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Hate to break it for you, but once you actually RUN a local .exe, no anti-virus software will ever be able to save you from whatever that program is going to do. Anti virus software is mainly there to prevent you from clicking on it. Winrar could ruin your hard drive every time you unpack something.
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Er, I dunno about you, but I *scan* my files for viruses before installing them.
And, yeah, Winrar could ruin my hard drive every time I unpack something. But if it did, you'd kinda think you'd hear lots of complaints about that happening, wouldn't you?
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Originally Posted by Phantom
Well, give Starforce the same favor then, because thousands of people have used it without encountering any serious problems. At least for the latest versions.
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Fair enough.
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I'd stop using Windows right here, right now, because Windows 95 destroyed a lot more computers than Starforce ever will . |
And again, I already stated that, yeah, Windows can be dangerous, but you have to have some OS installed on your computer, and there's not a lot of OS choice yet without a lot of fuss, and software that's crucial to the functioning of other software has jack all to do with software that isn't... yadda, yadda, yadda. If you're going to use inappropriate analogies, at least think up some new ones.
I already dug up one analogy that I think is relevant... Opera's ad-serving system. Matches pretty well, IMHO: isn't necessary to the functioning of the program, only benefits the company, you don't have to install it (you can easily just use another browser), had accusations of damaging stuff levelled against it, etc.
Peace & Luv, Liz
