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[Xantalos]

Well that sucks.
We need clerics or something so we can call up some Lawful Good angels or something.

[MonkeyHead]

The police issue is one reason I am fucking glad I live in the UK, not the USA.kj

[Xantalos]

Fuck yeah! 'Murrica!

Thankfully, from what I know, over here police aren't like that. Yes, you get bad apples and the system's not perfect, but the police don't seem to actively fuck you over at any and every opportunity.

EDIT: moments like this remind me of that policeman in America that pulled someone over for speeding, got them out of the car, and, when they put their hands on the top of the car, the policeman tased them. Then tased them again. And did so several times until the person was simply running to get away from them, which he took as resisting arrest, so he tased them a few more times.

IIRC, the policeman was only fired. Nothing else.

Buh-
Wha-
*dontcomedowninfireandjudgementdontcomedowninfireandjudgement*

[LordSlowpoke]

Fuck yeah! 'Murrica!

Thankfully, from what I know, over here police aren't like that. Yes, you get bad apples and the system's not perfect, but the police don't seem to actively fuck you over at any and every opportunity.

EDIT: moments like this remind me of that policeman in America that pulled someone over for speeding, got them out of the car, and, when they put their hands on the top of the car, the policeman tased them. Then tased them again. And did so several times until the person was simply running to get away from them, which he took as resisting arrest, so he tased them a few more times.

IIRC, the policeman was only fired. Nothing else.

Buh-
Wha-
*dontcomedowninfireandjudgementdontcomedowninfireandjudgement*

how about you do come down in fire and judgement you lazy little expletive redacted without brackets this is long overdue and the median sanity is too damn high

[Xantalos]

No, that ... that doesn't go well.

[miauw62]

I just found out there are some antiviruses that, when they expire, will lock down your browser in order to try and get you to renew.

How is this not illegal? Bribes?

Examples? Most of those are rogue AVs.

[GiglameshDespair]

No, that ... that doesn't go well.

It doesn't go well. But it does got beautifully.

[Zangi]

I just found out there are some antiviruses that, when they expire, will lock down your browser in order to try and get you to renew.

How is this not illegal? Bribes?

Examples? Most of those are rogue AVs.

Honestly, the first thought that comes up is Norton and Mcafee, which is probably incorrect.  I delete em immediately when I mess with any new computers and replace em.  I have such a low opinion about em.

[Hanslanda]

Well that sucks.
We need clerics or something so we can call up some Lawful Good angels or something.

Solars are seriously, incredibly, EXTREMELY Good. Like, horrifyingly so. Blue and Orange Morality good. We'd be better off getting a few Planetars down here, or the Solars would murder EVERYONE who EVER broke ANY LAW EVER. Speeding? You are evil and need to die. Murder? You are evil and need to die. Remove the sticker from your mattress? YOU ARE EVIL AND NEED TO DIE.

Neutral Good Angels > Lawful Good Angels. Even though the LG ones get Slaying Arrows of any type at all times, and are like a foot and a half taller than the seven foot tall NG angels.

[SealyStar]

I've found that most antiviruses have comparable effects on computer performance, lockups and nagware aside, to the viruses they are nominally intended to stop.

[LordSlowpoke]

I've found that most antiviruses have comparable effects on computer performance, lockups and nagware aside, to the viruses they are nominally intended to stop.

Yeah, but they don't take your money!

Wait...

comodo for president

i get what one ad from the taskbar a couple months saying "dude do you want to upgrade to premium its like 15 bux" and i go "NOPE" and there are no problems afterwards also it gets shit done

best one i found anyway

[SealyStar]

Honestly, some antiviruses are so similar to viruses in operation, intent, and effects on the computer that it becomes a matter of self-identification as good guy/bad guy. Gray morality abounds.

Also, speaking of police being arrest-happy wackos, I took a criminal law class a while back that basically ended up being a "This is how to avoid getting arrested by corrupt cops" class. Particularly good information for a "diverse" school like my own, where a large portion of the student body suffers from what I like call dermatochromatic-origin elevated probability of criminal suspicion.*

*Translation: Cops are racist

[10ebbor10]

Besides, it's always funny when your antiviruses (yup, plural) start quarantining each other.

[miauw62]

AV's are benign, tough. They don't do unexpected shit like pop up random messages or crash your computer or gather data on you or redirect your webpages. They can be uninstalled, etc etc. This is not counting shitty AV's like Norton and McAffee.

Then there's the inactive scanners EVERYONE should have laying around (MBAM, SUPERAntiSpyware, etc) which completely invalidate the argument by virtue of doing nothing but scan for virusses, only when you want them to.

[Flying Dice]

Actually, I upgraded to MBAM premium (one-time payment of like $20, it stays updated forever). Between that and the Windows security program (whatever it's called; it's installed by default on Win8) I don't have any problems.