ober Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Yeah, I hate that... It's possible to entirely disable the swap file, but that's obviously not the same and usually a bad idea. Really? I've been running without a swap for about 3 months now and I have no issues. Then again, I'm packing 8 GB RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 That should be just enough to satisfy Firefox' needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Yeah, I hate that... It's possible to entirely disable the swap file, but that's obviously not the same and usually a bad idea. Really? I've been running without a swap for about 3 months now and I have no issues. Then again, I'm packing 8 GB RAM. Fine, I'll revise my sentence from earlier: "Yeah, I hate that... It's possible to entirely disable the swap file, but that's obviously not the same and usually a bad idea depending on how much RAM you have, what programs you're running, and which version of Windows you're using." I have 3GB of RAM under Vista (well, Windows 7 right now, but I use Vista every now and then lol). Considering Vista uses 1GB, I probably wouldn't want to disable my swap file. (Stupid 32bit memory addressing... I would like to have more memory, but I'm too lazy to install a x64 OS just for that.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 When you downloaded the Win7 RC ISO, why didn't you just pick x64 instead of x86? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 The best anti-virus program in my opinion is restricited users. Comes with any modern OS. (Might be talking out of ignorance as I've never used a linux OS before, but I assume they have it too.) I've never actually been virused that couldn't be deleted in the last 4 years. (I do not include reformatting as being deleted.) Restrictied users FTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 When you downloaded the Win7 RC ISO, why didn't you just pick x64 instead of x86? Oh yeah, forgot to explain that.... Well, I didn't have a DVD, and the x64 installer can't be run from inside of a x32 OS like the x32 can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Being a young black male, I use MalwareBytes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 MalwareBytes isn't an antivirus, its malware scanner, AVG is okay as its free.. I'm not a great fan, IMHO Norton sucks, Half the time your need to be fully infected before it does anything and then doesn't remove it completely, and it is a resource hog, Avast, is good I like the scan on boot that's a cool feature but every now and again I have to remove and reinstall it, it seam the logs stay in memory or get bloated, and slows the system down, Kaspersky I find works quite well, However one package never seams to cover all, but running 2 in real time causes hell, so IMHO, find a good one for real time scanning and another one for full scans, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry3111 Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Which Antivirus program are you using? I use NOD32. Excellent protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I already voted, but I now use Kaspersky, not AVG. A lot faster and very lightweight. Furtually un-noticable on the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I already voted, but I now use Kaspersky, not AVG. A lot faster and very lightweight. Furtually un-noticable on the system. I modified the poll to allow changing vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I've been trying out Microsoft's Security Essentials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I modified the poll to allow changing vote. Cheers Daniel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesta707 Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I was using kaspersky a while ago, but since I reformatted my computer, I didn't feel like searching for good torrents, and good key code files, so I just installed AVG. it gets the job done, but Kaspersky was pretty amazing when I used it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I dont use any. :S Just don't download crap you dont trust, and use no-script so that malicious sites can't haxor you with javascript. I have on occasion downloaded the trails and ran them and they found nothing. So I must be doing somethign right. I guess people must be doing really dumb things to get viruses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koobi Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 What can you control under linux that you can't control under Windows? wow. i'd say almost everything i feel so restricted when i get on my dad's Windows PC. Windows comes packaged a certain way and there's very little you can change in comparison to Linux. In Linux, you can take the entire OS apart if you really want to. In Windows, I can maybe customize my theme, mess with the registry a little and little things like that. luckily i'm not so fond of computer games so i don't need Windows i do a lot of audio production and so i have a MIDI controller. i can even hook that up via USB on Ubuntu and use audio software like RoseGarden and do all my production work. my dad uses Avast on his PC...i hope that's a good one because he really doesn't know what he's doing on the computer, half the time haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 None. Anti-virus programs ironically act like viruses. If you just use a restricted user you are completely invincible to viruses anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 avast and adaware both i tried but they lang my system but my symentec norton and spybot does good job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I use mcafee enterprise edition, supplied by company I work for. Before that, I used windows defender, and I never had a problem with viruses. Probably because I don't go around trying to download copyrighted stuff for free. Which I'm not judging... just sayin'...it's a double edged sword, doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I use mcafee enterprise edition, supplied by company I work for. Before that, I used windows defender, and I never had a problem with viruses. Probably because I don't go around trying to download copyrighted stuff for free. Which I'm not judging... just sayin'...it's a double edged sword, doing that. I downloaded Windows 7 Pro for free and it's copyrighted. I'm pretty sure it came without viruses. [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isedeasy Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Which Antivirus program are you using? I use NOD32. Excellent protection. Same, NOD is my favourite AV Software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I use mcafee enterprise edition, supplied by company I work for. Before that, I used windows defender, and I never had a problem with viruses. Probably because I don't go around trying to download copyrighted stuff for free. Which I'm not judging... just sayin'...it's a double edged sword, doing that. I downloaded Windows 7 Pro for free and it's copyrighted. I'm pretty sure it came without viruses. okay you got me there, mr. semantics. Dammit I want a free (legal) copy of windows 7, hook it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 okay you got me there, mr. semantics. Dammit I want a free (legal) copy of windows 7, hook it up. Then attend some sort of university. Many CS departments are in MSDNAA. There is one caveat, however: You are not allowed to do any for-profit work using the stuff you download from MSDNAA. In reality nobody ever checks it though. We are about 1000 students at my department, all of which are eligible for an MSDNAA subscription. It's pretty much guaranteed that nobody will bother to check what people are actually using it for regularly. Of course continuing to use it would be just as illegal as applying a crack downloaded from the Internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Personally I love it when people download an illegal copy of an anti-virus, considering that is the perfect place to put a virus! has any tried panda cloud ? (its free and supposed to be quite good) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Haaa! It seems I am the only person using Avira which is a bit worrying :/ I did have Norton/Symantec when I first got my laptop which was terrible to uninstall. You have to download a whole another program. Anybody recommend anything better than Avira? Or am I ok with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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