Thread: What's the best spyware/virus/adware program out there?

Originally posted by Aphius
Oh, another Linux thing you can get is \"Lin-Spire\" DeviantArt plugs it a lot. It apparently like windows but... not.

Linspire and Lindows are nasty, whenever an OS copies another OS, bad things usually happen, unless they are copying UNIX. Another thing is both those windowsish-linux OS's are not free, and they make you pay for many core pieces.

Originally posted by Kaniaz
Windows is a perfectly fine operating system in many aspects; Linux is a headache to get working.

An extremely ignorant response. Yes, in many cases windows is fine in many aspects, and for a person who doesn't mind dropping money on things that become infected with viruses and spyware, its fine, and its.. how can I say this..... (dumbafied?) up enough that a 3-year old can install it. They had to make the install good, because after a year or two the registry fills up, spyware grows in, and it runs like crap, which means another reinstall.

Now, that was a little harsh, i'll hit the high point of windows as being the fact that it has a few shareware programs linux does not like Macromedia Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Office. This goes without saying that linux can emulate all these with a little work, and in the case of Photoshop and Office, there is TheGimp and OpenOffice (respectivly) to replace them, both of which are well put together, and get this, FREE!

In regards to your final remark, Kaniaz. Linux is only a headache to people who have chosen the wrong distro for their needs, or who were not competant enough to read the directions (I'd say I help at least 3-4 people through the gentoo install every week because they didn't read the wonderfully written docs on http://www.gentoo.org. I do not recommend gentoo however, as it is more of a distro for someone who is serious about spending some time to have the fastest running machine possible. I believe however, the Fedora install is just as easy as the windows install (you can even buy the cd's for much less then windows and have it shipped to you in a box with instructions) , I'd say it will take someone a month to get used to the linux feel, and maybe 2 months to discover the true power.

Final thing I'll make note of, is because of the fac that 98% of the software on linux is open-source, things get fixed really fast, also the userbase has a good community through mailing lists, forums, and IRC, so support is really easy to find should you ever have a problem.

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Having a wire that you can yank out of the phone socket is the most effective way to stop them.

Same with broadband too ya know. [/b]

Sorry for my ignorance. But with 56K you generally spend less time on the internet and are only on the net when you really need to be, since you pay each minute, so I suppose it does offer some sort of protection in that way.

Originally posted by Identity X
As for CT plugging Firefox, I say well done man.

Indeed, there's nothing wrong with spreading the love.

omg...guys..i lost everything ;_;

Something happened(computer was utterly f*!#%, It would not go to the main screen and was in a continous and neverending cycle of "trying" to load the main screen). I had to reformat my computer or something like it and I lost everything.

So..well i guess my virus problems are solved . I made an out dated copy of my folder/documents but I cant seem to find it. i...think im going to cry in my little corner now.

thanks though guys for the advice...to prevent any more viruses...im going to get some of those stuff....

Wait, if you want to recover files there's tools for that!!!!!! Even though its formatted, you can still recover them.
Google for 'File Scavenger" and use that program, you can recover any file if you still know its filename, you can then search your harddisk for that file if they are important documents.

anyway i suppose its best to read some articles on the subject of recovering files from a formatted disk (which is perfectly possible) so you know how it works and whats goin on a bit more, since i suck at explaining.

thanks, you have given me hope

ill look into it

You can do that?!? I didn't know! Wait... how does that work if it's been deleted? Hmm...

Man nightowl that sucks.

Remember to use Window's Restore early next time.

Originally posted by Squall
You can do that?!? I didn't know! Wait... how does that work if it's been deleted? Hmm...

Man nightowl that sucks.

Remember to use Window's Restore early next time.

When you delete something on the harddrive, it does not delete fully. It is just put into overwritable format, which can be easily recovered, even though most operating systems purposely hide overwritable data so people do not get confused. Programs like filescavenger unhide these files and can save them back to writable format