Lan Party Spyware Virus Nightmare

Spyware and Viruses can be a huge problem for Lan Parties. Nothing could be more of a nightmare when it comes to problems at a lan party. Can you imagine if your computer or one of those attending your lan party had a machine infected with a Trojan that spread adware, spyware or other type of harmful and annoying virus? I for one never take it for granted that those I'm joining in a fun day of gaming will have their machines fully protected and clean of this type of nasty software. I recommend before hooking up to the network at the lan party you attend to fully disable any sharing, make sure your machine permissions and accounts are fully secure and that you have an anti-virus software running.

I know that some anit-virus software can be resource hogs and you dont want real time scans causing latency issues with your gaming so make sure you have a computer with adequate CPU and memory to run both your games and the much needed anti-virus software. Always be courteous and do any spyware removal and full system scans prior to taking your PC to a Lan party. You definitely dont want to get known as the gamer spreading malicious software to other lan party goers.