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Replies: 10Last Post July 11 8:07am by matto
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Why do people use stuff like norton? i just reformat my hard drive ever week (Delete everything) and keep everything i want on a CD

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because what you do seems like to much hard work for me

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i've got way too much stuff on my hardrive to back it all up somewhere

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use multiple disks

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I highly doubt you reformat your computer every week and reinstall Windows every week. That's way too much work. And have you ever thought that the virus would lurk onto the documents you save and hence be a part of the CD?

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Quote: from marshmellowman at 9:28 am on July 9, 2008

I highly doubt you reformat your computer every week and reinstall Windows every week. That's way too much work. And have you ever thought that the virus would lurk onto the documents you save and hence be a part of the CD?

Well i only save a few stuff, and i have a program which does it. It automatically does it, i turn the program on and  go out with some friends and come back and its ready

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Srsly, why don't you just get AVG or something? You're gonna get owned one day I'll bet.

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That's kinda like what we do.

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so you are saying y do u use this program its stupid...

i use another one that does the same thingin a different way and its not...

sorry i really cant follow this properly

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If you're not actually booting from an OS disk and formatting that way, then I wouldn't say the format is entirely complete... if you really are formatting the hard drive, then every single program on your computer would need to be reinstalled. You can archive files (I have an external drive that connects via USB), but you can't just archive a program.  

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What's the name of the program...?
And do you have to change all your settings/install programs again?

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