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Re: What AV are you running?

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NIS for Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows 8 64-bit. No problems. Norton/Symantec got and richly earned IMO a reputation for hogging system resources and using annoying nags which led me to switch to Kaspersky about seven years ago, but then Kaspersky started having an array of problems and I tried Norton again and have been much happier with it. If you haven't tried Norton lately, they are much better about not hogging resources and operating efficiently in the background without nagging you than they used to be.

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AVG Free along with Winpatrol and OpenDNS.
Usual windows firewall along with the firewall/nat on the modem router.

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Win XP Workstation = NAV2013
Win XP laptop = NAV2013
Win 7 pro 64bit media dev = MS Security Essentials
Win 7 pro 64bit Gaming rig = MS Security Essentials

HTC evo 4 phone = none

5x common sense and good internet practices.

Not clicking unknown links as well as good spam filters for email (tightly configured spamassasin)
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Still surprised to see NIS showing strong here.

What do you guys think of the community based trust thing for apps? Not sure that I am digging it. Would rather be alerted to outbound traffic. What about you?
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AVAST for years now and Love it

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Avast Free on two Win 7 and one Win 8 machines.

(Don't discount the importance of something like a FireFox "No Script" add-in, either. Probably does more to keep me out of trouble than AV could.)

reply to Trooper
I may end up going to Avast or Avira. Not sure which is better these days as they are both great av's. Had a problem on the kids laptop last night with NIS. Rendered the computer unusable.

What say you?
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Im running Vipre 2013..i like it because its lightweight, and I got a 3 year sub very cheap.

I rely more on Software Resttiction Polices then Anti-Virus anyways, but it doesn't hurt to run one just in case I guess.

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I use Avast free and MS Security essentials on several PCs.

I like Avast for config options and Boot time scan option but MSSE is very easy to install and not have to mess with.

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»Security seriously need to be updated too!

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Bullguard2013, it's fast, uses 4 engines. Bit Defender, Commtouch, Novashield, BGuard. Very effective product.

Avast

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Avast free, been using it for 6 years on 2 laptops, very light on resources and only rare FP's.

Avast has been notorious for extremely high number of FPs. TWICE in the past few years they have totally wrecked many computers all over the world. I don't understand why anyone would use it. It is far better to use an AV with low FP rate even if that means they don't detect everything. You should be using layered security anyway, and first and foremost always practicing safe hex and thus you do not need to take the tremendous risks that an AV with a high number of FP's presents.
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It has been proven over and over by Avast themselves. They have had to apologize repeatedly to their users for all the damage they have done on several occasions where many computers were wrecked by their crappy definitions. I experienced all three incidents. Only because I was on the computer when the new definitions were downloaded and installed, and then the havoc immediately began, was I able to keep (through a lot of scary, hard work) Avast from bricking my computer which is what happened to a lot of computers. It would be awful enough if that had happened only one time but even after public, profuse apologies from Avast CEO and the forum mods that it would never happen again...it did about a year later. Avast had not followed through on any of their promises.

Besides the major incidents, I had Avast constantly finding FPs. Just recently, I wanted to trial GData. Before I could even get it updated, after installing it, the Avast engine found an FP...not the Bit Defender engine...the Avast one and the FP was complained about in Avast forums. Avira also was guilty of lots of FPs. When I first got Avira, there were 40 detections ALL FP's. I couldn't run full scans and I never could run full scans with Avast either because of all the FP's.

I like Windows Defender because of very few FPs and no history of serious wrecking of many computers world wide because of FPs (Avira fairly recently wrecked computers world wide with FPs on critical system files so it is not just Avast with a serious FP problem). The trade off, of course, being that Avast can boast high detection rates (but you pay for that with the severe problems caused by a lot of FP's which are necessary to achieve the high detection rates). Windows Defender doesn't have hardly any FP's but the consequence of that is lower detection rates. Apparently, the vendors are unable to have high detection rates and almost no FPs (especially no FP's on critical system files).
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What FP's did you have Mele? To date, I have not had any. Used to run Avast at my job as well and never had any. So either a lot of us have lucked out, or something in your setup was throwing up a fp (which happens). Of recent times, the av that I have had the most FP's with is WSA. Thankfully it has done nothing dentrimental to any of my systems or the ones that I have to support.

FYI I even run Avast on my Exchange 2010 server at work. No issues.
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