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Aug 7^th, 2005 at 3:21am

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What are y'all SOPs for playing online and virus protection? I mean, normally, you'd turn off your virus protection for games, but what about with online play?

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Reply #1 - Aug 7^th, 2005 at 9:52am

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I dont turn mine off.. Grin

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Reply #2 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 5:54am

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Why would you ever turn off your protection?

Unless your installing something where a anti-virus could interfere, you should never ever turn off your anti-virus and anti-spyware.

I never turn off my virus protection...for any game.

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Reply #3 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 7:28am

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I mean, normally, you'd turn off your virus protection for games, but what about with online play?

Turned off, too.

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Reply #4 - Aug 11^th, 2005 at 12:57pm

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The idea of turning off AV or firewall was simply to free up system resources so games run smoother. That idea is a bit outdated. I think with the higher end systems and a lot of RAM most gamers have today, keeping the AV running has little to no impact on performance. No need to disable anything.

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Reply #5 - Aug 11^th, 2005 at 7:59pm

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Exactly. Confirmed with my own benchmarks via 3dmark05. Both the CPU and game tests came up with pretty much the same score with or without Nortan AV 2005 and ad-adaware SE on. Will post results if necessary.

Word of advice: Never turn off your AV unless you need to install something incompatible with your AV.

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