AVAST?
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From: "nobody >" on 28 Mar 2010 22:04 ~BD~ wrote: > Quite an interesting excercise. I think perhaps you have judged me > unfairly. Much of what I have done (and do) is designed to "confuse the > enemy" - it is not necessarily the *real* me who you see! So who's the enemy? Is it the other "me" we don't see?
From: "nobody >" on 28 Mar 2010 23:24 species8350 wrote: > McAfee is soon to end. I want to replace it with good free programme. > > I was think of installing AVAST. > > Should I consider any competitors? > > Thanks I've used Avast! on my own machines (and those of friends and family) for years. It hasn't caught *everything* (no AV program can), but there's been only 3 cases on about 9 machines in 5 years. That's not bad in my estimation. FWIW and IMHO, there's no "best" AV. There are so-called "ratings" sites out there, but no one can agree on what standards to test by, or what level of bias exists on any of them. Running a decent antivirus, keeping it up to date, keeping backups, and practicing 'safe hex' are the best you can do. But... (at least on Winderz) *Just* running an AV program isn't enough. You should also have a reasonable firewall program. I've used Zonealarm "Free" for years, but it takes some getting used-to for users and some education. XP's firewall is ...ehh.. OK, but Win7's is actually pretty decent. You also need an "anti-malware" program as well. Both SAS (SuperAntiSpyware) and MBAM (MalwareBytes AntiMalware) are excellent. You'll probably get a lot of "go's" on Avira and AVG, both of those are good, but I don't know much about them. The last time I used AVG was about 10 years ago. Whatever you go with, getting out from underneath MacAffee's bloat and resource-hogging is an improvement.
From: ~BD~ on 29 Mar 2010 02:39 FromTheRafters wrote: > "species8350"<not_here.5.species8350(a)xoxy.net> wrote in message > news:ef712711-178e-497b-9ff5-5c3c30e029d7(a)k19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > > Thanks for the info so far. > > To date: AVIRA and MSE seem to be worth a look. > > Any advace? > > No advice from me. > > I use Avira's free version of AntiVir and Alwil's free version of Avast! > (two laptops). I also have ClamWin as an on-demand scanner - just > because it entertains me to find FPs. Don't get me wrong, they *all* FP > and ClamWin in my experience wasn't the worst offender. There is no way > for me to know how each fared in detecting real malware, as I haven't > exposed them to very many samples. The only important metric in that > respect is the ratio of FPs to real detections in the real world, and I > have know way of knowing that (not even the "independent" tests can have > all of the HP and the IBM and the Gateway toolkit's and such in their > test sets). > > I suspect that the OP meant *advance* 'n' e one can make an error! In *your* post - "and I have know way ..." ;-) ** No way, Jose! :) -- Dave
From: David Kaye on 29 Mar 2010 04:09 species8350 <not_here.5.species8350(a)xoxy.net> wrote: >I was think of installing AVAST. > Avast works for me. I wish their user interface didn't leave me scratching my head, though.
From: David Kaye on 29 Mar 2010 04:12
"FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote: >I use Avira's free version of AntiVir and Alwil's free version of Avast! >(two laptops). I have been installing Avast on my clients' computers (the home users) the last several weeks. I also have it on this computer I'm using now. So far so good. |