That's ... a lot of cruft

[telophase]

So the first things I did on my new laptop were to uninstall MacAfee, and to download and install ZoneAlarm's firewall and AVG's free antivirus. And I set it to run a scan, in case the ten minutes it spent connected to the Net unprotected were enough to infect it.* It was not infected but it took over an hour to find that out. Wow. I think something right out of the box shouldn't take over an hour to scan for viruses. O.o

I'll be deleting various pre-installed things, too: I really don't need a trial version of Office or many of the trial games they installed.

I've never named a laptop before. What should I name it? :D

* Don't believe it? I've had a machine get infected in less than ten minutes before.

Comments

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

*hehehe*

I don't like MacAfee :( *I need to buy TrendMicro when I get a laptop & AVG *heh**

I always name my electronics :3

Sanzo? *mwhahaha* [mine is going to be named Panchi ^^;]

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I may have to find a character I can describe as "Pretty, but kinda slow" to name it. XD

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Kyo? Goku?(ok, that's "cute little guy, but slow")

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

I believe it. @_@ Nowadays, being on the web without a virus checker is like sticking your hand in a box full of mosquitoes and hoping you don't get bitten. I got infected years ago with some low-level spyware after getting online to download a copy of AVS after having to reformat my computer. @_@

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to ditch MacAfee and install work's souped up Sophos. They were so sick of viral infections that now everybody in the Uni can download it on their home computers for free. Cheaper to buy extra liscenses. LOL.

I'm pondering ditching everything but the art programs on my beast. Well, I'll leave Word and Firefox, but that's it. It's such a pain to uninstall programs. *grumps quietly*

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Mohinder?

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Mine is named Maten. Yeah.