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by gloosx 410 days ago
I'm a Macbook user, but I often have screen sharing experiences with people using Windows laptops, god, it's painful watching them. Brand new, solid book with decent specs, only used for few months and everything is visibly very slow. Opening some documents and presentations while being on screen share takes minutes, file explorer lags, screen compositor lags. Notifications with weather, STOCKS info, murders and clickbait news around just pop up mid-conferences.

The most funny part? I was debugging application .exe not starting. Reason? AVG antivirus UPLOADED EXE to their server for EXAMINATION. EXE with an 600$ Extended Validation license. There was a message for the user TO WAIT FEW HOURS before they studied it and exe could be unblocked from launching. All was completely normal to the said windows user. What a dystopian thing they are used to
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efdee 409 days ago
Sounds like an AVG problem, not a Windows problem.
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bobbylarrybobby 409 days ago
The very normalization of antivirus on Windows is a Windows problem. For better or worse, Mac users simply don't think about AV.
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efdee 406 days ago
Like you say: "for better or worse".

FWIW, I haven't ran antivirus software on Windows (other than the included Defender, but that's not something I think about) in literally decades.

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gloosx 406 days ago
I think letting certain software thrive which just blatantly disregards your own certification and validation processes is exactly Windows problem. Some developer(s) paid 600$ and emailed their passport to Microsoft affiliates to get rid of that "SmartScreen" warning, do they have to pay and email their passport copy to AVG as well so their application can be ran without uploading step and needing to wait few hours of "examination"?
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efdee 406 days ago
What are you saying here, though? That Microsoft should have the monopoly on deciding what software is safe and what is not?
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gloosx 404 days ago
Windows historically allowed a dire situation with security, so no-one really freaking knows what software is safe and what not. Even monopoly they have on deciding what software is safe and what is not (extended validation certification procedure) is not helping anyone, because anyone can circumvent it with photoshop and 10$

Are you saying Microsoft shouldn't care about making a secure system and they can just outsource the subject to a third company which will upload .exe to their server and tell user to wait few hours before it can be launched?

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