Which Anti-Virus do You Use?

It has absolutely nothing to do w/ "habits"!! All that is necessary is being connected to the Net. I don't care whether a person never opens a browser or ever downloads anything. I don't care if a person is away from home or the office for a month of Sundays... if a computer is ON & connected to the Internet it MUST be protected. Period... there is no dispute, debate or viable argument nor does it matter where one is an IT Pro or the man in the moon absolutely NOTHING changes it!

I am sorry to be blunt but, you are dead wrong. My last word on the matter.


Oh & thanks for your comment, Kurt. And, if I'm not mistaken Kurt is not an IT Pro. It doesn't take an IT Pro to agree or know that what I've said is 100% correct, valid & w/out question has NO rebuttal.

Cheers,
Drew

Originally Posted by Drew

It doesn't take an IT Pro to agree or know that what I've said is 100% correct

But it's not 100% correct.

My mother spends her day on-line and has done so the last 10 years. Ten years of family genealogy, Facebook games, and Religious websites. To this day she has never had a virus because of her Internet habits. Sure viruses can be planted anywhere but in reality they usually are not.

Even the few times I was infected it was because I stupidly clicked a button and allowed the malicious code to run. Don't tell me Internet habits don't have anything to do with catching viruses. The most common Internet habits that people have is what plants seeds for where you will most likely find viruses.

No. Stupid surfing practices only increase the odds. "Habits" can lessen or increase the changes but, prevent nothing which is security is supposed to be used. Using a computer connected to the Net & not 'catching anything' (bad) is nothing more than sheer luck, not to mention a computer can 'catch something' & the owner never know it. And things, as Kurt mentioned, can & do get spread to other machines one may never know they had.

There is NO debate on or to this matter. It is an entirely incorrect practice & there is categorically nothing anyone can say that will make it ok or acceptable.

I repeat for the last time... all that is necessary is for a machine to be connected. That doesn't say used on the Net, it says connected to the Net.

If anyone responds to you further on this, it will not be myself.

Cheers,
Drew

Originally Posted by Drew

all that is necessary is for a machine to be connected. That doesn't say used on the Net, it says connected to the Net.

And thats where I don't believe you. Not that I don't believe it's possible, just very very very unlikely to happen. That would more than likely mean, you were being specifically targeted, otherwise firewalls would be useless.

Originally Posted by Drew

Sorry but, as an IT tech & consultant I must disagree. 1. that is far from the only reason MSE is good or better. & 2 it does not matter how much a computer is used on the Net.. if connected for any time AT ALL none of that time should EVER be w/out protection, absolutely NEVER.

Nor does is matter what internet use it gets, what sites are visited or anything. If connected MUST be protected, simple as that, doesn't matter about surfing or downloading, no if ands of buts. Connect, protect, that's, that's all. Should go immediately is connected & never go off.

End of story. No variation, no exceptions. Period.

Cheers,
Drew

Nah mate, I don't need the AV running for me, never ever caught a virus before

Originally Posted by GeneralHiningII

Nah mate, I don't need the AV running for me, never ever caught a virus before

No one ever intentionally will.. I'd make a better decision if I was you! MSE is easy on resources, so you've really got nothing to lose, and a lot to save by using it!

Originally Posted by GeneralHiningII

Nah mate, I don't need the AV running for me, never ever caught a virus before

(My computer experience dates to before ARPA, when we used COBOL, SNOBOL, BASIC and Fortran to navigate on a roomful of ttys, we physically protected our data on large rolls of punchtape, there was no internet then.) Unless you stealth your computer, you can and will be hacked in time without protection, as so many are these days. MSE is free, made by windows for windows, and doesn't affect functionality, you should of course use it. It's not just responsible computer use, it's also courtesy to other users that could get infected from you otherwise

Thank you, Kurt. Absolutely AND "before" in this context means nothing relative to the future, proves & suggests nothing, except as, I said earlier, sheer luck but, as you say, it's just playing Russian roulette; wrong for the User & dangerous to others, yes indeed. Called Bots & Worms, Rogue Viruses & get spread from one machine to countless others. 1 machine that the User may not know is infected is used to propagate 'silently' nasty stuff across the Net & to other machines. AND such things & hackers actually look for vulnerable (read, Unprotected) machine to hit that can be used for such malicious, criminal purposes. I have for years felt using an unprotected computer should be a criminal offence; the same as writing malicious code & hacking is.

Cheers,
Drew

McAfee All Access Total Protection,And i would never dream of Switching to another product,the detection rate is outstanding and the support the same.

McAfee rocks, very stable, user friendly smart software. Makes windows better all around. Very good payware, like windows