A trojan in Allegiance?

Clay_Pigeon · Post by **Clay_Pigeon** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:21 pm

Apparently I'm the only person in the world who doesn't have issues with AVG

sambasti · Post by **sambasti** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:33 pm

I just downloaded folding@home.

FreeBeer, you have done good for the world by pointing me to this software.

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:35 pm

FreeBeer wrote:QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Mar 23 2009, 05:53 PM) You mean something like folding@home?

That's what I was thinking of, yes.

I had it installed for a while, but somehow it made my computer noticeably slower even when, theoretically, it shouldn't have been doing anything. >_< Maybe there was some way to adjust this problem away, but I never figured out how.

Then again, I'm not the most computer-literate person in the world. >_<

sambasti · Post by **sambasti** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:37 pm

Right click on its icon in the bottom right corner of the windows bar, then hit configure and go to the advanced tab. It lets you tell it how much of the available CPU it can use.

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:48 pm

'yt. I think I'll give it another try. ^_^

Edit: Er, actually I was probably thinking of rosetta@home, not folding@home.

It's another distributed computing project with similar aims.
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:01 pm

QUOTE What I want to know is the good kind of virus.[/quote]
Nah, take the whole title:

A trojan in Allegiance?
The good condom kind...

Post by **zombywoof** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:11 pm

Except that trojan condoms suck.

privateerm · Post by **privateerm** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:13 pm

Most "viruses" arn't malicious at all except to make you purchase the AV software. When was the last time you ran into a virus that deleted things? I have run into key loggers. But really, for the most part they are written by the anti virus companies to fuel business.

On another note, I wouldn't disregard the warning message from AVG. You don't have a virus FROM allegiance, you might have one ATTACHED to a DLL or executable file. Some viruses propagate in this way. I would Google the virus name and see how it works.

PS. Make sure you only go to sites like macafee or Norton or avg to get your a/v info, cause there are some sites that propagate viruses by advertising ways to remove them.

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:30 pm

Correct wrote:QUOTE (Correct @ Mar 23 2009, 07:47 PM) What I want to know is the good kind of virus.

Presumably one that disables and uninstalls nortan AV.

kramari · Post by **kramari** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:43 pm

girlyboy wrote:QUOTE (girlyboy @ Mar 23 2009, 11:48 PM) 'yt. I think I'll give it another try. ^_^

Edit: Er, actually I was probably thinking of rosetta@home, not folding@home. It's another distributed computing project with similar aims.
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

I now feel bad because I use my computer resources for useless stuff like finding aliens with SETI@Home