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Kelsey Bjarnason
Even Mr. Dishonest Bjarnason can't slip that one by us: AdAware 'critical' is often anything but.
If you posted the AdAware logs, and I'm sure you have them, we can see what these supposed 'critical' malware pieces really are.
Kelsey Bjarnason It can still get infected if they don't install critical updates, don't keep their security apps up to date or if they do...
Kelsey Bjarnason Spare me your pedantics. They don't reduce the sheer stupidity of Linux-KDE-.rpm installer reporting an empty text file results in " No kidding? I thought the Linux kernel did all that...
Installing Windows overtop Linux also significantly improves performance. And that's no joke and that's no FUD.
And there are plenty of Windows machines that don't get infected.
snips No, they don't, since neither KDE nor Gnome have any concept of RPMs. Once again, demonstrating a fundamental cluelessness about, well, pretty much everything...
Where can I download this mystical file that installs 100+ pieces of malware? I don't mind the risk.
According to you I'm very stupid, and so my Windows system should be chock full of spyware and viruses:
* I almost never enable real-time anti-virus or anti-spyware software. * I usually run ZoneAlarm free or the Windows firewall * I have a 'Block Anonymous Internet Requests' setting enabled on my router. * I ran Firefox probably 85% of the time last year, IE the other 15%.
Those are the only security precautions I take.
I haven't even run a single anti-virus check in about 4 months, so I did one a little while ago.
AVG 7.0 identified 4 false positives (all from cached Java files found in 'C:-Documents and Settings-DFS-Application Data-Sun-Java-Deployment-cache-javapi-v1.0-jar', which were downloaded by a web start app I tried from Stanford University - a demo of a realtime query engine created by the guy who did PostGreSQL.) Start Control Panel Java Delete Temp Internet Files took care of all 4.
When I run SpyBot each month or so it only ever finds the same one, and only one, thing: 'Alexa related' (which is actually a standard part of Internet Explorer, and which may or may not be clbuttified as spyware).
Ad-Aware, which I just downloaded and ran for the first time on this system (which has been in use for a year, surfing all over, including love, cracker sites, etc) also found only 8 'Alexa related' components, which it identified as critical, but which are definitely not critical.
So, 12 false positives (no true viruses or malware of any kind) out of 310,000+ memory-Registry-file objects, accumulated over a year of pretty much indiscriminate web surfing, downloading, and installing.
Windows security hard to achieve on a broadband-connected system? I think not.
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