Mind you, nothing in this post is intended to be rude or mean... BUT...
Where to start?
Hot Trout wrote:Just read up on google because Zone ALarm finds just about everything to be malicious. Seriously just try SUPERAntispyware + normal av like AVG or Avast and you will be ok. Zone alarm is a bit heavy handed for my likeing
Avast is the second worst AV I've used (it let a trojan through onto my parents computer and the virus absolutely F*ED my parents PC up)
AVG failed me by letting 4 trojans run rampant on my machine. Scanned with the most advanced state the AV had, found nothing. Used ZA Extreme Security found 4 trojans. Fixed them right up, pc resumed normal operation.
I've never heard ANYTHING about SUPERAntispyware before now, therefor I do not trust it. Ad-Aware SE Professional was the ONLY anti-spyware I trusted before ZA.
JAHGoVeg wrote:I've been using this forever and I've never got nothing from Norton antivirus.
Norton <insert product here> has NEVER done it's job. I ran an AVG AV Free Edition scan on my buddy's computer one time and found over 1200 trojans running rampant on his machine.... 1200! AVG literally locked up trying to quarantine/delete them all. I had to reformat his pc... His defense... the best Norton had to offer... there were over 800 more warnings with AVG that norton overlooked. I even scanned with norton in nazi mode and norton found NOTHING. AVG found 1200+800...... Need I say more about Norton?
My searches with Google bring back next to nothing about ZoneAlarm's false positive ratio, except that it does, like any other program, find some things that aren't malicious to be malicious. Personally I like how it operates much like SELinux. It runs the file in a virtual space and records what the file/program tries to do (per your request on screen when a download finishes) BEFORE it lets you install the program or open the file. How much more secure could you be?
ZA Extreme Security licenses Kapersky for Anti Virus, SonicWall for antispam protection, MailFrontier for e-mail filtering of phishing attacks, Netcraft for Web antiphishing protection, Parental Controls from Blue Coat, identity fraud protection and recovery service from Intersections, online backup from iDrive, credit protection from Identity Guard, full-disk encryption from Check Point's enterprise division, and finally an optional PC diagnostics tool from Large Software.
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PC WorldPCMagI trust ZoneAlarm more than anything else at this point in time. I will try this SMBx game because it does look cool indeed.
*EDIT*
I have installed and played a little bit of SMBx and I have to say it's... different. When I exited the game my desktop exhibited some weird flashing crap (blinking the start bar a million times a second) and then when I tried to get to my start bar it wouldn't pop up until the FFV icons in my system tray (from K-Lite codec pack Mega) went away... and there were like 50 of the bastards all running at the same time......
A couple of cons I noticed is that my controller was not being picked up by the game so I couldn't map out my controls to the controller. It just kept saying "Joystick 1" and when I clicked on the run button to configure it to my controller, the game didn't register any button presses and I had to literally close the program to be able to do anything on it. I had to then re-launch the game, which is EXTREMELY BUGGY at best. The load up process of the game demands almost 68% of system resources when loading and effectively locks up the game window to an unresponsive state. Finally, after around 120 seconds of watching the screen tell me that it was a fan based game and I <3 Nintendo crap, the game finally loaded... and it looked cool as all hell on the title screen. Love how they used Waluigi Pinball stage music from Mario Kart DS. The controls feel loose, like your character is on a delay. Press right, wait one second, then he begins to move right.
Don't get me wrong, the game looks fun as hell, but I won't run it as I'm paranoid about why it needs to have so many of my FFV codecs running at the same time, and why my windows acts funky after exiting the game... My personal opinion.
+ the audio had a very low bitrate and didn't loop correctly, and that was a major turnoff. I don't like the "metallic bubbly" sound in my audio, and if the music keeps fading out to abruptly restart, it makes me not want to listen to it nor play it. Audio is a major point in enjoying any game IMO.
