Right Now I'm........... (part deux)

[Mad Dog]

And when none of those actually do anything for you since they all SUCK, come see me at Best Buy.

Mcaffee is by far the WORST antivirus application available. It slows down your system, is inadequate at finding even the most common of virus', and often times will actually damage your operating system. There is a reason that ISP give this crap away for free.

AVG, if they would stop trying to find "virus like activity" and actually focused on the virus' themselves, may actually be worth free. Right now, you couldn't pay me to use this software.

OneCare has been discontinued by Microsoft as of this past June. You can still get updates for it, and still buy the software through some channels, but why use something that will not be around for much longer?

Trend Micro is respectable enough to use if you do light surfing and not much downloading. It gets the fewest updates though out of the major players. My understanding is that Trend is working to rectify that though.

Hands down, the best AV for 2009 was Norton Internet Security. It was completely re-written from the ground up for speed, reliability, frequent updates, and to not be a resource hog on your system. I run Norton 2009 on my computers. DO NOT use any edition prior to 2009 though as the old versions of Norton (2004 - 2008) would be equatable to McAffee.

Other products that I have found to do an ok job:
- Spysweeper with Antivirus. It has a better price point (is cheaper) than something like Norton and seems to keep machines pretty clean. It has some of the annoyances of Spybot or Vista (constant questioning to see if you actually wanted to do something), but overall does a pretty good job.

- Bit Defender 2009. Bit Defender flys under the radar quite often simply because you don't find it on the shelf at a lot of places. I have used this program at a couple of different clients due to their volume licensing discounts and the clients have been really happy with it.

Just remember, you really get what you pay for and your identity is probably far worth more than the cost of a good antivirus software.

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and if you really want you can pay for the professional edition that has a lot more features.

I did no such thing.

Just remember, you really get what you pay for and your identity is probably far worth more than the cost of a good antivirus software.

One of my personal favorites is adware away. It is a very detailed scanner. I don't know if anyone else has used it but I found it to be a very useful tool, only thing i found that got rid of the about blank virus i had at the time. It's been a while though so I don't know if there has been a decline in it's performance.


Oh and right now I'm looking up info on squirrel tree frogs because the one that hitched a ride home with me from NC had made a reappearance after running away. So now I am looking up on how to care for them.

This is WAAAAAAY to much nerd speak !!! :ugeek: