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December 18th 17, 01:04 AM
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What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free
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December 18th 17, 01:40 AM
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:04:34 -0600, Jeff Thoele
wrote: What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free Free? They're all worthless. Best? BitDefender.
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December 18th 17, 01:59 AM
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:04:34 -0600, Jeff Thoele
wrote: What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free Free is as good or better than paid, in case you hear otherwise. I use Avira. Avast is also said to be quite good. There are others, as well. Check a few out and see what you like.
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December 18th 17, 02:08 AM
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On 12/17/2017 8:04 PM, Jeff Thoele wrote:
What is a good,thebest,antivirus?Â* Free If you check with you ISP, you may be able to done load and install several different antivirus programs and suite like Norton, McAfee, etc. It will vary with your ISP. I am currently running McAfee, that is provide free from ATT. -- 2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre
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December 18th 17, 05:47 AM
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Jeff Thoele wrote:
What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free What you run, is a function of what kind of person you are. Are you like my buddy in one of the other groups, who double-clicked an email attachment and have Locky Ransomware destroy his computer room ? Then you'd need a belt and suspenders program. A program that sucks resources out of the computer, and needs an SSD and a hex core CPU to leave enough bandwidth for you to work. If you're clueful, then the Windows Defender in your OS is plenty good enough for casual situations. You can use sites like: https://www.av-comparatives.org/ if you like metrics and benchmarks. No product is absolutely bulletproof, and the charts can help show that. For example, heuristic detection provides a measure of zero-day protection. It attempts to spot "hooking" of computer resources by new malwares. If no virus definition exists yet, a signature analysis may miss things. Heuristic detection attempts to detect new malwares. Of course, the black hats test their viral creations with programs like that. But, they have to be careful, because in some cases, a copy of their new creation gets uploaded to a sample server and the white hats write a detection for it, before the malware has even been distributed to the wider internet. https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-c..._201503_en.pdf In that example, Bitdefender happened to do well. There are also retroactive ("Performance") tests, which check the signature database for known malware and the detection of such. https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-c..._201710_en.pdf Using the various PDFs from that site, you can select something to suit your purposes. Paul
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December 18th 17, 09:35 AM
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Jeff Thoele wrote:
What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free Bitdefender free. -- Bob Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
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December 18th 17, 01:22 PM
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:04:34 -0600, Jeff Thoele
wrote: What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free The full version of Malware bytes. -- http://www.npsnn.com
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December 18th 17, 05:57 PM
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:59:58 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:04:34 -0600, Jeff Thoele wrote: What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free Free is as good or better than paid, in case you hear otherwise. I use Avira. Avast is also said to be quite good. There are others, as well. Check a few out and see what you like. The problem with most anti-viruses is that they can easily be manipulated and hacked. Apparently, BitDefender is impossible for the people at the CIA to hack whereas just about everything else is a joke. https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/03/08/what-the-cia-thinks-of-your-antivirus-program.html
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December 18th 17, 06:02 PM
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:35:16 +0000, Bob Henson
wrote: Jeff Thoele wrote: What is a good,thebest,antivirus? Free Bitdefender free. There's such a thing? Ha, there is. Ha I known, I wouldn't have purchased the full edition but, whatever, I've gotten used to it.
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December 19th 17, 02:34 PM
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On 12/18/2017 11:57 AM, Doomsdrzej wrote:
[snip] The problem with most anti-viruses is that they can easily be manipulated and hacked. Apparently, BitDefender is impossible for the people at the CIA to hack whereas just about everything else is a joke. It's impossible for those who forgot where they had M$ put the back door. https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/03/08/what-the-cia-thinks-of-your-antivirus-program.html
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December 20th 17, 05:03 PM
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Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 12/17/2017 8:04 PM, Jeff Thoele wrote: What is a good,thebest,antivirus?Â* Free If you check with you ISP, you may be able to done load and install several different antivirus programs and suite like Norton, McAfee, etc. It will vary with your ISP. I am currently running McAfee, that is provide free from ATT. I have the same on this HP , McAfee from ATT. I was too stupid to put it on my XP, and now it won’t work at all. XP, that is. 30 tab.com virus is what knocked my old dell xp out.
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