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If you are using this, be warned. It is auto updating to a new version but leaves behind remnants of the old. Once done it is very difficult to remove, especially on low power systems where it eats up 100% cpu load.
Make an image now if you want to see how the new program behaves. I used it for a bit. It's too complicated and sluggish, with a difficult to navigate interface and so have gotten rid of it.
Bitdefender is nice and simple.
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That's why smarter people keep their files backed up on external hard drives and keep a ghost image of their hard drives rather than relying on resource robbing antivirus programs that make your system run like carp even on a good day.
Use Linux!
Not only do I keep things backed up, but these types of problems just don't exist.
Dynobots Audio - Music is the Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
Use Linux!
Not only do I keep things backed up, but these types of problems just don't exist.
They sure do:
https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2017
Think about this; any program can have such flaws especially when they are stitched together so often w/o vigorous testing.
When I first did computing (1960s) in engineering research, the first and last thing we did was to test every component of a program individually and then together. It does not seem to happen to much these days.
For anything internet facing, time to market seems to be the number one concern. In these days of agile software development for the web & mobile devices, a lot of features go from the concept stage to being released and in production in under a month.
But rigorous testing is still the norm when developing safety critical software. A new challenge that I've been dealing with in recent years is how to make a safety case for something that's leveraging a lot of software reuse, open source, and off the shelf software.
The approach seems to vary. In UK, the approach some years ago was to have separate suites checking on each other. We were in Japan visiting their helicopter development program. There they said that they were concentrating one one system, being very careful with testing.
"When I first did computing (1960s) in engineering research...",
This isn't the 1960's. That's ancient history and much of what you did back in the stone age of computing is no longer practical or applicable.
The principles behind good computing and maths practice remain. Lazy guys would, of course, ignore it and cause users mayhem without assuming responsibility. It is sad that they get away with it.
his comments provide perspective to other posts.
The 60's? Yeah, there have been a few changes since then. :)
the change is that modules are pieced togerther without adequate testing. Read the stats posted on problem software posted above.
And you claim to be an 'engineer'?
who share their computers with family and who need to assess resources within non Linux systems who do otherwise!
I have been running Ubuntu for more than ten years now. A bit of a learning curve in the early days, but with twice-yearly upgrades it is superb!
I do make sure to back up critical data to an external drive, however.
I sucked it up and pay the $50 a year for Red Hat, it is the best one IMHO. I don't have the time to keep changing flavors.
Part of the licensing agreement for linux is availability at no cost. That is the short version, for more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
For RedHat it is available as CentOS:
https://www.centos.org/
Another fine product from NC to compliment our outstanding BBQ!
Will
Great.
I use Red Hat's free version...Fedora.
According to Red Hat:
Mutually beneficial relationship drives innovation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship that ensures rapid innovation. Fedora benefits from the sponsorship and feedback from Red Hat. In turn, Red Hat can bring leading-edge innovation to the broader community for collaboration, enabling a rapid maturation of the technology.
The size and expertise of the Fedora community make Fedora an ideal incubator and proving ground for features that eventually get incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To meet the quality and reliability requirements that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux the choice for mission-critical applications, Red Hat puts Red Hat Enterprise Linux through its own set of tests and quality assurance (QA) processes that are separate and distinct from those of Fedora.
Dynobots Audio - Music is the Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
one is being used as a testing ground and ideas gatherer to feed the other money making side of the business.This is what AVG and other vendors providing 'free' software do.
Edits: 04/24/17
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