Re: AVG and games are getting on my wic
@haily_merry, you're echoing my sentiments and saying stuff I've said for years and years. As for 17, that's just flat out common sense. If you don't understand how a computer works, you'd best get an antisomething software to watch your back, but you're best off learning what a computer is, is not, can and cannot do if you're actually getting one. I mean, I've heard people who said that if you turn off your computer it can still spy on you. Even if you unplug it and disconnect it from everything, electricity, internet, yada yada yada it's still able to transmit information.
We all know this is a load of horse. If you don't know that, stop reading this topic right now and go do a bit of research. Fishing scams exist. Ransomeware exists. Rundll32 attacks exist. If your computer is acting stupidly sluggish there's probably a reason why, and you'd better stop visiting whatever the last place was you visited because they've probably been infected, or stop trading usb sticks and other drives with your friends.Instead, keep a backup coppy of the latest version of MSE for win7 users whoever you are, or make sure windows defender is up to date if you're a win10 user. Did you launch a weird page that did something more than interesting? Hear a TTS voice telling you your computer is infected? Telling you you'd better download such and such software or even worse, telling you that you'd better pay thousands of dollars you don't have to recover your files or else your computer will never work? Kill your web-browser. Control shift escape is your friend! Terminate any processes associated with chrome, FF, Edge, whatever your surfing piggyback of choice may be. Most PC's, particularly laptops nowadays have switches to disable your Wi-Fi connection immediately; kill that too! Take a breather! Run a scanner! Find whatever possible threats you can. Restart connection. Watch for five minutes and see if you detect any sluggish behavior on your PC. Inspect services and processes. Check msconfig. Make note of what you see and use google to find info on it if you are even slightly concerned. Update scanners; run them again. Rince and repeat as necessary. Do not assume any company, security or otherwise is going to do all the work for you. If you found threats of any kind assume they might have left registry keys behind. Clean them up. Restart. Cycle continues.
Fact: computer maintenance is not a set and forget kind of thing. If you're serious about it you're going to do whatever it takes to make sure you stay protected. It's like a freaking car; you shouldn't wait until the very last minute to charge your battery, fill your gas tank, check your oil, etc. All technology is the same; when buying any technological piece you must assume responsibility over it. Understand it; research it. Ask others about it. Forget this mentality that a piece of software is going to protect you because even it can be compromised.
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