thehairy Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Hello all,this is my first post so bare with me.I've just started using utorrent after having azureus for about 18 months and suddenly getting problems.My system is a 3.0ghz P4 with a gig of ram.Utorrent was using about 30%cpu and massive amounts of page file usage (2-3gig),which resulted in a system warning of virtual memory being too low and utorrent freezing after so many hours.This meant I had to restart my pc to continue the d/l,after reading through the FAQs and trawling through all the topics in this thread (headache) I have uninstalled mcafee full security suite, which I've used for 2 years without a single problem.Anyway,this seems to have sorted my problem but I really need some anti-virus protection.Does anyone have any suggestions?Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 "but I really need some anti-virus protection.Does anyone have any suggestions?"How about brain.exe?http://www.google.de/search?q=brain.exe&hl=de Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehairy Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 With a risk of being accused of flaming which,believe me,I'm not.I do beg your pardon,smartarse,what I should have asked is does anyone have any suggestions on which anti-virus to use that won't conflict with utorrent?Silly me thought forums were a place where people helped each other or is this the... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 brain.exe will 100% not conflict with µtorrent. Therefore i have recomended this tool.http://brain.yubb.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehairy Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 I think you're being a tool actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 And i think you're missing the point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehairy Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 The point being if I use my loaf it will reduce the chances of my pc getting a virus,does that mean I don't need an anti-virus program?My kids use pc for schoolwork etc and I would feel safer with than without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Kaspersky has an excellent antivirus engine. If you're into free antivirus, you can try AVG or ClamWin.@µtorrent-Guest: Why would you give thehairy trouble on a legitimate question...? Even with common sense, I use an anti-virus just in case I do inadvertently install some malware, so telling him to get a brain isn't really warranted, IMHO =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehairy Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Thank you Ultima,all I wanted was a bit of a pointer.Would any of those mentioned give probs with utorrent?Oh,what the hell,I can just try each one and see what happens,thx again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Nope, not AFAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 "just in case I do inadvertently install some malware"How do you install something "inadvertently"?And if you do so, don't you think this malware-if smart enough to make you "inadvertently" install it in the first place- is also so smart to circumvent ALL kind of Anti-virus that runs on the same maschine that the malware than runs on?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Because people make mistakes. Now, I haven't run into malware issues in quite a while, but I still keep it around just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 avast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 I followed the link and Brain.exe APPEARS to be a real German antivirus program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodStaindHurricane Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 ClamWin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Switeck, shure it is "a real German antivirus program."We germans are smart! (the badguy ~60 years ago was from austria![thats NOT the same as australia])Edit:Google translation of the site:http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbrain.yubb.de%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stihia Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 The most important is the firewall - I use Zone Alarm free, last version; as for the antivirus I have BitDefender 9 Pro but with the built-in firewall DISABLED.I have no problems at all :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodStaindHurricane Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 nah...use look'n'stop or kerio v2 if you must use a firewall. You'll hardly know they're running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 µtorrent-Guest said: 'Switeck, shure it is "a real German antivirus program."'Then you should clarify your posts, and not expect someone who doesn't read the language in your links to do so.The other posters even thought you were telling the original creater of this thread to 'go get a brain'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 oops, some kind of missunderstanding here. I set it in quotation marks because it is a programm, but not a computer programm but really your brain!But it is NOT rudely ment as the phrase 'go get a brain' would mean.Neither my posting nor the original site is ment in a rude way.Its more like "use your brain" as the pure fact of the sentence but not like "get a brain" the idiom(?) for "you are stupid"maybe brain.exe could be supstitutet with "common sence". the phrase brain.exe is widely used in german internet. even in serious german online magazines."Ergebnisse 1 - 10 von ungefähr 16.500 für brain.exe. (0,19 Sekunden) " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 Sorry, most of us use a computer or turn on the tv because we don't want to think.We pick up a calculator, so we don't have to do math in our head.We write things down, so we don't have to memorize them.And we ask others to do things when we're too lazy or tired to do them ourselves.So even if it's the poster's fault they're having problems, it doesn't do any good to rub their nose in it.But it is simply beyond the ability of most people to fight viruses just "using their brain".Humans are weak without tools. And it is too much to ask for us to make new tools when there's already tools dedicated to the task....or similar tools which can be adapted to the task.Which is what the poster was asking for.So I shall list a couple:Process Explorer and TCP View (both from www.sysinternals.com )HijackThis (from http://www.merijn.org/index.htm )These aren't "antivirus" or even "antispyware" applications, however they are VERY helpful at finding things that regular antivirus and antisypware programs miss.The last one isn't a program, it's a web address -- www.google.comThis is to be used to determine if whatever the above programs find MIGHT be hostile, according to other posters on the internet that have more time to research this than I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost21 Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 By saying 'go get a brain', you're implying that the person does not have a brain, which is quite insulting. A more 'polite' way of putting it would be 'use your brain'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleh Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 You're ALL brains Seriously though, using google and the µTorrent FAQ should be easy enough for anyone really.(but, that takes work, and WORK IS HARD DAMNIT!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebReaper Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 Then you should clarify your posts, and not expect someone who doesn't read the language in your links to do so. The other posters even thought you were telling the original creater of this thread to 'go get a brain'.I think other posters are being unnecessarily sensitive. I read the post as referring to brain.exe, which immediately implied a piece of software. If the OP is that fragile that he would take such a comment as an insult without even clicking the link to see what it actually points at, I suggest that he shouldn't participate in public BBSes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 The link was in German...or something similar. I know I couldn't read it.Without being able to read the language, it's easy to mistake the link as a real software website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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