Apple today takes the MS pain away

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 6/13/2006 | GRAEME PHILIPSON

[newgeezer]

The only folks I know who don't have similar problems are those who use their computer VERY little and/or are anal about running anti-spyware and anti-virus software - and really dig around to keep caches and other accumulated rubble cleaned-up.

Our family PC runs XP Home and is used more than a little, probably an average of 20-25 hours per week. I installed SpywareBlaster and AVG anti-virus on it, both of which can or do update themselves automatically. If you consider that "anal," so be it.

None of us "digs around" at all—much less "really"—to keep anything cleaned up. I might clear the browser cache every 3 or 4 months, if I think about it. But, whether it's surfing the 'Net, burning DVDs or CDs, recording cable TV, synching with my PDA, editing or printing photos, editing audio, backing up the other PCs on our home network, FTP-ing to and from my Web sites, or ripping CDs, it's been running fine since I built it about 3 years ago. Never had any reason to consider reformatting the drive or reloading the OS (knocking on wood as I type that ;).

[Swordmaker]

Speaking of MS, anyone note a new security patch for Office 2004 (for OS X)? It came up in auto-update this morning. I haven't it DL'd yet...

Yeah, I read about it last night. They have a hole...