I tried it and the Internet browsing speed is noticeably faster. Much faster. Why would that be?
| In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Run Fast, Run Naked - An alternative approach to internet security, BJungNan wrote: |
| This is the definitely the dumbest idea I've seen in quite a while. I tried it and the Internet browsing speed is noticeably faster. Much faster. Why would that be? |
My guess would be that your system was *full* of spyware, adware, 'bots and trojans, and when you reformatted, you got rid of most or all of them ... at least temporarily. Most of your bandwidth,and probably a large portion of your CPU cycles were being used by all the malware, rather than by *you*, since it wasn't really your computer anymore.
Please, BJungNan, take some good advice: use a hardware-based firewall, do ALL the OS updates, turn on auto-updates and the software firewall, dump IE and Outlook in favor of FireFox and Thunderbird, and get AdAware and HijackThis and learn how to use them.
If you do *all* the above, AdAware and HijackThis will only serve to let you know that everything's OK, because it will be.
Your assertion that it's faster and better to allow ads and popups rather than blocking them is (to put it as gently as I can manage) absurd. By using AdBlock with FireFox, you can fairly easily "tune out" most of the servers for ad content on the entire internet ... everything is MUCH faster, since the content is never even requested, let alone displayed.
If you've recommended this "Run Naked..." idea to anybody else, do the entire internet a favor, and get back in touch with them and let'em know you've, ah ... reconsidered.
Please.