![]() Vista and Windows 7 seem to be a fair bit better, but by no means are they as robust as a Linux install. In the field, with non-savvy users, a clean install of Windows XP (even with AVG and Windows security essentials, which are reasonable choices BTW) typically doesn’t last more than 6 months. Not one of the Linux machines has ever come back to me not working … I certainly cannot make that same observation for the machines which run Windows. Some of them I have convinced to run Linux. Actually most of them are relatives of some kind, some close and others not-so-close. I have a number of “average, ordinary” users for whom I am unofficial “tech support”. ![]() Still, you are right, XP should go the way of the dodo. ![]() Neither is any other OS (just slightly better, because I think the biggest security hole is the user, and you can’t patch that). Whatever … the point remains that in the hands of ordinary people, XP is nowhere near good enough. By far the easiest way to avoid it all is to not run Windows. The vast, overwhelming majority of this malware is Windows software. There is a small, but definite, chance that your Windows system is compromised, even though it “scans clean”. No matter what scanning software you use, there will be Windows malware it doesn’t detect. There are hundreds of thousands of different malware programs out there in the wild … no scanning software is EVER going to be able to correctly identify them all. Perhaps your scanning software is not good enough.ĪVG Free and MS Security Essentials. Should we push IE9 and Win7 down their throats? Yes. No matter what version of Windows or any other OS, for that matter, they’ll use, they will undoubtedly, somehow, break it or get it infected. The problem lays with the part of the users that are irremediably stupid or ignorant about computers and unwilling to learn. This was more of an experiment and a bad idea to use on a computer you care about (I don’t condone it), but the conclusion I drew from this is that XP (especially updated) is good enough. I’ve taken the HDD out of it a couple of weeks ago and scanned it in a clean computer and there wasn’t any infection or any malware of any kind. The only thing between it and the internet is the default XP firewall (no antivirus). I’ve been running an un-updated Win XP SP2 box for 3 or 4 years connected directly to the internet as my home server. Not that easy, but trust me, users always find a way.īut more importantly a lot of malware is spread by looking for existing XP vulnerabilities. No they do not become as easily infected with UAC and Windows defender. Get the new release here – for Windows Vista and 7 only. Support for the video tag has not yet been added to Internet Explorer 9, so you can’t yet test Microsoft’s H264-browser implementation. Support for standards continues to increase as well – the Acid3 score in this second preview is 68, up from 55. IE9 now sits firmly in the middle of the pack when it comes to performance. The main focus of this update is performance, while also further improving standards support. Microsoft also offered yet another sneak preview into its browser’s future by releasing the second platform preview for Internet Explorer 9. In any case, you can get this new release by subscribing to the beta channel ( Windows, Mac, and Linux). I haven’t yet made a bug report, because I first want to see if maybe some of you have experienced something similar. I’ve also encountered a small but incredibly annoying bug in this new release – one of those bugs that doesn’t break the application but nevertheless really, really works on your nerves: Chrome’s UI fonts are rendered incorrectly – far too large compared to the rest of my GNOME environment. deb package), but Flash was not included. To try this out, I removed both Chrome as well as Flash from my computer entirely, and then proceeded to download the new beta release (64bit. This also happens to be the first release which includes Flash by default, but I’m not entirely sure if this extends towards the Linux and Mac OS X versions, or if it might be limited to 32bit versions only. This new release also improves Chrome’s HTML5 support, adding features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. ![]() You can now also install and use extensions while in private browsing mode. ![]() Bookmark syncing has been expanded to include browser preferences as well, including things like themes, homepage settings, and so on. The new Google Chrome beta comes with the usual speed improvements, but it also carries with it a whole load of new features. While Google released an ambitious new Chrome beta release, Microsoft shipped the second platform preview release for Internet Explorer 9. H264 or no, the rest of the world pretty much continues to spin, which also means new iterations of the programs central to this whole debate: browsers. ![]()
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