PC stuff

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

fddshow will play alot of stuff including the newest h264 encodings.

it's good if you watch alot of anime. why do you have 3 firewalls O_O?! and all of them software.

[Weirdy]

why do you have 3 firewalls O_O?! and all of them software.

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d-link router = hardware, all else=software

[Agozer]

i also have ffdshow, i really dunno what it do, but somebody on this site told me to get it

That was most likely me, since I'm very pro-ffdshow.

[Ryuken]

i also have ffdshow, i really dunno what it do, but somebody on this site told me to get it

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That was most likely me, since I'm very pro-ffdshow.

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yeah, i think it was you

 

anyway the reason i have 3 is because i don't feel safe enough and all 3 of these seems like crappy firewall but combined they do much better(i think) plus for some reason i can't use zonealaram also i don't want to try other firewall, too much work is needed to find a good firewall,

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

why do you have 3 firewalls O_O?! and all of them software.

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d-link router = hardware, all else=software

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yeah I'm a dumbass.

 

so uh, how safe do you feel ryuken? do you do malware/spyware/virus scans every once a week?

[Weirdy]

if you don't do much downloading and you're wise enough to judge a site "suspicious" you don't really need a virus scanner or any of that crap

[ken_cinder]

if you don't do much downloading and you're wise enough to judge a site "suspicious" you don't really need a virus scanner or any of that crap

 

Don't kid yourself, I just fixed a co-workers computer, and put a fresh install of Windows 2000 on it for him. The ONLY website I went to, was the Windows Update site and MSN.com (Default homepage when you open the browser). I wound up fighting with 4 trojans and about 40 different pieces of spyware to regain control of the PC (ALL the resources were eaten up).

Normally before even going online, I'd get NAV installed so this sort of thing doesn't happen, but I was doing this at 1am and not thinking too well.

Proof that Windows, just simply connected to the internet, is extremely vulnerable.

[Agozer]

Unprotected Windows machines get infected between four to ten minutes after being hooked to the intenet. You don't even have to use the internet or email.

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

yeah, after I format I'm not gonna hook it up unless I have a firewall running before I set the internet ips and stuff, and router firewalls are overrated imo

[Weirdy]

I just trust the firewall on the router *shrug* bah

[Bobdrakke]

I'll use Avg free and zonealarm and sysgate on my dualboot both work quite well.

 

As for codecs I have klite pack and ffdshow.

 

I installed the latest offical build of ffdshow in the opions ask do you want it to handle mp4 and mpeg, I ticked the boxes.

 

Now every time I run VLC or any other app running the above files I get 2 ffdshow icons in the syst tray this is annoying me is there another round this apart from using a different codec pack?

[Agozer]

The ffdshow codec defaults to showing the control panels for both audio and video in the System Tray. Those can be turned off from the ffdshow video/audio filter properties respectively.

 

btw, I wouldn't go ticking any extra checkboxes during install, other than what is already checked. Checking some of them can make certain video formats play a lot poorly than before (this is not always apparent if you just watch video files that are on your HDD, but if those files are embedded into a, let's say, a game then you might see problems).

[Bobdrakke]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

preparing pc for format, I'm currently looking to see what I can save, and I'm gonna scan for viruses with alot of different antiviruses till I'm satisfied so as I'm certain I don't get any crap on the files I wanna backup

 

and I'm pretty certain the router firewalls aren't so much better then people say.

edit: any other useful proggies to have around? (not necesarelly security mind you)

Edited November 3, 2005 by AxL

[Bobdrakke]

Axl you can try ethereal network analyzer freeware you need to install anoyher app called wincap for it to work. the site is www ethereal com (sorry for the gaps i not sure, if live links are allowed)

 

http://www.ethereal.com/

Edited November 3, 2005 by Bobdrakke