“I have Win7 Starter on my notebook - was thinking of putting Vista Home on it but afraid I’d loose my ASUS stuff like my wireless software”
Set up another login account as administrator account and convert your convert account to a “limited” account. Do your work on the limited account and any sysadmin work on the administrator account. It’s impossible for changes to be made to the OS from the limited account, which means its impossible for a virus to infect the OS, though a virus CAN rarelhy infect the limited account, but in such a case, logoff the limited account, logon to the administrator account and run malwarebytes antimalware, and then let it delete whatever it finds.
That’s the ONLY security anyone needs for any OS since XP and it’s the only thing that actually works. NO antivirus actually works, though they do generally create havoc with false alarms and sucking your system resource and system performance dry.
Thanks.
Brilliant and simple.Would the effect of Office viruses and other viruses be contained in the limited space, which could be safely backed up to the admin space?
That really isn't true, you know. It is programmatically simple to elevate beyond the current user status. You might stop some of the script kiddies, but any serious hacker can elevate a win box with ease.