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Fare Thee Well, Active Virus Shield
Gim
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So the last time I read up in an anti-virus thread, the latest greatest thing was AOL's Active Virus Shield, just a slightly stripped down version of Kaspersky. I installed it and have been happy since it doesn't eat up my resources. I boot up my PC this morning, and I get a warning from XP telling me that the definitions are out of date for AVS. Very well then, I'll update them manually. But no such luck.
And here's why.
Since I would rather have certain precious parts of my anatomy removed with rusty sporks before I run a McAfee product on my computer ever again, it looks like I'm in the market for another free antivirus app. Are AVG and Avast! still the same standard go-tos or has a new free king risen to take their place?
And to that guy, we're all very proud that you haven't gotten a virus in 30 years and you've never run an antivirus program. Pat yourself on the back and treat yourself to some pie. The time you spend telling us about your choice is precious time that could be spent eating the aforementioned delicious pie.
And here's why.
Since I would rather have certain precious parts of my anatomy removed with rusty sporks before I run a McAfee product on my computer ever again, it looks like I'm in the market for another free antivirus app. Are AVG and Avast! still the same standard go-tos or has a new free king risen to take their place?
And to that guy, we're all very proud that you haven't gotten a virus in 30 years and you've never run an antivirus program. Pat yourself on the back and treat yourself to some pie. The time you spend telling us about your choice is precious time that could be spent eating the aforementioned delicious pie.
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Oh, and if anyone's using Norton, STOP IT RIGHT NOW. STOP IT.
Avast is good as well, but I've just gone wtih AVG.
Sneaky..
I must be the only person who doesn't like AVG. In my (admittedly limited) experience, its active shield doesn't really seem to do anything, and it's not all that user friendly compared to other options. Avast! at least gives a big, annoying warning (pulsating radioactive symbol and all) when the page you're trying to view is dangerous, and it doesn't give cryptic warnings about a random kernal change.
So, my $0.02 is to go with Avast!
Actually, the pay ones (LIKE THE HORRIBLE SPAWN OF EVIL THAT IS NORTON) are often quite terrible.
I had to uninstall a freshly paid-for Norton
and install MCAFFEE
WHAT THE FUCK
PS: I used to hate Norton but the newest version that comes with Vista is actually reliable and unintrusive.
Hey, that's cool. You keep on opening exes that friends e-mail you and downloading shit off Kazaa.
This. I do not believe this.
Ad Aware however is starting to piss me off. In the latest update they have added a service icon to the task bar. I can't seem to remove it without removing Ad Aware and it doesn't seem to do anything at least with the free version.
Hurf durf.
If it takes up a small amount of memory, requires almost none of my attention, and can prevent a couple of rogue files from lodging themselves into my system, I say it's worth it.
This isn't a version that comes with Vista for one thing.Maybe one that comes with a Vista machine.
Personally, I have two antivirus measures: at home, and at work.
My trifecta so far is this:
Avast
Spyware Terminator
Spyware Blaster
Anything that needs to be swapped out?
Yeah, I had McAfee Enterprise myself for a while, and loved it. I got it for free when I was in college, and unfortunately lost it when my computer died.
That's when I got it and luckily have managed to hang onto it.
FWIW, I'm using Symantec Antivirus, which I think is somehow related to / the same as Norton.
Actually, I was trying to troubleshoot a few hours ago for a guy who installed Norton 360 on his computer and started getting BSODed. Has anyone heard anything about this? I haven't been able to find much useful info, aside from a rumor that a Norton update on May 17th has been wreaking BSOD havoc.
edit: Actually, I was using Symantec Antivirus 9 or 10 or some such nonsense before.
Except you don't need to do that to get a virus. It's the easiest way, but not the only way.
Yeah, I used to be one of those "olol don't need a virus scanner". One day for shits and giggles I downloaded one, and found I had 4-5 viruses sitting on my computer. Not all viruses cause noticable effects. In fact, a vast majority of them just use your computer as part of a botnet these days.. much more profitable.
At home I'm all Macs. But for my family's computers I've always removed whatever they bought and put Avast! on it. They seem happy with it.
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