Recent content by plasmastorm

They will use up to whatever bandwidth/speed is available but the smarter ones back off when they detect you are using the system so it does not effect performance as much. Generally if you start a scan then leave it to do the scan, you can use it meantime but will only make it take longer. As...

There's a reason it's free. Personally I would use a better product like Kaspersky or Eset but you will have to pay for those. But yes the AV scan will take a lot of HDD throughput if you manually start a scan, it uses whatever it can to get it done fast as possible.

Oh no, someone could steal all the inane shite that folks with nothing better to do send to each other. What ever will we do..... #facebook2.0

Download ADW cleaner and run that, far more reliable than Malware bytes these days. Norton and AVG not finding anything is nothing new, Nortons about the worst AV out there and AVG is rapidly chasing it. The fact you have 2 Antivirus suites installed certainly won't help on the speed front...

Sounds like the usual symptom of a knackered laptop screen. If you can then take the laptop case apart at the hinge where the cable runs through it, then while the machine is on CAREFULLY move the cable a little and see if that changes the output on the screen. If not then get a new screen, if...

I'll be sticking with my £70 refurb Nexus 7 tablet that fits perfectly into my double din hole in the dash. Been running just fine for 18 months. $700, what a joke.

Does that mean Belkins own products are getting better? Last time I sold them at my shop 5+ years ago they were truly shocking.

Good guy google? Time will tell.

Can I have what your smoking? R2D2??? Where?!?!

I want some of what your smoking if you think that looks even remotely like R2D2

I'm really not an apple fan at all, been on android since day 1 but have to admit it does look rather nice. How many of the features would I use after a week of playing around is questionable though.

Taking nude selfies is bad security? Nope, being famous is bad security, nobody knows if you have nude selfies or not till they get into your account so what's in the account makes no difference.

Malware removal programs such as ADW Cleaner have been removing it for months as a security risk

There's a reason you do a secure erase on anything digital. Jesus effin Christ......

if it is digital when the lens broke some dust or debris may have landed on the sensor. take the broken lens of and gently clean the sensor with an air can then see it it goes away before ordering a lens