Most people don’t have the time or the knowledge to properly test software and end up just trusting what they get or whatever they see advertised most. Both of these are very big computing mistakes.
Trusting what you get:
The software that comes “bundled” with your computer is usually the cheap junk that the hardware company made great deals to promote or is crippled or time limited in some way.
Buying what you see advertised most:
You get a big name, but do you get the best product? The answer is a flat and honest NO. The big names are often bloated software written by lazy programmers just showing up to work for their 9 to 5 pay. You will find hacks to all of them on the net and a novice can bypass your big name security. These big companies don’t care if you get a virus, they make money off it and that is enough. If you get a virus that your antivirus did not detect because it is not updated often enough what do you do? Will the company help you free of charge to clean up your computer? No chance! You call some computer store or computer geek and pay to get it cleaned up and then put the same piece of junk software back on that let the virus in. The problem with stores and computer geeks is they know they have you over a barrel. What do you know? What guarantee do you have they won’t just wipe your computer tossing all your data using a simple restore disk and charge you excessively?
Another problem with the big name bloatware is that they seem to think they know more than the guys who wrote your operating system and the guys who write the virus, spyware, etc. This is a very big problem as they will try to take over certain aspects of the operating system causing problems and major slow downs due to being complete resource hogs. Thinking you know more than the malicious software creators is extremely dangerous as you only have your 9 to 5 teams but the malicious software writers are in huge unknown numbers that grow daily.
What about the smaller guy you see advertising his product advertised on the net? The ones who give you a “free” scan? Don’t waste your time, I have tested many of them and most miss important problems and give false negatives and then use scare tactics to get you to buy. How many times have you seen: “You are at RISK, you have ___ problems and they MUST be fixed ASAP, click here to activate/purchase, etc” or some similar thing? Ignore these sharks; they just want your money.
You must be tired of shelling out money for a computer, the operating system, the internet, the software…
Do you think Bill Gates cares that you keep spending money because his programmers wrote an OS that has too many holes and is bloated and crashes when you sneeze? Not a chance! Have you ever read any of the EULA (End User License Agreement)? You have NO guarantees! You are the one who is giving guarantees – not to copy, reverse compile, etc. If you use the software and it crashes your computer, scraps your data, burns your house down and kills your dog, it is your problem.
So now you have the straight bad news. What can you do about it?
