Brian
09-27-2008, 11:33 AM
Overdrive Disabling Antiviruses All FUD (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13289/Overdrive-Disabling-Antiviruses-All-FUD/)
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The utility is also designed to speed up the gaming experience by turning off background tasks that may suck up CPU cycles or otherwise distract the user. According to an AMD spokesman, such applications that might be turned off include Web conferencing software and Windows Vista widgets, or the Windows Vista fax service.
"We're looking at this from the perspective of someone who uses this as their main PC, with a lot of apps already loaded: Web conferencing, all those little utilities that connect to the Internet and look for updates. RSS feeds," the AMD representative said. "These are the background tasks that are going to shut down."
A disclaimer will warn, however, that "this utility may disable security/antivirus software, or adversely affect the stability or security of your system."
AMD has to cover their backs on this one, but having spoken with representatives, I know for a fact that they do <em>not</em> intend to disable or dampen software firewalls or antiviruses. There's an outside chance that the utility might not recognize some of these services, if you're using a particularly arcane software.
Again, Overdrive isn't going to turn off your security software, but it might. The good news is that you can customize how it works, so if it <em>does</em> turn out to stymie your system, you can tell it not to."
Read full story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20080918/tc_zd/232155;_ylt=Ah_LRAKtC.FVXGCyu4CvovEjtBAF)
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The utility is also designed to speed up the gaming experience by turning off background tasks that may suck up CPU cycles or otherwise distract the user. According to an AMD spokesman, such applications that might be turned off include Web conferencing software and Windows Vista widgets, or the Windows Vista fax service.
"We're looking at this from the perspective of someone who uses this as their main PC, with a lot of apps already loaded: Web conferencing, all those little utilities that connect to the Internet and look for updates. RSS feeds," the AMD representative said. "These are the background tasks that are going to shut down."
A disclaimer will warn, however, that "this utility may disable security/antivirus software, or adversely affect the stability or security of your system."
AMD has to cover their backs on this one, but having spoken with representatives, I know for a fact that they do <em>not</em> intend to disable or dampen software firewalls or antiviruses. There's an outside chance that the utility might not recognize some of these services, if you're using a particularly arcane software.
Again, Overdrive isn't going to turn off your security software, but it might. The good news is that you can customize how it works, so if it <em>does</em> turn out to stymie your system, you can tell it not to."
Read full story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20080918/tc_zd/232155;_ylt=Ah_LRAKtC.FVXGCyu4CvovEjtBAF)