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So who’s excited for AMD RyZen? It’s out next week!

@ArcticEight  
True dat.

@Pacific Glow  
Yes, and more reliable. Less latency, etc.

@Shirani  
I still use Ethernet on my desktop gaming PC. I heard it’s faster than Wi-Fi.

@Princess♥Cadance  
I did and decided to buy a Ethernet cable that was only 11 bucks….

@Shirani  
Contact their helpdesk. Bring your computer to them. They are happy to help as long as you don’t annoy them.

I have been having problems with my wireless Internet…..it keeps connecting and disconnecting….and when it reconnects it has a weak signal….oh and BTW I am at a university….

@luna the great!  
@Princess♥Cadance  
@Ebalosus  
@Mad Black  
I use Sophos. It’s free business-grade security for my home. Arcaire recommended it to me.

Mod note: moved this to the generals board.

@Pacific Glow  
I was gonna type out a long response for how you could check, but I found this instead.
 
Keep in mind that your ISP is probably using dynamic IPs and they sometimes overlap with people who’ve been banned in the past. Additionally, YouTube and other Google services often switch your “location” if you’ve ever clicked on a foreign link.

I think I have a proxy/VPN installed on my laptop, without even knowing it. Here’s some evidence:
 

@Princess♥Cadance  
I can attest to this, as that’s all I use and it works just fine for me.

@luna the great!  
I am a computer scientist for my job. Windows defender is more than enough.
 
@Mad Black  
I am sorry you have wasted so much money :(

@Princess♥Cadance  
Personally, I use Kaspersky. Thought I have to buy a licence every year, the bonus stuff I get is pretty good and it doesn’t eat much RAM or processor.

@luna the great!
 
It’s ok in my experience, though I run both it and Malwarebytes on my desktop and work laptop.

@Princess♥Cadance
 
I was under the impression that Windows defender wasn’t very good?

@luna the great!  
Don’t use avast. Use Windows Defender. It’s built into your computer.

My computer recently installed ‘avast nitro’ and now whenever I open the browser a ‘IE webrep’ thing pops up saying it will open outside of protected mode? I’ve clicked the ‘don’t show warning for this program again’ thing and it has no effect. It says it’s from avast but I’m not sure if I should allow it access to my computer? Is it something dangerous or is the ‘outside protected mode’ thing not something I need to be fussing over?
 
I don’t want to deal with this every time I open my browser. This new nitro thing seems to be causing all sorts of other computer glitches, I’d like to at least fix this one.

So I have this “My passport ultra’ device to backup my computer, but when I first tried to use it I messed up on the settings for installing it, so now when I try to use it, it doesn’t save my files. I don’t remember what the setting was, just that it must have been necessary for windows to make it work right.
 
I’ve tried to go uninstall the program so I can start over, but it doesn’t even show up in the programs section, therefore I can’t do that. Clearly it’s installed, it tries to backup my computer if I plug it in. I can’t seem to find a solution anywhere.
 
Anyone got a fix for this?

@Shirani  
Don’t mention it.

@Mike  
oh my god it ACTUALLY WORKED THANK YOU SO MUCH!

@Shirani  
The bottom i/o has an hdmi port. Try plugging into that.

@Mike  
here you go also the url….http://imgur.com/P85jBtf

@Shirani  
Can you post the back?

here but the image wont show up also here is the url http://imgur.com/Q87ZwiS