I've been surviving off of freeware for quite a while, and now I think it's
time to get serious about AV protection.
The kids computer is riddled with garbage, but I basically gave up trying to
protect it because they're their own worst enemy when it comes to online
caution. about every 2 or 3 months I have to go in and clean it out with
SpyBot and AdAware (which has mysteriously disappeared, I think the little
turds deleted the program).
Anyway, their computer is now so borked that I can't even d/l any programs
such as AdAware (which I wanted to reinstall) or anything else because the
browser keeps getting hijacked. I tried to download Hijack This, but ended
up with a program called AdwareAlert which wants to charge $30... does
Hijack This still exist as a freeware program?
So I echo the question, is there an AV program that's worthwhile that
catches everything? Jeez, you would think the major AV's would work in
concert (i.e. check each other's websites for updates and integrate them
across the board) to provide the best protection possible and let the
features, add-ons or interface be what differentiates them.
Veech
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zulfiqar Naushad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:29 AM
Subject: [H] Antivirus
There used to be a time when I didn't have AV
scanners. I used to know the source of my files and
had precautions not to infect my machine(s). That
worked till I inadvertently surfed to a shoddy
website.
2 days of hair pulling later, I decided to reformat
and switch 100% to firefox.
That worked for a while till I got infected again!
Anyways, long story short, I bought Kaspersky with a 1
year reg and really liked the program, it was good and
did the job well.
However last weekend my Kaspersky key expired. First
thought was to whip out my Mastercard and buy another
1 year license.
But I decided to give the other products a look.
In the end I ended up buying NOD32. Guess what, right
off the bat after installation and after updating the
DAT files, it found a trojan!
This was a trojan that Kaspersky did not recognize!!
What irks me is that does one now have to have 3
antivirus programs running catching viruses that the
others miss?
Is there a GOOD program that catches all viruses, or
99.9% of them?
NOD32 is now my fave AV program. It is light and has
a lot of good features.
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