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Slackerous Maximus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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Windows 7, PLEASE tell me its secure.
Need to upgrade a laptop.
SO sick of dealing with security issues on XP pro. Is Windows 7 tight as a drum? Please say yes.
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10-28-2010, 10:27 PM
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It's Windows (Microsoft).... Need I say more?
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10-28-2010, 10:46 PM
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I have Windows 7 64, and AVG Free.
My laptop is on 24/7 connected to a 15 megabit fiber line. I'm not a complete idiot when downloading things from the internet. I've never had a virus, spyware, etc. There's a correlation between the level of user and the likelihood of contracting a computer virus. The system is only a small variable in that IMO.
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10-28-2010, 11:22 PM
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Actually, I'm running Win7 without any virus protection... Have been for a year now.
 And no, the laptop is not infected...
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10-28-2010, 11:33 PM
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10-29-2010, 03:31 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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My home PC is powered up and connected to the Internet 24x7x365. I do have Trend Micro, but the only thing it ever sees is cookies. I have used bit torrent to download all sorts of stuff. I'm quite active on the net. I've had no problems.
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10-29-2010, 03:38 AM
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10-29-2010, 04:02 AM
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I have almost enough parts to put together another PC. Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my desktop to the top of the line CPU (AMD Phenom II X6 1090), move my 1055 to my wife's PC and then build one more with simply a MB and memory (I have a case, HD, DVD drive, etc). I have one more copy of Win 7 Pro, but I might put Linux on this. Is it a 64 bit OS? If I were to load server, besides file server, what might I use to for? Mail server? How tough to setup?
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10-29-2010, 04:28 AM
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After 2 months, W7 is stable as a tank. Doesn't update 'continuously' the way XP used to. No legacy hdwe issues. Much, much faster to load etc.
I use Norton & it does its job painlessly & swiftly. It has flagged some malicious sites but no real attacks.  Thumbs up to W7 here. Ian
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10-29-2010, 04:33 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MD
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A little old but this article give a good Win7 security overview
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/182917/pros_and_cons_of_windows_7_security.html |
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10-29-2010, 05:24 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Just remember servers on Linux typically don't include a gui although one can be installed easily enough. You can always load Win 7 and run Linux in a Virtual Machine so you can play around with it, see if you like it, get familiar. And if you decide to go that way you can leave the server installed on the VM and run from there. Most PC's these days don't see 100% load. So VM's make sense, the PC has all this extra processing power/bandwidth just sitting there. Stick another OS on it and get your monies worth. I like the VM Ware product but Virtual Box from Sun is free and wil do everything that you need it to do.
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10-29-2010, 05:26 AM
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Surf the 'net in a sandbox...
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10-29-2010, 05:44 AM
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Win7 is pretty good and I've not had to download too many patches.
It has (rather rudely) rebooted my machine without my explicitly saying "yes, okay" a couple of times for "urgent" security fixes but they're pretty rare. Still that whole "we know what's best for you" mentality bugs me a little. A Macbook Pro is my next purchase, without a question. They blow the PCs out of the water.
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10-29-2010, 06:02 AM
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I'll put it to you this way... The computer forensics community jumped into the 7 boat pretty quickly. They seem to think it is more secure and stable than XP....
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10-29-2010, 06:34 AM
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I'm one of the most anti-windows guys you're likely to meet, but I'm grudgingly giving Win7 a thumbs up.
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10-29-2010, 06:36 AM
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10-29-2010, 06:42 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philadelphia area and Morristown NJ
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I can't stand the user interface of Windows 7. Windows explorer is harder to read now (rather, interpret).
I often use Windows, but when I do, I prefer Windows XP.
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10-29-2010, 07:50 AM
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By "secure" do you mean does it require as many patches as Windows XP? If that's the question then the answer for me would be "no" seems like I'm getting the same out of patches as before. Sixteen in October alone.
As mentioned above, safe would be a nice linux distro.
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10-29-2010, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Linux can be just as insecure as Windows or worse if it's not setup right.
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10-29-2010, 09:22 AM
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I have windows 7 just useing avg free, and have never had anything wrong with my computer
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