I'm not argueing. I'm correcting. It's false. I don't ever have malware as I monitor running processes in taskmanager and use hijack this for stuff that starts up that shouldn't. Do just that and you will find all the malware without further security programs. I only find cookies when I use security programs because this method is that effective.


I haven't used just one computer over 8 years, they last two to three years depending on how hard I am on it. That's where the n800 comes in. I've used xp for that time, the hard drives/motherboards etc. always malfunction in the summer heat, and it's often cheaper to get a used one than fix one.

The hardware fails before any malware does much. I've detected a few and one once deleted start menu things and services even...but I cleaned the malware, and found the fix in under a hour.


And secondly I have the service packs, not the automatic updates. I download a security fix if one is needed, but that's rarer than the updates.

Third...what makes you think I have malware? I don't get it, and the few times I have I detected and removed it without security programs in the background or even installed. I use hijackthis and taskmanager...hijack this will tell me if there's anything starting at startup that shouldn't(viruses, malware it all has to run a process.) If malware makes it's way on and runs AFTER startup, I know in minutes as I monitor the running processes in taskmanager(just like a security program only I know good from bad), kill them, and locate the file, and use a utility to delete it effectively. If you do this you will not need security programs to do it for you.

I have scanned my computers with various utilities like avira, and a dozen more over the years including microsoft's one and always uninstalled them because they are redundant if you can detect it before the scan and clean it faster than the scan minutes after it's downloaded. Never while using this method have I had malware detected by any utility I've tried looking for something I missed. And they alert me to stuff that's never malware and if it is I already know because I'm looking at the process in taskmanager.

They just show me cookies and things that aren't malware as I keep my computers clean.