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Antivirus advice - Jinx999 - 09-10-2014
My antivirus is about to run out.
I've been using bitdefender, but I'm not fond of it. It keeps asking me to log into their website, and it's got a very annoying habit of flashing large advertisments for itself on the bottom of my screen.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good, discrete antivirus?
- Shader - 09-10-2014
Avast.
Get the free version.
Yes it has the odd "ad" like in a pop up once a week in the corner for a few seconds or so, and it does let you know when its updating itself (as all antivirus programs should)... but I've basically tuned the popups out.
- Shepherd - 09-11-2014
I've been using the free Mircrosoft Security Essentials for the last few years with no problems. No slowdown either, unlike when I used Norton or Kaspersky.
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- Bob Schroeck - 09-11-2014
Same here -- five years with MSE on my primary machine at home. It's caught a couple things, otherwise I'd never know it was there.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Ebony - 09-11-2014
I use AVG and get pretty good results with it. However, I do use MSE on my secondary system, and I find that I have to run Spybot and Malwarebytes whenever I log on. This may be because I normally use that machine once a week or so, rather than the everyday of my primary desktop, so I am noticing it, but there you are.
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- Dartz - 09-11-2014
Avast is mostly harmless....
My desktop has malwarebytes on it and nothing else because it's not really used to browse the web.
I prefer to keep the gribblies from getting onto my system rather than beat them when they do. Noscript and Adblock+ in firefox help a great deal with that. The only 'infection' I've had in the last few years was some stupid browser toolbar that came with a HDD disk monitoring as bundled checkshit that I missed.
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