Topic: No, I will not fix your computer. (Read 65405 times)

Healy · « **Reply #240 on:** December 03, 2009, 01:55:42 AM »

Quote from: ZedPower on December 02, 2009, 08:50:58 PM

Dang, any other avast antivirus users in here? Don't reboot! The latest update gives a crapload of false positives for "Win32:Delf-MZG (Trj)", including on Spybot S&D, various seemingly random programs, and some files that Windows needs to boot. Avast won't let them be used and will basically cause a lock-up.

That is some toxic-ass shit right there. There's a thread on the (currently overloaded) official forums that'll tell you how to disable it all before too much harm is done, but personally I am taking this retarded garbage out of my machine. What the fuck.

Dang, that's a pretty huge problem. I just uninstalled Avast off my machine; will that stop any of the problems that are happening?

Dooly · « **Reply #241 on:** December 03, 2009, 05:09:09 AM »

There's a note at the top of that thread saying that the problem is fixed in the latest set of virus definitions.

Healy · « **Reply #242 on:** December 03, 2009, 07:11:44 AM »

Yeah, I noticed. I just don't want to get caught unprepared by that kind of shit again.

François · « **Reply #243 on:** December 03, 2009, 07:40:49 AM »

It's fixed but at this point I'm beyond caring. I'm savvy enough to know a bunch of obvious false positives when I see one (and I was lucky enough to see it acting up during normal operation and not at start-up), but there's any number of people out there who might have let avast quarantine or delete system files because oh shit there's a trojan in the windows folder on a file with a weird name.

Rico · « **Reply #244 on:** December 03, 2009, 08:41:32 AM »

Meanwhile, I just clicked the Do Nothing button when the box popped up, and can continue to use those programs~

Quarantining I can maybe understand for the first couple, but the threads full of people who were all, "I DELETED 12 GB FROM MY DELLPUTER" are a little hard to believe.

François · « **Reply #245 on:** December 03, 2009, 03:23:23 PM »

I used the do-nothing button for a while but it kept asking me over and over for the same files, so I got a leeeeettle sick of it.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #246 on:** December 04, 2009, 12:56:51 PM »

I recently bought a large hard drive. A 1.5TB hard drive. I made two partitions, one for 100GB, and one for everything else. win 7 went on the 100gb partition. Every time I format the large section, it seems to go through the process of about four hours then says it failed to format. Anybody know of known issues with very large drives in Vista 32-bit?

PhoenixUltima · « **Reply #247 on:** December 04, 2009, 01:45:48 PM »

Wow. I use avast myself, and from what I'm reading it sounds like I dodged a huge bullet. My habit of never turning off the computer saves the day!

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #248 on:** December 04, 2009, 05:09:57 PM »

Fixed my own problem. Win 7 64bit had zero problem doing a format of the very large drive.

Mongrel · « **Reply #249 on:** December 04, 2009, 07:26:24 PM »

Hmm, my power supply seems to work perfectly fine... now that I've removed it entirely from the case.

Mongrel · « **Reply #250 on:** December 06, 2009, 04:57:23 PM »

Phew. Starr just got a new computer* (so that she can do some proper 3D rendering) that so completely emasculates mine in every way shape or form that my computer actually wraps back around to some kind of macho for trying to even compete.

Quad-core i7-920, with dual HD 5770 ATI graphics cards, 6 gigs of Ram to start with and blah blah blah etc. I'm sure at least one or two of you has better (maybe Brent or someone), but that's a whole lot more computer than was previously under this roof. The damn case has SEVEN fans - never mind the standard ones on the power supply, CPU, graphics cards, etc,.

So at least she can play TF2 now.

*Or, well, the parts for a new computer. Getting a functioning machine out of it is where every White Guy's Token Asian Friend comes in. Of course, in Toronto, 'token' is better applied to the white guy.

Büge · « **Reply #251 on:** December 06, 2009, 05:20:04 PM »

Hey, ~~since when do you qualify as white~~ is it the Asian guy we met in August?

Mongrel · « **Reply #252 on:** December 06, 2009, 05:23:05 PM »

Yeah, it's Damon.

P.S. I can qualify as any race I want to, so long as it's white. :HenryFord:

Brentai · « **Reply #253 on:** December 06, 2009, 07:17:27 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on December 06, 2009, 04:57:23 PM

I'm sure at least one or two of you has better (maybe Brent or someone)

Uh, my computer was bleeding edge three years ago. It is actually pretty outdated now. I'm planning to build a new one after I cover some basic debts.

Mongrel · « **Reply #254 on:** December 06, 2009, 07:23:24 PM »

LOL, the case came with 'pimp lights' standard.

Saturn · « **Reply #255 on:** December 19, 2009, 10:11:15 PM »

welp, my cheapo headset finally shit out, any suggestions?

priced below $100 is a plus

TA · « **Reply #256 on:** December 20, 2009, 01:23:11 PM »

I feel like anything by Logitech with a USB port is gonna be fine, and pretty cheap.

Mongrel · « **Reply #257 on:** December 20, 2009, 02:05:20 PM »

Quote from: TA on December 20, 2009, 01:23:11 PM

I feel like anything by Logitech with a USB port is gonna be fine, and pretty cheap.

Rico · « **Reply #258 on:** December 20, 2009, 02:38:53 PM »

It depends on what you're going for. I found the Microsoft Lifechat very comfortable and it's about $15. I've found Logitechs to be a little less reliable but I'm pretty hard on my headsets. If you use a headset enough that you want a good one, SteelSeries is probably the nicest at reasonable prices.

Brentai · « **Reply #259 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:37:25 PM »

I'm using a Logitech now. The sound quality is good for a $20 headset, but man is the design awkward.

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