on the desktop c:/ drive, with an equal amount of crap on my f:/ drive, but after returning home and my wife's been on the computer, I find everything on my desktop is wiped out.
My utorrent function, quick icon menu, any video/audio/jpeg files I had are gone.
I've since told her she wasn't to blame, but surely my avg wouldn't fail me just now, would it? Which new little virus did she open in her email?
Incidentally, my f:/ drive was fine. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I avoid AVG Free because it has no Rootkit protection. Without that, you're opening yourself to some of the most deadly malware out there. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
Microsoft's free Security Essentials has been doing well, also. Don't download direct from Microsoft if you're in Korea -- it won't be allowed. |
Does this download link not work for you?
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| wormholes101 wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
Microsoft's free Security Essentials has been doing well, also. Don't download direct from Microsoft if you're in Korea -- it won't be allowed. |
Does this download link not work for you?
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ |
After installing, it came back with a message that it won't allow installation on a non-US computer. I got around it by downloading from Softpedia. |
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martypants
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
Location: Ulsan, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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The world's best virus and/or malware protection is to dump windows
and run linux. There's damn little I can't do on my linux box I can't do on windoze. If I need it, I'll fire it up long enough to get my crap done and then go back to something is a)faster, b) easier to manage and c) virus/malware free. That doesn't happen very often, but video editing is one of them.
I can't remember anything else I need to do on windows I can't do in my favorite distro, Fedora |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:19 am Post subject: |
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Heck, there's nothing a computer with no operating system can't be made to do that Windows does, given enough time and programming effort.
The reason Linux isn't very successful in the home world is because it's still not easy, and still requires too much work to make it work (at least at the Windows level people expect these days).
Collectively, people who ignore Linux after trying it are saying, "I don't have the time, interest, or expertise to make it work like it should."
Also, it's got fewer virus issues simply because it's not very widely accepted around the world. |
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martypants
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
The reason Linux isn't very successful in the home world is because it's still not easy, and still requires too much work to make it work (at least at the Windows level people expect these days).
Collectively, people who ignore Linux after trying it are saying, "I don't have the time, interest, or expertise to make it work like it should."
Also, it's got fewer virus issues simply because it's not very widely accepted around the world. |
Spoken like a guy who has neither expertise nor interest.
When's the last time you even tried Linux? It's incredibly easy to install and use. Unless you're completely ignorant.
As of this month, Linux own 1/3 of the market share on netbooks.
But its nearly non-existent virus arena isn't because of that, but because user authentication/priveledges is far different. Gaining super-user ability to cause real damage is just difficult to program into a virus. And although viruses do exist, the rapid response of linux developers can fix the usually minimal threats quickly. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| martypants wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
The reason Linux isn't very successful in the home world is because it's still not easy, and still requires too much work to make it work (at least at the Windows level people expect these days).
Collectively, people who ignore Linux after trying it are saying, "I don't have the time, interest, or expertise to make it work like it should."
Also, it's got fewer virus issues simply because it's not very widely accepted around the world. |
Spoken like a guy who has neither expertise nor interest.
When's the last time you even tried Linux? It's incredibly easy to install and use. Unless you're completely ignorant.
As of this month, Linux own 1/3 of the market share on netbooks.
But its nearly non-existent virus arena isn't because of that, but because user authentication/priveledges is far different. Gaining super-user ability to cause real damage is just difficult to program into a virus. And although viruses do exist, the rapid response of linux developers can fix the usually minimal threats quickly. |
Way to completely miss the point. I'm relatively computer savvy and I gave up on Ubuntu pretty quick. The updates kept killing my wifi network. I knew I would be able to fix it but it was quicker and easier just to switch back to my Windows install. How do you think people who know nothing about computers would get on? This is why Linux hasn't caught on yet. It may be better that Windows in most ways but it certainly isn't easier to use for the average computer user. |
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martypants
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
Way to completely miss the point. I'm relatively computer savvy and I gave up on Ubuntu pretty quick. The updates kept killing my wifi network. I knew I would be able to fix it but it was quicker and easier just to switch back to my Windows install. How do you think people who know nothing about computers would get on? This is why Linux hasn't caught on yet. It may be better that Windows in most ways but it certainly isn't easier to use for the average computer user. |
Here's another guy who thinks he's computer savvy. If you couldn't even deal with Ubuntu, the easiest of the Linux distros, then you didn't really
try it out before giving up on it, did you? You really are an average computer user.
The point is, windows IS and always HAS been a POS as far as security goes. And Linux, while it wasn't easy a while back, is so easy now, even cretins should be able to figure it out and not have to go running back
to apron strings of mommy microsoft.
You just go back to using that POS windows and leave the real work | |
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