Interesting snippet of personal history…

Thing went good till I was browsing the net and was greeted by message Windows is shutting down, Save all your files …

This happened several times whenever I accessed the net and realising that it was a virus, I quickly installed Norton 2003. But Norton did not detect the virus and I realised that the version was too old and did not have latest definitions. Luckily through Google I found out the solution in a magazine and removed the virus using Stinger.

I vowed that I will always used an antivirus and a firewall to avoid such fate. But thing went to square one as the computer became a snail again.

Finally I upgraded my PC’s RAM to 256 MB and had a much better PC experience.

But things did not end there, Windows had the tendency to slow down with time and eventually become a snail in spite of my RAM upgrade. Reinstalling Windows was a routine and a severe backache owing to poor installer by Microsoft.

I have to mention that whenever such problems occured I always swore at my PC and its ’slowness’. It never occurred to me the possibility of the fault of the operating system.

Beetween all I heard of another operating system called Linux…