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MalteseMick said:
I reckon Microsoft sells about 20% more copies of Windows than it should do because people assume their computer is old and that's why it's running slow - rather than it's got too much ****e running on Start Up. There is a risk of disabling something important, but once you realise that thing isn't working you can try find it and turn it back on again (which reminds me, don't disable 'Intel' things either). I certainly think the risk of completely fixing your ****ey slow computer in 5 minutes is worth the risk of turning off yer network card for a few mins.
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Quite so. I've got a PC I built back in '95. Still running sweet as a nut. I use it as a test box and it multiboots into every MS desktop operating system from Windows 95 thru to XP. I only ever boot it into XP these days, though.
 
Gambol said:
The thing about anti-virus is that it's a stable door after horse has bolted kind of thing, and many of the paid for products are highly obtrusive and frankly ****e.

AVG Free is pretty good at what it does, but I've switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the laptops which has been great and is so unobtrusive you forget it's there.

My main development PC is completely unprotected (apart from a hardware firewall) but then I only browse to websites I know and trust on it. I use the lappies when doing general browsing around the web.

Periodically, I do a quick visual scan of the running processes to look for anything potentially untoward. Been well over a decade since I've been infected with anything.

Almost all of the **** that infects Windows you asked for. You did it. Which is why kids especially seem to **** up their computers because they don't really give a damn what they're doing out on the Internet. Flashy, free, flashy, bling, bling, download. Walloped.
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Oh and then when your subscription is 30 days from expiry "YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS NEARLY UP - YOUR COMPUTER WILL BE RAPED BY NASTY VIRUSES" fills your screen 30 times a day, trying to scare your Granny into entering her credit card details as quick as possible. ****s of programs. Use AVG Free.
 
Gambol said:
The thing about anti-virus is that it's a stable door after horse has bolted kind of thing, and many of the paid for products are highly obtrusive and frankly ****e.

AVG Free is pretty good at what it does, but I've switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the laptops which has been great and is so unobtrusive you forget it's there.

My main development PC is completely unprotected (apart from a hardware firewall) but then I only browse to websites I know and trust on it. I use the lappies when doing general browsing around the web.

Periodically, I do a quick visual scan of the running processes to look for anything potentially untoward. Been well over a decade since I've been infected with anything.
Almost all of the **** that infects Windows you asked for. You did it. Which is why kids especially seem to **** up their computers because they don't really give a damn what they're doing out on the Internet. Flashy, free, flashy, bling, bling, download. Walloped.
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Get tae ****
 
EDGE. said:
So, services, you should disable all programmes except Microsoft, Intel and your manufacturers, then in Start up, do the same?
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Aye do it, try use a bit of common sense though for instance I've got 'Atheros WLAN Agent' which is obviously my wireless network card, which is manufactured by Atheros.
 
MalteseMick said:
Oh and then when your subscription is 30 days from expiry "YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS NEARLY UP - YOUR COMPUTER WILL BE RAPED BY NASTY VIRUSES" fills your screen 30 times a day, trying to scare your Granny into entering her credit card details as quick as possible. ****s of programs. Use AVG Free.
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You're experiences with norton and other main stream anti viruses hinder your view on this.

BitDefender and NOD32 work fine and don't do any of the **** you mentioned.

Mick allow 600x150 on the signature settings - its only a wee increase anyway.
 
MalteseMick said:
Most paid for Virus Scans are worse than most Viruses. ****ing Norton hogging 50% of your CPU every day trying to find something that is not there, or not letting you open an email from yer pal because it might be Phising - **** off and leave me alone you intrusive **** of a program <grr>
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What annoys me is that Norton/Symnantec ****e is what they bundle with new PC's to the unsuspecting masses and then get an annual fee out of them for the privilege. The utter ****s.
 
EDGE. said:
So, services, you should disable all programmes except Microsoft, Intel and your manufacturers, then in Start up, do the same?
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Yip

Then Delete System32 - all fixed!
 
Gas said:
Get tae ****
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Absolutley true. No fooling, no kidding. And that is a VERY conservative estimate, because quite frankly I can't even remember having to repair any of my machines because of infection. Plenty of others people's though.
 
EDGE. said:
anycunt?
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AudioDG - Windows (your sound basically)
Explorer - Windows (your desktop manager)
wuauclt - Windows (update service)
svchost - Windows (network stuff)

Apart from those any other ones in your panel that are under your login name are up for being closed.

You'll get the jist of whats what after you close a couple.
 
Take laptop to local PC fix it guy

Tell him to make it work faster

Job done
 
Gambol said:
Absolutley true. No fooling, no kidding. And that is a VERY conservative estimate, because quite frankly I can't even remember having to repair any of my machines because of infection. Plenty of others people's though.
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Aye, I install AVG Free, disable it from start up then run it twice a year just in case something is going wrong - but certainly since Windows 7 I haven't had a virus. I can remember installing a Vanilla version of Windows XP, hooking it up to an unfirewalled broadband connection and within 30 seconds of first boot it was infected <laugh> ****s just using port scanners waiting for a response from 10 billion network connections. Microsoft closed down Admin access by default in Vista though, which stopped a lot of that type of bawbaggery.
 
Gambol said:
Google the names of processes executed at startup, as well as those you can see running in Task Manager. You'll soon find out what they are.
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Oh, and type the names exactly as you see them. Trojans have a habit of naming bits of themselves very like legitimate processes.

For example "svchost.exe" is legit, "scvhost.exe" is almost certainly not.
 
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