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Posted by habboi on Mon Jun 6th at 10:04am 2005

You have my sympathy...
I use McAfee Virus Scan and I have never had a virus get past it :P




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Posted by wil5on on Tue Jun 7th at 6:15am 2005

I've never had a virus get past AVG, but then again, I try to stay out of trouble. Only had one major virus problem, which AVG found, and was my own fault anyway for not having antivirus installed when I was infected.

One important thing to note about AVG free is that if it picks up a virus in a scan, it doesnt do anything about it. You have to go into the logs and tell it to clean the files. Still, its free, and better than nothing.




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Posted by habboi on Tue Jun 7th at 4:19pm 2005

McAfee automatically deals with it for you lol and updates manually and stuff so i'm happy and it's only ?30 per year :P




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Posted by habboi on Tue Jun 7th at 4:21pm 2005

McAfee automatically deals with it for you lol and updates manually and stuff so i'm happy and it's only ?30 per year :P




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 4:58pm 2005

? quoting habboi
McAfee automatically deals with it for you lol and updates manually and stuff so i'm happy and it's only ?30 per year

McAfee is not worth a double posting and must I remind you guys that a virus scanner running full time eats resources faster than Bit Torrent downloading several movies?

Get a decent hardware firewall, and stay away from the s**t sites and you can use those resources elsewhere.. LIKE MAPPING.. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by $loth on Tue Jun 7th at 9:11pm 2005

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and stay away from the s**t sites and you can use those resources elsewhere.. LIKE MAPPING..



he could buy the pr0n movies?




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 9:24pm 2005

? quoting $loth



he could buy the pr0n movies?

Dude, if only you were old enough.. I could send you one of the sweetest college video's you have ever seen..





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jun 8th at 12:01am 2005

? quoting Orpheus
? quoting $loth



he could buy the pr0n movies?

Dude, if only you were old enough.. I could send you one of the sweetest college video's you have ever seen..

This coming Orph!? O_O

Whoa... I'm taking a picture of this post




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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 8th at 7:06pm 2005

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must I remind you guys that a virus scanner running full time eats resources faster than Bit Torrent downloading several movies?


Not really. If you let it initially scan your system there's no problem. Not to mention, if you have a constant connection on-line then you should have it running. No questions.

But, I have Norton running right now and Bit Torrent take at least two times as much resources. Mozilla takes more resources (around 25,000 K when in use), so does steam (usually 30,000 - 46,000 K+). OpenOffice takes around 65,000 K. Instant messengers (not trillion) usually take around 8,000 - 10,000 K.

Not sure what you're doing but your anti-virus shouldn't take more then around 7,000 K. Which is not much. If it is taking more then that, that means it's actively scanning your system which means, either a) it's retarded and wont stop scanning your system or b) you don't regularly go through and do a complete system scan. Because otherwise it just lays back and gets called only when files are accessed and it's fairly efficient.

Also, you can turn features off in MSConfig that you don't use (I suggest keeping script blocking on) and that limits the amount of executables running. But even if you combined all the programs that make up the anti-virus it's only usually around 10,000K. Which is pretty low.

Perhaps you're just shifting blame to what you want to blame ... or you checked your system properties while your anti-virus was actually doing something.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jun 8th at 7:42pm 2005

Call it what you will but, every time i attempt to have a scanner running full time my system slows down. Remember, I actually go through the trouble to turn everything off after a format. My machine has nothing running but the things I cannot shut off, either through my lack of knowledge or the fact that they cannot be turned off.

Be that as it may, I have nothing scannable now as far as virus's go, at least as far as it is within my scope to determine.

In the end, it boils down to preference. I prefer to run my machine bare bones and with every resource I can salvage.





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 8th at 9:34pm 2005

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In the end, it boils down to preference. I prefer to run my machine bare bones and with every resource I can salvage.


So, why are you running Windows?


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jun 8th at 10:01pm 2005

? quoting Crono



So, why are you running Windows?

Because DOS conked out on me years ago.. f**kIN QUITTER..





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Dark Tree on Thu Jun 9th at 1:02am 2005

I use Windows
I use IE
I use Windows Media Player
I use Microsoft Messenger
I use Hotmail
I use Microsoft Office
I use Microsoft Visual Studio

and I love it. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/arse.gif">






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