Who cares about security? |
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24.2% (8) |
Sometimes. |
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30.3% (10) |
Never! Security MATTERS! |
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30.3% (10) |
Meh. |
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15.2% (5) |
Muckraker  Posts: 344 Joined: 21 Mar 2008     | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 129 Joined: 14 Aug 2008     | I think I'd change your last option from "meh" to "what?" because that's what I though when I read your poll. Hopefully down the line people will elaborate on this and people who said "what?" will be informed, it'll also show them they didn't know about it until now. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 403 Joined: 15 Jul 2008     | I have to kill my AntiVirus to play TF2 without it crashing between Map loading. It's an actual known issue with Valve. Sucks, but hey, gotta get my game one some how. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 381 Joined: 25 Mar 2008     | I run my anti-virus programs when I sleep and when I do other stuff (shower, school, socialise). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1383 Joined: 27 Jul 2008    | My AV has set-it-and-forget-it scans, and I experience no slowdowns while it's running, much less any conflicts with any games. (btw it's McAfee) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008   | Your computer gets a virus screws up and eats your disc, now tell me if you can't be bothered waiting. |
Muckraker Posts: 344 Joined: 21 Mar 2008 |
What antivirus are you using? |
Press Junketeer Posts: 403 Joined: 15 Jul 2008 |
Symantic Business or w/e provided by my University. I kept getting memory dumps or issues when TF2 tried to swap out maps. I could join and play on any server I wanted to, but if the map swapped, *CRASH*. Looked it up, says it's related to the AV I use (also issues with AVG, as well). I'm using it because it's free, after I get out of school, I'll probably opt into Panda. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 192 Joined: 22 Jul 2008     | Ive recently turned off a piece of my NOD security so I can play Guild Wars wirelessly at university... Good idea? Probably not, but whatever, my laptop sucks anyway. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 849 Joined: 5 Aug 2008   | Most people actually have an over-abundance of security running at any one time. For one, if you are using a router, you can turn off the Windows Firewall permanently since your router has a better one built in. Second, if all your doing online at that particular time is playing video games, then no you don't need to be running an active scan. I actually never run any active scans on my computer. I have it scheduled to do a full system scan once a month and I have been virus/spyware/adware free for 2 and half years. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3617 Joined: 7 Aug 2008 | Well, I have a mac so no viruses ever (and I get the feeling my comment is gonna turn this poll into a "Mac v PC" forum so I apologize in advance) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 657 Joined: 8 Jul 2008  | The most my Anti-Virus has ever done is minimize my games so it can tell me it's installing an update. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1431 Joined: 18 Jun 2008     |
Yeah, needed to read the topic before the poll made sense especially after coming from a section about DRMs. Anyway, I don't really have trouble with AV. It bugs me once the first time I start a new game with online features. I also use a scheduler so I don't need to worry about it clogging performance (rarely up at 4 in the morning anyway.) |
Muckraker  Posts: 324 Joined: 30 Jul 2008 | I at one time had a very nice setup, as far as security. one modem, one gateway, and one router, each with 128bit encryption enabled. pretty decent setup. but it slowed down my online gaming a down little. i kept using this method until my gateway burnt up:( now i have a little better net speed, and a little less security. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 759 Joined: 30 Jun 2008  | "meh." idon't do nearly enough pc gaming to care about security breaches. the most i'll play is BF2 or CS:CZ on a local match with bots. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 404 Joined: 30 May 2008   | I don't have any form of antivirus or firewall installed. I know, I'm very very stupid. Yet somehow, I never seem to have any problems. |
On the Record  Posts: 6209 Joined: 10 Mar 2008   | I couldn't play MapleStory because they required me to pull down my firewall :( |
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Recently I've found myself stopping virus checks so it won't affect my online gaming. I've cut off the firewall to play BF (nothing else seemed to work). And I think I might've given EA complete control of my PC. So I wonder how many people put their gaming experience before the security of their computer? Perhaps gaming is the biggest reason for security breaches, hah.