Comments on: Windows Doesn’t Need Antivirus Software, Thank You Very Much

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:03:50 +0000

I spent months upon months without any antivirus software installed on my Dell Inspiron and finally decided to try an antivirus. I won’t mention the name of the antivirus, but it was very highly rated and I did a lot of research before buying it. After scanning with the antivirus it told me there were NO threats caught from my months spent with no protection. Within a week, however, my computer was loaded with crap and wouldn’t even start up anymore. I formatted the drive about a month ago and installed Windows again. No antivirus installed, computer is running GREAT!

By: Will

Will — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:34:20 +0000

Are you serious -_-

-IE has shitty standards-compliance. So bad that if it wasn’t packaged with Windows, nobody would bother switching to it.
-IE gives you Win32 viruses (assuming you’re still using shitty windows) You can quote all the stats and tests you want, but there’s nothing in the world that’ll change that fact.
-IE’s Javascript engine is much slower than Mozilla Firefox. I tried brute-forcing a math problem with JS before. Firefox got it in half a second. IE was still working after 5 minutes.

IE needs to die for the web to move on. Stop being a douche.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:48:42 +0000

I do admit the latest version of IE seems pretty solid and secure, especially when running on Vista or Windows 7. However, I still personally prefer Opera since (a) it is faster, (b) it is more usable, and (c) it has the lowest number of security advisories among the top three most popular browsers (not counting Chrome). However, many websites still assume they are running in IE or Firefox, so once in a while you get a web page that doesn't quite work right in Opera. If you check out that security link, you will also notice that in general, Firefox fares better than IE. With Chrome it is still too early to tell, although the browser's architecture was designed from the start with security in mind, and the auto-patching should allow them to get fixes distributed a lot faster than with IE. To their credit, the security issues that have been discovered so far were quickly patched. All of the alternative browsers that I mentioned have a lot of company muscle behind them, with engineering teams focused on security. All things considered, it is much more important to get off of Windows XP than it is to drop IE, although I still think you are better off with Firefox (best compatibility) or Opera (best security).

By: Drake

Drake — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:06:42 +0000

Honestly, suggesting other browsers than IE? What a dumb idea.

Sure, let’s pick a browser with the SMALLEST support group, so that when we do get something nasty noone knows how to fix it. GREAT IDEA!!!

Listen up, Firefags! Your browser has plenty of problems, just like elitist macfags think they can never catch a virus (har har).