Re: Upgraded W7 to W10 via MS's continuing free offer last month
Does anyone know if this (using a Win 7 COA to activate Win 10) will end tomorrow too?
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It always makes me laugh when 'IT experts' start blabbering on about which security product is the best. It doesn't really matter which one you use, none of them work properly in the real world. Every day I collect suspect files from PCs, and as a test, upload them to virustotal.com and get a very low positive result from the various security scans. Wait 24 hours, and it's a different story, but by then it's too late.
In this case we're talking about AVG Free, so that should be a domestic environment. I can say, as I do this for a living, that 15 minutes is all that's needed to explain to customers how to avoid infection because in 9 out of 10 cases, it's preventable. Expecting a security product to protect you is the biggest mistake, which only encourages users to take risks.
In a business environment you should have in place company procedures concerning computer use that make the employee responsible for their actions. In other words, stuff up you PC by visiting a porn site and you get sacked. Very effective and can be used to control facebook addiction too.
For what it's worth, I prefer Security Essentials too, mainly because it won't con customers into upgrading to a paid-for version and hopefully, Microsoft, will be the last company to false-positive a Windows system file.
Here we go again. Bogus statistics used to justify policy (and to create a huge long-term cash pit - which the I.T. industry will be having wet-dreams over). This has just got to increase costs for all road users.
I'm also not sure how you can justify the headline based on the statistics contained within the article. It looks to me as though more people are against the idea now than were two years ago.
Nearly 10 years ago Peugeot ran hundreds of little electric 106s around France with a few in Coventry. I had the joy of driving one from time to time and my god it was shite! The thing is, the reality of driving these things is that at full pelt the batteries flatten in minutes, the electrics overheat in summer and don't work in winter. But at least the 106s could carry some goods - what use is a two-seater Mini? The real killer though is the replacement battery costs a few years down the road. After 4 years of use the 106 lead-acid batteries needed replacement at a cost of £thousands! How much for a boot-load of Li-ions I wonder?