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I was using CA security suite and with renewal being due I thought about changing. Not that I was having much problem with CA but just looking for something a bit more inexpensive. Found Defender Pro 5-in-1 for $20 at Wal-mart and thought I'ld give it a try. Is anyone else using this, and if so any pro or cons?
Karsten
You might enquirer at your provider ( comcast,etc> ) they provide it for FREE. Just letting you know as many never look into what their net provider gives you. Comcast provides McAfee for free to all its customers.
Dawn
I have Avast
it was free and I haven't had any problems since I've had it
AVG works well for me. I have had it for 2 1/2 years now with no problems. It is also free.
Same here, been using AVG for about a year and so far i've never encountered any problems with it:)
AVAST is also a great anti-virus application wich i had installed before, and it's also free.
Hi Karsten,
Sorry to change the subject, but did you even bother to read the replies to your update below? You received a lot of replies to you update, but did not bother to thank ANYONE, not even a "one suits all" reply!
Just wondering,
David
Wow, I don't think there's a requirement that posters have to reply to comments every time.
Hi Matt,
I certainly was not implying that he reply to every comment, but more on the line of one quick post like, "thanks guys, I appreciate your comments". I fully understand that his time may be limited. Just the time to make one quick post would have meant a lot to the rest of us. Oherwise, how would we know that he even bothered to read our replies? I know that I may appear to be "old fashioned", but I have always believed in good manners, and that is just the way I am.
David
Sorry, was away from early morning to evening and then spent most of evening with fussing with this new virus program and that was on my mind when I got up this morning for work and I just threw the question out as to what others were using as I'm not sure I'm happy with Defender Pro.
I hope everyone knows that this old man appreciates any and all comments and I agree I should have posted a thank you before now.
Karsten
Hi Karsten,
Thank you so much for stopping on by to explain things. I apologize for seeming a little harsh earlier on, but I am sure you can understand what I am trying to say. (There HAVE been some other members who post photos and never say a word afterwards) Thank you for your explanation, and for your words of thanks.
Take care,
David
WOW! It's not a requirement at all but a common courtesy. I often
wonder if replies get read by some people. It's not like in person
where you can give a wink, a nod, hand motion, facial expression,
or verbal thanks. On these forums you have to type it out.
Karsten's one of our good posters I figured he'd pop up eventually
but I certainly understand where David is coming from on the issue.
Kevin
That's what I wondered Matt, but at the end of the if you want to reply personally to each one of just a general thank you is a free world and the choice is ours. I try and follow up on most things I post but I do have other things going on in the real world as well!
Cheers,
John.B
I use AVG, it is great, and also free. I have been using it for quite some time now, and run it on all of my machines.
I use F Secure which runs me about $60 a year. I'm not comfortable with free protection software as I need a bit more for my comfort level.
It's excellent worth every penny.
Kevin
I have been very happy with PC Security Shield for the past three years.....much less intrusive than NORTON or McAfee.
PC Security Shield
Hi Walter,
I totally agree about Norton being quite a pain. I had it on my older computer, and it was a constant nuisance, and slowed down my computer to the point that it took about 20 minutes just to turn it on. Since I rid myself of that, and replaced it with another progarm, my old computer boots up much faster.
David
I also agree, Norton is a real performance hog, but now since i've started using AVG all the previous problems vanished.
All I know is that McAfee SUCKS ASS.
I had to turn it off just because it had slowed down my computer so that I could barely work. Once I turned it off, it was lightning fast.
If this works for you, Karsten, report back please.
I like Avast pro. You can Download it for free at the Pirate Bay ;-) Brings the keygen and a patch.
... I had Defender Pro loaded but after researching comments on the net I found that most were not good -and I was not comfortable with how it was configured. Had alot of trouble uninstalling it (as some comments said I would) but finally worked around the error messages. There is a company refund policy and it's going out in the mail to them tomorrow - hoepfully they will honor it.
Then the first install of CA renewal gave me some problems - had to uninstall and then reinstall - but now all seem to back to normal. What a wasted evening!!!
Karsten
I refuse to pay money into the protection racket. And no, I don't run Linux either. I lock down my IE settings, and tend to be chosey about where I'll go.
The few times I've been "pwned", I knew it, because most such nonsense occurs in order to delive pop-ups and other such nonsense.
Now, someone in the audience is probably saying "what about the viruses you don't know about?", to which I reply "what about the viruses the AV companies don't know about?". Or, "what about the government trojans the AV companies DO know about?".
Recently, a colleague pointed out to me the possibility that a keylogger might be on my machine, and that concerned me a bit--they could capture banking passwords. However, unless you AV is perfect and up-to-date all the time, that still leaves you paying money for something less than real security. A properly implemented login system for banking should include something like the RSA key fobs--even if there is a keylogger on the box, replaying the randomly generated number is pointless.
And of course, back up your files; not so much or viruses, but for hardware failures.
I have to admit, it takes a certain kind of mentality to run without AV. It's not for everybody. You have to understand the risks, and put up with some sites not working; but I find the sites I care about generally don't require ActiveX (the biggest problem) anyway. Yay for MLHH minimalism!
Not to seem elitist but common sense truimphs over having my CPU cycles wasted by apps like Norton etc.
There's really not been reliable ways to be infected outside running random exe files for a long time now. I run online virus scans every now and then and on suspicious files.