Recent content by Skylyne

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    Antivirus Software- A "how to pick" for the slightly nerdy user

    Disclaimer: By using this tutorial, you are not necessarily going to be given the absolute best protection possible. What this guide will walk you through is how I personally pick out the best performer for my personal picks of...
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    Best Antivirus Software and Apps 2015 (Archive)

    I've never had CM security cause my phone to lag, and I'm working with an old Razor M xt907. It works fine for me on KitKat. I switched to Avira for overall better protection, and it's much less intrsuive when I want to do certain things. CM has the best browser I've used, though. I've used...
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    How do I know if this is a false positive or not?

    I honestly don't know what happened there. That would be interesting to know, though.
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    Proxy and Security

    IPVanish Review Definitely a better choice, though I'm wondering what is going on when they mentioned the simultaneous connection policy. They didn't cover that in the review, but they mentioned it in the conclusion. I'll be checking that out. If anyone needs to do some checks on VPNs, the...
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    Buying used laptop, supposedly "clean install"

    If you buy a used computer, always install a clean copy of an OS. It's better that you run your own key in it, just to help prevent some bullshit from microsoft, should a key expire, or the copy is a little messed up on the backend. Clean installs are the only real good idea for used computers...
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    Buying used laptop, supposedly "clean install"

    While you could run a risk of viruses, there's an extremely low likelihood of that. If anything, I'd be worried about potential incriminating evidence being on the computer. That's even less likely, but still... What I always recommend for every computer purchased from a non major name...
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    Ads in formated PC

    There are a number of potential explanations for this. Most of which has nothing to do with a computer directly, and would also require a more specialised explanation. To fix it, I'd probably have to recommend finding some more specialty forum, but that's because finding troubleshooting help on...
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    How do I know if this is a false positive or not?

    Yeah, I know what you mean. I remember how various cloud scanning/process ratings on cleaning software/etc. would come up with shit tons of info on it. Pretty cool how some software does that, but it can be self defeating lol. And not a problem. I get on here and post replies like that all the...
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    How do I know if this is a false positive or not?

    The HEUR/APC code you see is telling you that it found a process that triggered their heuristics engine. The heuristics engine scans running processes, and flags things that attempt to modify files on your computer. Game mods typically do this to begin with, so that kind of flag/alarm is nothing...
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    Advice on antivirus/malware for new computer?

    nzrajput- I'm definitely not surprised to know what the OS with the most KNOWN vulnerabilities are; that's another thing entirely. When it comes to Windows, there are a number of known vulnerabilities, but not necessarily ones that have been fully disclosed. Why? Well, thanks to the Microsoft...