And just to reiterate: you can get the full Mcaffee protection suite, and also some computer diagnostics etc, free from AOL. It updates daily, and all updates are free. It's not hard to understand why AOL would offer all of this free and take great care to eliminate every threat they possibly can.
Anti-Virus, WHICH ONE????? HELP !!!!
by horrible life 24 Replies latest jw friends
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horrible life
I'm still here. I am researching, all of your suggestions. Keep em coming!!! Kapersky seems like the one that is a repeat with posters. Any other repeats that you all like? Free mcafee sounds wonderful, although I don't have AOL, I haven't got to it yet.
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5thGeneration
Zone Alarm is the best I've ever used!
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Simon
Most desktop antivirus and protection software is of dubious real protection and severely slows down your system
See: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000803.html
Speaking of retrograde, band-aid, destroy all my computer's performance security, the one security feature Vista doesn't bundle is anti-virus software. And nothing cripples your PC's performance quite like anti-virus software. This isn't terribly surprising if you consider what anti-virus software has to do: examine every single byte of data that passes through your computer for evidence of malicious activity. But who needs theory when we have Oli at The PC Spy. Oli conducted a remarkably thorough investigation of the real world performance impact of security software on the PC. The results are truly eye-opening:
Percent slower Boot CPU Disk Norton Internet Security 2006 46% 20% 2369% McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8 7% 20% 2246% Norton Internet Security 2007 45% 8% 1515% Trend Micro PC-cillin AV 2006 2% 0% 1288% ZoneAlarm ISS 16% 0% 992% Norton Antivirus 2002 11% 8% 658% Windows Live OneCare 11% 8% 512% Webroot Spy Sweeper 6% 8% 369% Nod32 v2.5 7% 8% 177% avast! 4.7 Home 4% 8% 115% Windows Defender 5% 8% 54% Panda Antivirus 2007 20% 4% 15% AVG 7.1 Free 15% 0% 19% The worst offenders are the anti-virus suites with real-time protection. According to these results, the latest Norton Internet Security degrades boot time by nearly 50 percent. And no, that isn't a typo in the disk column. It also makes all disk access sixteen times slower! Even the better performers in this table would have a profoundly negative impact on your PC's performance. Windows Defender, for example, "only" makes hard drive access 54 percent slower.
I prefer to keep my systems patched and running only the services they are supposed to with the access levels that are needed.
And of course, avoid crappy websites, dodgy software downloads and any messages with attachments!
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Gretchen956
I've had Norton and I've used McAfee, neither of them stopped my computer from getting viruses or getting hacked. I got Kaspersky and I LOVE it. I haven't had a virus or been hacked since I got it.
Sherry