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Macstorm

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  1. Hey guys

    Help me to solve out my cousin's problem. His router is working ok on wireless signals for his other 2 laptops, no problems with them they are receiving internet connection ok. However, his 'wired' desktop pc has suddenly stopped communicating with the same router (through a regular network cable as always been). I've tried everything, connected to another 'port' (it's a 4-hub one), turned off/on hardware router & PC, unplugged/plugged network cable, 'inverted' its connection, changed a new one, updated mobo network drivers etc. I also performed maintenance routine cleaning registry, defragging disk, his computer is malware free btw. The line signal light does not come on on the router, no connection with the pc.

    any ideas :blink:

  2. OK, bite me. i'm being asked to switch to NOD32 all the time, and they claim for full virus detection. I had it pre-installed with my OEM, and guess what, sucked...

    Funny, every single flash drive comes with a trojan/infostealer that NOD32 doesn't detect. Norton kills them all.

    AVG keeps telling "threat sucessfully revomed", the funny part is that won't stop 'till i delete the file by my own :(

    i'd respect other's choice :P

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    Norton is pretty good for my home use. I use XP on my PC, 98SE is in the old one.

    Get serious.

    Buy KAV B)

  3. Hi Folks,

    Windows XP Pro SP3

    Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.1

    I want to disable the info/details shown when you hover over any .pdf icon. I find this feature annoying because it triggers and executes four processes automatically in the system (2 instances of adobe_cleanup.0001, 1 adobelmsvc.exe and acrobat.exe). These processes start and run even if i´m not working with acrobat files when i accidentally hover over the .pdf icons placed on the desktop.

    Btw, I chose not to start Acrobat when i turn on my computer neither want those processes to auto-start in the background unless i´m working with acrobat files.

    Any ideas?

  4. Hello Martin,

    You're welcome, thanks too for your reply :)

    I think it all depends on how careful you are while surfing the net and/or downloading suspicious files without check them first. When I 'tested' NOD32 I was playing around myself on the side of a "naive user whom download from internet just anything he finds there".

    In this scenario, I found out that other AVs can do a better job finding malware than nod32.

    Regards,

  5. ...but mediocre detection, at least in my experience :ph34r:

    Huh ??? NOD32, Kaspersky, AntiVir and Norton/Symantec AV is among the very best when detection accuracy is concerned(AV Comparatives).

    I personally use NOD32 because of it's great detection rates, low memory footprint, unbloatedness, nice clean interface and as it dosen't bother you much and you just set it and forget it.

    I agree that NOD32 is rated as one of the 'best' AVs out there from reputed sources (specifically av-comparatives tests, which I strongly trust). First, I consider myself a medium-high risk surfer. In my experience, however, nod32 failed in detecting a lot of trojans hidden on files downloaded from internet. I double checked them before opening with an up-to-date nod32 and got often 'clean' results with it, then re-checked those files with other several online virus scanners and... surprise :angry:

    I must note I'm not talking about false positives, they were real malware that I always sent to eset for analysis but never got replied (I saw they added signatures for these about one week after!).

    Personally, I think they rely too much on its heuristics but at same time they are incredible slow releasing signature updates.

  6. What then? :ph34r:

    Hardware firewall for starters. It's not the best, but it's better than nothing. I'm on a wired connection, not wireless, so no wise-a** is going to crack through some "open access point". I have just my OS and Program Files on mY C: drive and everything else on D:. I use Opera and Ad Muncher so no ActiveX, Java, JavaScript or other scripting features are enabled and all the ads and banners are removed, not that I'd click on them if they did show up.

    I don't open unknown e-mails or attachments. I question file transfers from those on my MSN and if someone adds me and immediately tries to send me something, its kind of obvious what the intention is.

    I image my HDD and can easily restore if anything bad happened. But if I ever noticed someone who managed to hack through a router, I'd simply pull the ethernet cable out of the router. Give my setup, I'd love to see someone hack through air.

    The problem is most people feel that if they don't have loads of security suites installed that they will be infected. This is not the case. If you want to get infected, go out and get yourself infected. Accept those transfers, open those downloaded EXEs and ZIPs off LimeWire, open that attachment and click on that bouncing "you're our 999,999th customer, click here for your free laptop!" button.

    Hell, anyone ever heard of DeepFreeze and a ThawSpace? Reboot and everything's fine!

    Well I'm on a router firewall and yet observe most of your security tips all the time. However, I still feel the need of using the lighweight Avira AntiVir along with my precautionary measures.

    On the other side, I've read about DeepFreeze sometime ago. I don't know, too good to be true..

  7. I was testing NOD32 from two weeks back.......until today. Yes, it is light, speedy, low on resources but....NO WAY!

    Earlier today I downloaded a .rar file to my desktop which supossedly contains a ......(think it's against the forum rules so I won't give details, PM me for them) which is infected with 'Trojan.Win32.Autoit.ac' detected only by Authentium, CAT-QuickHeal, eSafe, Fortinet, F-Prot, F-Secure, Ikarus, Kaspersky, McAfee and VirusBuster (according to http://www.virustotal.com & http://virusscan.jotti.org/ )

    The up to date NOD32 ignored the infected file but Kaspersky Virus File Scanner did the trick :thumbup

    Now I'm back to KAV 6 and won't look to others anymore!

  8. Well, we all have our preferences. What specifically are you referring to? Accessing options? Colors? :P

    All of them... and the umbrella :D

    I'd say make due with the GUI or get used to hotkeys because it's detection rate is terrific.

    I agree, the GUI has nothing to do with effectiveness (nod32 the best example here, ugly GUI) but certainly I'd like they improve the current 'plain design' of Antivir and change it to, say, just like F-Secure, BitDefender and others..

  9. For now, Avira Antivir 7.0
    I'm actually considering switching to this from Kaspersky. It has a higher detection rate and the GUI is very nice. The memory usage is fine, two services, responsive and detailed. It was actually fun taking screenshots of it compared to some other products I tried.

    I'm tempted to switch to Antivir as well but, honesty, I think its GUI is one of the worst that I have seen IMO :}

  10. I know the newer defraggers can defrag in the background, but that is NOT good both in terms of data safety and solving the fragmentation problem. The best results are obtained by defragging during a minimum boot and leaving it alone to complete. Perhaps all those background defrags have caused this fragmentation.

    Ok thanks, I guess I'll leave it alone for now :(

  11. Thanks Kent,

    I asked this because I perform manual defrag routines quite often (every 5 days) with PerfectDisk. However, the point is that about 1 month back approx. I'm forced to make off-line defrags (after a system reboot) so Perfectdisk can arrange the metadata files which are managed by the system only. I noticed a permanent fragmentation of such system files since 1 month back. As I said, I never needed to defrag those files before, just had to make regular defrags without rebooting because metadata files never were a problem. The time when this issue first appeared coincides when I installed WindowsLiveMessenger8 and Opera9 softwares (I blamed them for the problem) so I uninstalled them temporarily for testing purposes but nothing changed and reinstalled them again.

    I think that 'something' somewhere into my files is causing the rapid fragmentation of 'metadata' files lately but don't know how to identify it :(

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