Launcher for Beamng is unsafe?

I use mcafee, it's worked for me for a long time now

 

Dumbest user of the year award.

 

A dumb user couldn't have made it years without antivirus software.
If what they're doing works for them, why ridicule them for it? What
do you care if they use A/V or not?

 

I haven't used live protection on a computer for around 4 years. I have common sense, use ABP, and actually care about my computers and files enough to maintain them. Antivirus isn't 100% necessary, it's just helpful.

 

There is no reason not to use AV. Not using one because you think you don't need it or it isn't 100% necessary etc etc only increases the risk of getting infected. It barely uses any resources, all the job is done in the background, so WHY NOT?

'nuff said.

 

Unless its norton or mcafee

 

+1

Also, no antivirus program is 100% secure either.
Gives many users a sense of false security, they think
if they have it they can click whatever they want.

Food for thought:
A lot of speculation has been discussed about where
viruses come from in the first place...as in, who do you
think creates the viruses that those programs catch?

 

evil programmers of course

 

Alot of them set out to harvest personal data, bank details and the like or they can sell your details to other companies.


Speaking of which, norton was under fire for supposedly including a keylogger which symantec of course denied. I installed wireshark on a PC with norton and it did have an outgoing TCP connection which was firing intermittently, but didnt seem to be transmitting enough to be keylogging, I think it was most likely checking with the software update servers or something.

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As for my antivirus of choice. MSE is part of windows defender in windows 8. Dunno if you can turn it off entirely, don't care.

 

my anti-virus of choice is a combo of MSE (well, windows defender for me) and Malwarebytes anti-malware, works great

 

They actually merged the two for Windows 8 and called it Defender.
Before that Defender was primarily anti-malware/spyware and MSE was antivirus.

Glad to see it's all built in to Windows 8.

 

Did I not just say that MSE is part of Defender? Cheers for rewording what I already said.

Defender was primarily a firewall only. MSE was always the malware product (with spyware and viruses being categorised as malware).

Definite step forwards. Especially as it isnt a half bad product, not the best in the world but on independent tests it does fare remarkably well (better than several paid for products, yet this is built into windows 8 and free for older versions???)

 

I was just elaborating a bit, so sorry your highness.

Defender has NEVER been a firewall.

 

firewall? no.

wikipedia says otherwise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Defender

 

(imported from here)
Wikipedia will always be my best friend <3.

 

Actually I genuinely wanted to use some information I found on wikipedia in a uni assignment, so went to the citation, followed it through to the original paper, cited from that paper, submitted the assignment only for the online submission service to flag my quote for plagiarism. It marked it as incorrect referencing and that I had plagiarised wikipedia... Not taking that dude's advice again The tutor graded me fine for that though as he could follow the source just fine, just turnitin being stupid.


As for not firewall. I'll hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

 

my online school also uses turnitin, always detects the schools questions and stuff as plagiarism, because all the other students also have that part on their assignments, tis a silly program sometimes

 

Just opened that assignment, 57% similarity of which 48% is the cover sheet. It also marked a line of code I wrote as being submitted by a student at the university of Hull??? I genuinely don't know anyone from/living in/studying in Hull.

 

OP if you get something like this and the program came from a legitimate source it's more than likely just the av making a false positive. Scan it with an online scanner if you want to be safe. The launcher.exe, though, is ok.

My uni uses safe assign and papers always get high similarity percentage... even when no sources were used. It's only useful if a student grabs a paper from online and changes it slightly...

 

@ the guy who refuses to use anti-virus. It's an alright strategy if you really know what you're doing and/or only use it for mostly offline stuff. But for the average user it's definitely recommended. I think I'm good with computers, but still use MSE just in case I do accidentally click on something or I get tricked.
And the whole turnitit websites; I think they're ok if the professor doesn't only go by it. I had one that did that and it was terrible. But if they just use it to double check to make sure you didn't just copy and paste whole things, it's alright. Still don't like it though.