The whole point of a screensaver is to prevent the "burn in" effect you can get by displaying a static image on a CRT for long periods of time, whereby a faint version of that image literally gets permanently burnt into the display.

The thing is, screensavers have been obsolete for something like twenty years now, ever since computers gained the ability to programatically shut off their monitors. Setting your computer to shut off the display when not in use not only avoids the burn in issue (which isn't actually a problem with modern LCD displays anyway), but also saves electricity and increases the lifetime of the display.

It is, therefore, generally not a good idea to use a screensaver at all.

As for this particular screensaver, I can't really comment on its quality since I canceled the installation as soon as I saw it was from Outrix corporation, since previous giveaways from that company have employed the Themida copy protection system, which works by installing a rootkit (a rather nasty malware technique that essentially hacks your operating system).

I wouldn't touch any software that used Themida with a ten-foot pole, even if it actually did something useful.

Jim Stone  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+379)

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It´s at least worth to mention, that there exist some worse software out in the wild ...

sjh  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+60)

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#5, Jim Stone, yours is typical of the senseless rants that appear here every time a screensaver is offered. For the ten millionth time, screensavers are fully compatible with Windows power management, which means that the PC is still able to turn off the monitor and go into standby/hibernate. LCD's don't burn in, but they can be susceptible to image retention due to charge build-up across the LCD cells (well documented in some owner's manuals), although that will go away over time. Also, some of us enjoy screensavers as standalone CGI animations (but not this one). Outrix doesn't use Themida, that's a false positive, which you can easily verify not only via VirusTotal, but via your security software's monitoring (apart from signatures). I don't tell you what type of vehicle you should or should not drive, it's extraordinarily arrogant of you to tell us what type of software we should or should not use. Just how "green" are you? Are you overweight, which adversely impacts the environment? Do you have more than two children, which has by far the most negative long-term environmental impact of anything that you can do? Even if I used a screensaver as a screensaver, which I don't, the environmental impact would be trivial in the scheme of things. Oh, and my PC can't turn off my LCD (known bug in my LCD, which the manufacturer never corrected).

Fubar  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+33)

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If there are so many bad reviews for this, why is it voted up so highly?... Seriously...

Anonymous  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+17)

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Given the poor reviews, how did this product get such high star ratings, with many votes? It gets 4 stars for "Feature rich", but the reviews say it's just static images accompanied by bad music. 4 stars for "Reasonable price", but the reviews disagree with that, too.

gimme  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+15)

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