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On my PC Machines I’ve never trusted any other anti-virus than eTrust. McAfee and Symantec while decent, are jokes compared to CA (the maker of etrust). I’ve scanned the same computer with all three softwares and the first two found no viruses and CA found 12! Man that saved me from having to get a new computer or repartition anything. Now… The best just got better (I say that too much, but this time it’s really true). This is an email I received today:
I rarely get excited over hype like this, but it’s a big deal. $1,500 in insurance in case you get a virus under their protection? Hell, that’s almost worth creating a virus just to get a new computer… Now, of course I don’t have to worry about anti-virus or spyware or anything because no matter what you hear, Macs just aren’t susceptible to viruses if you’re smart (and even if you’re not smart. I’ve downloaded viruses on purpose just to see “what if” and nothing happened.). So, once your current antivirus expires, this is the stuff to get. Insurance with antivirus… I’ve heard of having the consumer in mind, but that’s ridiculous (in a good way, of course.)
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I have used AVG Free for many years now, on both my home pcs and clients pcs. I have never found a virus that AVG has missed so i dont understand why people would want to pay good money for something that they can get free?
Tiny
Personally, anti-virus’ shouldn’t be needed. Microsoft just want to be money whores and not implement a Unix-core like every other OS so that they can make and sell their own anti-virus.
Microsoft will give up it’s biggest and only advantage by shifting to a unix core. Right now, the only thing that makes me run XP on my computer is the fact that getting a lot of my favourite apps to work on Linux would be a pain. The windows core offers a huge choice in this regard. If Microsoft went unix, then nothing in the whole world would stop me from making a complete switch to Linux.
Am thinking that to avail myself of that guarantee, I’d have to expose my system to the CA guys…Scary!
I am using Kaspersky for two years. No problem so far and very light. But will try to scan my windows with CA to see whether any virus that kaspersky missed.
I too use Kaspersky. Now that I’ve also got PrevX (and it’s good, being a heuristics and community based app), I’ve set Kaspersky to minimum protection and use it only for manual scanning, it’s strongest area. I really don’t think Ca can surpass this combination…
And who pays money for this kind of stuff? Or for that matter, any kind of stuff installed on your PC?? Hmmm…:P