Broken Windows
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Over at Macworld, Rob Griffiths outlines how badly infected his Parallels-powered version of XP became in a hurry.
I ran AVG and AdAware on the version of Windows XP I have on my Mac, and found over 30 problem files that needed clearing - bots, trojan horses, viruses: all that malarkey.
What was startling was that I’d hardly used it - maybe a total of 6 hours for site checking over the last 6 weeks. Everything was tidied up quickly, but it makes you realize the kind of nonsense Windows folks have to put up with all the time.
Oh, and the extra one gig of memory I put in the MacBook Pro now makes things much speedier when I’m running both OSes.
Now to go looking for a straighforward way to run IE6 and IE7 at the same time. As this is a very widespread request from every web developer out there, I’m amazed Microsoft hasn’t issued some simple patch or workaround to enable this. Tredosoft has one of the easier hacks to allow this, and it’s still messy and incomplete. PITA doesn’t cover it.