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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

Be aware that TURNING YOUR COMPUTER ON could turn it into a brick. But such statements are quite silly.


If you're really paranoid, make sure all your drivers are up to date before you update, and that your machine isn't crawling with all kinds of malware from being a year or more behind on security updates. Then again, if you were really paranoid, you'd have already updated a long time ago...

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

I've upgraded well over 300 computers with SP3 in the past few years, both at work and while working on side jobs. I have yet to have an SP3 upgrade fail or cause system problems much less brick a computer.

I've seen one system that a co-worker was working on as a side job that continuously threw errors after installing SP3. After removing a few hundred bits of malware using various methods (slave hard drive to another computer - scan and remove, put back in original computer and boot to safe mode - scan and remove, boot into Windows normally - scan and remove) and then uninstalling SP3, removing about 40 more malware items and defragging the hard drive then reinstalling SP3 the computer runs fine and has for over a year.

I have yet to see a system "bricked" by upgrading to SP3.

I've heard reports of it, but most of them were discovered to have been caused by other existing problems that weren't resolved before the upgrade.

As Kitsune Knight says, turning on your computer could turn it into a brick. But ultimately such statements are quite silly.

Can you say why? Have you proof about this silly statement? I don't think so. So please don't say anything like that. I feel much better with SP3 and my PC is working better with SP3 than before.

If you are that paranoid you must turn your PC off forever...

I've had experience with this exactly ONCE.

Know what the real problem was? The machine was infested with malware.

On every machine where the end user showed a SMIDGEON of intelligence about not going to crapware and scareware pusher sites, where they weren't running warez, SP3 installed just fine.

Please leave the FUD alone.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Be aware that not upgrading to SP3 could turn your computer into a keylogger-infested, spam-relaying, DDoSing zombie.

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink"...

This kinda presupposes I don't look after my PC. If I'm reading it wrong, I humbly apologise in advance.

I didn't download SP3 because at the time and all the way up to yesterday, my computer was working perfectly without it. It weren't broke, so it didn't get fixed.

Since downloading the update, ran a full system scan, defragged, the works... didn't find any spyware, virues, nothing nasty like that. True, there could be something lurking my stuff can't pick up, but from what I can see in playing games, going on the internet (respectable sites only ) I see no loss of performance at all.

Limiting your browsing to "respectable sites" is sadly no longer good enough; so many of them end up compromised via SQL injection, 3rd party advertising providers, XSS or just shoddy security that even visiting "safe" sites can be dangerous these days.

This is why I run Adblock & Noscript in conjunction with client AV and a decent edge firewall on any machine that even goes close to the internet and ensure that not only Windows, but also all the 3rd party crap like Flash, Java, etc are kept up-to-date and, where possible, a not installed at all (Like Adobe Reader).

Of course, the truly paranoid internet user will only browse using telnet from a OpenBSD box

Take Paragonwiki, for one. Back when it was hosted by Wikia, people frequently found pages including malware trying to infect their system... it was likely Wikia itself wasn't doing it, but they apparently didn't really mind that their advertisers were (or more so, their advertisers were letting their customers)!

And if you ever WiFi with anything short of WPA encryption (WEP is useless, so is MAC filtering), anyone around would have no trouble injecting anything they want into your pages (except for SSL pages... assuming they don't have the keys from the Comodo hack, or any number of other times a CA totally screwd up!).


Security requires defense in depth. No layer can possibly prevent every attack- with layers like Antivirus being probably the LEAST useful out of all the layers! But, unfortunately, most of the other layers are disabled/defeated by the users themselves (such as disabling your firewall, choosing weak passwords, not updating the system, not updating your web browser, web browser plugins, web browser extensions, etc, and going to shady websites).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!