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    Antivirus recommendations?

    I have month left on my kaspersky sub and I've heard various people talk down upon them in recent times for some reason (and it seems to not let my ACT plugin play nice), so I'm wondering what BG likes to use?

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    MSE, AVG Free, Avast depending on the OS in question.

    *edit* ESET products are good if you are willing to actually pay for AV.

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    I use:






    On a serious note, I found Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to be completely adequate as long as you're somewhat savvy.

    I find AVG and Avast too whiny and annoying for my tastes, as well as consuming more resources then necessary (noticable on slower machines).

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    I just use MSE, and if I suspect i have something, I download malware bytes, run it, and uninstall.

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    Only Malware Bytes for me. Been the only "security" on my pc for over two years now and no issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kalmado View Post
    Only Malware Bytes for me. Been the only "security" on my pc for over two years now and no issues.
    Don't you have to pay to get the "active scanning/protection" mode? Or have they changed it of recent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stig View Post
    Don't you have to pay to get the "active scanning/protection" mode? Or have they changed it of recent?
    Probably. I just use the free trial. While your "Common Sense Software" post is obviously a joke, there is a lot of truth to it. Obviously a bit harder if you have children in the home and/or multiple pc/user in the home. Example would be letting my mother use my pc while I was at work (this was a long time ago when I had a Gateway laptop with like, 2gb ram and an equally stupid processor). I come home and she locked it up from having so many IE windows open (yes I told her, FF/Chrome only). When I reset and was logged in, I had so many random programs installed on my pc (mostly flash players) it was ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stig View Post
    Don't you have to pay to get the "active scanning/protection" mode? Or have they changed it of recent?
    30 day trial of active scanning, but you can still manually update and tell it to run and clean once the 30 day trial is done. I just install/uninstall as needed.

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    Have used Avast for years and I'm happy with it. Not quite what I'd recommend for absolutely not tech-savvy folks since some of the payment traps and popups can confuse them easily, but with a little guidance ("yes, you can click that", "no, don't accept that", "you can ignore that, it's just commercials") even my parents managed to come by with it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melena View Post
    I just use MSE, and if I suspect i have something, I download malware bytes, run it, and uninstall.
    This is exactly what I do.

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    I'm pretty ok with keeping issues away during normal use, but after getting burned in the ffxi mysterytour thing way back when I like to have a little extra to fall back on. And I do need to find something that will be good at keeping clueless parents out of trouble (and to that end I'm ok with it costing some dollars).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Purrrfect View Post
    I'm pretty ok with keeping issues away during normal use, but after getting burned in the ffxi mysterytour thing way back when I like to have a little extra to fall back on. And I do need to find something that will be good at keeping clueless parents out of trouble (and to that end I'm ok with it costing some dollars).
    There seems to be tons of AV software for either free after rebate or extremely affordable. Keep an eye on Slickdeals.net for it.

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    MSE.

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    If you want no nonsense, nor anything to configure, get bitdefender free. It's what I install on all my tech-tarded friends' comps now since there's nothing to configure: just install it, register it with a 10minute email account, and forget it. Avast, avg, avira, etc, all have a lot of options and other things that get in the way of folks who have little idea what they're doing. Bitdefender free is even more straightforward than MSE, and actually does its job.

    Main problem I've had with MSE is that occasionally it eats of an entire cpu core doing who knows what for hours or forever. I've run into a number of my friends' comps where it slowed to a crawl due to MSE. It's updates are also tied into windows updates, so if you turn windows updates off or to not download but tell you when it's new (because fuck that one reboot where you need the comp now but it takes 2 hours because of fucking auto updates), MSE will complain and sometimes shit the bed. Any AV not mse will solve that problem though, but BD free is near idiot proof.

    Though, ultimately the new games in town are exploits that antivirus programs won't protect you against, namely social engineering and browser related. Browsers you can help protect with things like ublock origin, adblock pro (careful on the names, lots of fake ones around), umatrix, noscript, and the like. Social engineering, that's where common sense comes in and not being in a rush to pirate the latest software or see the latest shitty link some dork on facederp sends you. Loads of downloads and sites are laced, so don't trust shit unless you have a little common sense.

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    Buy a mac.

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    Spybot, anti malware, mcfee online scan, microsoft's thing if I feel something odd is going on usually.

    Virustotal.com for any executablish files I download

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    AVG Ultimate for two years & unlimited devices. Use promo code EMCATKK59 at checkout. $19.99
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832620142

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    I still like avira

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    I run avast. Run spybot and malware every month or so. Seems to be running fine.

    Combine this with 'no script' and 'Adblock' as well. Sadly
    for the non tech savvy 'no script' is annoying to train. But I think this is the most important software to install.

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