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I've got a new computer (Laptop) - this one. It's very small, but I'll get used to that.
Now that I'm setting it up, what's the best free antivirus/spyware program?
 
Believe it or not, but the last magazine article said the Microsoft one was best.  Avira and AVG are also very good.
 
FUCK. YEAH.

After many, many months of calling, faxing and nagging, I finally got an invitation to the initial test for the prestigious programing division in the army. If I can pass this test and the following classification interviews, I'll serve 6 years instead of 3 (and get alot more money out of it), and get into high-tech afterwards.


I must get this right@#&@#$^*@#$^*


Now for the other topic at hand: they can't find me long enough pants at work, and these pants cost about a sixth of what I make in a month. Should I go for it or quit? The job's okay, but the pants cost alot of money.
 
Believe it or not, but the last magazine article said the Microsoft one was best
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I heard that too - due to fact that "main program" isn't Microsoft's - they bought licences to use all sorts of engines (AVG, Symantec, McAfee, etc...) for virus detection.

@Perun, best antivirus would be this - turn off autorun/autoplay for all storage devices, don't install cracked software, don't run key generators / crackers / patchers, don't use Internet Explorer.
AV's are damn memory eaters and pain in the ass. I don't use them. If i need to visit a blacklisted site or crack a program with infected patcher, i have a copy of Windows inside virtual machine. Ignite vm, snapshot, do the doing, revert to snapshot and its gone.

finally got an invitation to the initial test for the prestigious programing division in the army
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What's the test about?
 
Zare said:
I heard that too - due to fact that "main program" isn't Microsoft's - they bought licences to use all sorts of engines (AVG, Symantec, McAfee, etc...) for virus detection.

@Perun, best antivirus would be this - turn off autorun/autoplay for all storage devices, don't install cracked software, don't run key generators / crackers / patchers, don't use Internet Explorer.
AV's are damn memory eaters and pain in the ass. I don't use them. If i need to visit a blacklisted site or crack a program with infected patcher, i have a copy of Windows inside virtual machine. Ignite vm, snapshot, do the doing, revert to snapshot and its gone.
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Guilty as charged anyway, but this is a case where I'd rather be safe than sorry, given my relative lack of computer knowledge. I have Norton Internet Security and Zonealarm installed, I'm wondering if this is enough. I don't think Wasted's comment is too outlandish, given that Microsoft have a reputation to fix.
 
Perun said:
Guilty as charged anyway, but this is a case where I'd rather be safe than sorry, given my relative lack of computer knowledge. I have Norton Internet Security and Zonealarm installed, I'm wondering if this is enough. I don't think Wasted's comment is too outlandish, given that Microsoft have a reputation to fix.
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Norton is supposed to be pretty ok, but is a huge 'system resource' eater (from what I understand).  I am running AVG and Malware Bites on mine at home, with Super Anti-Spy Ware.  I want to try out MS' new one, and will probably load that one soon.  However, for one that doesn't eat a ton of system memory, AVG seems to be pretty good. 
 
Really, i can understand why people with relative lack of computer knowledge run AV's, but why the hell do you run two of them?!
 
Ha!  Well, I try to clean other people's HDDs, so I have one computer running a couple of AV's on it.  I have an external port that I can plug SATA's into, so I just pull their HDD and scan it with all my junk.  Usually, AVG will catch everything, but on occasion Malware will catch something as well.  So far, I'd say that 75% of the time I can remove the problems and have the compy up and running. 
 
OK, Windows 7 Starter officially sucks elephant balls. I'm moving to Linux. What do I need to know?
 
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
National Acrobat, your name doesn't look familiar to me, but I see that you've been here quite a while. :)
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I've been here only intermittently over the last year or so, and now have hundreds of threads to read/ignore.

Perun said:
I've got a new computer (Laptop) - this one. It's very small, but I'll get used to that.
Now that I'm setting it up, what's the best free antivirus/spyware program?
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Avast seems to protect mine well enough.
 
Yeah, but I'm already beyond that. What are the essential things I need to know for installing Linux?
 
Well, first thing is: do you have the Win7 OS disks?  Or do you need to burn them?  Make sure you do that first, so if/when you go back to Windows, you can install it.

Something that I would consider, if it doesn't seem too big a pain, is to add another partition on the HDD== IIRC, you can go to 'computer' and rite click on c: then take the option that says 'shrink'... give it about 1 gig, and you can install the Linux on that one.  I've used Ubuntu, cause its pretty easy to download and install, but Albie may know of other Linux software out there that may work better.

One thing, I haven't used Ubuntu much lately, but IIRC, you may have a hard time running anything that is .exe on it.  For one of my classes, I HAD to use a windows OS (or install a VM on Ubuntu, but I don't think you wanna play with that).  ....so, dual booting (keeping Win7) may not be a bad idea. 

But, one nice thing about Ubuntu is that it comes with Open Office on it, so that's really easy to use (in place of using MS products).
 
Yeah, that is true... though I still like to have the disc, in case I replace the HDD and want to start over.  It used to be that the disc came with the computer, but I've seen a lot lately that make you burn copies, and you only get to burn it once.  meh.
 
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