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GPFontaine
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Location: Connecticut
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Location: Wakefield, MA
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
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Boy did I dodge a bullet. I'm stuck using it at home because its what my ISP provides and "recommends" (reads: causes a huge pita if you use something else) and I didn't have any problems. Phew.
What's really unforgivable is the hospital issue. Ugh.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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What's this talk of pitas?
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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PITA = Pain In The Ass.
(...unless that was sarcasm, in which case ignore me completely.)
Pitas, the food, are delicious by the way. Especially with hummus.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Wow, I'm dumb.
Although, as a fellow grammarian, I would have expected you to capitalize an acronym.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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i never heard of PITA, but thats just me.
and wow @ mcafee lol.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Wow, I'm dumb.
Although, as a fellow grammarian, I would have expected you to capitalize an acronym. |
Fair enough. I should have. I'm just posting on my phone, and didn't feel like hitting shift-letter-shift-letter and so on. (Trying to be covert because my prof is a "no using phones in the class" type.)
I just read the articles more closely. It seems, if I read right, that this only affected Windows XP. That would explain why it didn't affect me; I'm on Vista.
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
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I could go for a Pita right now... to bad wendy's doesn't serve them anymore.
Anyways, I had McAfee when I first got my pc, but long since removed it since it proved to be absolutely useless when I finally did get a virus. That's when I switched to AVG and now I'm on Super anti Spyware...
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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And yet, my dad still swears by this hellish program.
No matter how bad I tell him it his he still says "It's ranked highest by thousands of companies"
I hate this program. I'd much rather use malwarebytes in conjunction with spybot. But if I want to be on his network I have to use the antivirus program he chooses.
If a virus maker makes a virus which doesn't get detected by the latest version of McAfee, on any computer then they can get it infected on the machines of the thousands of companies that use it
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I think the antivirus companies are the ones either directly making, or funding the creation of viruses.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| I think the antivirus companies are the ones either directly making, or funding the creation of viruses. |
You are far from the first to suggest it.
I would argue that Microsoft is not in that group though. They would have absolutely no reason to make their OS less secure. It deters people from buying it.
Therefore the only secure AV suite is Security Essentials.
How the fuck did my logic just jump to that conclusion...
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GPFontaine
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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I have McAffee but I don't think it's the premium version. It said it was an update that screwed things up?
McAffee is up on my toolbar right now but I'm not having any problems, guess I havn't updated in a long time.
That's a huge fuck up.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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I want to see someone make the end all anti-virus program, and release it for free. I wonder what would happen to all the anti-virus companies out there? They would flame it to no end, say that it itself is a virus, and god knows what else.
Anti-Virus programs are this centuries version of Snake Oil, me thinks.
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Arlock41
Title: Naunie
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Spybot and Malwarebytes are both free.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Spybot and Malwarebytes are both free. |
And, I prove my point:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2010-04-06.html
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With recent virus definitions (5938, 2-Apr-2010), McAfee detects the SDShred.exe of Spybot Search & Destroy as Generic.dx!qln (Trojan).
This is a false positive from McAfee that has already been fixed. Please search for new updates (5940, 3-Apr-2010 or later) for your McAfee version.
In case McAfee has deleted any of our files, to get Spybot - Search & Destroy back, please uninstall, then download a fresh copy of Spybot-S&D 1.6.2 and install it. |
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
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I've only ever heard good things about Kaspersky.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Each year the AV suites release new products and they are usually significantly different than their previous versions. Trend Micro used to have a great product, but it got bloated. Norton had a horrible product but it shed a lot of weight.
I still stand by two rules with AV on home machines.
1. It MUST be free
2. It MUST not be annoying
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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define annoying.
and im not trying to be a smartass. i just want to know what you mean
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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I personally like Superantispyware myself. It only runs when you tell it to, the rest of the time you never know it's there.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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I stopped using huge security suites years ago. Both McAfee and Norton both end up taking up too much disk space and too many system resources to be bothered with. I now just use AVG and Malwarebytes.
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Syd Lexia
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I used to like AVG, but AVG has gotten too bloated and resource intensive for my tastes. Also, it's become really annoying to get AVG to annoy stuff you don't want removed. I use the Alexa toolbar, which monitors your browsing habits for demographic and traffic purposes, and AVG always tried to remove it. In earlier versions, I could make AVG ignore it, but in the newer version, it refuses to it. I would come home to find that AVG had decided to remove Alexa without my consent. Not even quarantined. Removed.
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