What's up Doc ... hoohoo hoohoo hoohoo!

You could have avoided all of that 7 paragraph/sentence post and many moons of frustration if you would have simply used your digital audio workstation as ... now follow me on this ... a digital audio workstation.

And the funny thing is, now you will end up doing what you should have been doing all along by having multiple computers in your house. One for exploring the underbelly of the web, and the other for recording music.

It's very well established that a DAW should not be used for surfing the web ... so blaming Microsoft for your web related troubles isn't really a valid excuse for hopping on the Mac train.

But anyway ... have fun and ban-voy-aggie!

Don't forget, leaving the forum is optional Doc.
 
I like it when you are around.
 
I just thought I'd mention I get great low-latency performance, 100% reliability and stability on Windows (and I mean 100%), I haven't suffered the effects of a virus for the best part of 10 years, and I'm permanently connected to the internet with a music computer that absolutely rocks with a 2600k chip which I can drop a 3770k chip in if I fancy a mid-life upgrade at some point.
 
I'm glad you have at least one music package you can take with you without having to buy it again in order to run it natively on your new OS though...
 
Hope we still see you around.

Is it really true that none of the scum of the earth ever bother to write viruseses for mac or is that just a myth put about by mac users because they're to embarrassed to admit their computer is full of viruses?

Karyn


Is it really true that none of the scum of the earth ever bother to write viruseses for mac or is that just a myth put about by mac users because they're to embarrassed to admit their computer is full of viruses?

Apple is THE mother of all viruses, once it has you it won't let go...
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17623422
 
Policy is the key for staying away from infections not software or hardware, being an internet recluse isn't necessary either.  Believing you are immune is always bad policy.

Karyn


Is it really true that none of the scum of the earth ever bother to write viruseses for mac or is that just a myth put about by mac users because they're to embarrassed to admit their computer is full of viruses?

they are and they will be more...






"“The growing evidence of financially-motivated criminals looking at Apple Macs as well as Windows as a market for their activities, is not good news — especially as so many Mac users currently have no anti-malware protection in place at all,” said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at U.K-based Sophos, in a blog entry Thursday."

http://blog.brickhousesecurity.com/2009/09/27/mac-virus/

What does he expect?  He's using Vista - the worst effort Microsquish ever made.

Happy trails Doc!

I'm almost certain that after the trip my wife had dealing
with Dell/Alienware our next purchase will be a Mac....
I could care less what it is. It's all a transitional mess to me.
Reminds me of the cars built in the eighties when they wanted
"logic" LOL...none of 'em were worth spit. They got it figured out though...
be glad when it happens to this mess.

Cheers, Doc... safe travels! But, yeah, you don't have to LEAVE, you know.  :)

Hey Doc - wanna buy some of this too ?



Only $2000 to you ;)

I have to agree with Doc on this one. I have to say I really love my Windows recording pc's and can't see me using my mac for that....I'm not crazy about Mac anyway. But last night...I got hit by the worst virus I've ever had and I'm ready to switch to my mac just for surfing because I keep my DAWS off the net.

Check this out....I wasn't even looking at porn or anything bad....honest! Me and my singer were on the phone discussing a new logo for our Van Halen tribute band. We were looking at logo's people had created. I click on a picture and the next thing you know, my pc reboots all by itself. I knew that was trouble right there because I've never experienced anything like that.

Long story short, this thing is a massive virus that gets picked up, but doesn't get removed without doing 3000 things to your machine. Norton missed it, AVG missed it, SuperAntiSpyware missed it, TDSSKiller found it and said it removed it but it came back. Windows Malicious Spyware tool found it and said it removed it partially, but it was still there. I finally got rid of it with some registry stuff and Malwarebytes got the rest of it. A picture of a Van Halen logo...I just can't believe it.

Anyway, the file this thing creates that wreaks havoc is svhost.exe. Yes, I know we have one of these...but it should not turn up in your C:/Windows folder with a date of today or last week etc. The real file is in Win sys 32 I believe and is 27kb. This other thing is 20 kb and owns up to a file called winrsmcde I believe it is. If you happen to find this thing on your box, and you do any online banking or store any personal info on your machine, go offline, change all your passwords and get this thing off your machine. It sends information to ip's anywhere from Romania to Virginia. What sucks is, you won't even know it's there until you notice your pc is slowing down and you see this huge spike in your cpu. Then of course, just about every major program you open will create a blue screen, do a crash dump and then reboot. It's nasty...so please check if you have it. Nasty root kit pihlar backdoor thing. Ugggh! I can't believe the people at MS can't put an end to this virus and malware stuff.

-Danny