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Posted by Gerald Vogt on February 26, 2008, 4:04 am
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> I have gradually been pruning out my bloatware and my MS ware as much
If you want get rid of Microsoft software install Linux.
> as I could, and recently canned the MS Windows firewall in favor of
> the PC Tools Fiirewall. That leaves me with one last remaining
Bad choice. You cannot deinstall the Microsoft Windows firewall. Now
you have installed an additional bloated software firewall. Deinstall
the software firewall and use the Microsoft Windows firewall. If you
don't trust Microsoft don't use Windows. If you use Windows use the
Microsoft Windows firewall. There is little use distrusting Microsoft
and thus not using the MS firewall while still running on their
operating system. Microsoft still knows the best how to mess with
their operating systems without breaking too much. Other software
firewalls are worse.
> dependency: I use the MS Live OneCare Sec. Scan a lot because it
> reveals problems and can also help to cure them. Like fragmentation
> and excess userless files.
> Would someone please suggest something along the lines of the MS
> Live OneCare Sec. Scan, online, but a whole lot better--doing similar
> deep scans and deep fixes better than MS does? I would like some
> suggestions, please.
Again. Stick with Microsoft or don't use Windows at all. Trusting on
other company's software to fix deeper OS trouble can be risky. While
other software may be helpful to fix smaller issues, for larger
issues Microsoft is still the best source. Thinking other companies
can fix the issues which Microsoft can not fix is kind of naive. If
you believe Microsoft is so bad don't run Windows as a base for
everything.
Linux saves you that trouble. I would recommend to switch to Linux.
That gets rid of all Microsoft software. There is only very little
Microsoft software which runs directly on Linux. ;-) If you need
Windows for some applications which are only available for Windows,
get a virtual machine like vmware, parallels or similar and install
Windows in the virtual machine. That works fine for most software.
Gerald
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