What anti-virus do you use?
fanglekai
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I saw another thread on here, but I wanted to ask specifically what anti-virus and anti-malware programs do you use?
I use Avira, Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, Ad-aware and Comodo firewall. I've found that Avira doesn't eat up tons of resources and scans fairly quickly (considering how much junk I have on my drive).
I saw a thread on slickdeals.net for a free year of bitdefender: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=419604&t=2174034
But Bitdefender got some bad reviews: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351561,00.asp?tab=Reviews
Avira, however, has a lot of very good reviews: http://download.cnet.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html
I know some people prefer Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), but I can't find any reason to use it over Avira. I know a lot of people prefer AVG or Avast 5.0. Which anti-virus do you use and why do you prefer it?
I use Avira, Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, Ad-aware and Comodo firewall. I've found that Avira doesn't eat up tons of resources and scans fairly quickly (considering how much junk I have on my drive).
I saw a thread on slickdeals.net for a free year of bitdefender: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=419604&t=2174034
But Bitdefender got some bad reviews: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351561,00.asp?tab=Reviews
Avira, however, has a lot of very good reviews: http://download.cnet.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html
I know some people prefer Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), but I can't find any reason to use it over Avira. I know a lot of people prefer AVG or Avast 5.0. Which anti-virus do you use and why do you prefer it?
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I also have Malwarebytes installed, just to have a backup. It doesn't come with a real-time protection suite, so it won't fight with any other anti-malware software, but it's supposed to be an amazingly good scanner and remover.
I use Windows Firewall and I've told it to block all incoming connections and allow all outgoing connections. Not the safest configuration, but by far the easiest. I should change that some time.
Once in a while I'll scan a downloaded file before opening it or I'll scan my system, but my system has never been infected yet. Downloaded a couple infected files now and then, but they never got the chance to execute.
This made me lol. Thanks.
What's MSE?
Edit: Oh, is it Microsoft Security Essentials? :facepalm:
People usually get roped into it when they buy a new computer, and it comes with AV software on it. Usually something shitty like Norton, which runs out of the free trial period and spams them with shit saying "UPGRADE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR GET VIRUSES".
So that's why people pay for it.
Wow. Sounds like the best scheme ever. I spent quite a while trying to uninstall norton from a friend's laptop. It said I didn't have admin privileges. So I unlocked the hidden admin account on windows (root user, basically). It still said I lacked admin privileges. I had to dl a norton uninstall utility (in fucking french. dunno why it was in french. thankfully i can somewhat read basic french). The utility got rid of norton. She couldn't update antivirus or antispyware programs. Couldn't even connect to the internet. I had to use my flash drive. It was kind of a pain. As soon as I uninstalled norton, Avira and MBAM could be updated and her internet worked.
Linux - Avast, IPTables, RKhunter,and Deepfreeze
Never gotten infected once :cool: