[QCLUG] Vista Wow Experience

[Noah Norris]

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scary just scary.
I've just noticed most malware now goes all out to make your experience hell
trying to remove it.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Leif Theden <leif.theden@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems like we are on the dawn of botnet becoming self-aware.
>
> anyway, bravo on the vista performance.  my that os RIP.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Noah Norris <preludelinux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Was helping my friend update his computer he had 512 MB ram and a 160GB
> hard
> > drive. let me just say here that he was not having any Wow factor.
> >
> > So i had him order some more memory (4GB) and hard drive (500GB) and part
> of
> > the deal was to get Ubuntu 8.10 installed on the 160 GB hard drive.
> > lets just say that after i installed the memory vand drive vista would no
> > longer boot off the main drive ....  maybe to much hardware has changed
> or
> > its
> > a new feature .... (the computer was a 3 Ghz pentuim D)
> >
> > anyway i went about doing a full install of vista from his disks and
> after
> > it was done after like 8 hours for updates and reboots and
> > some apps installed he was ready to go. after the system came up i had
> this
> > feeling that the OS felt like something i removed from most windows
> > computers coming from dell gateway hp etc etc ( adware crapware buy this
> > crap ... ) except it was integrated into vista everything i clicked on
> > i was presented with upgrade windows and click here to buy windows
> software
> > ..... um  so this is windows adware addition um vista  on many if not
> > all the screens showing computer infomation had these nice lil features ,
> > yes this is home basic but ads inside my OS .... besides installing vista
> > security products where also installed taking up extra time.
> >
> > After all that time had past i did say 8 hours but also an entire night
> for
> > windows to install sp1 cough cough i ventured to install linux ....
> > finally i could relax install and update so i did a standerd install of
> > ubuntu 8.10 and all update and additional software installed (codecs etc)
> > and i looked at the time an noticed like an hour and 30 mintues went by
> > ...... after i brought my friends pc back to his house under linux i
> pluged
> > in his epson all in one printer and noticed a pop-up in the right hand
> > corner saying it was detected and automaticly configured for use ..... (
> in
> > windows vista it did require a driver / software download) so under linux
> a
> > min after turning on his printer/scanner he was able to print and scan
> > windows took alot longer about 10 mins and a reboot.  ( this just shows
> if
> > linux get more oem support and device drivers the kind of things we may
> see)
> >
> > during this exercise i also had to copy large amount of files of and hope
> he
> > didnt get hit with the infamous vista copy bug, copying files in vista is
> > dog slow.
> > i had to let this run all night with the vista download (which probley
> > downgraded his connectio to the network ) updates which the next day i re
> > copied because windows
> > didnt copy all the files yet gave me an error ... maybe sp1 fixed that
> ....
> > so after all the updates i copied again.  ( talk about a wow expience the
> > only cool thing was if
> > i was charging , god all the extra hours.)
> >
> > i think i finaly understood lately as what Wow means on windows. i have
> > fixed many virus infested computers and with that new worm hitting 9
> > million+ boxes (windows boxes
> > only apply but WHY THE F**K DOES all the reporting agency never say it
> only
> > effects WINDOWS or WINDOWS VIRUS , nice worm too it infects from  that
> was
> > patched
> > in october but also now attemps brute force dictonary based attack on
> admin
> > accounts ( which normaly dont have passwords on most home pcs .. ) anyway
> it
> > sickends me that
> > these virus outbreaks are not labled WINDOWS Only Virus right in the head
> > line in the article. The above worm is also cited to might be connected
> to
> > becoming a botnet
> > which might actually wake some people up i mean 9 million computers could
> do
> > some interesting damage.
> >
> > Wow means Worms on Windows <<<
> >
> >
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