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Antivirus advice
09-10-2014, 08:23 AM
My antivirus is about to run out.
I've been using bitdefender, but I'm not fond of it. It keeps asking me to log into their website, and it's got a very annoying habit of flashing large advertisments for itself on the bottom of my screen.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good, discrete antivirus?
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Avast.
Get the free version.
Yes it has the odd "ad" like in a pop up once a week in the corner for a few seconds or so, and it does let you know when its updating itself (as all antivirus programs should)... but I've basically tuned the popups out.
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I've been using the free Mircrosoft Security Essentials for the last few years with no problems. No slowdown either, unlike when I used Norton or Kaspersky.
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Same here -- five years with MSE on my primary machine at home. It's caught a couple things, otherwise I'd never know it was there.
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Avast is mostly harmless....
My desktop has malwarebytes on it and nothing else because it's not really used to browse the web.
I prefer to keep the gribblies from getting onto my system rather than beat them when they do. Noscript and Adblock+ in firefox help a great deal with that. The only 'infection' I've had in the last few years was some stupid browser toolbar that came with a HDD disk monitoring as bundled checkshit that I missed.
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