I just bought a new mac book and I was told that a macs operating system is not susceptible to viruses and that I don’t need to buy any anti-virus software. Is this correct?

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I wanted to reset it back to factory settings because the harddrive was given to me by a friend so all of his programs and files were on the computer. There was so much of it, I thought it would be best to just restore the laptop back to factory setting. By the way, my harddrive is by HP but the laptop itself is an IBM. the harddrive does fit the laptop. I logged into the restore managed that HP provides and I selected the setting to restore to factory setting. It went through the entire process and once it got to 100% I got an error message saying the restore process could not be complete, please try again and then the laptop restarted itself. When the laptop restarted itself, before getting the to desktop, the same error message pops up again. The moment I click ok to get out of the message, my laptop restarts and the same thing happens over and over again. Eventually I figured out that by doing alt-ctrl-delete to get into the task manager, a file shows up "audit.exe" if I end the process for it, it takes me to my desktop and everything has been fully restored. The computer fully works, but anytime I restart the computer I have to go into the task manager to end that process and be able to pull up my desktop. I am pulling my hair out because I dont know what to do to make that error message go away. I did a virus scan and theres no virus. Also, I tried going into the restore manager again to try redoing the factory restore and it wont allow me to pick that setting anymore and I cant restore to a previous date, because no restore point was created.

The only thing I can think of, is continue using the laptop as it is OR go buy windows vista and install the operating system and use that as my factory restore.

Is there anything that can be done to make the error go away?
The laptop is running on Vista, I dont have an operating system disk unless I go buy one, and im unsure how to get into safe mode because the harddrive is HP, but the laptop itself is an ibm thinkpad. im not sure if the process to start safe mode is the same for both.

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I bought a laptop a month or two ago, which has a 2.1 GHz processor along with 4 Gigs of ram, on a 32-bit system, as well as a 256mb video card, and I was wondering if it would be worth it to change the operating system to XP? (Which I have a free installation CD for)

As of yet I haven’t had any real problems, such as crashes (I think I may have only had one or two) or virus infections, but I have heard that Vista is very unstable.

So the main reason I wish to do it is to improve performance, such as startup time and such.

I do not use the laptop for games, but I do use it a lot for videos, especially burning and ripping dvds, as well as video converting, and occasionally editing.

How much faster will those activities become, for me, if I drop back to XP?

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I’m going to college this fall and I need to buy a laptop. My first choice was HP because I own an HP desktop but I don’t like the fact that it is sometimes very slow and always gets hosed with virus. I also thought of dell but I don’t know how that is. I feel like I want to get a Mac because I heard it’s really stable and safe but I’m not familiar with their operating system…

What should I get for a laptop that is reliable and not so expensive?

PS I will probably be playing a lot of computer games and I think I will use my laptop primarily for writing papers and browsing the net.

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separate program to do what the operating system should do anyway. Who cares if Norton or whoever the heck makes anti-virus software loses money, we shouldn’t have to buy their product to be protected online. Plus, the anti-virus companies have a vested interest in keeping viruses out there, because, if viruses ever ceased, there goes their business model. Who knows, they could be responsible for some of the viruses that are plaguing our computers.

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It would be nice not to have to buy another Anti-Virus for my new laptop. I got a 2 year subscription for my PC and they say you can use them for 3 computers. Well, what if one is a different operating system? Shouldn’t I still be entitled to a free version for my Mac…technically?

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