obviously, no one will admit to running pirated software, but if you do, please please please run it with a non-administrator account. if your windows PC is up-to-date you can cut your risk of infection to almost NIL by running as a non-administrative, and non-power user.

secondly, a question to ask is why the mac version of WoW has movie capture built in, but the PC version does not?

what about someone hacking fraps website and replacing the original Fraps ?

Well I paid for fraps and use the current official and after reading this uploaded to an online virus checker and here is the result a couple of false positives but its clean.

If you down load pirated software expect there to be virus, trojans, keyloggers, thats all I can say. I have no sympathy

[url]http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/954a362e5cddef6fc09db34c30996eb9[/url]

or osx

Hey, if you run OSX, you don't even need fraps! Gogo built-in video recorder =D.

This just in: Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer today announced that they are changing the name of their latest operating system to "Vistax" because "obviously, an OS than ends in 'x' is more bad-guy-proof." When asked for further comment, Mr. Ballmer picked up his chair and threw it through the window, then ran off with arms flailing, yelling "Yahooooo!"

G, that's the best thing I've read all day.

If anybody actually used Linux there would be viruses for it as well.

There are actually viruses written for Linux now, but because of the way that the OS is designed, you have to manually run them yourself, after explicitly giving the virus admin (root) privileges. So, sort of like Irish Viruses then ...

And the way that it is designed means that it looks to stay that way, even when it rises more in popularity.

"you have to manually run them yourself, after explicitly giving the virus admin (root) privileges"

How is this different from Windows users double clicking on the files and clicking through UAC prompts. You can add all the security you want, but in the end the OS is only secure as the person at the keyboard.

i fully agree. I change my password here and there just to be safe but you can never be too safe! Firefox has really cut down on files that SpyBot, Ad-aware, and Norton have picked up.

Don't be an idiot. The insurance is worth having because these are YOUR files. I run my virus protections once a week, right before dinner so the system can scan while I eat. I've yet to have one single virus or pop-up on my computer for the last 2 1/2 years using this technique.

-Aticus, http://www.paladintales.blogspot.com

I had the same password for 3 years.

This one morning my friend says "hey you we're online just now". That was the worst feeling ever since I woke up just a minute ago and had no access to a computer before that. Obviously I'd been hacked, in one way or the other. And it bugged me out that I couldn't find a single trace on my computer for trojans or whatever.

3 days later the very same friend who's computer I've logged in on ONCE, found a trojan. He also has an account (And just dinged 70, contrary to my golds in thousands and 3 well-decked lvl70 chars) but it reimained untouched as far as we know.

Personally I'm biting my nails hoping I will get all of my things back, even though it will cost a couple of thousands to replace all the gems/enchants which I believe you never get back.

You can always protect your own system, but think twice before you log in somewhere else.

Fraps is a video recorder. Its how most Machinima (in-game) is recorded.