I Don't F***ing Believe This - Page 3

Fyron · #21 June 30th, 2006, 04:25 AM

AVG AT, AVG... or failing that, Avast. But AVG first.

I expect backup CDs to fail. CD-Rs are a fickle medium, prone to failure after 2-5 years, depending on brand and environmental conditions. Its best to replace backup CDs once a year or so... Of course, even better is a backup USB hard drive (really an IDE drive placed into a $20 (check deal listing sites periodically) aluminum enclosure since "external" drives are ridiculously overpriced) that is only on when you copy backups to it, then you put it in static shielding for storage.

That was way too many nested remarks... oh well.

Daynarr · #22 June 30th, 2006, 06:58 AM

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Atrocities said:
The PC can now read a few of the back up disks. The most important one it has allowed me to copy files from to the desk top but has not allowed me to access other files such as my SEIV back ups.

Here is how to access them at this link .

StarShadow · #23 June 30th, 2006, 11:33 AM

Personally I wouldn't reccomend AVG, it lets too many things slip through. A few years ago I used to use AVG, I suspected that I had a virus and ran a full scan, which came up completely clean. I still suspected I had a virus and did the online scan from TrendMicro. My 'clean' system turned out to be dirtier than I thought, I had about 6-10 different infections that AVG didn't even see. For anti-virus I always reccomend norton, ONLY for anti-virus though. I don't allow any other norton software on my system.

Daynarr · #24 June 30th, 2006, 11:43 AM

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StarShadow said:
Personally I wouldn't reccomend AVG, it lets too many things slip through. A few years ago I used to use AVG, I suspected that I had a virus and ran a full scan, which came up completely clean. I still suspected I had a virus and did the online scan from TrendMicro. My 'clean' system turned out to be dirtier than I thought, I had about 6-10 different infections that AVG didn't even see. For anti-virus I always reccomend norton, ONLY for anti-virus though. I don't allow any other norton software on my system.

I work as a computer technician and get infected PC's on daily bases. Once I had a PC that had 6 different viruses on him and Norton with latest updates didn't see any of them. Not a single one. On another occasion he detected about 3 viruses but couldn't remove any of them. I have loads of experiences as this. Not to mention major slowdowns (Microsoft Word sometimes takes whole minute to open up with this 'Antivirus') and lots of conflicts with other programs I saw. Generally I reccomend Norton only to those I really hate.

Fyron · #25 June 30th, 2006, 12:20 PM

Recommending Norton is like recommending a punch in the face.

All AV programs have viruses they do not detect (right now, anyways). Same with anti-spyware software... Such is the way of the malware war. For the truly paranoid, there are several good online AV scanners offered, which you can run periodically. Panda Software's, Trend Micro's, etc. Definitely a bad idea to install multiple AV programs due to definition interference (especially Norton and anything else).

Norton is far, far worse because Symantec does not provide any scanning engine updates with the subscriptions, rendering you vulnerable to every new class of virus. They only provide definition updates to detect the classes of viruses the engine knew how to detect when you bought it. You have to keep rebuying the software every year, which is usually pricier than a subscription...

"Once I had a PC that had 6 different viruses on him and Norton with latest updates didn't see any of them. Not a single one. "

My guess is that it was not the latest Norton AV.

Daynarr · #26 June 30th, 2006, 01:53 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
"Once I had a PC that had 6 different viruses on him and Norton with latest updates didn't see any of them. Not a single one. "

My guess is that it was not the latest Norton AV.

Don't recall. A guy had it installed on his PC and I simply updated it and run scan. It's quite possible it was older one.

rdouglass · #27 June 30th, 2006, 02:19 PM

I know it's after-the-fact but IMO Norton hasn't been a good product since Symantec bought it out and tried to port it to the Mac in the late '80's. From then on nothing quality has come out of the Norton brand product line.

Symantec has never produced a good product on it's own (IMO anyways) and has always acquired marketshare by buying up other companies and products to add to their line. IMO their (Symantec's) primary mission is in mergers and acquisitions and not in developing quality software.

Atrocities · #28 June 30th, 2006, 05:21 PM

Thanks for the feed back. Fyron am a bit gun shy of AVG after what has happened. I don't want to go through that again. Perhaps it was just a unique conflict or something related to a greater problem. I don't know. I am willing to try them again, but if my system crashes again...... I will not be happy and will most likely have to fly down to AVG HQ and severely punish all that I come into contact with. My phased poloron guns are quite powerful and they skip shields too.

Atrocities · #29 June 30th, 2006, 05:37 PM

Well I think I know what the problem is. There is a direct conflict between the latest Nvidia drivers and the latest XP security update. Between my last post and this one, XP updated and then restarted. When the computer rebooted the screen went wild with bizzar colors and the PC crashed. I tried to restart in safemod and that too crashed. One final restart set the computer to restore to last known good configuration and she started. I will bet money that once I reboot again, she will crash and I will have to do a complete system recovery again.

Leave it to Microsoft to screw everything up.

Captain Kwok · #30 June 30th, 2006, 05:46 PM

Why is it MS's fault if Nvidia's drivers are bad?

Also, why not just rollback your Nvidia driver and wait for a more stable release?