- Joined
- Dec 16, 2008
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- 299
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- Points
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- Location
- Pennsylvania, USA
- Your Mac's Specs
- Macbook Pro 15"
Off my cousin's Windows XP Media Center machine.
I am just amazed how people put up with this, and how Microsoft does absolutely nothing about it. I can't reformat the machine because it is crunch weeks and the owner's kids have to use the machine for school - one is graduating and going to college next year.
I'm already telling him to get an iMac or at least a MB or MBP.
So basically I band-aided the system (thanks to remote login) using the hosts file to block further infections, and the system seems to be running well for now.
Ad Aware sucks.
VNC isn't much better but it seems to be free so what the heck. So that is my morning.
I'm inthe process of switching, but I can't quite dump my Windows machine due to budget; although that is my goal.
So yes, my plans in addition to this MB 13" is to get a Mac Pro with RAID - which is a pretty penny.
and get some sort of secure remote login going on there as well.
I am just amazed how people put up with this, and how Microsoft does absolutely nothing about it. I can't reformat the machine because it is crunch weeks and the owner's kids have to use the machine for school - one is graduating and going to college next year.
I'm already telling him to get an iMac or at least a MB or MBP.
So basically I band-aided the system (thanks to remote login) using the hosts file to block further infections, and the system seems to be running well for now.
Ad Aware sucks.
VNC isn't much better but it seems to be free so what the heck. So that is my morning.
I'm inthe process of switching, but I can't quite dump my Windows machine due to budget; although that is my goal.
So yes, my plans in addition to this MB 13" is to get a Mac Pro with RAID - which is a pretty penny.
and get some sort of secure remote login going on there as well.