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I too saw this folder on my C drive and began investigating. didnt find much online but I did find this forum. These are the steps I took;
 
used my USB drive on my 2nd PC running windows 7 64bit (same as my main rig) and on my 3rd pc running win8.1
gvtemp folder has not shown up on either of those pc's
 
THEN
I nuked the USB and both drives on my main rig (ssd and storage Hdd)
I installed fresh win7 64bit
I installed drivers and hardware utilities....
gvtemp shows up again.
 
I then scan both pc drives and the USB with Norton360, kapersky, and malwarebites, all 3 found nothing
 
I then clicked pretty much every google result for gvtemp folder for the first 3 pages of google and found a forum in chinese or something where someone posted that this folder is created by gigabyte OC guru ii utility. Well I just so happen to have installed that for my 980ti windforce.
 
 
ps) the trojans associated with the gv name are discribed as doing things like editing your host file with like 200 extra lines to block or misdirect web traffic or something, my host file is unedited and only has like 20 lines in it. Other malware associated with the gv name were discribed as a "shortcut virus" and my usb was not showing any shortcuts.

Somebody with a brain around here.

Am I the only one upset about this insult?
 
*edit- Linus said he shouldn't have said it and he has been forgiven by all

Somebody with a brain around here.

F their services. Joe blow in his moms basement could provide the same content as Linus with an iPhone. Just cause he wants YouTube videos to pay for his house wife kid and life I have get spammed for at least 5 seconds every time I click something on YouTube.

Dang looks like he went all out on his set up.... Wait 760s?!??

I know there are lots of Youtubers using ads alone. Like I said, I don't think they should (more on that later).
I believe someone else on this thread already said this: TV and radio have it figured out because there's no way (I think) of knowing if people actually watched the ad or not so these companies always get payed (depending on the share during that time period I suppose). YouTube (and the rest of the internet) is risky because you know exactly how many saw and/or clicked it. Which doesn't legitimize, in my opinion, ads as a source of revenue (ads at all).
Forgive me (and point it out) if any of that information is wrong.
Besides, most media outlets rely on other sources of income: paid journals and magazines, contests (the "call this number for 60 cents and enter to win this prize" (which makes a lot more money than I initially thought)), tax payer money (for publicly owned broadcasters), paid events, etc. And most are organized in groups where income from several events/mediums/products will finance (most of) the business.
There is even a holding that belongs to the Portuguese Catholic Church responsible for 4 or 5 radio stations (2 of them among the most listened to (they mostly have pop music throughout the day!)). I wouldn't be surprised if some of the offerings to St. Jude (the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes) ended up paying for Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball...
 
And if the way of the future is to make a living off of ads then why not consider my earlier contribution of placing ads all over classrooms,  hospitals, clinics, even surgery rooms? They sure get a lot of visitors. Suddenly there's no salary, only ad revenue.
"This lung transplant is brought to you by: XPTO tobacco. It's the best!", said the free defibrillator before charging. (Ohhhhh, I'd love to see this in a Futurama episode... I mean, they have already incorporated ads into Nixon's speeches...)
And maybe I could live on that mansion after all... Granted, the walls are covered in ads but, whatever. It gives an artsy feel.
Heck, why don't we all quit our jobs and become youtubers? Apparently there is an abundant interest in videos of cats, fake yelling sheep (or funny animal situations of any kind), game playing, among many other exciting things. Why wouldn't we all be able to go to our grandparent's, make a 6 second montage of a chicken scaring a rottweiler and get insta-famous? Lots of ad cash await...
The risk is exactly that people producing quality content are competing with "funny". And funny wins most of the time. At least on radio and TV they pay you X (fixed + depending on share/rating) for a Y minute spot.
 
We don't know, nor will we find out, whether or not people would be willing to pay for product reviews, will we now, since they are already freely available.
However, people do pay to learn. And they also pay to have things done for them, like 25$ to assemble the computer parts they just bought.
If you publish a video and say "Click here to watch for free, with ads or over there to pay <more or less amount of money I would have gotten from said ads> and watch ad free", maybe I'd rather pay. The same with Google services: "pay 5$ a month for these services (+ x$ for additional obscure ones) and never watch a Google ad again".
Perhaps it's just me with my "ads are evil" theory.
And yes, many content creators wouldn't make it. And that's related to the perceived value of their content. If ads ceased to exist and Google did in fact put a price on their services I bet most people would pay since they have settled in that ecosystem. Would most people pay to watch someone play games all day? Probably not. Would they pay to watch Linus teach them how to assemble a computer and to be able to chose better the next time they shop for parts? I would think so. Many people are monthly contributors here on the forum already, paying up to 25$ (?) a month to support LMG in exchange for no banners and a sub-forum. Lynda.com teaches you, for a price, how to do lots of things that you could learn elsewhere for free and they aren't out of business.
 
But ads exist, and they keep most of the content out there free. And that's why I am faced with the following choices:
1) Stop using any website/service that benefits from ads (yes, that basically includes all of Google and any webpage that has ads);
2) Stop using AdBlock everywhere, enjoy all the free services, be subjected to the will of advertisers and not complain when a video of a cat earns it's owner more than a teacher/surgeon/whatever earns in a year;
3) Keep using AdBlock and enjoying all the free services as a way of protesting the ad-centric business model, acknowledging, though, the hypocrisy in those actions (I don't really care for this one);
4) Pay for the services I want to use without ads. Oh wait... I don't have an option...
4) Not living on this planet anymore!
 
Besides, so far this whole argument has been about how LMG makes most of its money from ads and sponsors and such. And even in a world without ads companies still need images, videos, reviews and that sort of stuff for their products, even if it's to show on their stores or web pages.
Furthermore, when visiting LMG's "what we do" page, one can see that they are addressing companies that want to "deliver a message" about their products.
We have seen some of those products, mainly for their client Func.
My question at this point is: if ad revenue is so important that it's worth using the word scummy to classify AdBlock users (I wasn't even offended, the "ummy" at the end made it sound not so bad!) what happened to LMG's main business?
Perhaps they could support The WAN Show and Techquickie and other videos without all the ads if their core business was more mature...?
 
P.S.: Apologies for any lack of sense. It's rather late...! Feel free to call me out on any such thing.
P.P.S.: Some people are trying to get this thread closed ("/thread"). Why? Why wouldn't you want healthy discussion to proceed? I am interested in the topic and I'm not talking to myself (much, yet!)... I just don't get it...

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The fire in this thread has been quenched.
 
It's not even on topic now.
 
/Thread

Am I the only one upset about this insult?
 
*edit- Linus said he shouldn't have said it and he has been forgiven by all

I realize I am kind of late to this party and no one will probably read, but here you go anyways:
 
It's funny how it has become acceptable that someone's source of income is ads.
 
"Hey! I have produced high quality content with the help of my extensive crew and expansive equipment and posted it on a free website. Yes, it's free of charge. But if you don't watch all the ads plus the 10-16% of the video's time spent on sponsor integration (that recently ceased to be of tech-related nature) you are a scumbag."
At least TekSyndicate spends only 0-5%.
 
What kind of business is this, anyway, where you offer your main product/service free of charge?
Wouldn't it be funny if you could go to the cinema free of charge, arrive 15 minutes late in order to skip the ads and have a Hollywood representative call you names for not sitting through them?
Or maybe now we can all have free surgery as long as we have ads injected into our sleep during the whole procedure.
(That's also funny, how we can sit idly by while Let's players and "pro" gamers earn win absurd amounts of money with ads and sponsors while people with jobs that actually matter for society are stuck with a small percentage compared to them.)
 
At least NCIX and the like use Youtube as a tool to drive audiences to their store. Their main business is tech retail and Youtube is a way to inform people about their products. As a side project they even make small videos about current tech-related events, because they can afford it.
On the other hand are people who are on Youtube as a hobby, which it is. They have their main job and produce some content when they have time because they are passionate about something or they simply want to goof around. Monetization is just a nice source of extra revenue to buy beer on the weekends!
 
If your content is of any value to me I will have no problem in paying for it. If you're giving it away for free you can't come accuse me of stealing, pirating or in any other way harming your business because, honestly, you don't have a business.
LMG productions are starting to look more and more like one of the privately owned public broadcast channels in my country where it seems like it is an ad distribution platform with some content sprinkled here and there to keeps us watching. Their business is ads, and it seems LMG's is too.
(Right now I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with the same "Call XYZ number to enter for a chance to win 30.000$! 0.60 cents per call" scheme, every freaking minute)
 
So, no. I will not disable AdBlock. However, if you decide to opt for a paid subscription or pay-per-video model, finally making tech content your product/service, I will evaluate the situation and subscribe or stop watching.
Meanwhile I will contribute as I see fit through donations or campaigns. But I will not let you blast all the ads in my face while the companies that make them pay you and have you pass it off as your living.

Ads have gone too far, you literally cannot go to a webpage or watch a YouTube video without getting a really annoying advert. I don't want to hear about products and services after every single song I listen to. I blame YouTube.

Yeah I actually like that video as well. and not just because lesbian robots

Well that was better than I expected

I was just going to donate the minimum tier to show my downness with ltt but the only option is to set up a monthly subscription. So I'd hav to deal with canceling the sub right after I donate see this is exactly the reason adblock exists. Everything is over monitized and convenience is tossed for the chance to grub as much money as possible.

This is my first time here ever I don't have any other account. I w seriously upset about being called scummy I turned off the wan show and here I am.

Somebody with a brain around here.

Am I the only one upset about this insult?
 
*edit- Linus said he shouldn't have said it and he has been forgiven by all

F their services. Joe blow in his moms basement could provide the same content as Linus with an iPhone. Just cause he wants YouTube videos to pay for his house wife kid and life I have get spammed for at least 5 seconds every time I click something on YouTube.

F their services. Joe blow in his moms basement could provide the same content as Linus with an iPhone. Just cause he wants YouTube videos to pay for his house wife kid and life I have get spammed for at least 5 seconds every time I click something on YouTube.

Yeah...here's an idea.
Put the adds on the page, with no sound, as just images or gifs or something off to the sides or in the background, judge the advertising by how many people visit that page....and get them the fuck out of the video's?
 
I wont be surprised if Linus comes out against Net Neutrality at this point.
 
Do advertising companies realize that most people don't pay attention to adverts right? or is it just me.
 
Edit: Idea, one could just close twitch chat during the WAN show during adverts. Dick move? yes, but in my opinion, so is calling someone scummy for not wanting to watch shit that they aren't going to buy and probably aren't interested in. You wanna run adverts, fine, but dont be surprised when people figure out a way to block it or skip it, just like with throttling and net neutrality, someone, somehow, will figure out a way around, or figure out a way to incur them losses for their bullshit.
 
The sad thing is I actually like dollar shave club. Too bad I had to cancel because I lost my job.

Ok you guys aren't listening to what i'm saying.
I would be fine with ads if they went back to how they were, out of the way just on the sides of pages. Not stopping my videos, or poping up in my videos, or jumping out in front of text i'm reading, or blocking webpages entirely until I close them, or making noise on pages that otherwise shouldn't have sound.
 
Ads can be ok. They have become annoying and interruptive. THAT is the problem that needs to be fixed.
 
Now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to go do something productive like play some games or something.

Somebody with a brain around here.