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Arc Defender Is A Bully

jakandarjakandar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
edited November 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
This new arc defender system is pissing me off, every time I log in to STO, this terribly written POS asks me to put in a new defender code every time I play, on the same laptop..... AD refuses to acknowledge that the 8 computers saved to my AD are the same freaking computer.....

thanks for creating a POS that makes me question even loadin up the game to play....
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  • UnknownUnknown
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    eaware brought in security measures for swtor a while ago and still in effect to this day, they used to call it "one time password madness" i still call it that, because each time i have to log in each day it keeps prompting me to go into my email and verify a new code each day. thats the price of silliness and badly made security features which in the end really dont make much difference to security when the very thing you use to play this game can be intercepted and decoded by hackers without much issue with the right software.

    as for arc defender it reads like the same issue, if you refrain from the profanities that dont solve anything, you either have to put up with it or adjust your settings somewhere so the computer is recognized from the last time it was used. perhaps a cookie or history file somewhere.
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  • mightybobcncmightybobcnc Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Like UAC, this is a system that is best disabled immediately.
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    Nitpicking is a time-honored tradition of science fiction. Asking your readers not to worry about the "little things" is like asking a dog not to sniff at people's crotches. If there's something that appears to violate natural laws, then you can expect someone's going to point it out. That's just the way things are.
  • zbzznzbzzn Member Posts: 221 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    mightybobcnc wrote: »
    Like UAC, this is a system that is best disabled immediately.

    Disabling UAC is incredibly unwise. It is there to notify you whenever a program tries to perform an action that requires administrator privileges.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    It took my lunch money and brought Zen with it
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  • mightybobcncmightybobcnc Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    zbzzn wrote: »
    Disabling UAC is incredibly unwise. It is there to notify you whenever a program tries to perform an action that requires administrator privileges.

    I have third-party AV software for that. Third-party software that doesn't nag me to death about it like UAC.
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    Finger wrote:
    Nitpicking is a time-honored tradition of science fiction. Asking your readers not to worry about the "little things" is like asking a dog not to sniff at people's crotches. If there's something that appears to violate natural laws, then you can expect someone's going to point it out. That's just the way things are.
  • zbzznzbzzn Member Posts: 221 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    mightybobcnc wrote: »
    I have third-party AV software for that. Third-party software that doesn't nag me to death about it like UAC.

    UAC is not antivirus, it notifies you of privilege escalation. Antivirus will not stop a malicious application from performing actions that could be legitimate, such as modifying system files. For example, someone could write a small program that deletes system files and without UAC you would have no warning that it's about to do something that will impact the system.

    Running without UAC is like operating a *NIX system as root. Admin privileges should only be granted when absolutely necessary, not for common use.
  • truewarpertruewarper Member Posts: 930 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Nice to hear the faults of such software...won't be going on my system.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    It's about the only thing from Cryptic/PWE that has worked for me without issue...hrmmmm.
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