Comments on: And The Horse You Came In On

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:29:06 +0000

Oh, Nod32 by Eset, has been clicking on for me, with a lot of speed and no problems.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:28:08 +0000

They are going to need to show me that they are selling something I need, before I sign on.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:51:17 +0000

Having just recovered from a major malfunction thanks to a food-fight between BitDefender and Vista (BitDefender bit the dust and had to be surgically extracted by a local computer whiz here in Stratford, Ontario), my theory is that MSFT is like Don Corleone getting you to sign a contract: either your signature or your brains will be on the contract — it’s your choice.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:34:16 +0000

Oh, I fully realize they do it, I just object to being forced to give permission. If they want to change the contract, let’s see the money for the change, because it certainly isn’t for my benefit.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:00:32 +0000

I’m kinda with Steve on this. I let SP3 do it’s thing on my desktop and laptop yesterday. Since the laptop is a corporate owned one and I have to interact with the VPN and all the other security I don’t have a chance with staying up to date. As to the home machine…they already have everything they need from me including my on line banking passwords, credit card numbers and shoe size(13). My hat size is still a secret since I haven’t put it in anything electronic.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:39:36 +0000

Unless I can see some definite purpose, I’m not going to go for SP3. I only went to SP3 because a software package I needed required it to even load.

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:06:44 +0000

I refuse to give M$ access to my computer. They are not to be trusted. Period.

I was using Autopatcher to do my updates. But now Autopatcher requires that you have service pack 3 installed in order for it to update, and I haven’t done that yet. And I’m not in any hurry to do so. So I’m sort of in update limbo right now.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:55:22 +0000

You would think that it might occur to a company as paranoid about piracy as Microsoft, that some of us who develop software don’t want another software developer having access to our content. Given Microsoft’s history of ripping off small developers, there really needs to be a court order preventing this behavior. They probably aren’t allowed to do it in Europe, but the US government has no interest in protecting the small business people or consumers, only corporations.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:23:50 +0000

You got it Bryan & Steve!

I turn off every bit of tracking in Windoze, & auto updates and other *features*.

I use AutoPatcher to get updates. It nice and easy, and explains what each update is going to do. They used to bundle the updates which was good because they actually fixed many install switch errors M$ had in their OWN installers (Talk about WTF???!) and left out incompatible updates! M$ are assh*les of the first order. AP works for all current Windoze & Office.

http://www.autopatcher.com/

IMNSHO, Gates is the biggest Pirate thieving dog criminal out there.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:46:00 +0000

While I agree that there is no guarantee of privacy, I don’t want to endorse the practice.

One more major client to shift and Gates can kiss my patoot good bye.