Been messing with AVG paid, not bad. Use Nod32 primarily. Gave up on Norton a long time ago but have heard good things lately like maybe they have cleaned up the act. fp
At 02:05 PM 5/16/2010, Veech Poked the stick with: >I haven't tried Vipre for my home system. The IT department at my work uses >Vipre for our networked PCs, hundreds of PCs in 40+ cities in the US. So far >it seems to work ok. > >At home I run AVG, SpyBot, ComboFix and MalwareBytes. I try to run all four >once a week, takes about 4 hours to scan the whole thing. MalwareBytes seems >to take the longest, almost 2 hours. AVG about an hour and a half, Spybot >about 20 minutes and ComboFix about 10 - 15 minutes. > >I tried MSE but deleted it within a day because it would scan every web page >or program prior to access and it took forever to launch anything, and >connecting to Steam was impossible. Gotta have my Team fortress 2 fix! > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Naushad, Zulfiqar" ><[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 02:44 >Subject: Re: [H] Vipre Antivirus > > >I think that MSE can't be trusted as a primary AV. > >I've used it and it gave me a false sense of security. I think that MSE >can sit alongside another AV product and provide an additional safety >net, but for some reason, I just can't get that false sense of security >out of me when using MSE. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John R >Steinbruner >Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:41 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [H] Vipre Antivirus > >I have not used that one, but have switched from using Symantec to MSE >for all my Windows boxen.. > >Microsoft Security Essentials seems to do the trick for free.. > >http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ > > >On May 16, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: > >>Anyone used this and how good is it? >> >>Need to get a new antivirus for my computer @ home. > > >-- >JRS >[email protected] > >Facts do not cease to exist just >because they are ignored. > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 5118 (20100516) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Dead people vote Democratic 10 to 1 !
