ThermalRunaway
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The thing is you have to strike a balance between a protected computer and a useable computer. If your computer is too tightly squeezed with protection software, you'll find that even when you want to do legitimate things the protection software won't let you. For me, my antivirus and firewall software has to be very discrete - I don't want it stopping me from doing the things that I want to do.
It's like that at work at the moment - even downloading a datasheet is a problem and it sucks. If you can find a website where they offer a datasheet as a .pdf to view, then it works fine but if you try most of the datasheet websites where they use a scripting language to start the download process for you, the datasheet download gets blocked and the firewall won't let you fetch it. The amount of time I've wasted because I haven't even been able to get a datasheet is unreal! So the more tightly protected the computer, the more productivity suffers.
Brian
It's like that at work at the moment - even downloading a datasheet is a problem and it sucks. If you can find a website where they offer a datasheet as a .pdf to view, then it works fine but if you try most of the datasheet websites where they use a scripting language to start the download process for you, the datasheet download gets blocked and the firewall won't let you fetch it. The amount of time I've wasted because I haven't even been able to get a datasheet is unreal! So the more tightly protected the computer, the more productivity suffers.
Brian