Can U Get Viruses From Guild Wars?

Fenr1r Da Boss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2006

Burning Flames

W/Mo

just wondering becuz my comp has been sorta slow lately.

Farrell-Zander

Farrell-Zander

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Switzerland

No you can't. Deinstall unuseful stuff or do a virus/spam scan. Good luck

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

Um maybe because you have a lot of things running or you have spyware. It's not Guild Wars. I've installed it on a clean machine that has nothing else but office programs and it has no problems since then.

Kakumei

Kakumei

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grind is subjective

learn this please

Yes. Uninstall now or else your computer will explode.

The Pointless

The Pointless

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Stuck in the UK

Rage International [RAGE]

W/Me

Failing the software check, try your hardware. Intakes and vents can become clogged up with dust at best, or a part may need replacing, which is unlikely, but...

lightblade

lightblade

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

The Etereal Guard

Me/Mo

Or...simply turn off your anti-virus program. Yes! I said turn them off. These programs scan every incoming and outcoming package from your computer and make your computer slow.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Never turn off anti-virus, if a game needed me to lower my computers defenses I wouldnt play it.

Stockholm

Stockholm

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Censored

Censored

R/

Turn off all programs not needed to run the game client, ( music, messengers, e-mail and such) but ALWAYS leave anti-virus running and firewall as well

Warrior1986

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

Brotherhood of Kain

Not pointing this at the OP, but in general.
If you have to turn off your virus scanner to play, you either have an OLD computer or you must be using some crappy hog of a program like norton or mcafee.

For a free prog, AVG FTW.

For the best virus prot you can buy, NOD32 FTW.

Ranger Rog

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

UK

[TOG]

I used AVG for about 12 months after getting fed up of norton bloatware and I started to get a little suspicious because of the lack of virus alerts I was getting so I switched to Avast. It found 2 infected files as soon as it was installed. I would recomend Avast over AVG for a free scanner any day.

I would guess that the Op just needs to give his system an enema, it's probably just bloated with spyware and other internet silt, download spybot s&d and do a full scan. Search for a prog called crap cleaner (its also free) and run that to tidy things up and also do a defrag.
After that, download firefox and the adblock+ plug-in and you'll find that you wont get any of the crap back and browsing will be so much better.

One Tall Amazon Btch

One Tall Amazon Btch

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2006

NY

R/Mo

lol
explode hahahahahah

TheOneAndOnlyX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Last Sacrens

N/Me

You could just uninstall the internetz which is a series of tubes

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

viruxes zuks

DarkEye

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

W/N

never had any..

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneAndOnlyX
You could just uninstall the internetz which is a series of tubes
true story...i did this once...major time warpage

Kimi Otori

Kimi Otori

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

WA

[halo]

E/Me

lol just don't use bot programs and you'll be fine =D

btw do bots even work with GW in the first place?!?

Wrath Of Dragons

Wrath Of Dragons

Burninate Stuff

Join Date: Aug 2005

New Mexico

E/Mo

go to elona reach INT district and then re ask the question

Kimi Otori

Kimi Otori

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

WA

[halo]

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wrath Of Dragons
go to elona reach INT district and then re ask the question
LOL

I've been enlightened =D