« POPE 5 Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Re: Mozilla pulls four Firefox add-ons over excessive data collection 

By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (1)
Thu, 05 Dec 19 5:11 PM | 46 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Pope 5
Msg. 46202 of 62138
(This msg. is a reply to 46164 by capt_nemo)

Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

Nemo:

Re: "I got rid of firefox over a year ago, when the last update i did , it took over my computer . took forever to clean everything off my pooter........"
The task of keeping a Windows computer clean is not that simple.

When you buy your computer, Dell, HP and the other manufacturers have ALREADY installed it with bloatware-downloaders. You take it home, it runs nice and fast, but over the next few months it rapidly slows down. If it's on the internet, there's no avoiding this. You bought it already infected.

There IS a solution.

Install linux (I can find you the specific variant if you're interested) and buy a copy of Windows straight from Microsoft. Then configure linux to create a virtual Windows box every time it boots. You can do it so that your specific software will also be part of the virtual machine, and so that your data will NOT be part of it. (You want your data to be able to change; you don't want your software to be able to change.) When your system comes up, it will give you a fresh Windows and software copy every time it starts... practically impossible to infect or corrupt.

Do it right, and you'll never suffer from bloatware or from a virus. Microsoft updates will not be able to touch you.

This is how computers SHOULD operate... but, of course, it's not in keeping with Microsoft's wishes.




Avatar

Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


- - - - -
View Replies (3) »



» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
Re: Mozilla pulls four Firefox add-ons over excessive data collection
By: capt_nemo
in POPE 5
Thu, 05 Dec 19 6:05 AM
Msg. 46164 of 62138

I got rid of firefox over a year ago, when the last update i did , it took over my computer . took forever to clean everything off my pooter........


« POPE 5 Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next