Reformatting Main Drive - Will I lose

[Sam DeathWalker]

Use arconicos truehome 11 to CLONE your hard drive every few weeks.

Dont use ANY anti virus.

(just don't click on email attachments go to sites that you don't know and when you get the message "blah blah wants to check your computer for blah blah" hit alt del shift and close expoler right away, don't click yes or no, just close out of ie explorer immediatly) and shut off all remote services. If you understand how crap gets on your computer in the first place then you don't have to worry about stupid norton hogging all yur cpu. And if you do get something then you have your clone from a week ago anyways.

If your computer goes down, take out the current hard drive and plug in the clone; less then 5 mintues if you have a TT Shark like I do.

Bingo back in business.

I'v been running computers for years and years and havn't lost one due to virus or malware etc. yet. but 20 people will say get norton and start talking about root kits and ...... Win 7 is very robust you can't really do much without getting around all that admin stuffs. If you see a web site with a stupid name of all numbers and letters then you just should not be there.

[MiRai]

Use arconicos truehome 11 to CLONE your hard drive every few weeks.

*cough*Acronis*cough*

Dont use ANY anti virus.

You can't recommend that -- MS Security Essentials is completely free of charge with Windows 7. When people need to
feed their dark side something like this can help keep almost anything out. If someone has designed a virus that they
want to get into your system they'll get it there, but for browsing the internet and doing normal random shit... you should
run one.

(just don't click on email attachments go to sites that you don't know and when you get the message "blah blah wants to check your computer for blah blah" hit alt del shift and close expoler right away, don't click yes or no, just close out of ie explorer immediatly) and shut off all remote services. If you understand how crap gets on your computer in the first place then you don't have to worry about stupid norton hogging all yur cpu. And if you do get something then you have your clone from a week ago anyways.

Ah, the fine print. Seeing as he had to let a computer shop take care of it (no offense Malgor), I think it's safer to
recommend an AV program. MSSE didn't hog anything even while running my Q9550, it's a nice quiet program that
hangs out with you while you're online.

I will agree that other AV programs can be intrusive and demanding but in the past year(?) I've been using MSSE it's
been great to me and I've visited some pretty crazy websites.

Fenril is a freak.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya I supposed if you are inclinded to use one then use the MS one.

Still my recomendation is to use none but as stated everyone else will resonably advise the oppostite.

I really don't understand why Win 7 dosn't come will all remote services disabled as the default .......

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ya I supposed if you are inclinded to use one then use the MS one.

Still my recomendation is to use none but as stated everyone else will resonably advise the oppostite.

I really don't understand why Win 7 dosn't come will all remote services disabled as the default .......

For the same reason no computers come with a firewall installed in whitelisted-apps-only mode: because the average joe doesn't know enough about computers to make educated decisions about which programs to allow, etc.

Also, it really doesn't much matter what AV suite you use as long as you use something. AS studies have shown, none of them are 100% perfect and most are well under 90% detection rates but almost all of them have at least basic detection for the top few hundred nasty, active and in-the-wild malware. It's like recommending people not go into a warzone with kevlar and a flak jacket because you really should know not to walk where bullets are flying. Really? /rolleyes

[Sam DeathWalker]

I'v been avoiding virus since the 8088 pc ....

DOn't forget I do suggest a back up clone drive in case you do get a virus. And by the way, I belive that cloneing is how a lot of large companies deal with the problem as well.

If you did know the path of every bullet on the battlefield then you don't need the jacket. Shuting down remote services just instantly kills a ton of virus as probably most of them rely upon remote services.