Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I dunno, Norton 360 works pretty damn good for me. Nothing malicious in over a year. I had Trend Micro on my old computer, but I got hit with this crazy thing... what was it called again? I can't remember, but it was like a super trojan of sorts that gets in your boot files, and it also invades your system restore files. In fact, it pretty much weaseled its way onto everything important to starting the computer and for uninstalling aaaaand it killed access to the internet. Anyway, long story short, it corrupted my Trend Micro, which I still don't fully understand, so I installed Norton 360 after basically purging my entire hard drive and using the window's OS disk reinstall thingie... I'd be more cohesive in my computer lingo an verbage, but it's late and I don't care. Point is this, I don't think Norton 360 is necessarily better than any other Antivirus program, though it is really good imo, but generally when the common person gets a bad virus, regardless of antivirus program, they haven't a clue as to what said virus is doing or how to fix it.

Really, if you're going around and torrenting stuff and doing other crazy ***you're going to eventually run into something that your antivirus can't handle or won't detect. THat's just the way it is, so just get a decent antivirus, Norton's is fine now(it just has a biase and stigma against it) and stay away from crazy ***like torrenting.

I dunno, Norton 360 works pretty damn good for me. Nothing malicious in over a year.

Dropping off curbs a lot? The only time I got snakebites in my tubes was when I was doing that on campus.

EDIT: nevermind, that's the outside of the tire

Get the solid tube tires? Solves your problems.

I've been using Symantec Endpoint Protection for our home network for almost 2 years now and I couldn't imagine using anything else. It's a coke vs pepsi type of deal... or whatever is trendy to the nerds at the time. It used to be Node32 for awhile and now it's avast it looks like.

stop torrenting? Surely you jest! Next you're going to tell me to stop streaming porn!


The last virus I had was a couple weeks ago when i was trying out Internet Explorer 9.. because I was curious.. 3 days into using it and I got hit. Was kind of funny. I've never had a virus while using my free AV setup and firefox.

I don't like how they commercialized ad-aware, I've pretty much dropped it off my list for now.

yeah that's way overboard imo, but I guess.

Haha I love them. I've got an AV, a supplementary AV, and AS software running live. An additional firewall/oswall program running live. 2 manual malware scanners. passive blocks on bad ips, urls, and dns, both my browsers locked under EMET, and a program that tracks what patches what I need. Probably missing something too.

And yet still probably the most valuable apps I have are noscript and adblock plugins.

The difference being that your shields are also your weapons, and you can only use them in one form at a time. :p
Also, my Leo doesn't have a physical shield; if it ain't in the picture, it doesn't have it. :I
But, G-Bits, eh? You mean those Newtype-use remote mobile suits? Looks like my NT-D won't be going to waste after all. >:3

I consider them 900lb gorillas. They take up so many system resources. But that's just me personally. I know some people that swear by them. I just don't find that I need them. All I have to say about antivirus programs is that an ounce of prevention will save you a pound of cure. I am very careful about what websites I go to and most small things I may run into, Windows can take care of it.

Funny some what related story: One time in my high school PC class, a friend and I installed Norton and McCaffe and had them scan eachother and the pc. That computer kerploded. Good times my freshman year! xD

OMG, LET ME TELL YOU HOW YOU MISSED THE BIGGEST SCREAM FEST EVER BY ME..I WISH I VIDEO RECORDED MYSELF.

HERE I AM AT HOME, JUST GOT HOME LATE FROM WORK BECAUSE IM PISSED THEY SENT US 4 NEW ER ADMISSIONS IN 2 HOURS..3 OF THE 4 ARRIVE *enoughcapslock* between 10-10:45 and shiftchange is at 10:45..so I'm doing all this paperwork..and its ridiculous.

so ofcourse when I get home my first thought it "let me leave a vague facebook status about my workangst!" and POOF in my peripheral vision I see the biggest house centipede I've ever seen darting out from above my bed...I just about had a panic attack..and I didn't know whether to grab it with tissue or smoosh it but I didn't want it to run away..so I smooshed it with my work shoes..and it not only made horrible crushing noises but it insect-bled all over my wall. If it is large enough to have a circulatory system it is too effing big! I am moving back to New Mexico where all they have are creepy transluscent crickets and rolleypolleys (ignoring the one transluscent scorpion I saw)..they don't have aliens!

OMG, LET ME TELL YOU HOW YOU MISSED THE BIGGEST SCREAM FEST EVER BY ME..I WISH I VIDEO RECORDED MYSELF.

HERE I AM AT HOME, JUST GOT HOME LATE FROM WORK BECAUSE IM PISSED THEY SENT US 4 NEW ER ADMISSIONS IN 2 HOURS..3 OF THE 4 ARRIVE *enoughcapslock* between 10-10:45 and shiftchange is at 10:45..so I'm doing all this paperwork..and its ridiculous.

so ofcourse when I get home my first thought it "let me leave a vague facebook status about my workangst!" and POOF in my peripheral vision I see the biggest house centipede I've ever seen darting out from above my bed...I just about had a panic attack..and I didn't know whether to grab it with tissue or smoosh it but I didn't want it to run away..so I smooshed it with my work shoes..and it not only made horrible crushing noises but it insect-bled all over my wall. If it is large enough to have a circulatory system it is too effing big! I am moving back to New Mexico where all they have are creepy transluscent crickets and rolleypolleys (ignoring the one transluscent scorpion I saw)..they don't have aliens!