After trying all the usual memory and CPU hogging suspects, I can fully recommend Vipre.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostSticking your fingers in your ears and chanting "I've got a Mac" doesn't actually act as a deterrent.
The iPhone may well be responsible for a whole slew of Mac nasties as MacOsX gets more popular.
At the moment on my main laptop, Im using linux, so no av (as I dont mess about without protection) with xp running on a virtual machine. Several other machines such as xp, win7, w23k on the server.
On the server and XP rigs I have an old version of CA which is extremely stable and has a very small footprint and some of the best virus defs out there from CA.Last edited by wim121; 6 February 2012, 01:20.Comment
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My ISP has offered me a 2 year free subscription of F-Secure (to soften the blow of a small price hike) for a single machine, so I'm wondering if it's any good.
Has anyone here got experience, favourable or otherwise of F-Secure?Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostBut maybe malicious software does not really exist and AV is all a con, like dentistry.
I've just de-installed all my anti-virus bollocks and can rest easy in the knowledge that if anything truly nasty happens I can roll back to a recent VM backup, or the problem will be caught on whatever server/network I connect to that still has all this anti-virus bollox installed.
So like a whore with every disease under the sun, I can't catch anything new and it's the problem of whoever tries to **** with me.Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
Feist - I Feel It All
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Another +1 for MSE.
Used to swear by AVG until v8 when it went bloaty and slowed the PC down to a crawl. After that started using Avast (still do on my netbook with TinyXP), was much faster than AVG but a bit annoying doing the update thing at start-up (on a slow connection).
Happy enough with MSE.Do what thou wiltComment
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