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From: johnlgalt on 25 Nov 2009 21:03 johnlgalt had written this in response to http://www.secure-gear.com/antivirus/AVIRA-A-BIG-SUPRISE-33188-.htm : I have implemented Micro$oft's Security Essentials, along with MalwareByte's AntiMalware (Beta tester = registered) and WinPatrol (also registered) for my defense. These are the only three I rely on now for maintaining three Windows 7-based machines and one XP based machine. I, too, have tried ESET in the past - and Norton, Symantec (both the older SAV and the newer SEP), McAfee, Avira, AVG, Avast!, and a few others.... M$ has finally come out with a good free product. -- JG
From: FromTheRafters on 26 Nov 2009 11:21 "ASCII" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:4b0e9f5f.593421(a)EBCDIC... > FromTheRafters wrote: >>I didn't keep records of winners over time, but at a guess Kaspersky >>and >>F-Prot come to mind. > > After Kaspersky went from v3.0 to v3.5 it was in its heyday > up until the defs were no longer available. > F-Prot v3.16f was the last good thing Frisk did. ....and Secretariat out to stud, out to pasture, and now dead.
From: David H. Lipman on 26 Nov 2009 12:22
From: "Dave Cohen" <user(a)example.net> | I'd gladly swap that one 'clip to close' ad for other annoyances in my life. | I'll be getting a laptop soon with windows 7. No doubt this will come | with the usual trial stuff which I'll remove. Question is should I stick | with Avira or try the new MS stuff, and will that come as part of | windows 7. Also, to what extent are this new systems better at avoiding | attacks than winxp. I've never had a virus in years of computing. Stick with Avira AntiVir and... http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |