.org back up

**Cute Wolf** · 05-17-2009, 18:47

IT students are really the best antivirus, antihacker, and tweaker possible..... Thanks for any IT students in the org!!!

**iounas** · 05-17-2009, 21:06

Originally Posted by Cute Wolf

IT students are really the best antivirus, antihacker, and tweaker possible..... Thanks for any IT students in the org!!!

lol, I am one.. so I dont use any av software..
If you know anything about computers and internet/trusted sources and have a bunch of antivirus software occupying your ram and stealing your cpu cycles then the 'terrorists' have already won.

**HunGeneral** · 05-17-2009, 22:10

Strange... I used IE when I visited the Org. when it got down - after I read on TWC what had happened I got worried so made a scan on my laptop with nod32 and after dowloading with Windowsdefender - both found nothing.

Today I downloaded Ad- Aware and all it found were dozens of cookies (which I erased), but nothing serious

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I hope I'm clean of it now - looks like I should use Firefox more often...

**Atraphoenix** · 05-18-2009, 14:27

do not abandon foxy

IE is quite vulnerable...
kasper used lots of ram before but last versions are less ram users.

**Drewski** · 05-18-2009, 23:45

Firefox works. Im an IT professional (yes scoff, I did Music and Economics undergrad, then IT PHD)...Hull and Leeds...(don't ask on the change of direction, it wasn't really when you spent 12 hrs a day playing and programming MUDs)...

Anyways IE is imho quite dangerous, and Vista has more security holes than best swiss Ementhal..

EDIT: BUT if I caused alarm, then don't worry, I work with malware most of the working day, what I think of as insecure, is like Fort Knox to most, so well, basically, don't fret

**Aemilius Paulus** · 05-18-2009, 23:51

Originally Posted by Atraphoenix

kasper used lots of ram before but last versions are less ram users.

Yeah, even the current versions are huge memory sinks for low-end computers. I use to have only 1 GB of RAM, and my computer froze after 30 minutes of use for about a week after my first Kaspersky scan. I had to continuously reboot it. Then for a week more, it would freeze for about five-ten seconds at shockingly regular intervals of 1.5 minutes. Incredibly annoying. But then I soon got extra RAM, and now Kaspersky runs just fine with 4 GB of RAM.

But that is the price one must pay for the best virus protection. And I am more than willing to pay it.

**Drewski** · 05-19-2009, 00:03

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Yeah, even the current versions are huge memory sinks for low-end computers. I use to have only 1 GB of RAM, and my computer froze after 30 minutes of use for about a week after my first Kaspersky scan. I had to continuously reboot it. Then for a week more, it would freeze for about five-ten seconds at shockingly regular intervals of 1.5 minutes. Incredibly annoying. But then I soon got extra RAM, and now Kaspersky runs just fine with 4 GB of RAM.

But that is the price one must pay for the best virus protection. And I am more than willing to pay it.

You using Vista Then?