WORKING Battlefield 4 (including Mantle) 64bit AMD Catalyst 14.9 64bit uTorrent (latest version as of 2. october) foobar 1.3.3 Chrome 64bit Steam Origin Fl Studio 11.1.1 64bit iTunes 64bit Skype for desktop MPC-HC 64bit Java SE JDK 64bit WinRAR 64bit Intel Chipset INF driver NOT WORKING Asus Essence Xonar STX driver (main installer is not working, but naked driver can be normally installed via Device Manager, and is fully functional)
nice quote from ESET forums Thanks superssjdan whoever you are, lol another worthwhile quote make it so cappie
All anti-virus programs are just a false sense of security. Just don't run suspicious files and your problems are solved.
well i agree - "don't run" but how can I know it's suspicious when I don't have a scanner.. but at work if i have to do it, to be safe what can i do..
Exactly, and anyone remotely intelligent enough to use an alpha OS on a daily basis shouldn't need anything more than defender.
If you got it anywhere other than a .com website, it's most likely something you shouldn't run. If a download service makes you use a 'downloader exe', it's suspicious. If you got it from a link on a social networking site such as facebook or youtube, you shouldn't run it. scanning these things will often not turn up anything. They are designed to be undetected. They even pride themselves on their invisibility calling their crypters FUD (Fully Un-Detectable)
I tryed it briefly last night and those were working fine : Chrome Skype Itunes Shockware Air Silverlight Java Acrobat Reader Avira 7-Zip Teamviewer All installed with ninite.com. The only one that haven't worked was K-lite codec pack.
Yea, I scratch my head at the people turning off Defender and installing what to me are clearly inferior AV/Malware programs...like Avast or even that gosh-awful McAfee's. As Murphy78 says, mostly it's a psychological, peace-of-mind thing and if you are selective and picky you don't have to worry. I like Defender whenever I--uh--download something I know that I maybe ought not to trust 100% (rarely) and then individually scan the thing before decompression (and after, before installation.) I started using it when it was a separate program, MSE, and have had no reason to use anything else in maybe a decade or so (my, how time flies when you're getting older.) One of the things I like most about MSE/Defender is how it's almost immune to false positives! I don't see 'em. That and it's got a really small resources footprint and is the least invasive of the lot, imo. One AV proggy I tried, tried to impress me by flagging *reams* of false positives that amounted to little more than partial text strings it found in the registry left behind as debris from program uninstalls--the damned AV program (Malwarebytes? Can't recall) flagged them as *possible malware*--and when I went through the log to see what was what--it was all a bunch of malarkey... Oh, and all of those supposed AV "tests" that hit the Internet from time to time? Most if not all of them are paid for by other AV developers and in one "10 Best AV programs" article I unfortunately wasted my time reading, not a single free AV program had even been tested. Heck, even Dell stupidly turns off Defender and installs McAfee...for heaven's sake! I ignore those tests and instead rely on my long experience which tells me Defender is plenty good enough.