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Elodin
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posted January 10, 2010 06:42 AM |
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I thought Malwarebytes was just for preventing Malware and removing it.
I use Norton.
AVG is a popular freeware antivirus program.
http://www.komando.com/downloads/category.aspx?id=2519
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JollyJoker
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posted January 10, 2010 09:06 AM |
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Here's the link.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
There's a free version that doesn't have the permanent protection mode, so the free veersion is basically an anti-virus and malware tool that works liek a charm, if you really need it.
The full version puts up permanent protection.
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phoenixreborn
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posted January 10, 2010 12:35 PM |
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I've heard good things about Microsoft Security Essentials which is also free. I've only used it infrequently but I didn't have problems.
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nikita
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Meepo is underrated
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posted January 17, 2010 08:51 PM |
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I havent lost my mind... I have it backed up somewhere 8-)
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del_diablo
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posted January 17, 2010 10:36 PM |
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Gotta love those failures 
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baklava
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Mostly harmless
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posted January 26, 2010 02:10 AM |
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So I got both AVG and ZoneAlarm.
It sortof makes me feel like a ruthless overlord whose vassals toil tirelessly to prove their worth, constantly scheming and attacking one another in hopes of removing all competition on the path to my favour, each trying to convince me how the other is a spy...ware.
Sure it's tiresome and probably ruins the PC after a while but oh boy does it feel awesome.
You have done well, my minions. Feast now on the foolish trojan.
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william
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posted January 26, 2010 09:03 AM |
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Yeah, for years I had both AVG and Zonealarm on my computers. Did the job well.
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del_diablo
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Manifest
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posted January 26, 2010 09:15 AM |
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And people wonder why Linux and Mac users exists?
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TheDeath
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posted January 26, 2010 09:35 PM |
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Bloated pieces of crap.
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william
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posted January 26, 2010 09:37 PM |
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What's bloated? Linux and Mac or the Antivirus programs?
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TheDeath
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posted January 26, 2010 09:39 PM |
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Most anti-viruses. It's been a long time since I used NOD32 but I remember it being the only "reasonable" (though still bloated) from the ones I tried (2005 or so). ZoneAlarm is terribly bloated.
now that you mention it, the Mac might just top it.
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william
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posted January 26, 2010 09:40 PM |
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Lol yeah, you're right. I use Comodo nowadays. It's more bloated than Zonealarm but it does the job and that's the main thing.
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TheDeath
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posted January 26, 2010 09:42 PM |
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I prefer sandboxes to anti-viruses. If you know what you're doing they are 300% more effective and not annoying with false positives. 
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william
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posted January 26, 2010 09:43 PM |
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Hmmm, sounds pretty good. I'm lazy, though, and cbf to go and do that stuff. Haha.
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Corribus
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The Abyss Staring Back at You
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posted February 03, 2010 04:01 AM |
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Death, check your HCMs please. I sent you a PC-related question.
Everyone else: nothing to see here; move along.
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Corribus
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The Abyss Staring Back at You
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posted February 12, 2010 01:39 AM |
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This may be a dumb, overly paranoid question, but...
Is it possible that running a piece of software (i.e., a game) for which your computer is slightly underpowered (or falls in the middle of the range of system requirements) can damage your video card? E.g., by overheating?
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phoenixreborn
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posted February 12, 2010 03:03 AM |
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I had a videocard that died of overheating. It kept crashing when I was playing my soccer game. Visual inspection of the card showed burn marks.
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Corribus
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The Abyss Staring Back at You
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posted February 12, 2010 03:09 AM |
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Well, I know that overheating can damage a card. I guess what I'm asking is: all other things being equal, is simply running a piece of software sufficient to overheat a card to the point where it can be damaged?
The reason is: I recently installed Dragon Age on my laptop. I was playing it for a few days and then my video card died. I just had the video card replaced today (under warranty, thankfully). The paranoid part of me is wondering whether running Dragon Age was what killed it, or if that was just a coincidence. The computer ran the game OK at medium settings.
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phoenixreborn
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posted February 12, 2010 03:12 AM |
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I use speccy to check temperatures.
http://www.piriform.com/speccy
If you can alt-tab out of the game you could check the temperature while playing. It should be easy to find a list of acceptable temps for your card. That's the best I can do.
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SKPRIMUS
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posted February 12, 2010 05:35 AM |
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that speccy looks alright PhoenixReborn & comes from same company as CCleaner & if it can see temp of graphics card, then I'd be in favour of checking out my laptops when I run H5 replays...btw my laptop just shut itself down last week during a period of H5 replay watching which I knew was due to temperature of graphics...but I shall wait for official release of speccy rather than a beta
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