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  #61  
Old April 4th 14, 04:38 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:02:43 -0400, Ron wrote:

On 4/3/2014 6:42 PM, Ron wrote:
On 4/3/2014 5:47 PM, Nil wrote:
On 03 Apr 2014, Char Jackson wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I've been using Avira on multiple computers for quite a few years
now and haven't found the advertising to be painful at all. Every
4-6 months a small rectangular ad appears in the lower right
corner of the desktop. I click 'Delete all' and it's gone for
another 4-6 months. That's pretty painless.

I just checked my notes to remind me. Avira Free was OK for a long
time, but a year or two ago they started throwing up a big obnoxious ad
every time the virus definitions were updated, which was several times
a day sometimes. For a while, there were a couple of workarounds to
mitigate that, but then they stopped working. That's when I moved to
Avast.


It was more than 2 years ago and I believe that Avira has now removed
the nag screen.


http://techblog.avira.com/2013/09/27...tifier-ads/en/


Excellent! Thanks for posting this. So that's why I never see the big ad
anymore.

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  #62  
Old April 4th 14, 09:44 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Buffalo[_3_]
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:56:16 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 02 Apr 2014, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Except I really have come to think it was AVG :-)

But either way, I'm not planning to go back there at the moment.

Anyway, the message that I hated most was the one that pops up *at
boot time* telling me every single time what I already knew about
protections I didn't enable and so forth. They included some
things that I had no reason to want, IMO.


Maybe it was Avira Antivirus. I used that one for some years, but they
kept ramping up the advertising until I just couldn't take it any more.
Avast manages to keep it under my pain threshold.

I used AVG for a while, too. It caused me problems, but I don't
remember what they were.


Yeah, I got pretty tangled in remembering which problems went with which
AV program, plus there was doubtlessly a liberal dose of PEBCAK
sprinkled in :-)

I recalled later yesterday that one of them dinged me with a false
positive, which I didn't like, for some reason.

PCWorld, I think it was, or else PC Magazine, really likes Kaspersky,
and IIRC, they have a 30-day free trial...

Comodo free also seems to be very well liked and is said to be easy on
system resources.
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  #63  
Old April 4th 14, 10:07 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_2_]
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:44:28 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:56:16 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 02 Apr 2014, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Except I really have come to think it was AVG :-)

But either way, I'm not planning to go back there at the moment.

Anyway, the message that I hated most was the one that pops up *at
boot time* telling me every single time what I already knew about
protections I didn't enable and so forth. They included some
things that I had no reason to want, IMO.

Maybe it was Avira Antivirus. I used that one for some years, but they
kept ramping up the advertising until I just couldn't take it any more.
Avast manages to keep it under my pain threshold.

I used AVG for a while, too. It caused me problems, but I don't
remember what they were.


Yeah, I got pretty tangled in remembering which problems went with which
AV program, plus there was doubtlessly a liberal dose of PEBCAK
sprinkled in :-)

I recalled later yesterday that one of them dinged me with a false
positive, which I didn't like, for some reason.

PCWorld, I think it was, or else PC Magazine, really likes Kaspersky,
and IIRC, they have a 30-day free trial...

Comodo free also seems to be very well liked and is said to be easy on
system resources.


Thanks.

The magazine in question only reviewed 10 packages, not including Comodo
:-)

In fact, as you might have noticed, every magazine and every website
reviews a slightly or grossly different subset of the available
programs, and often two sites will have widely divergent ratings of the
same package. Doesn't make it easy...

I see that Comodo also offers a free Android security package, with many
options, some of which I am unsure of :-)

Those would include things like Software Manager and App Manager, which
I wouldn't try until I researched to find out what they do.

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  #64  
Old April 5th 14, 03:02 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Buffalo[_3_]
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:44:28 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:56:16 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 02 Apr 2014, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Except I really have come to think it was AVG :-)

But either way, I'm not planning to go back there at the moment.

Anyway, the message that I hated most was the one that pops up *at
boot time* telling me every single time what I already knew about
protections I didn't enable and so forth. They included some
things that I had no reason to want, IMO.

Maybe it was Avira Antivirus. I used that one for some years, but they
kept ramping up the advertising until I just couldn't take it any more.
Avast manages to keep it under my pain threshold.

I used AVG for a while, too. It caused me problems, but I don't
remember what they were.

Yeah, I got pretty tangled in remembering which problems went with which
AV program, plus there was doubtlessly a liberal dose of PEBCAK
sprinkled in :-)

I recalled later yesterday that one of them dinged me with a false
positive, which I didn't like, for some reason.

PCWorld, I think it was, or else PC Magazine, really likes Kaspersky,
and IIRC, they have a 30-day free trial...

Comodo free also seems to be very well liked and is said to be easy on
system resources.


Thanks.

The magazine in question only reviewed 10 packages, not including Comodo
:-)

In fact, as you might have noticed, every magazine and every website
reviews a slightly or grossly different subset of the available
programs, and often two sites will have widely divergent ratings of the
same package. Doesn't make it easy...

I see that Comodo also offers a free Android security package, with many
options, some of which I am unsure of :-)

Those would include things like Software Manager and App Manager, which
I wouldn't try until I researched to find out what they do.

Here is another link for av comparisons, inc Comodo
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:44:28 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:56:16 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 02 Apr 2014, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Except I really have come to think it was AVG :-)

But either way, I'm not planning to go back there at the moment.

Anyway, the message that I hated most was the one that pops up *at
boot time* telling me every single time what I already knew about
protections I didn't enable and so forth. They included some
things that I had no reason to want, IMO.

Maybe it was Avira Antivirus. I used that one for some years, but they
kept ramping up the advertising until I just couldn't take it any more.
Avast manages to keep it under my pain threshold.

I used AVG for a while, too. It caused me problems, but I don't
remember what they were.

Yeah, I got pretty tangled in remembering which problems went with which
AV program, plus there was doubtlessly a liberal dose of PEBCAK
sprinkled in :-)

I recalled later yesterday that one of them dinged me with a false
positive, which I didn't like, for some reason.

PCWorld, I think it was, or else PC Magazine, really likes Kaspersky,
and IIRC, they have a 30-day free trial...

Comodo free also seems to be very well liked and is said to be easy on
system resources.


Thanks.

The magazine in question only reviewed 10 packages, not including Comodo
:-)

In fact, as you might have noticed, every magazine and every website
reviews a slightly or grossly different subset of the available
programs, and often two sites will have widely divergent ratings of the
same package. Doesn't make it easy...

I see that Comodo also offers a free Android security package, with many
options, some of which I am unsure of :-)

Those would include things like Software Manager and App Manager, which
I wouldn't try until I researched to find out what they do.

Here is another link for av comparisons, inc Comodo.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...election_Guide
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  #65  
Old April 6th 14, 03:22 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_2_]
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 20:02:31 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

Here is another link for av comparisons, inc Comodo.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...election_Guide


I've recently looked at that very site, maybe from someone else's link,
but I'm not really organized enough to recall how I got there.

HUMOR[1]
Giving me new links is not at all helpful - it just adds fuel to my
complaint that different sites or publications give sometimes radically
different rankings to the same program, and also they review
non-matching subsets from the large world of AV software.
/HUMOR

[1] OK, it's probably a feeble attempt at humor :-)

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  #66  
Old April 6th 14, 03:39 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Buffalo[_3_]
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 20:02:31 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

Here is another link for av comparisons, inc Comodo.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...election_Guide


I've recently looked at that very site, maybe from someone else's link,
but I'm not really organized enough to recall how I got there.

HUMOR[1]
Giving me new links is not at all helpful - it just adds fuel to my
complaint that different sites or publications give sometimes radically
different rankings to the same program, and also they review
non-matching subsets from the large world of AV software.
/HUMOR

[1] OK, it's probably a feeble attempt at humor :-)

I enjoy your comments and remarks.
Live long and prosper!!!
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  #67  
Old April 7th 14, 09:43 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
BillW50
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In ,
Drew typed:
On 3/30/2014 4:37 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:20:33 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:52:59 -0700, Drew
wrote:
Maybe the word "constant" was used wrongly.. What I meant was
after I chose not to update the program anymore I was badgered
repeatedly to do so (as in every time I brought it out of sleep
mode) I have taken the advice of others to make some changes to
the settings but was still wondering about other antivirus program
advice.

Why not just allow it to update?


IMO,that would be sensible, but Drew doesn't seem to agree.

How about.... Because in the past many programs have taught me that
newer is not always better. With Avast I have found that they seem to
be dumbing down the program and adding some really useless "tools"?
Unfortunately because of time constraints lately I have not looked
into turning some of this stuff off. Many have pointed out my
stupidity and I appreciate the help in curing the problem. I would
still like to know what others are running and what there opinions
are though.


I agree with you and so do many of the ones on the Avast forums. Having
lots of machines here which I used for such tasks for such experiments,
I've been playing around with Avast 6, 7, and 8 on a number of machines.
And all these versions you can still register and still get the latest
definitions for. Avast 6 won't install with today's date. I set my clock
back to 2005 and then it installed just fine. Avast 7 and 8 had no such
problems when installing. And so far I haven't seen any problems with
those earlier versions for the past few months.

This is what ticked me off with the latest and greatest Avast. As my
Windows 8 machines were still getting automatic program updates while I
set it for never.

I think I need to explain this one so we can hopefully avoid
another fiasco like with previous EmUpdate. Although I cannot
explain the issue in detail, I can say that we had very few
options in this regard and had to forcibly update some of our
users to avast! 2014.

This can only happen if you use Windows 8 as Microsoft
identified issues with its updates related to avast!. You can
imagine they were very adamant and the only option given to us
was to update the affected users to avast! 2014 (specifically to
build 2014.9.0.2008 or higher). Builds 2014.9.0.2006 and
2014.9.0.2007 should have already received the necessary fix by
EmUpdate, so no action is necessary there.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused, the affected users
should have received information pop-up about necessity of the
update few days back to allow them to update on their leisure
but it just wasn't enough.

If you are worried about Chrome offer, you can easily untick
those offers in "Complete" screen after a system reboot.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?top...968#msg1027968

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