LOL! Do you use Wintendo or some other virus hive? Don't use your toys for storing money. I run bitcoind on a Linux computer, which I can access over ssh from anywhere.
And that is really user friendlily. Command line bitcoin...
Yes, it is. I never got the hang of graphical user interfaces. They slow me down, and it is hard to automate anything with them.
Nice dedicated windows machine with antivirus TeamViwer... And 99.9% will think the way I do. Why should I put myself in all that trouble if there is a easier way?
Ehm.. Just about everything is easier than Windows. The last Windows versions are so mindboggingly confusing, I can't understand how anyone can get anything done with it. TeamViewer? You have already lost. It is not even open source.
Currently my main Bitcoin wallet is on a small 4 core ARM processor with 2 GiB RAM consuming about 2 W of power. Fanless, about 5x5x5 cm³, costs less than 100 USD. I have about a week of battery backup power replenished from a small 10W solar panel in case lightning knocks out the ground fault breaker when I am on holiday. Could run the server and ADSL on solar and battery for the entire summer if the weather is nice. /home is on an encrypted file system, of course. Solid, stable, secure and no hassle to install.
No you need to change it to do that... If you don't it will not reject valid transaction. You need to add so-called antispam to it and say this in a valid translation but it is not valid for me. And when a big pools and nodes start doing this and that is blocking big wallets providers it is a big problem if they don't tell you what new rules are... this is practically unannounced a fork...
WTF? No, there has been no forks relating to any of the antispam features. Most of the antispam features are built into Bitcoin Core, which reject most possible valid transactions by default. Have a look at AcceptToMemoryPool in src/main.cpp, and associated checks. With no provisions against denial of service attacks, I can't see how bitcoin will survive in the long run, and of course bitcoin has to adapt to new attack vectors. The rules do not change the validity of the transactions, only your willingness to relay and mine the spam.