is online games virus free

Sean |TG| · 03-01-2008, 08:55 PM

my dad doesnt know i play online, he thinks its a very dangerous place to be becuase he thinks a virus can be picked up by playing online, but i dont belive him becuase 1. this is a very modern game with a very modern up-to-date computer, 2.on the computer we have 3 virus protection files (Mcafee, BT yahoo anti spy and norton spyware) so is there any chance that i can pick up a virus on online gaming?

sean#2

Trooper · 03-01-2008, 10:57 PM

first of all....dump all three of those and get AVG and Microsoft's defender. Alot better and they are both free. Second, it is possible to pick up a virus, be it from a downloaded map or file off the game servers. As long as you have some sort of virus protector/scanner you should be fine. I say should because stupid things happen.

and welcome to TG.

amu107.9 · 03-02-2008, 12:30 PM

AVG is just fine but I thought MS defender was pretty much as bad as you can get?
Wouldn't spybot search and destroy or Ad-Aware Personal Edition, which are both free, do a much better job.

The web is not a safe place you can still get viruses from a game.
But the server you visit would have to be a run by someone with malicious intent.
A big red flag is the cracked servers.
These are run first by people who circumvent the copy protection of an game.
Who knows what steps were taken to crack this and what side effects those steps may have.

westyfield · 03-02-2008, 04:12 PM

Yeah, like the others said, get rid of Norton, and try to get AVG, Ad Aware or Spybot. I have used Spybot, Ad adware and currently use AVg, they are very good and AVG does an automatic scan every day, which helps as I am very forgetful

Just make sure you still have your antivirus running when you play games, don't disable it to speed your PC up.

ikonic · 03-04-2008, 12:54 AM

Avast! kicks the crap out of AVG.

03-01-2008, 08:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sean \|TG\| Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Scotland,Inverness UK GOD SAVE ONUR QUEEN!---- Feel free to add my MSN address Age: 16 Posts: 18	is online games virus free my dad doesnt know i play online, he thinks its a very dangerous place to be becuase he thinks a virus can be picked up by playing online, but i dont belive him becuase 1. this is a very modern game with a very modern up-to-date computer, 2.on the computer we have 3 virus protection files (Mcafee, BT yahoo anti spy and norton spyware) so is there any chance that i can pick up a virus on online gaming? sean#2

03-01-2008, 10:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trooper Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In my wifes house......if she says i can Age: 25 Posts: 8,638	Re: is online games virus free first of all....dump all three of those and get AVG and Microsoft's defender. Alot better and they are both free. Second, it is possible to pick up a virus, be it from a downloaded map or file off the game servers. As long as you have some sort of virus protector/scanner you should be fine. I say should because stupid things happen. and welcome to TG.

03-02-2008, 12:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
amu107.9 Join Date: May 2006 Age: 27 Posts: 1,103	Re: is online games virus free AVG is just fine but I thought MS defender was pretty much as bad as you can get? Wouldn't spybot search and destroy or Ad-Aware Personal Edition, which are both free, do a much better job. The web is not a safe place you can still get viruses from a game. But the server you visit would have to be a run by someone with malicious intent. A big red flag is the cracked servers. These are run first by people who circumvent the copy protection of an game. Who knows what steps were taken to crack this and what side effects those steps may have. __________________ "I was about to call a whaaaambulance." -\|SOG\| Vir2L "The Defenders can't go into that building. So I don't have to worry about that side." -Unknown

03-02-2008, 04:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
westyfield Join Date: May 2007 Location: England Age: 15 Posts: 1,366	Re: is online games virus free Yeah, like the others said, get rid of Norton, and try to get AVG, Ad Aware or Spybot. I have used Spybot, Ad adware and currently use AVg, they are very good and AVG does an automatic scan every day, which helps as I am very forgetful Just make sure you still have your antivirus running when you play games, don't disable it to speed your PC up. __________________ \|TG-Irr\| westyfield Thanks Oldirti for this sig! Irregular since Sept 15th, 2007 I'll procrastinate... later.

03-04-2008, 12:54 AM	#5 (permalink)
ikonic Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Michigan Age: 22 Posts: 1,343	Re: is online games virus free Avast! kicks the crap out of AVG. __________________

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