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post #16 of 28
6/20/11 at 2:29pm
It really doesn't sound like a virus. Although, OSX tends to get more worms or other 'critters'. I don't have an antivirus on my Macbook, however I use Little Snitch which allows me to block out going and incoming items through the internet at my discretion. So, if I go to a website with say just a text article and it wants to connect / send me other streams I can deny all of them.
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post #17 of 28
6/20/11 at 2:33pm
Interestingly, that happened to my 1.5 month old 13" mbp yesterday and I thought it was a virus too. Is something like this warranty worthy since my computer is pretty new? FWIW, aperture, safari, and itunes were running when this occurred.
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post #18 of 28
6/20/11 at 6:32pm
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Never heard of that one.
You're incredibly fortunate, and I pray you remain so. The bug results when the system-controlled super-administrator profile goes a little haywire and essentially seizes control over every facet of your machine, locking you out of certain key functions. One of the fun side effects is that the system turns every folder and every path on your hard drive to permanent read-only status. You then have to right-click and "Run as Administrator" for any command you issue -- be it to create a new folder, run an executable, and so forth. Furthermore, things like installations of hardware and software get FUBARed because you can't save into certain paths or folders. The whole thing becomes an absolute nightmare, and there is no cure other than complete reinstallation of Windows. Microsoft has acknowledged this bug and refuses to do anything about it.
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I do consider it to be safer than XP though, especially that I'm in China. There is absolutely no way that I would want to be using anything less than Win7, OS X or Linux here, certainly not for banking or anything like that. The school did give me a PC with XP(in Chinese) on it, but I used it after [b]installing Ubuntu on the thing
I think that's fair. XP is definitely not safe, especially in a region so prone to sketchiness and hacking in the first place.
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post #19 of 28
6/20/11 at 6:40pm
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Originally Posted by JMRouse View Post
I get that sometimes when my Macbook overheats. It's not a virus.

This remains, far and away, my biggest gripe with Macbooks. I've never managed to fry any of my hardware from overheating, but I've gotten very nervous -- especially when doing halfway serious amounts of gaming on my Windows partition. After a few hours, the computer starts to burn like a pizza fresh out of a brick oven. I've tweaked the fan settings on the Windows side, and it seems to keep the heat in check to a certain extent. But it still feels dangerously hot every now and then.

FYI -- the core problem with overheating is that Macbook Pros (at least my model and earlier, which is circa 2009 or so) have really inadequate fan settings when in Windows mode. The software control of the fan isn't set to kick in when it should, especially for gaming. There are fixes and tweaks, but they're all varying degrees of sketchy.
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post #20 of 28
6/20/11 at 7:02pm
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I get that sometimes when my Macbook overheats. It's not a virus.

something like this helps a lot for laptop overheating problems, you can get them at best buy.

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post #21 of 28
6/20/11 at 11:40pm
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Originally Posted by Don Carlos View Post
This remains, far and away, my biggest gripe with Macbooks. I've never managed to fry any of my hardware from overheating, but I've gotten very nervous -- especially when doing halfway serious amounts of gaming on my Windows partition. After a few hours, the computer starts to burn like a pizza fresh out of a brick oven. I've tweaked the fan settings on the Windows side, and it seems to keep the heat in check to a certain extent. But it still feels dangerously hot every now and then.

FYI -- the core problem with overheating is that Macbook Pros (at least my model and earlier, which is circa 2009 or so) have really inadequate fan settings when in Windows mode. The software control of the fan isn't set to kick in when it should, especially for gaming. There are fixes and tweaks, but they're all varying degrees of sketchy.

FWIW, I have a seven year-old iMac (lulz.) The only time I've ever heard the fan run was once when doing a firmware upgrade.
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post #22 of 28
6/21/11 at 12:14am
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Originally Posted by tagutcow View Post
FWIW, I have a seven year-old iMac (lulz.) The only time I've ever heard the fan run was once when doing a firmware upgrade.

Noice.

I don't 'get' iMacs, fwiw. They don't even use desktop hardware. They are basically laptops -- with laptop chipsets and cards -- in desktops' clothing.
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post #23 of 28
6/21/11 at 12:25am
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Originally Posted by Don Carlos View Post
Noice.

I don't 'get' iMacs, fwiw. They don't even use desktop hardware. They are basically laptops -- with laptop chipsets and cards -- in desktops' clothing.

I think they are a nice alternative desktop that conserves space and can offer a bigger screen and more hardware for users.
You wouldn't carry a 27" laptop around, that is why the iMac exists, its nice to have a computer as a fixed object rather than portable, especially in an office.
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post #24 of 28
6/21/11 at 2:09am
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Originally Posted by Don Carlos View Post
You're incredibly fortunate, and I pray you remain so. The bug results when the system-controlled super-administrator profile goes a little haywire and essentially seizes control over every facet of your machine, locking you out of certain key functions. One of the fun side effects is that the system turns every folder and every path on your hard drive to permanent read-only status. You then have to right-click and "Run as Administrator" for any command you issue -- be it to create a new folder, run an executable, and so forth. Furthermore, things like installations of hardware and software get FUBARed because you can't save into certain paths or folders. The whole thing becomes an absolute nightmare, and there is no cure other than complete reinstallation of Windows. Microsoft has acknowledged this bug and refuses to do anything about it.
I've tried looking for this 'issue/bug' on Google. But can't actually find anything which relates to the symptoms described above. Apparently some issues with Win 7 forgetting admin and user account passwords occasionally. But then I don't use the Windows passwords as they're rather insecure anyway, I use the BIOS password options on my PC. I also listen to quite a few tech podcasts and read tech blogs, including Windows Weekly, and they've never described anything like this, nothing that I've come across. Don is there a website which documents this problem with Windows 7? I would be very interested to read it. If it was affecting many Win 7 users, I'm sure they'd be screaming about it all over the interwebs. Like they did with the problems of Vista.
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post #25 of 28
6/21/11 at 3:38am
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Don is there a website which documents this problem with Windows 7? I would be very interested to read it. I

diaryland.com/doncarlos

sounds like a user error
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post #26 of 28
6/21/11 at 4:03am
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Originally Posted by Trompe le Monde View Post
diaryland.com/doncarlos sounds like a user error
Is that URL correct? It just goes to the Diaryland front page.
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post #27 of 28
6/21/11 at 5:14am
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Originally Posted by MikeDT View Post
I've tried looking for this 'issue/bug' on Google. But can't actually find anything which relates to the symptoms described above. Apparently some issues with Win 7 forgetting admin and user account passwords occasionally. But then I don't use the Windows passwords as they're rather insecure anyway, I use the BIOS password options on my PC. I also listen to quite a few tech podcasts and read tech blogs, including Windows Weekly, and they've never described anything like this, nothing that I've come across. Don is there a website which documents this problem with Windows 7? I would be very interested to read it. If it was affecting many Win 7 users, I'm sure they'd be screaming about it all over the interwebs. Like they did with the problems of Vista.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;326549 http://itexpertvoice.com/home/fixing...-folder-blues/ By the way I have never had any such problems, but then the first thing I did when acquiring a Win7 computer is turn all that permission thingies off. I remember having to give Windows (Vista) computers permission two-four times before software could be installed. I'd rather my computer crash and burn then go through such tomfoolery. I went straight to 7 from XP and am loving it, that's right I AM LOVING IT!
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post #28 of 28
6/21/11 at 5:30am
It's kernel panic, but it IS possible to get viruses on teh Macz despite popular belief. I have Sophos running in the background just in case, and it doesn't affect performance at all
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