Antivirus Program Choices
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Every single antivirus program today is little more that a placebo. I run a tech shop where people bring their wonky machines to be rehabbed from stints on the internet. It matters not whether it's got on it or not. There is malware on the machine and it gets cleaned using tech tools. In the face of this, I run NO antivirus on my windows 7 pet machine, and watch my S%^t. I never have a bit of malware even though I wish it were that easy when my pc starts to get fussy. It's always something else. One thing I've learned. You can take say, and attorney's office with with say 10 people in it "working" away on computers. The same two yahoos will be the consistent problem children, while the other 8 run for years and years without complaint. To that end use the windows defender that came with windows 10 and just do your work. Go outside to play, there are sharks on the web around every corner and you and John McAfee are powerless to stem the tide.
I think the video at this link covers it:
https://www.darkreading.com/edge/theedge/all-links-are-safe--right/b/d-id/1337947
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I’m curious how many people clicked the above link without thinking about it because it was posted as part of a thread about virus protection. :)
People click on links, here, from people they've been posting with for years. Don't you ever click on a link from CP's "Insider News" ? Compared, let's say, to a link in Q&A - or one from a member who has no name - only a number.* * might be a good movie title.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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What (paid for, but preferably not enterprise level) antivirus suite do people recommend? I used and recommended AVG for many years until I ran into a major interaction between it and Thunderbird which resulted in recurrent scrambling of my in-box. I went round in circles with their support people for quite a while before giving up on it. I currently use McAfee's Total Protection, which would be fine (my wife has no problems with it on her systems) if it did not increasingly frequently flag utility programs I have written (mostly in VB.Net) as viruses! Initially this was just a problem with its 'real-time scanning' component, which had to be disabled when I was actively developing and debugging the programs, and the 'in use' version excluded from these scans. However, it has now taken to quarantining one of my utilities (which has been unchanged for months) on every 'scheduled scan'. I have, of course followed McAfee's guidance for reporting false positives, but I have received no response whatsoever, and, as I have noted, the problem is getting worse. Is there a more reliable product in the same general price range?