[ale] OT: Symantec subscription'Nag' screen

[John Mills]

Aaron, All -

Amen to those, and thanks for the comments!

I have a reason for using Vista, and after 43+ years I prefer to remain 
married to her.

I _am_ going to drop a second HDD into the box and put some flavor of 
Linux on that. We'll see about a weaning period then.

For starters my S.O. is now happy with Thunderbird as her only mail reader 
and Firefox as her primary web tool. Happier, in fact.

I do have a very satisfied Ubuntu user in the non-power-user[!] friend to 
whom I loaned a creaky old Dell so she could do some of her work from 
home. It's bog-slow, but she still loves it. Maybe there's hope.

Norton is the last 'Buy Me!' nag that comes up by itself, and I don't give 
it much more life expectancy. Another example that vanished _before_ I 
turned the machine over to its owner was the "XX Day Trial" of Micro$oft 
Office. Basically it's just another kind of in-your-face phishing.

  - JMM

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, aaron wrote:

> fdisk
> Install Ubuntu.
> Machine cured of all diseases and associated embedded
> commercial harrasment from parnter virus manufacturers.
> Problem solved.
>
> It seriously boggles the mind that anyone puts up with
> all the commercial abuses that come embedded in all
> the pre-infected, off the shelf windblows machines.  The
> adware viruses are all so invasive and pervasive and
> perpetually annoying that the above is the only realistic,
> efficient way to deal with them.
>
> peace
> aaron