So I am contemplating to uninstall all google software

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: spikespiegal

its one reason why ms pc's are so riddled with malware

Windows PC's get riddled with Malware because of all you losers surfing the web and downloading trojan invested software from bitorrent with full f--king admin rights. Then blaming it on MS because you're too stupid to understand the basic security differences between Win98 and XP.

The more ridiculous thing is...somebody actually gives you a paycheck for working in the IT field when you should be on the unemployment line. BTW - a Firewall *isn't* a content filter either.

As for Google Apps, the interfaces are so horrid I can't believe people actually use them, but they are free. I'll stick to Open Office, thank you very much. Gmail is the only E-mail app that makes Lotus Notes seem ergonomic.

Try using a pc without admin rights. You'll be constantly doing runas to do anything. The model may work in Linux, but not in Windows. But either way, even non admin right, if you use IE and get a virus through an exploit, it will use privilege escalation and run as admin anyway, in the background while you surf some casino site. IE is just that bad.

Then again I'm sure it's possible for firefox to have issues in Linux too, it's just not targeted as much or perhaps it really is more secure (I'd love to think that, but it's hard to tell). Today's software in general is just very buggy and insecure because there's too much run time crap like java, javascript, flash etc that are points of exploit.

As for p2p apps then it's a different story, it's always a risk as you don't really know where stuff is coming from.

But you can kinda use common sense. A 34KB file called adobe-cs-suite.exe is probably not what it says it is.

Idealy, it would be neat if all browsers ran in a special sand box environment, sorta like a VM. Apparently vista has something like this, but not sure how effective it really is. I'm sure it's exploitable like every other MS product.

 

[Fayd]

i love auto updates. for that reason and many others, i also love steam.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Fayd
i love auto updates. for that reason and many others, i also love steam.

Ugh.. I hate how steam does it.

Even if you tell it to stop it will start up again in 5 minutes and annoy you while trying to play games.