Activity for October 21

Review - Panda Antivirus Pro
2010 (Oct 16, 2009)

I am changing my prevous 5 star to a 1 star review now. Just a warning to anyone who does buy the Panda software. They will spam you to death with their emails. I decided not to renew because I'm now using the free Microsoft Security Essentials, and I am getting nothing but spam from Panda to renew. Even clicking their link to remove the spam, does not stop it. Now I have to make a gmail rule to filter and delete any email that comes from them.
Review - Microsoft Security Essentials
1.0.1611.0 (Oct 15, 2009)

Excellent antivirus program. The sending info thing is the only negative I see. But not a huge deal. It detected and blocked that fake "antivirus 2009" trojan that tries to install from popups... something that Avast antivirus never once detected.

And unlike other posts here, it is NOT bloated. Its actually very light on resources. I'm sure the competition is worried, so they have their goons posting fake reviews. Either that or its diehard fans of other software who don't want some free program showing their expensive program up.
Review - WinRAR (64-bit)
3.90 (Oct 10, 2009)

I prefer Winrar over 7zip. Its interface is 100x better, and can be customized. It uses 128bit AES encryption vs. the 256bit AES 7zip uses, however recently I read that the 128bit aes may be more secure than 256bit aes for some reason.
Review - ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows Vista
9.6 (Jun 15, 2009)

Works fine for me.
Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v3)
3.0.10 (Jun 8, 2009)

I'm very close to totally giving up on any Mozilla product. For years now, Firefox has had the problem of 99% cpu usage. And its not all flash content causing it either. Yet it NEVER gets fixed. It will work fine for a while, then it will start acting up, and it doesn't matter whether its in XP or Vista. Its extremely annoying and I think I'm going to start using some other browser... probably IE8.
Comment - Apple declares war on the entire PC industry
3.0.10 (Oct 21, 2009 - 2:25 AM)

I agree. What is sad is that when Microsoft finally did it back to Apple, (only Microsofts ads were the truth), Apple threw a fit and made threats to Microsoft over it telling them to stop.

I can't ever recall one single commercial by Apple that actually tells anything about their own computer or what it does. EVERY Apple commercial is nothing but an attack ad.

I also think some people have this stupid idea in there head that if something(Apple) costs a fortune, then it must better. Which couldn't be any farther from the truth.
Comment - Apple declares war on the entire PC industry
3.0.10 (Oct 21, 2009 - 2:19 AM)

What Apple fanboys don't seem to realize, PC's still control 90% of the market. That speaks for itself as to which is more popular.
Comment - Windows 7 is coming: Don't upgrade
3.0.10 (Aug 25, 2009 - 1:51 AM)

Perhaps you don't want to upgrade, but writing an article about it telling everyone else not to upgrade is just stupid.
Comment - Online gamer arrested for 'virtual murder' in Japan
3.0.10 (Oct 26, 2008 - 9:01 PM)

Thats about as ridiculous as some of the stupid laws we have in America... (or I should say Florida, Texas, California laws).
Comment - eBay warning: A cloudy Christmas weather forecast
3.0.10 (Oct 16, 2008 - 6:02 PM)

Ebay ticked off their customers big time this year. Like others have said, their outrageous price hikes (which they lied to the customers, pretending they were saving them money).

And of course another big one, was their removing negative feedback for any customer who buys from ebay. Letting the customer rip off the sellers. Both of those business practices will guarantee lost sales.

If Google were to start their own auction site, they would run ebay out of business.

Its all greed on ebays part. The same greed that will drive them out of business.