What is your opinion on SuperAntiSpyware? I've never used it, but I'm trying to get my little sister's laptop working better. She has an older Toshiba(windows vista 32 bit) that is running really slow. Part of it is because it's a computer owned by a teenage girl who downloads whatever cute or fun game she can find. She has Windows Defender(lol), SuperAntiSpyware, Malware Bytes, and CCleaner. I'm familiar with all but SuperAntiSpyware. She loves it, but it seems to me like it's pointless if her comp still runs like crap. I may just remove it without her permission and replace it with Spybot S&D. I replaced Defender with MSE tonight. I used CCleaner to turn off most of her startup programs and fix about 800 errors with her registry. Hopefully it will start running better. It takes the damn thing about 15-20 minutes to boot up, and I expect to hear a swan song before too long.

stangmar:

What is your opinion on SuperAntiSpyware? I've never used it, but I'm trying to get my little sister's laptop working better. She has an older Toshiba(windows vista 32 bit) that is running really slow. Part of it is because it's a computer owned by a teenage girl who downloads whatever cute or fun game she can find. She has Windows Defender(lol), SuperAntiSpyware, Malware Bytes, and CCleaner. I'm familiar with all but SuperAntiSpyware. She loves it, but it seems to me like it's pointless if her comp still runs like crap. I may just remove it without her permission and replace it with Spybot S&D. I replaced Defender with MSE tonight. I used CCleaner to turn off most of her startup programs and fix about 800 errors with her registry. Hopefully it will start running better. It takes the damn thing about 15-20 minutes to boot up, and I expect to hear a swan song before too long.

I use SuperAntiSpyware on a fairly high end laptop, alongside of Malwarebytes, and have yet to have a single problem or noticeable performance drop. Total of $40 for lifetime subscriptions to both.

stangmar:

What is your opinion on SuperAntiSpyware? I've never used it, but I'm trying to get my little sister's laptop working better. She has an older Toshiba(windows vista 32 bit) that is running really slow. Part of it is because it's a computer owned by a teenage girl who downloads whatever cute or fun game she can find. She has Windows Defender(lol), SuperAntiSpyware, Malware Bytes, and CCleaner. I'm familiar with all but SuperAntiSpyware. She loves it, but it seems to me like it's pointless if her comp still runs like crap. I may just remove it without her permission and replace it with Spybot S&D. I replaced Defender with MSE tonight. I used CCleaner to turn off most of her startup programs and fix about 800 errors with her registry. Hopefully it will start running better. It takes the damn thing about 15-20 minutes to boot up, and I expect to hear a swan song before too long.

The problem I notice immediately is that she has 3 anti-spyware programs and not a single anti-virus. I would get rid of windows defender and superantispyware. Leave malware bytes and install MSE.

Deschain:


The problem I notice immediately is that she has 3 anti-spyware programs and not a single anti-virus. I would get rid of windows defender and superantispyware. Leave malware bytes and install MSE.

That's what I've been trying to tell her. She doesn't need all of those programs. I replaced Defender already with MSE. She may already have MalwareBytes, but if not I'll put it on.

Ignore me. I misread the post.

My roommate's girlfriend is in town, which means I have to hear them for more than 8 hours a day. Also, about 30 seconds ago I was walking back to my room from the kitchen with a sandwich. My roommate had chosen that exact moment to make the three-foot walk from his room to the bathroom. Naked.

Agnlaa:

My roommate's girlfriend is in town, which means I have to hear them for more than 8 hours a day. Also, about 30 seconds ago I was walking back to my room from the kitchen with a sandwich. My roommate had chosen that exact moment to make the three-foot walk from his room to the bathroom. Naked.

I can only think, in a Nathan Fillion voice, "Eight hours a day? Boys got stamina."

I wish I was exaggerating, but when she comes to town that's all they do when he's not working. And we share a wall.

That's-- hm. I feel like this is a scenario where I ought to have something clever to say, but I just keep getting stuck on thinking, "that's a lot of hours." Yep.

I think that's all there really is to say on the matter. :mellow:

I am currently without health insurance because I moved to Mississippi so the insurance I had in Arkansas can't apply to me anymore. And, I have to get an exam to get insurance with the same company in Mississippi or find another insurance company and hope they don't need an exam too (cause without insurance, the exam will be expensive). But, no matter which way I go, I'm looking at weeks of no coverage and I just know, I just KNOW that something is going to happen that will require a doctor's visit or hospital stay or something medical related just because I'm currently uninsured. :o

Deschain:


No offense or anything, but you're wrong about pretty much everything in this post. :P

Firefox is more of a memory hog right now than pretty much every other browser. Try leaving it open for an entire day, by the end of the day your computer will be almost unusable. Chrome is amazing.

If Chrome caused your computer to blue screen, more than likely that was your computers fault.

Also, AVG is more like a virus an an anti-virus these days. It's resource intensive and almost impossible to remove from your system. I replaced AVG with microsoft security essentials on my parents computer over Christmas and I spent about 45 minutes trying to get rid of AVG. It's like a parasite.

MSE is super lightweight and works really well. For maximum security I recommend it alongside malware bytes.

Opera is OK, but where the user percentage is so low most web site designers do not test on it, so you're more likely to run into issues then you are with the other big 3 browsers.

Firefox can be a memory hog unless you're running an ancient version. I don't like the newer versions and thus have refused them. I personally have never had issues with Chrome and use it frequently, but if you get 1,000,000 tabs open like I do... well, I have issues. I get 1,000,000 tabs open with Firefox and I have no issue. So it's my own experience. However, I do note that at the end of the day - I pretty much have to kill Chrome as a process in order to use anything. Again, could be my RAM. Ugh. Silly RAM. Silly computer that is half-broken.

(However, Chromium is fan-freaking-tastic. I suspect it could be the fact that Chrome just bogs down one of the systems I maintain - never had an issue with Firefox - although I prefer Chrome so I use it.) I just look at the usage for Chrome in comparison to Firefox and find it very untidy. It's one of those things.

I've used AVG for years. Years. So I'm set in my old ways. I am also anti-Windows. So I come by my dislike for MSE honestly. I really do. I promise. But I switched to Avast! which is reportedly good for a single core computer but nothing above. I'd have to look at the research again.

As a side note, I use Opera on my netbook. It's fantastic, but took a bit of getting used to.

Ugh tired. Ugh rambling.

Noola:

I am currently without health insurance because I moved to Mississippi so the insurance I had in Arkansas can't apply to me anymore. And, I have to get an exam to get insurance with the same company in Mississippi or find another insurance company and hope they don't need an exam too (cause without insurance, the exam will be expensive). But, no matter which way I go, I'm looking at weeks of no coverage and I just know, I just KNOW that something is going to happen that will require a doctor's visit or hospital stay or something medical related just because I'm currently uninsured. :o

I know your feeling. I'm technically 'covered' by my mom's health insurance plan, but ever since obamacare started taking effect, our deductible went from $2,500 to $10,000. So if anything happens, I can't afford the deductible, ergo I'm uninsured.

EDIT: No idea why it posted twice, I only clicked once. -.-''

More than slightly peeved at the moment, got disconnected in the middle of an ego battle, when I finally reconnected I found I have lost 9% of a circle, roughly the equivalent of FIVE lost battles - I found when I lost a battle earlier that I lost around 1.6% of a circle. In short, I lost about 8 hours work in 1 disconnection. Have ISSUEd it since it seems strange that I'd lose so much in a single battle when I had been losing a fraction of that up until now, but not holding my breath over getting it back.

Kagato:

More than slightly peeved at the moment, got disconnected in the middle of an ego battle, when I finally reconnected I found I have lost 9% of a circle, roughly the equivalent of FIVE lost battles - I found when I lost a battle earlier that I lost around 1.6% of a circle. In short, I lost about 8 hours work in 1 disconnection. Have ISSUEd it since it seems strange that I'd lose so much in a single battle when I had been losing a fraction of that up until now, but not holding my breath over getting it back.

Were you using stratagem repeat or stratagems at all?

If you had some things in the stratagem queue, it's possible that your DCed self kept re-initiating ego battles with other NPCs in the room.

No, just was using M&M. You'd think that the second that the connection broke it would stop relaying commands, particularly if my ego level reached 0 rather than continuing to try to debate other creatures and losing after a single attack from them too.

Kagato:

No, just was using M&M. You'd think that the second that the connection broke it would stop relaying commands, particularly if my ego level reached 0 rather than continuing to try to debate other creatures and losing after a single attack from them too.

Were you using DOR? Or some variation thereof?

I don't know how M&M's influencer works, but I know mine is built on top of stratagem repeat.

Lusternia has no idea you've disconnected, so if the influencer utilizes stratagems... there's no way to stop it once the client disconnects.

Not that I know of, though I'd have to check with Vadi. To my knowledge it works off triggering, when it detects equilibrium it does the next attack, or at least that is how it seems to work.

Do you get any prompts between regaining EQ and doing the next attack? If yes, it's not stratagems, if no, it most likely is.

Kagato:

Not that I know of, though I'd have to check with Vadi. To my knowledge it works off triggering, when it detects equilibrium it does the next attack, or at least that is how it seems to work.

There's an easy way to check, since he's probably gagging some of the stratagem lines.

Do you see:
You have recovered equilibrium.
You influence a mob!

Or:
You have recovered equilibrium.
*prompt, maybe some other text*
You influence a mob!

The first is utilizing stratagems, the second isn't. The first is far and away more efficient, but you lose a bit of control if you're not on top of it and aware what's going on.