Comments on: Blue screen of death

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:55:19 +0000

I tried ubuntu this yr too … And for everyday home stuff like surfing, email etc it’s fab. Next laptop I,ll get once my 5 yr old MacBook dies will be a cheap netbook + ubuntu.

By: Felix Alim

Felix Alim — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:31:49 +0000

I got a BSOD just recently too.. crap!

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By: lemmiwinks

lemmiwinks — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:05:12 +0000

You could turn your PC into a hackintosh (google it) :-)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:03:24 +0000

You have backups right? The mac vs PC thing is irrelevant when you lose work, settings and time fixing PC’s every month. My Macro is now 5 years old and still more power than i need. Original installation too :)

Then there s internet banking on a PC. Folk are nuts doing that with so many virus’s etc. As for anti-virus- its is great if it is updated to latest- but they don’t catch everything.

Why 7K anyway? A low end iMac will do the job just fine.

By: Justin Fox

Justin Fox — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:33:57 +0000

I wasn’t running any and have never had a virus in all 7-8 years of going PC. Vista has it’s own anti-virus thing but I’m not 100% sure my system was up to date. I assumed Vista updated itself.

I think this Think Point virus is pretty sneaky. Do some Google on it, looks like it’s gotten past a lot of anti-virus software out there. Most people have gotten rid of it without any hassles, where it all went wrong for me was when my PC crashed whilst trying to fix it.

I’d move back to Macs if they weren’t so expensive!

By: lemmiwinks

lemmiwinks — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:24:54 +0000

What anti virus program do you run? Anything remotely decent should have picked up and blocked a drive by virus install like the one you clicked through to. AVG is pretty good for home users. Was your windoze up to date? I thought microsoft had fixed most of the drive by installer bugs.

If you’re completely addicted to winblows you could run Ubuntu or something and install windows as a virtual machine. Would suck for games but should be fine for most other applications.