Funny you tube video of Windows 7 virus

[tim-from-pa]

Sorry that the video has some Chinese singing and/or displays in the windows that pop up, but still I think the video captures the frustration that the Microsoft user experiences in a humorous way.

A note to Microsoft users: I accessed this link by my Linux (Ubuntu) computer, so I can't guarantee anything, as NO LINK posted on this forum is guaranteed safe for Microsoft --- so I say if you have to keep "that" operating system, then for your peace of mind don't bother to click on the link; just continue to walk on eggshells like you do now (and pay good money to keep it running).

Mac and Linux users are OK here and the rest of us can have some fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcWJZu_pp4o&feature=related

 

[Vic C.]

:toofunny

Dude, we have dozens of Win 7 boxes at work and that just doesn't happen in Win 7.

As a matter of fact, the last time I saw anything that bad was when I still ran 2000 and rarely at that.

Hardware incompatibilities and poorly written drivers will usually cause the problems you see in that video. That is not much of a problem these days regardless of the OS you are using but it still can happen.

I have rendered my Ubuntu setup useless one day trying to load a specific driver for my NVidia dual monitor card. If a novice had done what I had done, they would have been helpless and declared their box a paperweight.

 

[tim-from-pa]

:toofunny

Dude, we have dozens of Win 7 boxes at work and that just doesn't happen in Win 7.

As a matter of fact, the last time I saw anything that bad was when I still ran 2000 and rarely at that.

Hardware incompatibilities and poorly written drivers will usually cause the problems you see in that video. That is not much of a problem these days regardless of the OS you are using but it still can happen.

I have rendered my Ubuntu setup useless one day trying to load a specific driver for my NVidia dual monitor card. If a novice had done what I had done, they would have been helpless and declared their box a paperweight.

Well, it is a tad of a humorous exaggeration, not by much, at least not with vista. On that other thread about that vista laptop my wife caught the virus on and I installed Linux? Well, that laptop sort of acted that way with countless windows popping up, the restore disabled, slow as the dickens and otherwise weird things coming up. I think the only thing that looked normal was the wallpaper, sort of like that video. The computer was a mess, and I could not find the restore disk. Could not download any virus updates, nothing.

BTW, "that" laptop is this very one I'm using now to post this. Works like a champ now.

 

[cyberjosh]

Oh my gosh! I feel like I have been violated in some way after watching that video. LOL.

I thought the top comment on the video was hilarious: "Japan has finally done it. they have made drugs for the PC!"

 

[tim-from-pa]

Oh my gosh! I feel like I have been violated in some way after watching that video. LOL.

I thought the top comment on the video was hilarious: "Japan has finally done it. they have made drugs for the PC!"

LOL...

Well, like I said, this very computer was ready for the trash bin with Windows Vista, and Ubuntu saved the day! The windows is gone, and Linux rules here! No such thing as malware any longer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMoKO5aWXY

I'm wondering if I should install virus scanners on this Linux? Like that video shows, Linus cleans the other OS. The reason to install virus protection on Linux is so that we Linux users do not accidentally infect Microsoft like a frail child that needs to be protected from a simple cough lest he gets pneumonia and dies while the same virus passes harmlessly and ineffectually through the Linux OS..