Comments on: Apple just suckered me, I don’t want iTunes! http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/ Imagination Defines the Limit of Genius Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:10:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Apple tries to sucker me AGAIN! at A Dutch Life http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/comment-page-1/#comment-544 Apple tries to sucker me AGAIN! at A Dutch Life Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:50:41 +0000 http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/#comment-544 [...] A while ago I complained about what I consider a pretty dodgy practice by Apple, that is, recommending I download a completely separate product when it should just be updating one I have already installed. [...] [...] A while ago I complained about what I consider a pretty dodgy practice by Apple, that is, recommending I download a completely separate product when it should just be updating one I have already installed. [...]

]]> By: Jesica http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Jesica Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0000 http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/#comment-319 Exactly! Isn't that the Apple user's argument- that their computers don't come with a buch of software you don't want? When I bought my laptop, I think I uninstalled 4 things- things related to using Media Center which I wouldn't have bought if it wasn't already installed. In the meantime, I have been fighting I Tunes updates EVER SINCE! Exactly! Isn’t that the Apple user’s argument- that their computers don’t come with a buch of software you don’t want? When I bought my laptop, I think I uninstalled 4 things- things related to using Media Center which I wouldn’t have bought if it wasn’t already installed. In the meantime, I have been fighting I Tunes updates EVER SINCE!

]]> By: Daniel McPherson http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Daniel McPherson Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:45:00 +0000 http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/#comment-308 By far the most commmon hack today is one based on social engineering, basically tricking people into running malicious software. While this demonstrated I can be suckered, there are a few things to be said here: 1) In the 18 months I have been running without virus scanning, I have not had a single issue, but then I know what to look for. 2) Virus scanners are never up-to-date enough anyway to protect against this sort of thing, and give faaaar too many false positive. Defender could help, but is it worth the overhead? not to me, I make sure I have excellent backups. 3) Vista provides much better protection, and have been running that since the very earliest on internal Microsoft Betas. Of course browser exploits are possible, but they appear first on sites I steer clear of (mostly spend my days in my RSS reader, with known sites anyway), and the fixes come out pretty quickly, quick enough to make that risk pretty low. The blog Coding Horror has had some great post on the waste of time that is virus scanners. AVG I use on my shared computer, but again, its never really going to be up to date enough, and as far as I know it is not real-time anyway. Appreciate the suggestion on the codec alternatives, tried these a while back but it didn't work out for me, I thought you still had to install Quicktime? Real player I stay away from ever since they went spamware a while back. Anyway, will revist it. Thanks for dropping by and contributing! By far the most commmon hack today is one based on social engineering, basically tricking people into running malicious software. While this demonstrated I can be suckered, there are a few things to be said here:
1) In the 18 months I have been running without virus scanning, I have not had a single issue, but then I know what to look for.
2) Virus scanners are never up-to-date enough anyway to protect against this sort of thing, and give faaaar too many false positive. Defender could help, but is it worth the overhead? not to me, I make sure I have excellent backups.
3) Vista provides much better protection, and have been running that since the very earliest on internal Microsoft Betas.

Of course browser exploits are possible, but they appear first on sites I steer clear of (mostly spend my days in my RSS reader, with known sites anyway), and the fixes come out pretty quickly, quick enough to make that risk pretty low. The blog Coding Horror has had some great post on the waste of time that is virus scanners.

AVG I use on my shared computer, but again, its never really going to be up to date enough, and as far as I know it is not real-time anyway.

Appreciate the suggestion on the codec alternatives, tried these a while back but it didn’t work out for me, I thought you still had to install Quicktime? Real player I stay away from ever since they went spamware a while back. Anyway, will revist it.

Thanks for dropping by and contributing!

]]> By: opit http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/comment-page-1/#comment-307 opit Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:06:44 +0000 http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/#comment-307 Come to think, the BBC had a no-malware version of Realplayer - but I found it useless and always wanting updates. Come to think, the BBC had a no-malware version of Realplayer – but I found it useless and always wanting updates.

]]> By: opit http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/comment-page-1/#comment-306 opit Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:03:54 +0000 http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/#comment-306 http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative_Lite.htm A different way of dealing with the problem. I know antiviruses are a pain : I can't say what has kept you safe unless you do not surf as administrator. AVG Free is what I usually see recommended if you decide to use one. Some use Spybot and AdAware as clean up utilities that are not pinned to the start menu and only run on a weekly basis or so. Then again, I'm all over the web and have to watch out for trouble. http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative_Lite.htm
A different way of dealing with the problem.
I know antiviruses are a pain : I can’t say what has kept you safe unless you do not surf as administrator.
AVG Free is what I usually see recommended if you decide to use one. Some use Spybot and AdAware as clean up utilities that are not pinned to the start menu and only run on a weekly basis or so. Then again, I’m all over the web and have to watch out for trouble.

]]> By: Thomas http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Thomas Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:11:19 +0000 http://blog.daniel.mcpherson.name/2007/09/09/apple-just-suckered-me-i-dont-want-itunes/#comment-292 I agree with you on that mate. Although I do have an iPod and I use iTunes, I get crazy when I open iTunes and the Apple Software is trying to download automaticaly a newer version of the software. I want the version i have now! Not the Newer! I hope that Apple will stop being so aggressive on such things! I agree with you on that mate.
Although I do have an iPod and I use iTunes, I get crazy when I open iTunes and the Apple Software is trying to download automaticaly a newer version of the software.

I want the version i have now! Not the Newer!
I hope that Apple will stop being so aggressive on such things!

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