By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Security, Microsoft, Apple, Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Is there anything worse than the hypocrites who insist on organic, forgetting the food miles their Scottish salmon cost compared with the line-caught mackerel from the end of the road? Then drive the X5 a half mile to little Matthew and Jessica’s Steiner school and never take a bag with them to John Lewis.
Worst of all, they opened up the wall between the conservatory and the dining room so you either freeze or melt, depending on the season. If it’s raining on the twin-wall plastic roof, forget any conversation.
Their houses had the naked roof tiles while all around kept a thick layer of snow. They converted the loft into a games room instead of insulating it. While our roof (ahem) kept a snowy white coating as we stayed toasty behind the rockwool wrapped around our house. The total cost of which was less than a couple of refills for their 4×4.
As a long-term Mac users we’ve never wrapped our computers in security blankets, even so we always run some form of protection. Nevertheless we haven’t had any virus since the early 1990’s. On Friday my boss’s PC announced it was infected by something unmentionable. We ran Sophos across it and found loads of gremlins which are meant to be picked up by the security software as soon as they arrive. So much for Sophos “Security so complete you feel invincible”.
We ran Sophos over my Dell. It is used as any computer I’ve ever had, occasionally downloading something, have a look then throw it away. These are only mainstream web browsers and compression packages recommended by Versiontracker or CNet. Nevertheless my Optiplex was riddled with nasties even though Sophos scans every day. Sounds more like Sophos Invisible Security.
Safari, Chrome and Firefox have been installed and rejected because like using Lotus Notes and Microsoft Word, you spend fa too much time fighting to get the blinking computer and software to do what you want it to do. Windows 7 looks better, the adverts make it seem like an OSX wannabe and even the ads are copies with their “I’m a PC” punchline.
A shame it’s not original and completely misses the point.
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