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Blindmonkey21 - Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:06 pm
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I need one bad.

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:18 am
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50% Packetloss - Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:59 am
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ONLINE SCANNERS

www.bitdefender.com
www.antivirus.com
www.pandasoftware.com

Depending on your operating system, some will work better than others and some wont work at all. They all require internet explorer. You can almost always tell if you have a virus; your computer will slow down or you will notice something unusual. Become familiar with the usual process that run on your computer and clean up as much adware and unneeded programs as possable. Dont open attachments from email unless they are sent through hotmail or some other company that scans the email. Only download porn on kazaa, downloading programs becomes risky. Have a firewall, a router one would probably be best but a software firewall will work nicely too. Update your computer on www.windowsupdate.com and keep up to date. Download and use firefox and possably another email client. I personally dont like thunderbird but there are others that are nice. AVG's antivirus scanner is limited, it really doesnt do that good of a job but it will detect them. Ive used it to clean up virus ridden computers and it just wasnt getting the job done. But I guess you get what you pay for.

SuSE - Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:45 am
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Aside from what you might download on purpose, your biggest threats are Internet Explorer and Outlook. Do not use either, ever, except Internet Explorer for Windows Update and ONLY for that purpose.

When you aren't using Internet Explorer for Windows Update, you should have it set to its highest security.

Tools > Internet Options > Security - High

Smong - Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:06 am
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I read AVG only detects ~60% of viruses.

Purge - Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:46 am
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One of my favorites is avast! Antivirus.

Blindmonkey21 - Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:08 pm
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50% Packetloss wrote:

Depending on your operating system, some will work better than others and some wont work at all. They all require internet explorer. You can almost always tell if you have a virus; your computer will slow down or you will notice something unusual. Become familiar with the usual process that run on your computer and clean up as much adware and unneeded programs as possable. Dont open attachments from email unless they are sent through hotmail or some other company that scans the email. Only download porn on kazaa, downloading programs becomes risky. Have a firewall, a router one would probably be best but a software firewall will work nicely too. Update your computer on www.windowsupdate.com and keep up to date. Download and use firefox and possably another email client. I personally dont like thunderbird but there are others that are nice. AVG's antivirus scanner is limited, it really doesnt do that good of a job but it will detect them. Ive used it to clean up virus ridden computers and it just wasnt getting the job done. But I guess you get what you pay for.

Hmm I do all of this stuff. Except I don't download porn from Shareaza I download programs (got some good ones this way).

My Friend told me about www.Pcpitstop.com. I dunno just doesn't work the way I want to I will try out some of 50%s (I don't like the IE part though IE on my comp gets an assload of adaware) and probably Avast.

Purge - Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:19 pm
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My tip is to never use a P2P service other than BitTorrent. If you're the illegal type guy, might as well check out isoHunt to download all your programs and stuff.

Cyan~Fire - Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:22 pm
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BitTorrent > World.

Blindmonkey21 - Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:30 pm
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Yeah I got some friends that got me started on bit torrent I have had the setup icon on my desktop for like a month now and I just now installed it. Let's see how it works.

myke - Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:44 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

BitTorrent > World.

speed > all

gnutella > bittorrent

for speed therefore

gnutella > bittorrent

in my opinion

CypherJF - Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:49 am
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i believe according to recent survey, torret packet's are the leading flow of data over the internet ... stupid newbs clogging the 56k's ...

Anonymous - Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:08 am
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Bleh, you would of thought he would search on google.com for some instead of asking here

Blindmonkey21 - Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:46 pm
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Except I wanted reliable ones...

Purge - Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:31 pm
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So you think BitTorrent isn't reliable?

Blindmonkey21 - Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:10 pm
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No I was making reference to Lps post. Reliable VIRUS PROTECTORS.

SuSE - Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:16 pm
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all filesharing is good

Purge - Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:11 pm
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Not all filesharing. BitTorrent has the most users than any other P2P which is why I suggested it. And besides, BitTorrent is actually LEGAL.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:43 pm
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Acutally, all filesharing services are legal. The legality depends on their use.

Solo Ace - Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:29 am
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Purge+ wrote:

So you think BitTorrent isn't reliable?

Uh, you can't ask BitTorrent for an opinion, you can google for user opinions.
He asked for good virus protection software, not for a way to download one.

lp_street_soldier - Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:57 am
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Lol. Point made!

Dr Brain - Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:01 pm
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Wrong thread.

Solo Ace - Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:12 pm
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Nice wrong thread Doc.

lp_street_soldier - Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:45 am
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fart

sorry

Solo Ace - Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:59 am
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That was so funny, not.

CypherJF - Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:14 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

Acutally, all filesharing services are legal. The legality depends on their use.

A question had come up to me when I was giving a "seminar" er "speech"

on the Internet and WWW. I basically told them, if i were to write a p2p application, I shouldn't be held liable for what the user's do with it.

As someone brought up the point, it'd be like sueing Xerox for allowing people to copy copyrighted material; etc. ..

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:37 pm
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CypherJF wrote:

As someone brought up the point, it'd be like sueing Xerox for allowing people to copy copyrighted material; etc. ..

They (MPAA/TV/I don't remember) tried to stop Sony from making a VCR, because they said it would be used for only illegal purposes. Try as they might, they failed, but not after large legal battles.

P2P will end up having the same fate, but the problem is that legal battles arn't cheap. Thus, the MPAA/RIAA can easily just threaten small P2P companies, and their choices are to shutdown and pay them $20,000 or to fight it and maybe win, but end up costing them $100,000+.

CypherJF - Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:18 pm
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slashdot wrote:

"The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether two Internet file-sharing services may be held responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyrighted songs and movies. Justices will review a lower ruling in favor of Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc., which came as a blow to recording companies and movie studios seeking to stop the illegal distribution of their works." Grokster won in the lower courts, but the studios are appealing. This case, when finally decided, will be equivalent to the Betamax case 20 years ago which ensured that VCRs were legal.

Oh gosh... now the Supreme Court is going to hear it...

SuSE - Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:58 pm
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Ya Betamax pissed the movie people off bigtime, but you can't fuck with Sony.

Anyways, nowadays they make more cash on video rentals and sales than in-theater profits. Stupid hoes.

CypherJF - Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:32 pm
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I sure hope there are some trusty geeks out there advising the Justices that essentially visting a website is a P2P action... etc. :/

Solo Ace - Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:12 pm
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Eh that reminds me to the classmate who got kicked out of my other school's "media center" (some room with like 30 computers and a bunch of books / desks) for "downloading" (well, that's what one of those jobless observers called it).

We complained to her and said that browsing to a webpage is downloading (partially) too.
Too bad she didn't understand and he still had to leave.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:09 pm
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Cyph wrote:

essentially visting a website is a P2P action

No, a website is purely client-server.

Purge - Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:38 pm
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Solo Ace wrote:

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Uh, you can't ask BitTorrent for an opinion, you can google for user opinions.
He asked for good virus protection software, not for a way to download one.

Um, he also said that he downloads his other files off Shareaza, which is a P2P service I suggested him not to use. I didn't say get BitTorrent to download a Virus Scanner.