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| Glad I switched to Avast I don't really have a lot of MS security needs seeing as I spend most of my time on Linux, but on a whim a about 24 months ago I switched to Avast to try it out, and ended up liking it better...
Looks like I picked the right horse in that race.
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Mount Airy, MD | Silly Anyone who uses a paid Anti-Virus "solution" for desktop Windows is wasting his money.
Microsoft Security Essentials FTW.
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kudos:1 | I really like MSE... was surprised by that. |
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Edmonton, AB | Ditto. I made the change to MSE two years ago and I love it. Before that I was using Kaspersky, NOD32, then Avast! Home Editon. Avira is just pure crap IMHO.
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| Mistake? I think not. ".....identified critical Windows processes as malware and automatically terminated them.
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| Linux user What does it matter, I dumped Windows because the OS just bites.
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Re: Silly said by pnh102:Anyone who uses a paid Anti-Virus "solution" for desktop Windows is wasting his money.
Microsoft Security Essentials FTW.
Uber Geeks dont need any at all 
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Re: Glad I switched to Avast said by El Quintron:I don't really have a lot of MS security needs seeing as I spend most of my time on Linux, but on a whim a about 24 months ago I switched to Avast to try it out, and ended up liking it better...
Looks like I picked the right horse in that race.
Ditto. I mostly run Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint.
On the one lone XP machine we have, the one my husband uses, I also switched to Avast after I finally gave up on AVG...
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El QuintronResident Mouth BreatherPremium
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| said by jazzlady:On the one lone XP machine we have, the one my husband uses, I also switched to Avast after I finally gave up on AVG...
Avira was a stop-gap between AVG and Avast... Avast is definitely the best of the three.
Still use Windows for gaming... so I have to keep some sort of Anti-Virus going
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 NanoprobeLooking for cures in memory of MomPremium
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Re: Silly said by pnh102:Anyone who uses a paid Anti-Virus "solution" for desktop Windows is wasting his money.
Microsoft Security Essentials FTW.
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said by pnh102:Anyone who uses a paid Anti-Virus "solution" for desktop Windows is wasting his money.
Microsoft Security Essentials FTW.
I agree. |
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| You know whats really silly? Thinking that all you need is MSE. Good luck, with that way of thinking |
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Cincinnati, OH | Well, you can throw in an occasional scan with Malwarebytes if you're paranoid. Then there's ComboFix if you totally screw the pooch.
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Re: Glad I switched to Avast said by El Quintron:said by jazzlady:On the one lone XP machine we have, the one my husband uses, I also switched to Avast after I finally gave up on AVG...
Avira was a stop-gap between AVG and Avast... Avast is definitely the best of the three. Still use Windows for gaming... so I have to keep some sort of Anti-Virus going I still use XP because my husband is not ready to make the switch to Linux. And there is one program I still need Windows for- a video converter called ConvertXtoDVD.
I used AVG happily for years until it literally crashed and burned. I had to stop using it because it caused so many problems.
I tried Avira and I didn't much care for it. I found it very intrusive, and it also caused stability problems with the version of Zone Alarm I was using.
Finally switched to Avast and it works great. It's not intrusive, updates itself, plays nice with Zone Alarm, and works pretty well in general.
As for Linux, I don't run either an AV or a firewall. Do you? Do you think it's necessary?
Just curious...
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Re: You know whats really silly? said by georgeglass5:Thinking that all you need is MSE. Good luck, with that way of thinking
I agree with you %100 not that. LOL MSE what a joke. |
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Re: Glad I switched to Avast said by jazzlady:As for Linux, I don't run either an AV or a firewall. Do you? Do you think it's necessary?
Just curious...
ClamAV is an AV you can use from Linux to scan a Windows disk for viruses, but I don't usually have to do so. The only time I've ever used it, was for a friends machine that was so infected it wouldn't even let me search for anti-viruses.
I don't usually use software firewalls either on Linux or Windows.
I'd say (with Linux) using caution whenever something asks you for your root password would be the best thing moreso than a specific AV program.
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| said by El Quintron:said by jazzlady:As for Linux, I don't run either an AV or a firewall. Do you? Do you think it's necessary?
Just curious...
ClamAV is an AV you can use from Linux to scan a Windows disk for viruses, but I don't usually have to do so. The only time I've ever used it, was for a friends machine that was so infected it wouldn't even let me search for anti-viruses. I don't usually use software firewalls either on Linux or Windows. I'd say (with Linux) using caution whenever something asks you for your root password would be the best thing moreso than a specific AV program. Yes, I try to be cautious. I don't worry as much in Linux, but there are Linux viruses out there. Any OS can get a virus...
The thing I like about Zone Alarm is it alerts you when a program is trying to "phone home". I always found that to be handy.
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