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I reformat my computer every three months...
to keep my online poker playing as safe as possible. Is this going overboard? I have been doing this for about four years now. Of course I have all the standard antivirus stuff on my computer also. What do you guys think about this practice?
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
If you are that paranoid why not just get a separate computer and only use it for playing poker, dont look at websites or anything else, only poker. Seems like that would be a lot less hassle than reformating every few months
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
honestly it doesnt bother me that much. I enjoy having a fresh clean computer. Plus, I can knock it out and have everything back to normal in about four hours.
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
I do all of my poker playing inside a virtual pc. The other advantage of this is that when I do reformat my host computer I don't have to spend a long time setting up my mods/scripts/databases ect.
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
if you do everything here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=4837360
you should be fine. probably better to be safe than sorry, although if you do have a security breach and get hacked, the effects are going to be instant, so a 3-monthly format isn't going to matter at all. it is not as if the trojans etc. on your PC are going to slowly accumulate - they are either there or they are not. there are valid reasons for reguarly reformatting your PC, but security of online poker accounts is not one of them. |
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
i think in general everyone should reformat pretty close to that often anyway.
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
Every three months? At least use an image of a clean drive to save you a ton of time.
I use a mobile rack. It's a rack that fits in a 5.25 bay, and you can swap out hard drives. It's like $40 and it is essentially like using a seperate computer, but you have the added benefit of locking or taking the poker hard drive wherever you want. |
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
[ QUOTE ]
Every three months? At least use an image of a clean drive to save you a ton of time. I use a mobile rack. It's a rack that fits in a 5.25 bay, and you can swap out hard drives. It's like $40 and it is essentially like using a seperate computer, but you have the added benefit of locking or taking the poker hard drive wherever you want. [/ QUOTE ] Yup, you have it RAID? I got a Silicon Image 4 bay hot swap on my server. Bad ass. Mirror and voila. |
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Re: I reformat my computer every three months...
Sir, that is very silly. Its obvious you are running on Windows. Now obviously poker clients only run on windows based machines. You can still run them with emulation on the new intel based MACs.
Have you looked on Tigerdirect? They have refurbished PCs, fully loaded for $200. Its obvious you just need a seperate machine. |
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