> >> Bernard Devlin wrote: > >> > >> I think all Windows installations must be assumed to be toxic.
> > On 16/04/2010 21:05, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > > > Yes, that's the assumption I use too. It's also the reason I'm so much > > in favor of running Windows in a virtual machine. In Parallels (and > > maybe other emulators too, I'm not sure,) you can set a sort of > > bookmark for the current state of the machine, and when you're done > > working you can revert to that state. That removes anything that's > > been installed on the virutal hard drive since the state was set. > > > > So I run Windows virtually, keep no important data on it, use it only > > for testing Rev apps and creating installers, and never use it to for > > email or web browsing. I've got virus detection software installed but > > it has never identified any malware. Rev's direct internet access > > works fine and I don't mess with anything else internet-related. So > > far, so good, and I haven't had to revert to the saved state yet. > From: Richmond Mathewson > > I run XP on a heap of old junk (Well; a COMPAQ Pentium 3, 256 MB RAM); > headlessly - administered via my G4 Mac; > it has no internet connexion and is ONLY there for checking > Windows builds. > > Nevertheless I am already, after 3 months, getting endless error > messages in the middle of the Desktop. I really > wonder whether it is worth the effort reinstalling! I use Windows day-in, day-out, for software engineering, electronic engineering, math, Photoshop editing, mapping, and constant web browsing. I've been a heavy Windows user since 3.0, and am currently running XP and Win7 on three machines. Although I have a virus scanner, I don't even bother to run it in the background, only invoking it manually when I download an install file from the internet. Despite all this, I've _never_ had a virus or any kind of malware. My only system failures have been the occasional result of a RAM or hard disk failure. So either I'm doing something terribly right, or you all are doing something terribly wrong. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution