(12-02-2014, 07:08 AM)nOmnomnOm Wrote: So when i was updating war thunder and its like... 4GB. 15 mins into it the internet gets disconnected. This keeps happening too and I gotta restart the computer and what not. Apparently the net is fine sometimes... so I'm not sure what is causing it...
Is it just bad Internets or something else?
1. Remove any AV software you have (nowadays AV became very useless).
2. Install SpyBot Search and Destroy OR Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
3. Scan PC for errors, viruses, etc.
4. Close fragile ports in your PC.
Ok, what this guy said, but don't remove your AV!! Any AV is better than no AV at all.
Getting a virus can ruin your entire day, not to mention potential damage to your PC.
I personally use Malwarebytes Anti-malware, it's easy to use and reasonably fast as well.
Get that, scan your PC, restart after the scan, then scan again, just to be on the safe side.
I haven't got AV for 3 years straight for many different reasons. I tried a lot of AV in past (both free and paid ones) and each other either slew down PC to the ridiculous levels, screwed up systems and even tried to erase itself. None of my PCs have AV at the moment, as I closed all the fragile ports in them and set all of them to the passive defence as Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware or SpyBot, scanning twice a week. Nowadays, most of AV software is a crap, being more like a light to the moth than actual defence. Windows Firewall + Malwarebytes' is enough and I had no error for 3 years on any PC. Few viruses (up to 7 a week) is a norm for PC, even if you are using AV or not. It's still better than AV screwing up PC after a week (record was few hours after and the other record was three weeks).
Booting up PC was back then like... 2 minutes and other 3 minutes after screen have shown, before any AV turned on. Without AV, it is turning on like in 30 seconds with no crap lagging onto startup. Not to mention AV took even like 50% up to 90% of the CPU memory what rendered every possible work on it impossible. Gaming was just out of question.
Not to mention some AV saw viruses on the clean-bought USB drives or DOS-formatted ones (they saw hidden autorun.ini as a virus.)
