digitalnasties said:
Soleron said:
digitalnasties said:
Soleron said:
digitalnasties said:
| i had to remove Steam app from my Pc because of That. |
There is a free progame called WinPatrol that you can use to stop progames from running at start up, and can make your PC run faster.
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Don't do that.
Go to the search bar, type in msconfig and press Enter, go to Startup tab and untick Steam.
Why would you run an annoying shareware program at all times to do the same?
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Because only an idiot trust windows, WinPatrol monitors your computer for sensitive system changes and alerts you when they happen, i don't see windows doing that, i guess you also don't run firewalls and anti-virus software too because they also come in shareware versions too.
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The built in firewall is good enough.
And no I don't run any antivirus because a little common sense plus always having the latest Windows Updates protects against all known malware, except zero-day attacks which antivirus doesn't work against anyway.
That program sounds like it slows your system down as much a virus would, if it polls every part of your system constantly.
What if this Winpatrol is logging your keystrokes and sending them back? Not saying it is, but how would you know?
I don't love Microsoft but I trust them because if they weren't doing their job on security, millions of business customers would be complaining.
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That's fine if your on a redundant network, but no way would i connect to the internet without heuristic analysis, but even with the very best security software, there still no existing 100% secure computer connected to the net .
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I get the feeling you've read all the Wikipedia articles on this subject but have no experience. Heuristics don't work well and the false positive rate is unacceptably high. I'm not prepared to trade my minimal, clean install of 7~8 processes running for some claim that a program can stop some small percentage of new attacks.
You're right, there's no such thing as 100% secure. Even if you have the best antivirus that's not true.
