So what's up with this?

reflux · 23 Mar 2009 at 10:56

Nate Silvers said:
Oh and now we have a middle aged man poking his nose in huh

Ha ha ha. No. I'm 21 actually. Sometimes it's fun to pop into the creche and see what the little ones are doing

Nate Silvers · 23 Mar 2009 at 11:14

coupe69 said:
Sure you don't

Can I ask how big is your image? An average image I restore at work is usually about 10 gig or so and takes roughly 10 mins, so I'm intrigued to know what sort of size your image is to only take 5 seconds to restore.
To restore my image on my home pc (roughly 530Gb) with all my games, photos, videos etc etc on would take a damn sight more than five seconds, more like at least an hour. Not forgetting that you'd have to create the initial image at some point which takes significantly longer.

Hmm maybe because I have a WD Raptor and I don't have 530GB of data lol. I have like 5 different images of my windows setup.

icey_haj said:
Ok ladies, take it easy with the handbags.

Nate, if you don't like having AVG and/or ZoneAlarm installed then simply uninstall them. Then format

Also, haven't you seen the adverts? You should always carry protection!

I can't coz he installed them on it and atm it's 260 miles away.

richyb_safc said:
Last time I saw a AV say that it was a friends computer that was absolutely riddled with trojans etc. Maybe your gf's Dad was protecting his own hardware from your fested little netbook? just a thought

It was Zonealarm and this is a fresh install of xp on my laptop so no it's not fested. He scanned her old laptop to death complaining it's infected because she wasn't using any AV and then after 2 hours of scanning it turned out it was completely clean afterall.

richyb_safc said:
Oh yeah, I forgot, cos there are no viruses (virii) anymore are there?

Not on my pc son

Geckovich said:
I always wondered where zombie computers came from. Enjoy being used for spam, phising and DDOS.

Also:

No only a stupid person falls for spam and phishing, see FF blocks a lot of scripts and even tells you if sites are harmfull these days and maybe your one of these dumb people who open e-mails with the subject "Did you get my last message I need to speak to you urgently" from "Barclays"

Bucket · 23 Mar 2009 at 11:42

Thank you Nate Silvers for making my day.

Honestly, you really have.

Nate Silvers · 23 Mar 2009 at 11:59

Oh harro wish you was serious

Caseh · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:00

You use no AV, firewall and complain at him installed Noscript? Im gonna guess your system is past infestation.

Nate Silvers · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:15

Yeah no AV no firewall and guess what no viruses too

Ross1234 · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:17

Nate Silvers said:
Yeah no AV no firewall and guess what no viruses too

So you think... You seem like a bit of an idiot to me. I hope people dont listen to what you are saying as it sounds like you are taking the ****.

thepeganator · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:17

Nate Silvers said:
What who does that? I use a ghosted image and it takes what 5 seconds and I have all my stuff installed. My friend also does this a lot and wow I didn't know he was an a*** too.

I don't know what HDD you have, but can I buy one too?

And did you pay for Norton Ghost?

Nate Silvers · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:47

thepeganator said:
I don't know what HDD you have, but can I buy one too?

And did you pay for Norton Ghost?

One that's better than a 500GB 7200.11 and itsn't a Maxtor. Who said I used Norton Ghost and what does it matter if I paid for something? Are you the police?

ConnectionFX · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:01

Nate. your one funny guy!

thanks for cheering me up!

EffBee · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:04

I suppose Nate has a reasonable alternative way of doing things. With an efficient re-imaging process he could indeed rebuild his OS with a few seconds of his time - though he might need to go off and eat lunch or something while the machine processes run.

For pure internet access there is a lot to be said for regularly putting on a known clean build often, rather than trying to protect a long standing build with firewalls AVs etc.

We lemmings should never laugh at people who dare to do things differently. These are the free thinking guys 'n' gals who change and shape our world

thepeganator · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:06

Nate Silvers said:
What who does that? I use a ghosted image and it takes what 5 seconds and I have all my stuff installed. My friend also does this a lot and wow I didn't know he was an a*** too.

Nate Silvers said:
One that's better than a 500GB 7200.11 and itsn't a Maxtor. Who said I used Norton Ghost and what does it matter if I paid for something? Are you the police?

Ghosting in image is using Norton ghost to make an image of your computer...

When it was purchased the 7200.11 was the best 500gb drive you could buy, and the Maxtor is 3 years old

And it matters a lot if you paid for something, and I do actually live with a lawyer and my Dad is a policeman

UKDTweak · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:06

From the sounds of it, your uncle was looking at the logs that show internet activity/attacks.... unless its configured properly, it will show Lots of "attacks", most are just from your ISP/sites visited to check your pc is still there....

However, a good anti virus will only pop a msg if it does actually find something odd... apart from the odd false positive... that fact you get no such warnings is because you have no such detection software....

What your saying is, because you have no anti virus, you don't get virrii?
Thats like saying becuase you pulled out at the last second, you can't get a girl pregnant!

Laughable

ConnectionFX · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:09

Nate:

Educate yourself!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7950000/newsid_7955800/7955806.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2

but i suspect you will say your still safe and oblivious to any dangers.

Xinn · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:24

So Nate, how are you going to execute your 1337 virus beating skills on a netbook that is 260 miles away?

If it's your girlfriend using it not you then it's going to get a virus of some sort at some point or other.

magicroundabout · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:40

ConnectionFX said:
Nate:

Educate yourself!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7950000/newsid_7955800/7955806.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2

but i suspect you will say your still safe and oblivious to any dangers.

good programme that.

also there is another one for nate which is on C4 tonight @ 9pm

matt_fsr · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:41

Nate Silvers said:
My GFs .......

Wait.... Nate has a girlfriend? :eek:

Linx · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:01

Just be argumentative, I dont have any AV installed on my pc either, it's pointless (lol im serious) If you scan files you download/dont go on any dodgey sites/install dodgey programs theres nothing to worry about.
But at the end of the day it's personal choice, and if you feel more safe with an AV then fair enough, but atm it's pointless in my eyes.
And formatting takes a mere 11 minutes, which i haven't done for months now.

reflux · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:43

magicroundabout said:
good programme that.

also there is another one for nate which is on C4 tonight @ 9pm

Hahaha, yeah I think you could say he lost that race

exhumedye · 23 Mar 2009 at 15:05

Nate Silvers said:
I know what I'm running on my PC I check my processes and services and I know if something is up. I tend to get more viruses using an AV and they slow you down.

Well, that's because they're detecting the viruses you can not see for yourself? Your logic is pretty flawed in this one, sorry mate.