That's the deep question pondered by some guy here. Money quote is his first paragraph: "What do you call a program that gets loaded in surreptitiously and without your approval, has the potential to lock down your computer so you can’t get access to it, takes up significant system resources and promptly crashes upon running. Normally, I’d call it a virus, except for the last part … viruses are usually stable (and well written) once they start."
On that last point: Ouch.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
IE7 -- program or virus?
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What do you call a program that gets loaded in surreptitiously and without your approval, has the potential to lock down your computer so you can’t get access to it, takes up significant system resources and promptly crashes upon running. Normally, I’d call it a virus, except for the last part … viruses are usually stable (and well written) once they start.
That's funny... I was thinking the exact same thing about Leoptard.
eh, this dude is stretchin it a bit. and seeing that it's over a year ago, i would hope the umpteenth ie7 update from the borg straightened some things out.
i've never had a reason to not use ie7 on windows systems. side by side comparisons with the latest firefox shows it actually uses less resources. i've never had it crash either. then again i'm not your average dumbass windows user and i know what not to do when on the interwebs.
microsoft does make it easy to uninstall thru add/remove programs (unlike previous versions) and it does give you the chance to opt out from the windows updates several times, so i'm not sure what his big beef about it sneaking it's way in is, unless he's a completely unobservant tard.
Maybe this should have been #52 on the better-late-than-never magazine list.
The problem with 99% of Windows complaints is that they are created by Freetards who never use Windows, and hate everything about everything which begins with a Micro and ends with a Soft.
If I had a dollar for every time some MS hater told me he couldn't get Windows to do something, and I told them how to do it, easily, using all native Windows utils, I'd be wealthier than Scrooge McDuck.
Even the poor little FUD spewers are tripping over their lies now. They are trying to say XP is an "upgrade" to Vista, and going on and on and on about how great and stable XP is. And everyone is thinking "weren't you saying XP sucked about four weeks ago, right before Leoptard came out?"
I guess maybe the Freetards are trying to talk themselves into upgrading from Leoptard to XP.
I bet I can hog tie JSG using discarded dental floss that is woven into the right size of rope. It's much easier doing it with the proper rope to begin with.
Sure, you can do all kinds of stuff in Windoze. The problem is that they are frequently ass backwards, or well disguised or hidden. Don't blame the user, it's the designer that's at fault.
What's IE7?
Anonymous said...
eh, this dude is stretchin it a bit. and seeing that it's over a year ago, i would hope the umpteenth ie7 update from the borg straightened some things out.
i've never had a reason to not use ie7 on windows systems. side by side comparisons with the latest firefox shows it actually uses less resources. i've never had it crash either. then again i'm not your average dumbass windows user and i know what not to do when on the interwebs.
microsoft does make it easy to uninstall thru add/remove programs (unlike previous versions) and it does give you the chance to opt out from the windows updates several times, so i'm not sure what his big beef about it sneaking it's way in is, unless he's a completely unobservant tard.
Your absolutely right about that.
That the big problem, that you are right.
Im a ms user as long as it's there, but a couple of months ago i got a mac from the company where i work. No problem i thought, just think different right? Well i noticed that it's not about thinking different its about thinking normal.
Why the hell deed i needed to be an expert al those year, just to "don't do things that makes MS crash". (MS if you're reading this, maybe a good item for the "introduction to Windows Vista").
Maybe, just maybe, in the future, mankind evolve in new beeings that dont flok like sheeps, and than the old slogan, that MS uses so good "The solution for beeing succesfull is making crap, and sell it as gold", doesn't work anymore.
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