YoKenny
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Is Hide inactive icons checked?
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Hi guys
I have some security concerns about online gaming.
A bunch of friends that I know and trust have suggested that it's OK to switch-off my "Antivirus" while playing on (our game server).
They turn-off theirs to improve game play.
I keep my "avast" Antivirus running.
Am I being over cautious?
Craig
Do you see avast's blue ball spinning while using the game?
If you do then it is scanning files or the Web through Network Shield.
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Why does that remind me of Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan?And by the way, Gimp was a cool guy. LOL -
Regrettably I purchased Avira AntiVir Premium as it worked well on my old PIII and they made me an offer I could not refuse so now that I have retired the old PIII I transfered the license to my XP Pro system to use it up.It is actually rather sad. Avira has had a forum for many years which I used to visit and participate on many years ago, even before they were really popular outside of Germany.The moderators are as arrogant there as AVG moderators so now I am a happy user of avast! on my Vista system.
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Beware of CCleaner or of your Hubby?New info. Hubby had IT guy take a look at his laptop. The program that got downloaded was called Speed Fix and it loaded a TON of viruses onto his laptop. Shut the sound off, no access to internet, and wiped ALL FILES. This popped up when he was running CCleaner so people need to beware!!!!!!!!!! -
Welcome jmdraft
Dummy speaking.I wonder if anybody knows off hand, if CCleaner dumps the junk that this kind lady is talking about in this article:
Yes and its all in the documentation.
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Have you played chess yet Kenny?
I haven't got a round
I'm not much of a games player.
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http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2009/03/pcworl...ir-turn-at.htmlPCWorld "reviewer" has their turn at talking bollocksWe all know we can't trust the bad guys, but it seems over the past few years, there's more and more so-called good guys you can't trust either - now including PCWorld who, instead of providing unbiased reviews, decide to falsify results to peddle their advertising partner (Symantec, surprise surprise), instead of allowing their users to have unbiased facts.
When are these idiots going to learn, they are supposed to be providing services/software based on their USERS NEEDS, and not based on earning a fast buck.
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I have gotten bitten by the Vista bug so now my XP Pro system looks like Vista:
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What I am trying to explain is that I choose not to let the cookies on my system in the first place by blocking them with the HOSTS file.
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Then I put in the new C-Cleaner using FILEHIPPO. KASPERSKY showed VIRTUMONDE TROJAN.
Maybe that's why FileHippo is down now?
Maybe they realize that the whole site is infected?
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I don't have a problem on my XP Home nor Pro systems and by the way SP3 has been out for almost 8 months now and has several Security fixes and if you haven't read about Conficker infection then your system is a prime target:
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=19870
IE7 is much safer and has Tabbed browsing:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ie/default.mspx
IE7Pro adds several nice features in IE7:
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I use Disk Cleanup once in a while. It's analysis is slow, but it can clean restore points and offline files.
Also, I use ATF-Cleaner on the Vista admin account once in a while. It cleaned 40MB on a machine that CCleaner just ran on.
ATF Cleaner download:
http://www.atribune.org/index.php?option=c...5&Itemid=25
It is a standalone executable file. Thanks to the spyware mods for finding it!
I ran it on my new Vista system and it only found 0.5MB to remove and it wisely ignored the Prefetch files.
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I also found this one, which I think I'm gonna try out. Reviews are kinda half and half about it, but we'll see.
I like Paint.NET
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Browser is IE7 v7.0.5730.13 same as when CCleaner was working properly.
Attached is screenshot after running CCleaner. Note that it cleaned only 6 temp internet files. I looked at temp Internet files immediately after cleaning and there were 84 left over that were not cleaned. After cleaning I was able to access my home page, eBay account, Google, and others that should have required me to log in again. Before updating CCleaner to latest version I always had to re-log into websites after cleaning. Now I do not because cleaning is incomplete.
First off they are cookies and you have Cookies selected to clean them.
Second. Most are tracking cookies by advertisers and should be blocked with a HOSTS file:
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Third. To keep cookies that you want go to Options then Cookies then select the cookie you want to keep on the left and move it to the right -> in Cookies to Keep.
This is all documented in the Users Guide.
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Worked fine for me in Vista Kenny... I don't know why you had such problems :/
I downloaded the wrong version as I did not read properly when I went to Download I saw Registry Clean Expert and had to go to Our Freeware: to find Free Registry Defrag
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Hello
in The Lounge
Welcome AndyF
I am originally from northeast UK.
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Welcome PiPPi
What operating system are you using?
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In order to stop Ad-Aware from starting with Windows you'd have to set its service to either Manual, or Disabled. Of course the end all of stopping it is of course to completely uninstall it, if that's the case get a good replacement like MBAM which won't run at every system start and is only manually started in the free version.
MBAM is light years ahead of Ad-Aware and in the likes of Norton or McAfee for bloat but then whatever bloat's your float is up to you.
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[Off Topic]
Pity you don't live in the UK Kenny, tonight we have the first in a series named ''Grow your own drugs''
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j3ktd
Bet there will be a lot of students watch this thinking....
They grow some really good ones on the west coast of Canada but the local police have the philosophy of Don't do this at home and the US could send a person to rest in prison to keep Bubba the wife murderer company.
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Does UAC warn all the time though about what I'd deem remedial stuff like manually running Windows Disk Defragmenter on your system? I ask because on a friends system she was having issues installing some of her expensive commercial sewing software so I put the software on, then went to defrag the system which actually needed it then was confronted with UAC, did something else and there was UAC again, really annoying in the end.
So is malware!
At least UAC warns me when an application wants to run and if I recognize it I will let it run.
I would much rather be warned when something is trying to run that I want as to have something run that I don't want and be sorry that it snuck in behind my back.
As the old saying goes YOU CAN?T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO
I hope you get to feeling better, colds are awful. Be careful taking Advil with Ibuprofen, this is why I stopped taking Ibuprofen as a pain medication.My doctor recommend it for me last time I had a cold and even my dentist recommended it for minor toothache.
By the way its Dr. Seuss day on Google:
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http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/scams-target-youScams Target You - Protect YourselfIt?s Fraud Awareness Week here until the 9th of March, so plenty is going on in regards to helping people educate themselves, and report scams to protect others.
ScamWatch New Zealand has provided some useful examples of people being scammed which is always worth reading.
If you aren?t much of a reader, here?s the short version.
There are no guaranteed get-rich-quick schemes ? the only people who get rich are the scammers.
o DON?T respond to offers, deals or requests for your details. Stop. Take time to independently check the offer.
o NEVER send money or give credit card, account or other personal details to anyone who makes unsolicited offers or requests for information.
o DON?T rely on glowing testimonials: find solid evidence from independent sources (not those provided with the offer).
o NEVER respond to out of the blue requests for your personal details.
o ALWAYS type in the address of a website of a bank, business or authority in which you are interested - it?s safer.
o NEVER click on a link provided in an unsolicited email as it will probably lead to a fake website designed to trap you.
o NEVER use phone numbers provided with unsolicited requests or offers as they probably connect you to fakes who will try to trap you with lies.
o ALWAYS look up phone numbers in an independent directory when you wish to check if a request or offer is genuine.
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There are a lot of settings in Ultimate Windows Tweaker that look very dangerous to me and could get someone in trouble very easy if they do not know what they are doing.
Hasn't effected my icons though nor has CCleaner.
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catzilla4, I do not experience the loss of transparency in icons.
Which icons are you referring to?
I am trying Ultimate Windows Tweaker right now.
Antivirus on or off?
in The Lounge
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How long would it take to count to 1 million?
Google is your friend.
I don't even want to think about a Billion but I would like to hold the Billions the government are going to use to bail out GM and Chrysler in my bank account for one month though.