Downloading On The Internet

[mississauga5.0]

Im curious about downloading programs to use.

Limewire? Kazaa? Bit Torrent? Torrent Spy?

My girl just got a Dell Pentium D

We have McAfee installed and "protecting" but should i be concerned about trojan horses?



just want some knowledge from my 5.0 brethren

what's the best and where do i go

 

[Rtanger84]

Get some decent spy ware program and an ad aware program go with limwire

 

[Strype]

Kazaa Lite ++

Very rare find, but very untracable.

 

[timeless2]

I rock:
McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise
ClamWin Antivirus
Webroot Spysweeper
LavaSoft's Ad-aware
Windows Defender


I do NOT use any peer to peer crap. Talk about virus laden. Torrents are the way to go.

Client: http://utorrent.com
Search engine: http://torrentscan.com

 

[88 Fox GT]

Torrents FTW. If I can't find them on torrents, I use Limewire.

www.avast.com

Free virus protection. Works awesome.

Spybot Search & Destroy
Ad-aware
SpywareBlaster

All are free and can be found on www.majorgeeks.net

 

[1990Coupe]

I rock:
McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise
ClamWin Antivirus
Webroot Spysweeper
LavaSoft's Ad-aware
Windows Defender


I do NOT use any peer to peer crap. Talk about virus laden. Torrents are the way to go.

Client: http://utorrent.com
Search engine: http://torrentscan.com

:Teh-Win: what he said +123456... im just not a fan of McAfee, not knocking it, i just prefer Kasperski or Norton.... aside from bittorrents you can go for the IRC... i use MIRC as my client, and search engine www.ircspy.com... actually just picked up the new crossfade CD last night

 

[timeless2]

:Teh-Win: what he said +123456... im just not a fan of McAfee, not knocking it, i just prefer Kasperski or Norton....

Yep, I'm not a fan, either, by I have a corporate version from work for free. I run it as my active scan and run ClamWin as a backend passive scan.

Here is a good, free, online scan tool:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

[mississauga5.0]

Newfish downloader

Dude thanks for links.

however, im downloading superman returns and my comp went into stanby mode...wtf? i was in the middle of replying to your responce like 3 mins ago and had to start over.

can you shed some light?

here my specs FYI
Dell Dimension Intel Pentium D
2.8GHz 2.79GHz, 3.5GB ram
416 GB disk sspace
NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE


can i tune my comp like you would a stang?

my buddy has a p 4 at same speed but seems to download so much faster. songs take seconds!
i know his younger brother and his best friend r tech guys who play world of warcraft all day and did stuff to it.

 

[timeless2]

Power Management settings need adjusted so your PC doesn't turn off by itself; only when you ask it.

Do you know where to adjust them or do you need some advice on how to do it?

 

[88 Fox GT]

my buddy has a p 4 at same speed but seems to download so much faster. songs take seconds!
i know his younger brother and his best friend r tech guys who play world of warcraft all day and did stuff to it.

Download speeds have NOTHING to do with what CPU you have. It's all in the internet connection speed. He probably has a faster connection than you.

 

[mississauga5.0]

My connection speed

forget to add this but im running rogers cable internet.

and i think we have the "high speed" internet for a few months but are being charged for the regular connection speed.

we use the modem connected to cable and an ethernet cable from box to computer.

no telephone lines.

 

[MrStang123]

www.bitlord.com (its like limewire but with torrents)
www.mininova.org (search engine for torrents)

 

[88 Fox GT]

www.torrentscan.com

Has all the major torrent sites in one site.

 

[timeless2]

See post 4.

 

[88 Fox GT]

See post 4.

My bad.

 

[idareu]

Download speeds have NOTHING to do with what CPU you have. It's all in the internet connection speed. He probably has a faster connection than you.

Exactly, or he's done some tweaking to his connection.

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Read the rest of this post at your own risk, 'cause
you can break something doing this
(ask me how I know )
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Now to answer your question of if you can "tune up" your pc. Yeah you can, but you have to be careful when tweaking the registry. If you plan on doing it manually, you need to backup your registry.

How to back up your registry

To manually change your TCP/IP, check out this web site:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/645/

Google Search for TCP/IP registry hacks

Or if you would rather have a piece of software do it, try Cablenut. I've used it before and it works pretty well (plus it's free).

http://www.cablenut.com/

 

[mob]

If you need programs and stuff use torrents.

I personally dont like torrents because they take up alot of space and they always give me pop ups and ive had to reformat my computer because of it and just pretty much make it run slow. If I need a program like a game, or photoshop, or any kind of program I want I go to torrentspy.com, and use bit comet to download them, then right when their done I close the program as soon as possible and dont open it again.

If its for music, or videos I use limewire, Ive never had a problem with viruses or spyware. You can tell when a program is a virus, if it says photoshop newest version! and its like 121kb its obviously not the right one. But I only use limewire for downloading songs, they have everysong you need download it disconnect from it and you just listen to all your songs.

What ever you use your going to get spyware or have problems so just get what you need and get off.

 

[88 Fox GT]

How do you get spyware through torrents? What are you doing wrong?

 

[timeless2]

How do you get spyware through torrents? What are you doing wrong?

There is a very small chance you will get any malware via torrents unless you knowingly download something that says, "Hey, I'm a virus!!".

Spyware comes from many other avenues, so it likely came in one of Microsoft's gaping wounds in the OS.

 

[mississauga5.0]

Exausted

Dude

Majorgeeks .com has tired me out. i feel like neo in matrix.

ive downloaded stuff for my comp. it runs maybe 5 percent better.

stuff like advance windows care v2, fast cache, fast defrag, download express, zzz

i haven't even gotten to the anti virus downloads. but my mcafee seems to be just fine for now.

it catches trojons here and there

thanks stangnet!:SNSign: