I Ain't Spreading No Diseases
I spent 18 glorious years discovering computers, the internet, and all the treasures they held. Those early years were on a PC; personal computer or better yet, a Windows machine. I had an internetless 3.1 and then the more sophisticating chiming 95. It was here that I first had access to the internet. What a glorious age this was. Free information from anywhere at the tips of my fingers in an instant. I soon found out how to make websites and contribute to this new land. A few years went by (now using Windows 98) and I noticed a change on the internet. Website were becoming more interactive than I wanted them to be. Pop-up adds and banners plagued websites. Oh well, a few clicks and they where gone. I was slow to adopt 2000 so my next upgrade was XP. How wonderful? (Half of my programs didn't work on installation!) Wait? What is this? A pop up? But I didn't click internet explorer. I will just close it. Gone. No worries! WAIT! It's back again?! It's sending it to everyone in my email? What am I sending? Pull the plug! After I restart my computer, I find the problem. Culprit? A worm digging its way through my computer to my email client. Causing strange pop-ups and errors every which way I turn! After a few years with XP, I finally figured out how to contain my computer but it was just something I didn't want to be bothered with.
My solution? I got a Mac. Now, here I am, virus free happy computing for about 4 years. Worms or viruses are not anything I have to think about. Penn State offers an anti-virus on it's website for Mac. I laugh. I know Apple makes up only a small portion of the computer world but I feel that Mac owners are enjoying their experience too much to make malware even though there have been some incidences. It was never quite anything like the troubles I had on my PC. I think to my old computer and what I had to do to make it work again. The countless hours. Never again for me! Knock on wood!
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