Can U Get Viruses From Guild Wars?

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Fenr1r Da Boss
Ascalonian Squire
#1
just wondering becuz my comp has been sorta slow lately.
Farrell-Zander
Farrell-Zander
Krytan Explorer
#2
No you can't. Deinstall unuseful stuff or do a virus/spam scan. Good luck
LifeInfusion
LifeInfusion
Grotto Attendant
#3
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
#4
Yes. Uninstall now or else your computer will explode.
The Pointless
The Pointless
Wilds Pathfinder
#5
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
#6
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.
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Malice Black
Site Legend
#7
Never turn off anti-virus, if a game needed me to lower my computers defenses I wouldnt play it.
Stockholm
Stockholm
Desert Nomad
#8
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
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Warrior1986
Academy Page
#9
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.
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Ranger Rog
Lion's Arch Merchant
#10
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
#11
lol
explode hahahahahah
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TheOneAndOnlyX
Krytan Explorer
#12
You could just uninstall the internetz which is a series of tubes
majoho
majoho
Forge Runner
#13
viruxes zuks
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DarkEye
Pre-Searing Cadet
#14
never had any..
Sereng Amaranth
Sereng Amaranth
Desert Nomad
#15
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
#16
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
#17
go to elona reach INT district and then re ask the question
Kimi Otori
Kimi Otori
Pre-Searing Cadet
#18
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