IMPORTANT: Everyone playing on Windows 7 or 8.1 immediately stop and upgrade to Windows 10.
" " I'm definitely amused by some of the commentary. I can tell you that my machine is more secure than my father's as well as my younger cousins. It's not a matter of OS as it is user knowledge. Don't get me wrong, for all I know I could be inadvertently apart of someone's bot.net - it's not like I analyze my incoming and outgoing traffic with a fine-toothed comb - but I do have more working knowledge and experience than said cousins or said father. This concept where OS is the deciding factor is silly. Well, at least it's not so simple. Makes me wonder how many of you have actually taken the time to read up on all those patches you install and what exploits they secure. The big security issue that still worries me is the inherent flaw in USB, which mostly exists because of it's universal nature. In reality, most of the stuff that creates problems for family members is directly related to the websites they visit, completely unaware of all the potential malicious scripts running in the background. Or, it's something they install, like some random application by who knows. This thought that xp makes you vulnerable - just being connected to the internet makes you vulnerable, which is why the most secure systems are on a closed network with physical access restricted. I remember when my cell phone got its first robo call - if there's a computer system you should be truly concerned about, it would be your phone. Yep, totally over league play.
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" NO! Vaccinations should never be a discussion. Ever. Oh... I just did it again, didn't I? Sometimes, just sometimes, you should really consider adapting to the world, instead of demanding that the world adapts to you.
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" Take a look at the arguments for both sides and tell me that they are much different. Substitute Windows 10 for vaccines in this thread and take a look... :)
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And yeah, I agree. Anti-vaxxing is right up there with flat earthers with one big exception....flat-earthers are not really going to kill someone else with their ignorance; at least not because of that specific ignorance.
Thanks for all the fish! Last edited by Nubatron#4333 on Feb 1, 2020, 7:43:30 AM
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I was using some old pirated version of W7 for years. Guess what, I was never hacked! How is it even possible?! According to some people in here if you use W7 you will be hacked the next day because "its not supported anymore!!!oneoneone"
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" Actually, you could be hacked with a supported OS. Zero day vulnerabilities come up fairly regularly. It's just a ton more likely that you'll be hacked with an unsupported OS. It's all about the probability of being hacked. If I were a betting man, you have been hacked. Your information just probably wasn't worth using; or at least not used in a manner that you would notice. It's not like they leave behind a sign saying "Sorry, you've been hacked." Thanks for all the fish! Last edited by Nubatron#4333 on Feb 1, 2020, 11:39:43 AM
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" Anyone saying "Windows 7 is dead as of January 14th" and thus you will be hacked soon or "any day now" is just bs'ing or trolling here. My laptop still runs Win 7 and I need to clone it to a larger capacity SSD before upgrading to Win 10 but I'm in no hurry to do so out of fear that it will be hacked any day now. Same as in real life, I'm not altering my life just because some religious groups say "Armageddon will occur any day now". "You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..."
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration. The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070 |
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" They're not necessarily trolling; they're exaggerating. Windows 7 is safe - for now. But it's not a big secret that every day that goes by without security updates, it gets more and more vulnerable each day. Hacks, viruses and scripts evolve every day. W7 does not. And if you knew how many people scream "I've never been hacked or had a virus in my life", while their system is loaded with garbage, I think you'd be surprised. Anyhow, as you say, it's no rush. Yet. Sometimes, just sometimes, you should really consider adapting to the world, instead of demanding that the world adapts to you.
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So much stupidity in this thread, basically boomers who are not only too old but also incapable of adjusting.
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Moving on, I had commented that Thursday evening after the Win 10 upgrade I played patch 3.9.2c perfectly, then Friday morning the update patch 3.9.2d failed yet I was still able to play PoE with 3.9.2c no problems with mapping. Last night I figured it was a corrupted Content.ggpk file so I renamed it and let PoE download the entire file again. That worked ok but now when I go back to delete the old file I see this (stand alone client):
Content.ggpk 1/31/2020 20,698,064 KB Content.ddpk.off 8/20/2013 27,850,215 KB Over the years I ended up with a much larger GGPK file of more than 7 GB. That's pretty significant. Some of the bloat is probably all the game assets from challenge leagues that were unpopular and didn't go into the core but over 7 GB. Really GGG? Didn't GGG release a utility to check and compact this file? Where is it found? "You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..." Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration. The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070 Last edited by Arrowneous#3097 on Feb 1, 2020, 1:22:25 PM
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" Like....what concerns? The one that cuckoo pink elephants are posting on 4 chan? Don't make a fool of yourself The only ones not using windows 10 aare the ones who pirated the previous versions of windows, thus they were not able to upgrade ha ha ha AKA, thiefs [img]https://imgur.com/a/GRkTKl6[/img]
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