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  • MilesAhead
    Eclectician
    • Nov 2006
    • 2615

    Give it a try

    Originally Posted by Chewy
    well has anyone given these 2 a try and how did it come out, clean as a whiistle?
    I'll give SuperAntiSpyware a try but I'm curious about something. You mentioned that a good video processing machine never sees the internet. If it's not giving secrets away how do you put stuff on this machine? Do you have a gateway that's multi-homed to firewall it or what? Don't tell me you burn data DVDs to copy, then process and burn!!

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    • Chewy
      Super Moderator
      • Nov 2003
      • 18971

      you could still have it networked, but I use a thumb drive to import files

      firefox with noscript has alleviated the problem tremendously

      most computers are so bogged down with protection or malware they don't make good anything tools

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      • Chewy
        Super Moderator
        • Nov 2003
        • 18971

        here's my older computer before I do a video conversion, it's running about as lean and mean as I can make it, it needs all the help it can get, my athlon64 single core is a little more able to stand the workload
        Attached Files

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        • MilesAhead
          Eclectician
          • Nov 2006
          • 2615

          Originally Posted by Chewy
          you could still have it networked, but I use a thumb drive to import files

          firefox with noscript has alleviated the problem tremendously

          most computers are so bogged down with protection or malware they don't make good anything tools
          I was browsing without a condom for a long time because real-time protection schemes bogged the machine down. I got nailed through IE BHO a while back so now I've been checking out backup and protection schemes. The Avast doesn't seem too bad because you can enable only http filtering. I just installed No Script too. Short of uninstalling IE(which I guess they made just about impossible in Vista) I've set everything I can to deny access to it and removed any BHOs or download managers for it.

          Making backups of the OS and installed software it's become obvious how much leaner XP is than Vista!! But wutcha' gonna' do?

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          • Chewy
            Super Moderator
            • Nov 2003
            • 18971

            how much ram are you running?

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            • MilesAhead
              Eclectician
              • Nov 2006
              • 2615

              Originally Posted by Chewy
              how much ram are you running?
              My Vista machine has 2 GB. About the only thing that sometimes feels sluggish is when you move a file on the same drive it pops up a dialog as if you were copying. Sometimes that sits there for a few seconds. That and slow shutdown. What I was referring to is the bulk of the OS on disk. I can store a compressed snapshop of my XP OS and applications on a single DVD(don't have any compilers or big apps installed yet but even so.) The Vista machine doesn't have that many apps either but a similar snapshot is 38 GB!!! Needless to say I didn't burn DVDs. I bought a USB drive for the backups.

              It does have its good points though. When I get the occasional explorer shell crash it usually offers to restart explorer without even logging off.

              It seems pretty stable.

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              • katzdvd
                Lord of Digital Video
                Lord of Digital Video
                • Feb 2006
                • 2198

                here's my older computer before I do a video conversion, it's running about as lean and mean as I can make it, it needs all the help it can get, my athlon64 single core is a little more able to stand the workload
                Wow, that's amazing how you can get those processes/threads that low. I take it that you don't really have any software installed other than the bare minimum? Do you also dump unnecessary windows components, such as paint, calculator, character map, etc, or don't those play into the lean & mean factor? I followed your power user setup thread for my xp pc, dumped a lot of junk from the add/remove, but was never able to get that clean...

                My linux pc has 30 processes running right now, I know I could shave about 5 -7 of those off right away if I wasn't running some "candy" programs.

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                • Chewy
                  Super Moderator
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 18971

                  there are several services you can turn off with a small savings of resources

                  my power user thread was just about significant savings, main thing is I don't have anything loading at bootup but windows

                  every program gets a custom/advanced install or setup

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                  • snagel
                    Super Member
                    Super Member
                    • Apr 2006
                    • 259

                    RE: Chewy

                    Chewy, I did run and try the Super Anti SPY Ware. I did a complete scan and it did take out quite a few problems. I then did a complete scan using Adaware SE and it still indicated two more incidents. I ran both another time each to make sure every thing was clean. I am going to try in another week or so and reverse the order. Use Adaware SE first and then scan using Super Anti spy ware and see if it picks up things that Adaware SE didn't.

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                    • Chewy
                      Super Moderator
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 18971

                      spybot keeps removing my forum login cookies, of course these things are hardly stable

                      SuperAnti does not remove them, might just use spybot to immunize

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                      • MilesAhead
                        Eclectician
                        • Nov 2006
                        • 2615

                        my scheme

                        Originally Posted by Chewy
                        spybot keeps removing my forum login cookies, of course these things are hardly stable

                        SuperAnti does not remove them, might just use spybot to immunize
                        My scheme has been to set both Firefox and Opera to delete cache and cookies on closing. Seems easier than chasing down tracking cookies using patterns and all that. While the browser is up it accepts the cookie so stuff works. If I close and later go back to a site I just use the password tool to log in again. I used to waste a lot of time with WinPatrol entering in patterns to block tracking cookies and they just kept changing the names of the cookies to elude the pattern.

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                        • Chewy
                          Super Moderator
                          • Nov 2003
                          • 18971

                          Originally Posted by kingdomathand
                          Hi guys does some one know how to use keygen for nero 7 ? have i got to unplug the PC? thanks for the time and patience

                          Grace be unto you
                          you have already received a warning and an infraction, please read the rules and let this be the last time you break them, pirating software is not something we support, besides that's how you get the worst infections

                          and furthermore there are plenty of free alternatives to nero

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                          • Chewy
                            Super Moderator
                            • Nov 2003
                            • 18971

                            dvd flick is free for converting

                            imgburn is also free for the burning

                            both are worthy programs for donations tho

                            both programs have subforums here

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                            • blutach
                              Not a god of digital video
                              • Oct 2004
                              • 24627

                              @kingdomathand

                              READ the post above your last one. It says free.

                              Regards
                              Les

                              Essential progs - [PgcEdit] [VobBlanker] [MenuShrink] [IfoEdit] [Muxman] [DVD Remake Pro] [DVD Rebuilder] [BeSweet] [Media Player Classic] [DVDSubEdit] [ImgBurn]

                              Media and Burning - [Golden Rules of Burning] [Media quality] [Fix your DMA] [Update your Firmware] [What's my Media ID Code?] [How to test your disc]
                              [What's bitsetting?] [Burn dual layer disks safely] [Why not to burn with Ner0] [Interpret Ner0's burn errors] [Got bad playback?] [Burner/Media compatibility]

                              Cool Techniques - [2COOL's guides] [Clean your DVD] [Join a flipper] [Split into 2 DVDs] [Save heaps of Mb] [How to mock strip] [Cool Insert Clips]

                              Real useful info - [FAQ INDEX] [Compression explained] [Logical Remapping of Enabled Streams] [DVD-Replica] [Fantastic info on DVDs]


                              You should only use genuine Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden media. Many thanks to www.pcx.com.au for their supply and great service.

                              Explore the sites and the programs - there's a gold mine of information in them

                              Don't forget to play the Digital Digest Quiz!!! (Click here)

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                              • locoeng
                                Who Farted?
                                • Dec 2005
                                • 2509

                                Originally Posted by Chewy
                                It's not often that I am impressed with a relatively new program in this field, but I tried one out today and it's got spybot and adaware beat by a country mile.

                                In my opinion it's probably worth paying for the upgrade to PRO and dumping some other real time protection, but since I don't use any(live dangerously/lean and mean and all that)?

                                http://www.superantispyware.com/
                                Originally Posted by Chewy
                                well has anyone given these 2 a try and how did it come out, clean as a whiistle?
                                Took this one for a spin last night and it found two trojan.netdotcom items that, upon google search, came up as a medium threat. I removed them anyway and all seems well. This does look like a good program chewy, thanks. Should I not continue periodic scans with spybot S&D and Adaware anymore?


                                "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. It's not fair to you and no challenge for us."
                                Walt Kelly

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