So pay 2x as much, get a lot less for equipment(WAY outdated), have a bitch of a time trying to find the programs you want from windows, never be able to do your own work on the PC itself(have fun shipping it to apple for repairs), and still have to deal with viruses......
thats super advice...for rich nubs with too much money, and i dont think the OP is either.
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Walbuls
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Re: Security Tool Virus
I'm not going to get a mac. Waste of money atm.
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ranger
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that article's 4 years old, and its a fact that there are a lower amount of viruses just because people are lazy and don't want to make em for it, thus technically making them safer.Walbuls wrote: So pay 2x as much, get a lot less for equipment(WAY outdated), have a bitch of a time trying to find the programs you want from windows, never be able to do your own work on the PC itself(have fun shipping it to apple for repairs), and still have to deal with viruses......
thats super advice...for rich nubs with too much money, and i dont think the OP is either.
Just sayin. I don't like macs either, but sometimes people gotta do what they gotta do.
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Akonyl
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the only problem with that is that people who get macs will then tend to not protect their computer, thus screwing them over when something does hit.ranger wrote:that article's 4 years old, and its a fact that there are a lower amount of viruses just because people are lazy and don't want to make em for it, thus technically making them safer.Walbuls wrote: So pay 2x as much, get a lot less for equipment(WAY outdated), have a bitch of a time trying to find the programs you want from windows, never be able to do your own work on the PC itself(have fun shipping it to apple for repairs), and still have to deal with viruses......
thats super advice...for rich nubs with too much money, and i dont think the OP is either.
Just sayin. I don't like macs either, but sometimes people gotta do what they gotta do.
Sure, you could take steps to properly protect your mac, but then you could also get a PC and properly protect that as well.
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Macs are overpriced garbage. If you want your computer to look nice, or if you are a graphic designer/video editor, get a Mac. If you care about your computer not being generally terrible, then get a PC (or go Linux).
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Re: Security Tool Virus
Does problem still exist? if you can end internet connection. Rerun your scans. Look in windows directory for new files with a exe extention. If you are not sure about a file in either windows or system32 directory then do properties on it. Maybe get either winpatrol or start right to control your startup files. clear all browser caches and cookies. After you are sure you are clean wakeup the internet. Super Antispyware and Malwarebytes Antimalware are in the antisyware area. Are you running an antivirus and are you running a firewall besides windows firewall?
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The Security Tool Virus no longer shows up.sstimson wrote: Does problem still exist? if you can end internet connection. Rerun your scans. Look in windows directory for new files with a exe extention. If you are not sure about a file in either windows or system32 directory then do properties on it. Maybe get either winpatrol or start right to control your startup files. clear all browser caches and cookies. After you are sure you are clean wakeup the internet. Super Antispyware and Malwarebytes Antimalware are in the antisyware area. Are you running an antivirus and are you running a firewall besides windows firewall?
But ever since. There's a rectangular/square white box on my desktop. (It's above the icon).
Not sure what it is...
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Akonyl
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hm?Detective Tommy wrote:The Security Tool Virus no longer shows up.sstimson wrote: Does problem still exist? if you can end internet connection. Rerun your scans. Look in windows directory for new files with a exe extention. If you are not sure about a file in either windows or system32 directory then do properties on it. Maybe get either winpatrol or start right to control your startup files. clear all browser caches and cookies. After you are sure you are clean wakeup the internet. Super Antispyware and Malwarebytes Antimalware are in the antisyware area. Are you running an antivirus and are you running a firewall besides windows firewall?
But ever since. There's a rectangular/square white box on my desktop. (It's above the icon).
Not sure what it is...
screenshot it, imo.