ANTI VIRUS PROTECTION- RECOMMENDATIONS

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My experience is very limited but I once had mcafee and another time Norton, I binned both because they seemed to adversely affect the Pc performance, for many years now Ive managed quite nicely with AVG free edition.

Recently watched a documentary on the increase in cyber crime, come to the conclusion it must be worth paying a reasonable subsciption for better protection against being hacked, I like most do a lot of shopping on line and internet banking and to be honest im rather lazy about changing passwords regularly.

Im considering upgrading the AVG free for the subscription version.

Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
 
Take a look at bit defender. It works well and is consistently at the top of the pile. There is a free version and also a paid for if you feel the need. Right now avg has had its day and isn't very good anymore.

As for the buy a mac. Sure you could do but they get viruses as well. Very rich picking for the would be hacker since most of their owners believe they are safe and don't run any AV.
 
Marki_GSA said:
As for the buy a mac. Sure you could do but they get viruses as well. Very rich picking for the would be hacker since most of their owners believe they are safe and don't run any AV.
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You need to quantify that. There's nothing like the same number of viruses out there for the Mac OS as there are for Windows.
 
Schtum said:
You need to quantify that. There's nothing like the same number of viruses out there for the Mac OS as there are for Windows.
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I don't need to quantify anything. There are viruses for Mac and if you don't have an AV your a fool. You only need to get 1 and you potentially loose everything.
 
Marki_GSA said:
I don't need to quantify anything.
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Yes you do, don't bloody argue.... :P

There are viruses for Mac and if you don't have an AV your [sic] a fool. You only need to get 1 and you potentially loose [sic] everything.
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Nobody said there weren't viruses or malware for Macs but the risk is much less significant than it is with Windows. So much so that I know several people in the IT industry who write code on Macs and don't bother with anti-virus software. So there.... ;)
 
I use Avast on my mac just to be safe and it seems to do the job

it often books stuff that i am genuinely trying to down load so I assume it is as watchful with stuff i don't want
 
The main attack vectors for malware nowadays are phishing or browser exploits. Anti virus is not much good against either. Save your money, install Microsoft Security Essentials, remove Java and Adobe flash if installed, use Firefox or Chrome instead of IE and don't use Outlook. You don't really need to change your password often, as long as you use a long random one, not based on a dictionary word. Better still use a password manager, such as Lastpass or 1Password.

And keep your software up to date, and be careful which sites you visit especially to download software.

Oh, and don't run as Administrator, create a normal user account for day to day stuff.
 
My bank Barclays provide Kispersky FOC with any online account so check if any online AV via any of your subscriptions.
Am I wright thinking BT also supply if you have BT broadband ?
 
Garry Matson said:
My bank Barclays provide Kispersky FOC with any online account so check if any online AV via any of your subscriptions.
Am I wright thinking BT also supply if you have BT broadband ?
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Many ISPs and banks provide a free subscription to anti-virus and security software. BT & their offshoot Plusnet do, as do Virginmedia.
Personally, I have upgraded to Windows 10 and just let the default package in Windows 10 take over and I deleted the free version of Avira.

Avira seemed okay on this AMD Quadcore laptop. An occasional run of Spybot or Malwarebytes never found anything.

If your machine is slow or old, then have a look at Pandacloud which uses fewer resources than bloaty products like McAfee and AVG.

Another thing to do if you are worried by phishing is take advantage of free offers for Consumer Credit reporting. One of my credit cards offers a free subscription to Equifax or you can register for a free account with Noddle. This will let you know if your details have been used to apply for credit if you pay attention to the emails.
 
Whilst viruses may (or may not) exist for macs, they are not an issue. I have more than a hundred mac-years (I have a hay/meat/cheese/cement-mixer loan-for-tech support thing going) experience with entirely unprotected macs - never had an issue with a virus.

Not only that, but I never heard of anyone having a virus nor heard of anyone who heard of anyone who had a virus on a Mac.
I worry more about meteorites.

I have a windows boot disk too that is constantly infested with malware, even though, AFAIK, its never connected to the interent. I just reformat and reinstall every few months.
 
redrick said:
Because every now and then a pop up appears and tells me it has blocked something

Its quite clever like that
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in truth, probably a dodgy windows .exe it doesn't want you to pass on to anyone else ;)
 
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