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RayLopez99
These AV programs have lots of overlap and no clear winner, save perhaps the paid versions of Norton. With that in mind, what's the best free rotation? Or even paid rotation for AV? That is, two forms of protection. I've also tried a online scanner but can't seem to find the link anymore (they come and go every year it seems, ebbing and flowing based on popularity, andif they become too popular they morph to a paid version).
I say something like MSFT Security Essentials, the default Windows 7 Firewall, then on occasion run freeware Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program and that's good enough. I don't mind paying however, but hesitate to get Norton since historically it locks your machine into just the Norton family of products, which used to suck but now they have pretty good protection.
Just today in fact MSFT SE caught a virus that was pretending to be a porn video.
Anybody else? Should I rotate various AV programs, and, if so, which? TheKaspersky "free" Linux disc doesn't seem to work anymore on my machine,andI can't find the link to the latest one, and besides I've heard that you don't need to boot into Linux anymore from the CD but can do a 'stay within W7' scan.
On another machine I use Panda Cloud freeware and it seems to work with older machines running XP pretty nicely.
RL
I say something like MSFT Security Essentials, the default Windows 7 Firewall, then on occasion run freeware Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program and that's good enough. I don't mind paying however, but hesitate to get Norton since historically it locks your machine into just the Norton family of products, which used to suck but now they have pretty good protection.
Just today in fact MSFT SE caught a virus that was pretending to be a porn video.
Anybody else? Should I rotate various AV programs, and, if so, which? TheKaspersky "free" Linux disc doesn't seem to work anymore on my machine,andI can't find the link to the latest one, and besides I've heard that you don't need to boot into Linux anymore from the CD but can do a 'stay within W7' scan.
On another machine I use Panda Cloud freeware and it seems to work with older machines running XP pretty nicely.
RL