Just because it doesn't find anything doesn't ipso facto mean it is not working or is bad. You can confirm this by doing a scan with an on-line scanner periodically.
The likelihood of getting a virus often is dependent on several factors. If you do a lot of file-sharing particularly on torrent sites, practice other stupid habits like opening links from unknown emails, not checking shortened links with a link examining program like http://longurl.org/ and open unexpected atta chments, you are more likely to encounter a virus. Secondly, some anti-virus programs find a lot more things they identify as viruses that aren't; these are known as "false positives". Look on the web for third-party virus testing labs that often rank the effectiveness of both paid and free anti-virus programs. If you do some of the questionable practices noted above, you'll want a very good program with advanced heuristics; you may even put up with one that may score higher on false positives. As I've stated before, I value accessibility and something that isn't a hog on system resources. I feel comfortable using MSSE and feel comfortable recommending it to my customers unless I know they are or tend to engage in riskier activities. Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. Steve Lansing, MI ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred Adams To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:51 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] AVG Virus protection I am using MSE virus protection now and it never seems to find anything. I am leaning toward AVG but still looking. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Hecker Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] AVG Virus protection It's reasonably accessible. The most accessible virus protection I currently know of that is free is Microsoft Security Essentials. I'd stay away from that program as it misses a lot of threats. Shane On 3/26/2015 7:14 PM, Fred Adams wrote: > Is anyone on the list using AVG? If so, what do you think of it? > Seems like jaws friendly virus protection is getting harder to find. > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
