Ping Vista Peeps - Which AV and Spyware

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PerfectReign

Okay, since I'm delving into the dark pit that is Wintendo vista on my new
lappie (of course I'll setup dual boot SUSE afterwards) I need to know
which AV y'all recommend.

On my Win2K system I have Avast! and did use AVG. Any luck with these on
Vista?

The laptop is "installing software" as I write this.
 
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nae_reply

Okay, since I'm delving into the dark pit that is Wintendo vista on my new
lappie (of course I'll setup dual boot SUSE afterwards) I need to know
which AV y'all recommend.

On my Win2K system I have Avast! and did use AVG. Any luck with these on
Vista?

The laptop is "installing software" as I write this.

I have been using AVG 7.5 Internet Security Suite for 8 days now with
Windows Vista (Ultimate edition) with absolutely no problems
encountered.

Huntingtower


It works! Now if only I could remember what I did...
 
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PerfectReign

PerfectReign said:
Okay, since I'm delving into the dark pit that is Wintendo vista on my new
lappie (of course I'll setup dual boot SUSE afterwards) I need to know
which AV y'all recommend.

On my Win2K system I have Avast! and did use AVG. Any luck with these on
Vista?

The laptop is "installing software" as I write this.

Well, since no one is answering - and I have Vista up and running - I
downloaded and installed Avast!

How quaint - it asked me to reboot after installing. I'm suprised NT
still does that.

(Starting to miss linux already....)
 
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PerfectReign

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BigNetBuy

PerfectReign said:
Well, since no one is answering - and I have Vista up and running - I
downloaded and installed Avast!

Any free A/V should work. :D
How quaint - it asked me to reboot after installing. I'm suprised NT
still does that.

Similar results when I dabbled with Vista. Installing drivers,
installing printers, and even changing network settings from static IP
to DHCP all required a reboot. Whether it was specific to my system or
wide-spread, don't know.


One positive note: Office 2007 has some nice features. Word, in
particular. One feature that jumped out was creating tables. A bit of
a shock to adjust to ribbons...but (never thought I'd say this) I'd buy
a copy of Office 2007.


--
- Dean

Certified Owner of Jade's Panties and Chief Lesbian Officer of AHM

"Our Sun solution helps researchers work faster--and better. " --New
Sun Fanboi

"{BNB} is a little Net-Trollop. He sluts his wrath all over the place."
- John
Boyd
"BNB is a lying buffoon. making up fairy tales about clown
applications..." -
KiwiRock

http://members.aol.com/bignetbuy/clown.txt

"How come you're so sweet?" --Kali
 
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BigNetBuy

PerfectReign said:
Not sure why, but Microsoft wants me to register my version of Wintendo.

So I nicely go online to register. Oops!

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vista_register1.jpg.jpg

Wrong browser. It doesn't like Firefox. I think - maybe they're still
stupid enough to use ActiveX. In any case, I load IE 7 and try again...

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vista_register2.jpg.jpg

...Ooops! It doesn't work either.


Maybe I should download Konqueror or Gaelon or Safari??

If they don't accept Firefox, don't accept their website.

Call those clowns and register over the phone. Make them PAY to
register you. :D


--
- Dean

Certified Owner of Jade's Panties and Chief Lesbian Officer of AHM

"Our Sun solution helps researchers work faster--and better. " --New
Sun Fanboi

"{BNB} is a little Net-Trollop. He sluts his wrath all over the place."
- John
Boyd
"BNB is a lying buffoon. making up fairy tales about clown
applications..." -
KiwiRock

http://members.aol.com/bignetbuy/clown.txt

"How come you're so sweet?" --Kali
 
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Onideus Mad Hatter

If they don't accept Firefox, don't accept their website.

Call those clowns and register over the phone. Make them PAY to
register you. :D

Act completely retarded when you do it too, take up as much of their
time as possible and try your hardest to be the "problem customer".
It's LOTS of fun and they wind up having to pay for your fun in man
hours.

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."

"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."

"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the **** up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."

"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty ****ing high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
 
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BigNetBuy

Onideus said:
Act completely retarded when you do it too, take up as much of their
time as possible and try your hardest to be the "problem customer".
It's LOTS of fun and they wind up having to pay for your fun in man
hours.

Agreed. Oh, and use an accent when calling them. Especially if you end
up with some clown from some call center in Asia.

--
- Dean
"{BNB} is a little Net-Trollop. He sluts his wrath all over the place."
- John
Boyd
"BNB is a lying buffoon. making up fairy tales about clown
applications..." -
KiwiRock

http://members.aol.com/bignetbuy/clown.txt

"How come you're so sweet?" --Kali
 
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Onideus Mad Hatter

Agreed. Oh, and use an accent when calling them. Especially if you end
up with some clown from some call center in Asia.

Like a REALLY heavy southern or Texan accent. Constantly derail them
too, like just start talkin about random shit and asking their opinion
on weird off the wall stuff. Like when they ask for your name go off
on some huge tangent about how you changed your name cause your
parents named you Pubert or something and start rambling off about how
you got made fun of in school and then maybe trail off into a
discussion about the public education system, then follow it up by
asking them if they like pie, then ask them what their favorite kind
is, then start naming off all the different kinds of pie you've tried,
the locations where you at them ate and any personals stories that go
along with them. By the time you get through the registration they'll
be pulling their hair out. Another fun tactic is to keep pretending
that you can't understand what they're saying and make them repeat
themselves until they get REALLY angry and frustrated.

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."

"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."

"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the **** up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."

"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty ****ing high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
 
D

Doris Day - MFB

PerfectReign said:
Well, since no one is answering - and I have Vista up and running - I
downloaded and installed Avast!

How quaint - it asked me to reboot after installing. I'm suprised NT
still does that.

(Starting to miss linux already....)
Don't worry, it'll get worse. Much worse. :)

Love and Kisses,
Doris

--
My Microsoft Hero (he loves this company!) ... http://tinyurl.com/yp9cn2
Installing: Windows vs Linux ... http://tinyurl.com/ywqmbw
BallmerBumBois: Frank, Julian, Richard Urban, Jupiter Jones, Harry Krause,
Feliks Dzerzhinsky
Sorry if I missed anyone, place your name here _________________.
 
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Doris Day - MFB

Onideus said:
Act completely retarded when you do it too,

You mean act like a MVP?

Love and Kisses,
Doris


--
My Microsoft Hero (he loves this company!) ... http://tinyurl.com/yp9cn2
Installing: Windows vs Linux ... http://tinyurl.com/ywqmbw
BallmerBumBois: Frank, Julian, Richard Urban, Jupiter Jones, Harry Krause,
Feliks Dzerzhinsky
Sorry if I missed anyone, place your name here _________________.
 
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ByteCoder

$TU1.680@trnddc07:
[...]
One positive note: Office 2007 has some nice features. Word, in
particular. One feature that jumped out was creating tables. A bit of
a shock to adjust to ribbons...but (never thought I'd say this) I'd buy
a copy of Office 2007.

Creating tables is one of the best features of Office 2007?!? I'll have to
see that to believe it.
 
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FrozenNorth

ByteCoder in a fit of rage spewed
$TU1.680@trnddc07:
[...]
One positive note: Office 2007 has some nice features. Word, in
particular. One feature that jumped out was creating tables. A bit of
a shock to adjust to ribbons...but (never thought I'd say this) I'd buy
a copy of Office 2007.

Creating tables is one of the best features of Office 2007?!? I'll have to
see that to believe it.
Sure, it's easy, put a couple of legs under the box, and you get a real
expensive, but small, coffee table.
 
F

Frank

PerfectReign said:
Well, since no one is answering - and I have Vista up and running - I
downloaded and installed Avast!

How quaint - it asked me to reboot after installing. I'm suprised NT
still does that.

(Starting to miss linux already....)
Oh really? How strange then, cause when I installed Ubuntu and it
downloaded the 122+ security updates, it then told me to re-boot the
computer!
I went back to a real os...Vista.
Frank
 
D

Daito

Oh really? How strange then, cause when I installed Ubuntu and it
downloaded the 122+ security updates, it then told me to re-boot the
computer!
I went back to a real os...Vista.
Frank

You really make yourself very lame advocating Windows. The ONLY time you
have to reboot Linux is when you compile a new kernel and need to boot
to it. Other than that, NEVER!
--
 
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Frank

Daito said:
You really make yourself very lame advocating Windows. The ONLY time you
have to reboot Linux is when you compile a new kernel and need to boot
to it. Other than that, NEVER!

Bullshit! You're lying linux looser lamer! Linux is toy os. Windows is
for real computer users.
(smirk)
Frank
 
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BigNetBuy

ByteCoder said:
$TU1.680@trnddc07:
[...]
One positive note: Office 2007 has some nice features. Word, in
particular. One feature that jumped out was creating tables. A bit of
a shock to adjust to ribbons...but (never thought I'd say this) I'd buy
a copy of Office 2007.

Creating tables is one of the best features of Office 2007?!? I'll have to
see that to believe it.

I didn't say it was the best. Just that it stood out. Word also as a
more desktop publishing feel to it.

--
- Dean
"{BNB} is a little Net-Trollop. He sluts his wrath all over the place."
- John
Boyd
"BNB is a lying buffoon. making up fairy tales about clown
applications..." -
KiwiRock

http://members.aol.com/bignetbuy/clown.txt

"How come you're so sweet?" --Kali
 
B

BigNetBuy

Frank said:
Oh really? How strange then, cause when I installed Ubuntu and it
downloaded the 122+ security updates, it then told me to re-boot the
computer!
I went back to a real os...Vista.
Frank

Bullshit. Ubuntu recommended a reboot but it isn't required. And the
only reason to reboot is to load a new kernel -- though I've read
somewhere that loading a new kernel could be done without a reboot.

Unlike Vista, XP, or earlier versions that FORCE reboots when anything
in $WINDIR is touched.


--
- Dean
"{BNB} is a little Net-Trollop. He sluts his wrath all over the place."
- John
Boyd
"BNB is a lying buffoon. making up fairy tales about clown
applications..." -
KiwiRock

http://members.aol.com/bignetbuy/clown.txt

"How come you're so sweet?" --Kali
 
O

Onideus Mad Hatter

Bullshit. Ubuntu recommended a reboot but it isn't required.

And at no point did your stupid, retarded, dumbfuck self even ONCE
consider WHY they might be recommending such an action. The ****in
retard is all like, "Hurr, hurr, I don't need to clean out the lint
catcher in my dryer!"

DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM!

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."

"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."

"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the **** up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."

"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty ****ing high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
 
B

BigNetBuy

Onideus said:
Bullshit. Ubuntu recommended a reboot but it isn't required.

And at no point did your [snip]

Yeah. Getting advice from OMH about Linux. That'll happen. Dumbass.

Do not speak about things you've never seen before. It makes you look
foolish. Stick to web 2.0.

--
- Dean
"{BNB} is a little Net-Trollop. He sluts his wrath all over the place."
- John
Boyd
"BNB is a lying buffoon. making up fairy tales about clown
applications..." -
KiwiRock

http://members.aol.com/bignetbuy/clown.txt

"How come you're so sweet?" --Kali
 

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