So all the AVG lovers here...
Do you use the free one? If so, how do keep it from running as slow as molasses? After I tried it, I told myself to never forget there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Free Minipet Keygen. Ya right. Beware
lakatz
Loviatar
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i dont even visit those sites let alone be stupid enough to download/run something from them.
i actually have an idea i am going to play a GW session before i log in.
i run the antispyware IN THE BACKGROUND while i still am doing what i was allready doing anyway.
i lose no GW playtime doing this.
i check the results and log in.
what have i lost by running it in the background before i was going to log in?
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i actually have an idea i am going to play a GW session before i log in.
i run the antispyware IN THE BACKGROUND while i still am doing what i was allready doing anyway.
i lose no GW playtime doing this.
i check the results and log in.
what have i lost by running it in the background before i was going to log in?
Thunder79
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i dont even visit those sites let alone be stupid enough to download/run something from them. i actually have an idea i am going to play a GW session before i log in. i run the antispyware IN THE BACKGROUND while i still am doing what i was allready doing anyway. i lose no GW playtime doing this. i check the results and log in. what have i lost by running it in the background before i was going to log in? |
how long does it take to initiate the scan and actually run the scan in the background?
When I want to play GW I start it up...If I notice an update is up before I start it up I run an -image shortcut first...then startup GW and login.
When you want to play GW you start up your anti spyware...then wait an undetermined amount of time doing something other than what you wanted to do...which is play gw...when it's done you start up gw...apply any patches...then login
Maybe I should put it simpler...
At one point in time you make a decision to play gw...the time between that point and the point in time when you login is what you lose...it is actual play time you have lost since if you hadn't started up your anti-spyware program...you would be logging in and playing. Your ending time for playing isn't a factor since that is determined separately...so if you insert extra steps after making the decision and before logging in...you have shortened your play time.
we'll have to agree to disagree...I and other people in this thread...think this is overkill and thus retarded...you don't. Why not just accept the fact that we think it is overkill? Just look at it this way...your method should ensure you're protected.
scrinner
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#1- My Hard drive is big and packed. I usually have a full 250. A scan can take me a good half an hour.
#2- Like stated, thats Overkill. Thats like 2-3 scans a day. Doing that means you have absolutely no trust in yourself. And if its family members, get them a crappy computer and isolate yourself from them!
#3- My Isp gives out Nortons to all its users but since its not the latest 360 version, Its slow as hell and thats why I use Avg. I think it goes faster if your drive is fragmented (Note your guildwars should go faster too with a defrag) and if you run Ccleaner alot (Cleans invalid registry entries, junk from FF, IE, other programs, etc and any temporary files)
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hi pal it takes a few minutes running in the background while i am doing something else like looking at bitchfests here. so making a quick check before GW is retarded? so be it |
#2- Like stated, thats Overkill. Thats like 2-3 scans a day. Doing that means you have absolutely no trust in yourself. And if its family members, get them a crappy computer and isolate yourself from them!
#3- My Isp gives out Nortons to all its users but since its not the latest 360 version, Its slow as hell and thats why I use Avg. I think it goes faster if your drive is fragmented (Note your guildwars should go faster too with a defrag) and if you run Ccleaner alot (Cleans invalid registry entries, junk from FF, IE, other programs, etc and any temporary files)
Loviatar
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i got it from a secondary link from an AP news story with no downloading of files on my part.
starting the scan is 2 clicks and the inteliscan takes about 2/3 minutes.
it finishes long before i finish what i ws working on or reading here.
note that on several times when i was away from the pc for a long time the deep scan turned up nothing the inteliscan missed
we can cheerfully agree to disagree but to me 2/3 minutes while i am doing something else is not a problem.
if i waited close to an hour on the deep scan i would question my sanity as well.
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you obviously got the program you mentioned from somwhere...you know...the program you said your anti-spyware saved you from...
how long does it take to initiate the scan and actually run the scan in the background? |
starting the scan is 2 clicks and the inteliscan takes about 2/3 minutes.
it finishes long before i finish what i ws working on or reading here.
note that on several times when i was away from the pc for a long time the deep scan turned up nothing the inteliscan missed
we can cheerfully agree to disagree but to me 2/3 minutes while i am doing something else is not a problem.
if i waited close to an hour on the deep scan i would question my sanity as well.
scrinner
Well i guess when it is a matter of 2/3, its never a problem. Btw, what scanner do you use?
Miral
o.O why do people assume that having a virus or spyware is only possible from piracy sites? if that were true, fixers wouldn't be commercially available O.O
NekoZ
imkey
I have to stress that protection software (antivirus, anti trojan, anti spyware) are meant to protect against known and common malicious code. (not someone's private program aimed at taking your guild wars login)
If someone programs their own keylogger and disguises it as a keygen, it will MOST LIKELY not be detected by commercial scanners or protection tools.
It's a catch-up game of security software vendors adding more and more profiles of malicious code as the malicious coders create an unending amount of software to score them $$$ and cost you $$$.
DO NOT have a FALSE SENSE of SECURITY just because you have loads of anti-blah blah blah software packages.
Best protection is common sense... (don't download these things which are too good to be true)
If someone programs their own keylogger and disguises it as a keygen, it will MOST LIKELY not be detected by commercial scanners or protection tools.
It's a catch-up game of security software vendors adding more and more profiles of malicious code as the malicious coders create an unending amount of software to score them $$$ and cost you $$$.
DO NOT have a FALSE SENSE of SECURITY just because you have loads of anti-blah blah blah software packages.
Best protection is common sense... (don't download these things which are too good to be true)
Zethron Ahriman
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drago34
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Except ofcourse, the lovely people of GW Guru
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Diablo???
I don't know if I'm more insulted by the fact that they're trying to infiltrate my computer, or that they think I'm stupid enough to fall for it. 
drago34
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Originally Posted by lakatz
So all the AVG lovers here...
Do you use the free one? If so, how do keep it from running as slow as molasses? After I tried it, I told myself to never forget there's no such thing as a free lunch. |
handy
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Originally Posted by Loviatar
since those have been top rated in testing if you have something better to suggest i and the rest of us would be very happy to find out that there is somethig better.
since those are top rated i am curious about the comment |
I setup my IP tables as an excellent firewall, which I really don't need behind a NAT router anyway.
Guild Wars plays wonderfully under Linux, via Cedega (costs a minimum $15 US for life-time legality of the version you downloaded), & fairly recently under the free Wine software.
As far as the type of program this thread is about, that just takes a tiny bit of common sense to protect the user.
I MP I
I love how someone does the favor of trying to tell people (mostly gullible kids who won't read this anyway) about a scam then everyone moves to a debate of what anti-malware vendor is better. How I miss the insane asylum that is gwguru.
Drakzel
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Originally Posted by combatchuck
Here's what it does: It will install a stealth keylogger. It will e-mail anything you type to a certain address. This includes not only your Guild Wars account info, but anything you type, at any time. It will also probably install something that hunts for personal information on your computer. Credit card info, mailing addresses, bank account info, etc. Oh, and it will give you a bunk key. Never trust anything that you don't get from a legitimate source. Hell, I rarely even trust things I get from a legitimate source.
Please remember, this is the internet. There are no honest people, and they are all out to get you. |
Loviatar
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EVEN TO REGISTER HERE/TGH/GWO/ETC
send the person a question by email instead of a PM and they reply without even thinking about it giving up the email just like that.
lakatz
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Originally Posted by drago34
I use the free one, too cheap to want to buy it lol. The amount of time it takes doesn't bother me, I just do it over night, when I go out to do something or just afk.
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Stupid Shizno
i went to the site and downloaded minipet.exe, gave me a free mini gwen, im glad i saw the url
TheRaven
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Originally Posted by Stupid Shizno
i went to the site and downloaded minipet.exe, gave me a free mini gwen, im glad i saw the url
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snikerz
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Originally Posted by Stupid Shizno
i went to the site and downloaded minipet.exe, gave me a free mini gwen, im glad i saw the url
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hope u get banned soon, coz it looks like you spent some money(which u probably stole from someone anyway) to get a premium guru account.
Stupid Shizno
ever heard of sarcasm son?
HawkofStorms
Lol nice snikerz, he was clearly not being serious. Ahh... I love it when people go pyshco on others and acuse them of being terrible human being who steal money from others based on no evidence what so ever. If anything, what you just posted constitues criminal liable (since you just accused somebody of theft and internet fruad in writing in a public space).
Hyper.nl
@Stupid Shizno
Please be cautious you don't accidentally bring people to bad idea's in your attempt to be funny. At internet forums you cannot be sure everyone reads your message as you intended it to be read.
Please be cautious you don't accidentally bring people to bad idea's in your attempt to be funny. At internet forums you cannot be sure everyone reads your message as you intended it to be read.
Diablo???
pity. Such a waste of a good joke... I thought it was funny too.
MSecorsky
Ooh! I got the adult Gwen hero/minipet with the Kung Fu Grip!
By the gods, do people still fall for these things?
By the gods, do people still fall for these things?
Caoimhe
People still fall for the "I'm a Nigerian seeking to flee my country... send me 500 dollars and you'll end up with 5 milion" junk mail... so why wouldn't they fall for this, too?
Think of it this way: Take a look at how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of the world is dumber than that. (With thanks to George Carlin.)
Think of it this way: Take a look at how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of the world is dumber than that. (With thanks to George Carlin.)
Kelsey Cain
someone advertising 'make money fast video's' using the same domain has been spamming in Kamadan all evening.
snikerz
looked like one pretty serious sentence to me, he didn't add any smilies to indicate it was sarcasm
as the people above me have said, it's easy to trick someone.
so anyone else who reads that sentence would think it was safe and download it, making shizno liable.
as the people above me have said, it's easy to trick someone.
so anyone else who reads that sentence would think it was safe and download it, making shizno liable.
HawkofStorms
Liable is defined as falsely accusing somebody of a crime in writting they did not commit. My post is not liable.
snikerz
sarcastic or not, he was telling the people the file was ok to download in a unsarcastic way, i.e. he didn't use *sarcasm* tags or even a smilie to go with it.
so if he had been serious, hes out there to steal accounts, don't you think he would be out to steal money as well?.
so if he had been serious, hes out there to steal accounts, don't you think he would be out to steal money as well?.
Darkobra
The people that are intelligent enough to know not to download it are the people intelligent enough to identify sarcasm without being spoonfed massive tags.
lyra_song
-.- The point of my post was to warn people, NOT CONFUSED THEM.
Stupid Shizno
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The people that are intelligent enough to know not to download it are the people intelligent enough to identify sarcasm without being spoonfed massive tags.
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snikerz, its people like you that make this game have to continously re-design the help feature instead of just taking five minutes to read/wiki the mission/quest you need.
Stupid Shizno
oh and snikerz,
i also got 250 ecto from this website
(URL removed, linked to .exe file)
i also got 250 ecto from this website
(URL removed, linked to .exe file)
zwei2stein
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The people that are intelligent enough to know not to download it are the people intelligent enough to identify sarcasm without being spoonfed massive tags.
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Anyway, anyone wanting ot have little fun, download it, examine it and see where data are supposed to go and then destination with /dev/random (or even better, forged logs of hundreds thousands invalid logins and passwords)
Longasc
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Originally Posted by Miral
bah anyone stupid enough to use a keygen on an MMO deserves to be infected, imo
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Longasc
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oh and snikerz,
i also got 250 ecto from this website (URL removed, linked to a suspicious .exe file) |
Sarcasm is fine and dandy, linking to such crap on forums is not.
Yeah, anyone who falls for this crap does not deserve better, but you are also not bright enough to get the idea that what you did is a bannable offense.
Even if the link is a fake.
jrk247
People dumb enough to fall for this and dumb enough to fail to read the EULA deserve what they get IMO, they try to exploit the game which is against the EULA. Yes someone else was trying to give you an exploit, but you were the one trying to use that exploit which is still against the EULA.
ryanryanryan0310
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Originally Posted by lyra_song
-.- The point of my post was to warn people, NOT CONFUSED THEM.
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Download the it or not to download it?
I want a free Gwen with ku fu grip too