turned mine on this morning and fook me it was infected and pop ups everywhere and what a fricking nightmare reinstalling google chrome etc and deleting the crap off it, whith something called "searchy" grrr

rant over

 

Stay away from the Porn sites Steve .

 

if only this was the issue Rod my mojo has upped and gone when I split from my mrs

 

Buy a Mac - problems disappear....

 

if I had the money I would buy a new pc as mine has a starter handle and was made when dial up was cutting edge

 

 

SSD hard disks speed up slower Pcs / laptops without needing to replace whole machine.
It pays to use a 'limited' user account for daily PC use and keep 'administrator' log in for installing progs etc.evin
System restore is often the best bet if you get a pile of cr4p on machine thats stubborn. You never know if you remove offensie stuff if its realy all gone.
Sorry for long winded ansa, IT is my job.
Cheers
Kevin

 

I do need to upgrade my tower really as its a old dell dimension 3100 running 1gb of ram and 160hd on xp, graphics are pants, but due to it being reliable I have thus far been unable to part with it, really need w7 and some more up to date software

 

Porn sites are the safest to use on the Internet.

Never had any issues with a mac. Decided to get one after me and the mrs going through 2 laptops each, and yes anti virus was installed on all. Made sense with the cost of repairs and replacements.

Just had to remove the hard drives to get everything off them.

 

Must admit, Apple vs Windows, in terms of reliability and execution, it's no contest. My work Windows phone reboots itself several times a day, crashes and loses connection - I cannot remember the last time I had to reboot my iPhone or it have a panic.

Likewise, I cannot remember my MacBook ever crashing (like Windows computers that often BSOD), or needing rebooting (other than major software updates - love how it updates apps and software without needing to be restarted). And the lack of virus and malware attacks is great. They aren't 100% immune, but the threat is so minimal compared to Windows.

They can take a bit of getting used to, as it is a different way of working, but once you get past the differences, there's no looking back. Not to me at least

 

The blessing of YouTube helps a lot getting used to a mac. Right click copy and paste for example lol. But I'll not go back to windows again.
Anti virus is all taken care off as best apple can with out having the need for installing AV. And apple support are fantastic.

 

I never got why some had trouble with that. My MacBook, which is getting for 6 years old, could right click copy paste out the box, and the windows CTRL+C and V works exactly the same on Mac too (just with the CMD, which is is the primary modifier, button instead of CTRL). I actually wish I could turn off the right click, as with a track pad, or a Magic Mouse, you just don't need it (because of multi gestures, two finger tapping brings up the right click menu anyway)

My biggest bug-bear is highlighting a file and hitting ENTER, only for it to facilitate a name change rather than opening the file CMD+down arrow opens a file, which seems a bit odd, but there you go!

 

Ooh, I just figured out how to turn my right click off

 

Pc's are far cheaper to build now. Just depends on what you want it to do..

 

"Just work" would be good

 

If you can download mcafee siteadvisor and download malwarebytes that should clear them and the siteadvisor tell you if there is any viruses on the page before you click on it

 

Every single one I have built does just that.. had some component failures but its not like the ram is solderd to the boards ..... prefer having the ability to upgrade things tho

 

think we need to set up a steve needs a new pc fund, I mean after loosing out on the rr day thing mate...

 

ive just bought all the compontents on ebay to build a basic but upgradeable machine for £156..

AMD A8-6600K 3.9Ghz
Gigabyte Motherboard
4 Gb 1866mhz DDR3 Ram,
1 Tb Hard Drive
Card Reader
Keyboard and a few misc bits..

Using an old case I have lieing around and dvd writer I have here, and a PSU, saving me about £40, shove a copy of Windows 7 on it (already own and as its replacing a PC which now no longer exists its legal ) and ive got a good machine.

This is using some second hand parts, but I calculated I could do it using all new parts for £260, but then im a skint cheapskate

 

Me too. I love the little cover on my MacBook that ejects my ram so I can change it

 

lol, all my macs dont need upgrading every 5 minutes as they are not constantly strangled by a pathetically shit OS

 

Now now, play nice

But yeah, I haven't even upgraded the RAM in mine yet, as it seems quite happy sat on 4GB. I did swap the drive out for an SSD though, as I needed more space on it, and it now runs faster, smoother, quieter and cooler. Result!

 

No they dont need upgrading, they need replacing every couple of years due to Mac OS being hardware specific.

We've got a mac at work that no longer supports the latest builds of the much of the software we use. Yet it will not accept a newer OS so its pretty much redundant.

 

Are you sure? Because mines 6 years old and still supports the latest OS and apps

 

Yeah. Although I'm guessing that mac must have been particularly old.
Having just looked it up OS Mavericks cut off is any iMac older than mid 2007. So it was an old unit

We also wanted to throw more ram in it, however that is also hardware limited to a particular speed and size. Recently starting to use inDesign (8gig recommended), 4gb wasn't going to cut it.

 

So not every couple years then

 

In the same way a PC doesnt need upgrading every 5 minutes.

 

Never said they did

 

I guess I was just being a bit less flippant then the comment I was responding to.

 

Oh I gathered the flippancy. But saying something that's untrue, in retort to something said that you believe to be untrue, doesn't make either of them better, does it?

But this is (now) the Windows vs Mac saga, and it's always the same. Windows users say Macs are shit, usually because they don't understand them, or how they work. And Mac users say Windows is shit, usually because they've used Windows before, and now use Macs

And it's the same old stuff time after time. Windows users saying Macs don't have right click (false), or copy and paste (false) or that you can't upgrade them (false), or they are obsolete in a couple years (false), etc etc. Mac users saying Windows crashes every five mins (false) or that they are slow (false) or that Windows OS's are self corrupting OS's and need to be reinstalled cleanly every so often (actually true).

Pffft, just use what you want. And if you don't like either, go Linux

 

I have not said macs were shit.. some of the design or build ideas do make me wonder but I have an appreciation for all technology im not blinded or drawn into the hype. I dont have a mac as I dont need one.. I prefered the samsung over the I phone and the htc I tried the technology to make a decision....