I use this on my personal laptop, and pay stuff on my business machines. Have been incident free for years.....
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I use this on my personal laptop, and pay stuff on my business machines. Have been incident free for years.....
Windows Live One Care....about $40 bucks. Over the years....since 1992 I've tried a bunch of 'em....both free and purchased.....this is the one I've stuck with...:SIB
I have used AVG, the free version all these years. Encountered an invasion only once when my wife streamed some crap. It took over the computer. I had to physically take our Dell PC to a co-worker who happens to be a former Dell technician to work on it. He said it was very tough to get rid of that virus. On a scale of 1 to 10, it was a 9. I have had no problem since and still using AVG 8.0 because I am too cheap to pay for Norton and such. We have NetFlix now so the wife doesn't have to stream the free stuff that might take over our system.
A Mac owner may know the answer to this better than me, but as far as I know the main reason is that there are a lot more viruses written for PCs simply because more people own PCs than Macs. If you're a dick and you want to take down a lot of people with a virus, you write it for PCs so that way you can get more people. The same is true for Internet Explorer -- more people use IE than Firefox, Safari, etc., so IE is a bigger target than those other browsers.
On another note, I always find it a bit odd when people say they don't have any kind of virus protection because they have a Mac. Macs CAN get viruses, it's just a lot less likely. I was just talking to a friend last week who had a virus blocked on his Mac by his virus protector. Granted, it's the first time he's ever seen a virus blocked, but it just illustrates the point that you can still get viruses even if you have a Mac. And in the coming years when Macs become more popular, I'm guessing there will be more and more viruses written for them. They're definitely a lot safer than PCs, but they are by no means infallible.
--Exactly!
Nix the superiority--but less hastle until they become popular enough to be targeted--which I would certainly deem a positive--for now.
Will prob stick to PC's myself--as has taken years to learn the little I do know about system--and hard to teach old dog new tricks
Using Kaspersky on my new Toshiba laptop, seems to be very good, but only had it since late Feb.
my desktop is 7 yrs old now and I have some virus that is popping up and killing me....I know that I need to upgrade but like Bart, I would like some advice on cleaning my own and future protection:shrug:
Yo PPABART. I work in the industry so heres a little help. I run Norton Corporate edition on my home laptop. I obtained it through work. Its done a phenomenal job although it requires a manual update of virus definitions. This is not a terribly difficult thing to do. I do think however, that norton, mcafee and other well known A/V software will do a good job for you.
I think your decision boils down to if you want to spend money or not. There is good freeware such as AVAST, as mentioned above. Check download.com or cnet.com for help finding this software. However, you may not receive signature updates as quickly with the freeware versions. If you are savvy with the comp, you can couple the freeware A/V with good a good O/S based firewall and the necessary disabling of remote services (if you are running windows) that could result in a compromise of your machine or data. You may also want to look into IDS (intrusion detection) software if you are extremely concerned.
Hope this helps bud.
I think your decision boils down to if you want to spend money or not. There is good freeware such as AVAST, as mentioned above. Check download.com or cnet.com for help finding this software. However, you may not receive signature updates as quickly with the freeware versions. If you are savvy with the comp, you can couple the freeware A/V with good a good O/S based firewall and the necessary disabling of remote services (if you are running windows) that could result in a compromise of your machine or data. You may also want to look into IDS (intrusion detection) software if you are extremely concerned.
Hope this helps bud.
Awesome advice. I really appreciate it. I certainly am not opposed to spending some cash in order to safeguard my computer. In this day and age, I just wanna make sure that I'm not hacked for fear of identity theft and shit like that. I'll check out Norton Corporate. Thanks a bunch man!!!
I forgot about this program since I got this new PC about 8 months ago so I got it a few days ago. WOW! I'm glad I did, this is a lean, mean, fast machine since I ran that scan and cleared a few intruders.
I now use norton, adaware, and avg :0074
have a safe link to avg,bud?...you have both norton and avg working at the same time?
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slowed the hell out of my computer...had to take it back off...
think what i need is a registry cleaner..
made mine A LOT faster :shrug:
Where it really fixed me is on boot up. It was lagging before and now it's instant. My computer and internet have always been fast. faster on opening a new window too.
