Those are free AV..

How do you know those are good?
They are free...suspicious

Why suspcisious
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stor...summary2010.pdf

http://forum.notebookreview.com/security-a...y-software.html

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Feb 12 2011, 02:53 PM

Those are established AV, nothing suspicious there.

Since all AV are equally poor, why not chose the Free one instead? With or without antivirus, be careful of what you are downloading / installing

Since I dont trust any AV, I run untrusted application/installer only in a VMware. And my Windows Firewall has been configure to Block all out-going connection by default.

^if those pendrive with the autorun.inf virus, open in VM or ?

But why don't you guys just download the expensive ones from warez?

Expensive doesn't mean better...

I have Autorun disable on ALL drives way back in XP using Local Security Policy Administrative Template. Good thing is Win7 no longer automatically run autorun.inf, so, even by default, this should no longer be a problem. Unless you still select to run the default Autorun!!! I will just browse it, as long as I am not running anything, even if there is virus, it wont affect my notebook.

Since we are in this topic, I'd like to share 1 more trick:

1. Always keep UAC as it's default recommended level
2. Never allow any program from running as Administrative unless you are very sure that proggie is OK
3. A game will not require Administrative to run, so, none of my game has any Admin privilege

In Win7, without explicit permission as Administrator, even a malware will not be allow to make any internet connection (must disable default Outgoing in Advance Firewall setting), cant migrate into another process, install rootkit / new service, etc... things will became so difficult for malware

Then, I have Threatfire, which can detect if a proggie is doing anything suspicious such as mass copy itself, changing Internet setting, etc...

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Added on February 12, 2011, 8:05 pmwarez = malware

dont ever trust anything you download from warez sites...

what better way to spread your backdoor than to pack it into a warez and share it via torrent?

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Feb 12 2011, 08:05 PM

That looks really complicated cow
Mind to share the name of the method that you are using so that I can google it?
Then I can learn it step by step.

I read somewhere that Microsoft Essentials was the best there is.
But that was probably an advertisement from Microsoft.

thx for the precious tips. Now I could play Dead Space at ease.

but whats the differences between switchable and discrete?

do discrete tend to have a more stable 3d rendering in games?

Well, the hybrid GPU mght still buggy...
In discrete mode, only ATi is ON, you can't switch to Intel...

so,
discrete= fixed graphic card and stabilities
switchable=mobile user

is that it?

Can be said like that...

thx for the help... really appreciate it. play gta4 before but got a slight artifacts, still havent tested it yet after switched to discrete mdoe

GTA IV latest patch?

1.0.4.0 and i have my own reasons to use that version even though there's a new one

whats the utility that fits best for win7 to defrag the files? for xp i wouldve been using o&o defragmenter.

im going to sleep first

nice knowing ya

Use the built-in defrag ?
Didn't do much defrag lately...

I want to burn movies on my lappy.
So I shouldnt download softwares like VSO ConvertXtoDvd?
What software should I use then that is safe?

Many thanks in advance

If it is from the original website, it should be safe.

The defragment from win7 is good enough, it wont defrag anything larger than 60mb (if not mistaken), but that's fine. And since I am using Windows Performance Toolkit to speed up my boot up, I cant use any other defragment program.

I've came across many indecent comments about Acer laptops and I wonder if this Acer laptop (4820 tg) reliable ?