Styrofoam doesn't decompose.


LET'S CARVE 4.7GB OF DATA IN GIANT BLOCKS OF STYROFOAM, PYRAMID STYLE.

I absolutely agree with your definition of malware, virus are only one of the few bad software attacking your computer.

However, your title and half of your article clearly states that AV-Comparatives has rated MSE the best free antivirus for Windows.
This is not the case whether you use your definition of malware or the more widely accepted definition referring to "adware", the later definition being used by AV-Comparatives themselves. If you look at the test samples you will see none of those are actual virus as they are not meant to harm the computer (that's left open to discussion... but you get the gist of it.)

If MSE was the best rated free something, it would be the best rated free anti-malware/adware. Not antivirus, as once again those tests show absolutely NO virus samples. Would you say a certain computer was the best computer if it was K6-2 era but it had the biggest, most efficient power supply you've ever seen? It's a silly example, but it's exactly what this article is leading readers to believe.

Calling MSE the best rated free anti-malware/adware would be erroneous too. Those tests show only removal of a few select samples. Not detection or pro-active protection. Ars was careful in not over hyping MSE, referring to the products as security products and only presenting the facts, you have twisted them. :S

Frankly the article appears to me as a lot of sensationalism (whether or not that was wanted) and it conveys false information in doing so. That's a double no-no. It's nothing I have seen previously from your articles which really makes me wonder if you haven't suddenly turned in a fanboy or it's a honest mistake.

Sorry, post unrelated to who I am answering to, but I think this is seriously important.

Way to mess it up Lee. Mess it up REALLY bad, enough to misinform all your readers that don't have a keen enough eye.
MSE doesn't get the "best free antivirus for Windows" title. Not even Ars claims that. Know why?

THIS IS A FREAKING MALWARE REMOVAL TEST LEE!!!

It's about malware removal. We're talking adware and the likes here, not viruses. What AV-Comparatives tested was in fact the anti-malware portion of every software on their list, not their antivirus portion. MSE might get an Advanced+ note in this round, it doesn't mean it will get such a note in virus detection. Or even malware detection, as they have picked very specific test files without disclaiming their full name. They were just testing the removal of some, remember?
The way you wrote it you are implying that MSE was crowned king of free antivirus by AV-Comparatives. This is terribly erroneous and far from truth. Everyone reading your article is led to believe MSE is the best thing since sliced bread and while it is great, it's not that. :/

I'm sorry for the cold, expressive reply, but it's horrible to misinform people whether that was the point or not.

Yes yes, neophytes sure love to run virtual machines. It's about time you linux zealots realize Linux isn't the answer to everything nor is it possible for every user out there to use it. But go ahead, try and push Linux on everyone out there. We can clearly see it's been working so far...

Regarding your "you can only help people who want help"... if proposing Linux at every roadblock is helping them, my friend, I don't want you to help.

@_@

I doubt that would work. Just look at OSX86 guide for VMware...
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to

Way too lengthy to work with a simple image of a drive I think.

Yup. And it has FlashGot add-on compatibility in Firefox.
The downside is that I don't think it's available for anything other than Windows, but that's a moot point, unless you're not under Windows that is. :P

Furthermore I believe even the VirtualBox GUI can convert the images. You select the VHD in the virtual media manager and it will ask you about converting, if I recall correctly. Then it's a matter of creating a similar machine that matches the VHD and you're good to go.

Wait... so you're saying this caused you a problem, that the program fixed after, but yet you uninstalled it?
Why do you think there is a recovery mode? o_O

True it's impressive, but it's not like nVidia won't fight back.

The HD 5850 is a bit of a lackluster IMHO, exchanges blows with the GTX275 and for slightly higher price. I fail to see where the joy is coming from. Not that it's bad to have competition from ATI, I'm just not all impressed with the HD 5870 little brother.

Loved the lag in doing so, too.