Vista and Windows 7 - reactions

[Splash]

I've dealt with a couple of connficker incidents for friends now, both were on XP boxes... not that that provides any statistical evidence!

I've asked F-Secure if they'd mind providing a distribution of OS Versions for their detected infections: as the machine reveals this through the browser agent I see no reason why it'd be an unreasonable thing to ask. I'll let you know if I get a response.

[lodore]

I've asked F-Secure if they'd mind providing a distribution of OS Versions for their detected infections: as the machine reveals this through the browser agent I see no reason why it'd be an unreasonable thing to ask. I'll let you know if I get a response.

Hey Splash,
if you dont i can contact f-secure. i done some beta testing for f-secure so ive got some contacts.

[Barry]

Anyone had issues installing ATI cat drivers for win 7?, I've tried vista and the beat win 7 ones and both sort of stop at 'enumerating source media for installable packages'

[Splash]

Were you by any chance using the Kaspersky internet security suite?

[Zadock]

I've asked F-Secure if they'd mind providing a distribution of OS Versions for their detected infections: as the machine reveals this through the browser agent I see no reason why it'd be an unreasonable thing to ask. I'll let you know if I get a response.

That would be interesting to see. To get a clearer picture you'd have to reflect the number of users of each OS, I would imagine that XP still has more users than vista? So more incidents in XP would be expected in that case.

Edit: 666 posts!

[Barry]

It was UAC running in slient mode causing it to be blocked

[Neo_VR]

Think i may have found a bug/feature with win7.. can anyone help me confirm it?

Basically with both my desktop and AAO netbook running 64 and 32bit win7 respectively, when copying something to a USB memory stick via the GUI its redicously slow. like indicating 30min to copy 150mb. but doing the same copy via a cmd box is "normal" speed...

can anyone confirm this?

[Splash]

That would be interesting to see. To get a clearer picture you'd have to reflect the number of users of each OS, I would imagine that XP still has more users than vista? So more incidents in XP would be expected in that case.

Edit: 666 posts!

Ok, no numbers but I was kindly pointed to a pie chart from Symantec that showed the distribution of OS for infected machines of W32DownAdUp.A which is as good a demonstration as any.



Source is https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs...article-id/224 if anyone wants to read the article. If you take the Market Share chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows and look for a mean value across the 4 data sources then Vista has around 18% of the market, with XP sitting at around 70% (this is only the percentage of the Windows OS market, not the total OS market.). Now I know that the Symantec chart provides no numbers, but a quick look at that pie chart tells me that there's a lot less that 18% of infected machines running Vista.

It's all very approximate, and without any numbers from a credible source very hard to prove anything, but I think it makes an interesting point about the impact UAC is having on this sort of thing.

[Barry]

Anyone else hate the spacing between the quick launch icons?

[TheAnimus]

Do you mean the task bar icons?

The space has to be there to signify multiple instances.

[magneticman]

the spacing irks me too tbh.

[format]

Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I'm actually really liking W7 so far

[Zadock]

I like it but I still can't get my lan to work (Abit IP35-e), I tried downloading different drivers but it just says that there are no 64bit drivers in the package... despite the fact that the abit website says there are 64bit drivers in the archive.

Think I might give up and stick Debian or Gentoo on that parition.

[boubis]

Tried Win7 for a week and I have to say I did not run in any major problems (considering it is not a final release). Things run a bit faster (especially rebooting) and finally I can use my 6 in 1 tv tuner properly without any additional software. I will definitely upgrade if the price is right but not keen in paying for a new operating system just after a year.

[Barry]

What I have found funny is that the only reall issues have been with MS based software, visual studio being the most annoying

[dangel]

What I have found funny is that the only reall issues have been with MS based software, visual studio being the most annoying

What in particular with VS?