Posted on 12/11/2013 10:43:36 AM PST by R. Scott
That worked. I couldn’t imagine having it buried instead of being right in the open.
I am not an expert MS coder, or even a professional one, so you may be right. However, I do know that quite a few rootkits and other malware have been discovered over the years that affected XP and sometimes its predecessors, and been publicly exposed and then fixed by some quite sharp 'nix coders. Often without MS even admitting they existed.
It does not take only a third-party application for an exploit to occur, sometimes it is simply a malware-infected executable of some sort. Even if that 'third-party application' is one that is very often necessary for several types of data -such as .pdf files for instance. It may not be part of the "official" MS operating systems, but most people need some kind of pdf reader at one time or another. Until you convince enough people that it is not a viable standard, you will still need to support that type of file and others as well so you need to pay attention to more than simply the MS base to keep a system clean.
Thank you for your reply. And for the warning about Windows 8. I am not exactly computer literate, and am way too busy to spend time learning. Soo... Is Windows 7 destined to become obsolete in the next couple of years?
Please note the -rom drives seem to have expanded to a size where it’s looking for dvd-rom now.
I don’t get the anti-8.1 on this thread however.
To tell the truth the OS is wonderful. I’m using linux but I’ve got 8.1 and it’s pretty nice.
strange. Is it normal for the rom drives to expand?
I’m just judging from my own experience here.
The cd-rom, dvd-roms are now dvd-roms, no?
The size of the Linux OS is now over the size of cd-roms?
Maybe I am confused, but that is what it seems to me.
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