Eldmannen
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Or perhaps Ad-Watch is not compatible with CCleaner?
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Well, its just typical me. Skeptic against everything.
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I added VirusTotal to the lits.
This list is meant as a reference, and maybe it can be useful to some people. But for most of these products, prior to use them you must agree to some dumb license. And many of them probably report back various data. I do feel its kinda scary to run those ActiveX controls because they run so easy, and then seems to be capable of doing so much. Many of them just find the virus/malware and report it, and dont offer to delete. Many of them finds many false positives too, and then just deletes them and identifies many things that are not viruses or malware but could be used in bad ways. It deleted .exe files on my computer that I had programmed myself, luckily I still had the source code left, and luckily it didnt delete the source code, only the executable.
It is nice of those antivirus software to offer free online scanning service, but most of them are very crappy.
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Yes, it is better to educate.
Using pirated/cracked software is bad because of many reasons. They are illegal, so its not apprecieted talk about that on a forum like this. They often come with virus/trojans, etc. And if they dont want you to use it without you paying, then you shouldnt use it without paying, nor should you go buy it, better stay away from those corporate commercial capitalist cuckmunching conts and their crappy crooked software.
Also 2004 sounds like an old outdated version.
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No unless you are dumb enough to put your necessary files in temp folders.
When you click "Analyze" you can see a list and inspect which files to be deleted before you confirm and go ahead with the deletion of those files.
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Internet Explorer 7 is beta software. Furthermore IE sucks. You should use Firefox.
Windows Media Player 11 must be one of the suckiest software too ever since BonziBuddy, maybe you havent heard of VLC ?
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List of online/web scanners:
Multi-engine scanners:
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Jotti (Multiple-engine file upload scanner)
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VirusTotal (Multiple-engine file upload scanner)
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Virus.Org Rogue File Scanning Service (Multiple-engine file upload scanner)
Anti-virus scanners:
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ArcaBit ArcaOnline (ActiveX scanner)
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avast! OnLine scanner (File upload scanner)
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BitDefender (Online scanner (Can clean files, scans bootsector too))
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Dr.Web (File upload scanner)
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eTrust Antivirus (Online scanner)
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F-Secure (Online scanner (Displays which files, but dont offer to disinfect or delete))
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FortiGuard Center (File upload scanner)
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Kaspersky (Both file upload & ActiveX online scanner (Displays which files, but dont offer to disinfect or delete))
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McAfee (ActiveX online scanner (Displays which files, but dont offer to disinfect or delete))
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Panda ActiveScan (ActiveX online scanner)
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Symantec Security Check (ActiveX online scanner)
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TrendMicro HouseCall (Java & ActiveX online scanner)
Other-malware scanners:
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ewido (ActiveX online malware scanner)
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ZoneAlarm Online Spyware Scanner
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Spywareinfo.com's X-Cleaner Micro Edition (ActiveX online scanner)
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Windows Live OneCare safety scanner (ActiveX online scanner)
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WindowSecurity.com TrojanScan
Though beware, some of these scanners delete files it identifies as virus straight away without first consulting you to ask wether you approve or not.
Also beware of that some of these scanners send back information to the antivirus company about which files are infected and possible other information.
I do not personally encourage the use or in any way recommend any of the services. The file upload scanners should be safe, but keep in mind that the ActiveX/Java online scanners does run executable code on your computer (which could technically be harmful). Do not use the services provided by companies that you do not trust.
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Jotti (Multiple-engine file upload scanner)
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Even if all your commercial software is legitimate, its still not their business.
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Under "Options" -> "Cookies" you can choose which cookies not to delete.
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I on applications I always check all. On Windows I check all except the advanced, because else it forgets the folder settings...
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GIF's are evil. Your image would be better off as a PNG.
GIF's are inferior, old, outdated, evil. Their best-before-date has lapsed long time ago...
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Be sure to run CCleaner on an account that has administrator privilegies.
Also, if you have any of the applications on that list, maybe you want to uninstall them.
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Only let your kids have restricted accounts which do not have administrator privilegies to prevent them from doing too much harm.
Also, do backups of files that are important to you.
Also you dont need clean the computer by deleting pictures because pictures are typically very small files. It is better idea to uninstall software that is rarerly or never used. And delete big files such as games and movies.
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I use Windows for Guild Wars, once I get it working in Cedega then I'll be in Dapper heaven.
Yeah, I have to try out Ubuntu "Dapper Drake".
Last version of Ubuntu I tried was the "Hoary Hedgehog" release.
I kind of like Slackware too...
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Sounds look a good idea.
Btw, a good software for securerly wipe files is Eraser.
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Yes, I think that is a very bad thing to say. It is never fun to hope or say such a thing, not even as a joke.
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No, DVD are not CD same like CD are not DVD.
Both are optical discs however.
DVD players are backwards compatible though and can read CD's.
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Sweet, it only spies on you once every two weeks instead of everyday!
How kind of them!
Heh, maybe they shouldnt have put that dumb spy thing there in the first place.
I know another operating system, you dont need to pay for it, you dont need to agree to a license which includes not modifing or distributing the software and handing over your first born son. You dont need no CD key, you dont need no active registration and as a matter of fact you dont need any registration at all. And it dont spy on you or report over any data...
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You should be happy.
To get rid of Flash.
95%+ of all all flash animations on the web are banners anyway.
No flash is a relief!
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LOL, typical things that can only happen in the US!
He should stop whining, if he come in with a gun and try to rob the store then get his ass beaten, he only got himself to blame for being a moron. Well deserved.
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Yeah thanks Eldamannen,too used to Google so I did what you suggested.
Yeah, it prevents you from get the cookie, its better than nothing. Scroogle proxies the request though, so its might be even better (since they dont see your IP address). I dont use Scroogle, because I cant be bothered to.
I block ALL cookies from ALL sites, except the handful of sites that I have explicitly allowed to set cookies. (These sites are mostly forums and misc other sites that I have account that can be logged in to).
In Firefox it is very easy to define which sites are allowed and isnt allowed to place cookies.
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Yeah, it is for die-hard fans.
260$ for a mouse pad is not worth it, no way. No chance.
It is way overpriced.
And its their first mouse pad, they have no idea what makes a good mouse pad or anything...
Better go with a high-quality mouse pad made by a mouse pad manufacturer with a reputation such as Razer, Icemat, fUnc, Everglide, etc...
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Yeah, Vista sucks I heard some people had problem with that it cant detect the SATA controller.
It requires crazy good computer to even run, strong hardware requirements.
make my SIG smaller
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Absolutely not.
GIF has a long trail of patent problems. GIF is an very old format (1987). It was made by CompuServe, and it became popular because it had better compression (smaller size) than other formats at that time, it used the LZW compression algorithm. And UniSys owned a patent on the LZW format so they decided it was a good idea to start threating everyone with lawsuit and try milk money and get every software that uses GIF to pay them royalties. Luckily the patent has finaly expired (was just recently some year(s) ago).
Software patents are very evil and a great threat. It allows huge companies to take out patent on a huge amount of stuff, often very trivial stuff (like having emoticons on a forum or a IM) and then prevent the smaller people from developing competive or similiar products due to "patent infrigment".
See http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/index.html
And GIF and JPEG was the two big formats used on the web.
PNG was designed to be a free, GIF killer. It is a much better format. GIF only can have 256 colors, but PNG can have 16,7 million colors. PNG is a free file format and a open standard. PNG supports not only transparency but also alpha-transparency in contrast to GIF which only support normal transparency. PNG uses better compression.