Saturday, August 08, 2020

Annoying At Best

     I spent a couple of hours fighting with Firefox and my anti-virus software this morning.  Lots of crashing.  Time to replace the anitivirus, I think -- it's getting bad reviews.  What do you use?

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  1. PaulAugust 8, 2020 at 10:31 AM

    McAffe. Any one who hates the government as much as him is ok in my book

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    1. Rob KAugust 8, 2020 at 5:52 PM

      He hasn't been part of the company for many years.

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  2. RandyGCAugust 8, 2020 at 11:45 AM

    Avast free version. It can be a little annoying at times buy seems to work OK.

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  3. The Old ManAugust 8, 2020 at 1:32 PM

    Symantec. McAffe gives me the heebie jeebies and Avast let a couple virii through about 6-8 years ago. Yes, I've had this grudge since it was a pup delivered in a 1937 Snit-Heeney.

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  4. MerleAugust 8, 2020 at 2:56 PM

    Norton 360

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  5. greggBCAugust 8, 2020 at 3:26 PM

    ESET. Used it for several years now. works without any problems.

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  6. Rick TAugust 8, 2020 at 3:39 PM

    Cylance but on a company-wide contract that covers home equipment.

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  7. Rob KAugust 8, 2020 at 5:51 PM

    Microsoft's built in. Using antivirus is like inviting some Hell's Angels to live in your house to prevent break-ins. Antivirus programs are horrible about respecting the OS's APIs and doing all sorts of unsupported stuff. Strip it off and go without.

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  8. EagleAugust 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM

    Bitdefender, as it originally came with my router, works well and covers all of our devices. Not free, but reasonable.

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  9. Bigus MacusAugust 8, 2020 at 11:45 PM

    I've been using Trend Micro for years. It allows you to install on multiple computers.

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  10. DrangAugust 9, 2020 at 1:12 AM

    I just use the base windows security. it seems to work as well as anything I'd pay for...

    Mostly use the Brave browser these days, although it doesn't play well with Blogger.

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  11. Chuck PergielAugust 9, 2020 at 6:44 PM

    Last time I needed an anti-virus I used Kaspersky. It worked, but then it hung around and became very annoying, so I got rid of it. Next time I'll use Malwarebytes. All the commercial products like Norton, Semantec and McAfee are crap. But then I feel the same way about Windows, so maybe it's just me.

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  12. PatrickAugust 10, 2020 at 1:48 AM

    Bitdefender. Lightweight (doesn't slow the system down). Seems to score pretty high on accuracy tests. Hasn't broken windows on me in 3 years (unlike avast and mcafee).

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  13. markmAugust 10, 2020 at 8:54 AM

    AVG

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