Posted on 05/18/2011 10:32:28 AM PDT by Loud Mime
You left out “gay” - but then again, you must have been trying to abide by JimRob’s admonition against flames on these threads... how nice of you.
Seriously - do you ACTUALLY believe what you typed? The extensive list of mac users I know personally - I might could do the math to get the exact number, but a close guess would be less than 5% are ANY of what you posted. Then again, I realize we are known by the company we keep - that must be why Rush Limbaugh is still a happy Mac user... after all he is... oh, nevermind.
Dude - your argument goes up in flames with that one statement - hello: CALIFORNIA... the land of fruits and nuts...
UGH>...
What browser were you using? Safari is set up to default not auto-opening. But even then - if a browser is set to “auto open”, the installer for “MacDefender” still requires the user to ender the administrator password (even if you are logged in AS the administrator).
First, I don’t have a Mac Book (laptop). I have an iMac (desktop). I’ve owned it for years and I love it. I’ve had PCs previously and we have many PCs and PC based laptops in our home. I will never go back to a PC. My husband and son enjoy the challenge of figuring out what’s gone wrong with their PCs. I’m not a computer geek. I just want a machine I can use and can depend on.
I don’t remember what steps I used to install Sophos, but I can guarantee it must have been easy. How can I say that? I installed it myself without any help from anyone else. As I have already mentioned. I am not a geek.
I’ve had my iMac for some time and it has shown no sign of slowing down or becoming obsolete. Both my husband and son have gone through multiple computers in the time I have had this one. It seems PCs become obsolete once you take them out the box.
But as for Sophos, I installed it because even though I doubt a virus can infect a Mac without user error (you have to give permission to install anything), the malware threat is growing and the number of people with ingenious attempts to get through the defenses is growing as well. I’d much rather be safe than sorry, so I decided to protect myself before I needed the help.
What's even worse, sometimes you do all the right things, then get bitten by something else... I while back, I was doing an upgrade of my workstation, and being a good little boy, I did a full backup before starting the install. It was Fedora 10 I think, and I was doing a full install rather than just upgrading because I'd had the system for a number of years and wanted a nice, clean installation. When performing the upgrade, I failed to notice that when it asked me about disk partitioning, that it had included the backup drive that was still attached to the USB in the LVM.
When it started repartitioning and formatting the drives, I noticed the drive light on the USB drive flickering madly. I believe you could hear my cry of anguish two states away. It completely toasted my backup. Fortunately, I had an older one handy as well, so I didn't lose everything but I lost a lot of valuable work.
Learned something useful too. When upgrading, unplug the damned USB drive(s)!
AMEN to that!!!
I feel your pain. Did that to a secondary internal hard drive spindle one time. I don't wanna talk about it. :)
For what it's worth, these days I generally disconnect all internal drives except the system drive, take the machine off the network, and disconnect all peripheral storage and miscellaneous devices, when doing a major upgrade or fresh install. Modern OSes know how to discover new devices and network connections during subsequent boots, and I prefer to let the OS get a clean start the first run-through.
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