I wont be able to get back on for a while in about 9 days because my virus detector is about to expire and i don't really have the money to buy another one right now.
Why do you need a virus detector to be here?
Because of the STDs *looks at Blizz*
because id rather not go online at all without 1
There's no reason to be paranoid. If you don't go to porn sites, don't download illegal torrents, don't download from crack sites, don't download and open email attachments with double extensions (e.g. .jpg.exe) and don't transfer data from other PCs to yours (e.g. using a USB stick), then the chance of getting a computer virus is lower than getting hit by a meteorite.
By average my anti-virus detects a virus on my USB stick once in 2 months (gotten from another PC) and maybe once in 6 months while being online (usually while looking for a rare piece of data / software / torrent / game). So I would get more often infected by offline content.
Then get AVG Free for now :D.
nah, use norton 360 11year trial.
AVG!
This'll go to zpammy if this goes on and on....
look,
AVG = lower-level protection than McAfee. McAfee = has loopholes Norton 360 = higher level protection.
that diagram is easy for Sarcabooms to understand.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
don't post if u dont have something to post.
Norton IS a virus.
I wouldn't recommend any of the softwarr mentioned here, but if you have to go with a free anti-virus, use AVG. Even though it thinks that cracks are viruses, it's the one that my college buddies use. And they are computer specialists as I am.
Oh yeah! Blizzard agrees with me!
nah, N360 is not.
I know that facing the truth is hard, but eventually you have to do it. You can't go through life thinking Santa's real either.
I used Norton and many other Virus scanners, and the only really bad thing bout it was that it ate up alot of CPU power. Other than that, it does what it is supposed to be. And it for sure got a higher detection rate than AVG.
what hes not noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The "only bad thing" about Norton is that it doesn't remove the virus. Instead it tells you where to download a program to remove the virus. What a great anti-virus. It can't even do the one thing it is supposed to do: Remove a virus. Oh wait, that means Norton can't be defined as anti-virus.
Quote from: Blizzard on July 04, 2010, 08:56:46 am
The "only bad thing" about Norton is that it doesn't remove the virus. Instead it tells you where to download a program to remove the virus. What a great anti-virus. It can't even do the one thing it is supposed to do: Remove a virus. Oh wait, that means Norton can't be defined as anti-virus.
Uhm what o.O
I have no clue what kind of Norton you got, but mine always removed whatever it detected as a virus and I told it to remove. And it never told me to download any program anywhere, and I've been using Norton... actually for most of the time since I got my first own computer with an internet connection. It always was reliable.
Seriously, Norton usually gets good ratings in reviews and comparisions to other Antivirus softwares, except for the performance. Are you sure you didn'r actually get a virus pretending to be Norton? o.O There are some of those around.
I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials right now after my last anti-virus trial expired and it seems okay, running fine, and it's free. No problems with it yet.
@Sub: Aren't you confusing it with Norman?
100% Norton. I remember my first anti-virus.
@Sub: Norton doesn't even detect the most Common USB stick viruses. I remember one time when I took some stuff from a collegue and as soon as I plugged it into my PC, NOD detected it. I told that guy he had a virus and he wouldn't believe me. "That's impossible. I have Norton Blabla-Ultimate-Editon-whatever and paid a nice amount for it" We put the stick back into his PC without cleaning and it didn't detect a thing. Back into mine, NOD's still detecting it. I remove it, put it back into his, then we even scanned the stick, still nothing. Finally when we put it back into mine, the virus is back. So much to Norton.
This happened recently.
Most free anti-viruses wouldn't detect the USB stick virus as well. The currently widest spread virus type and half of the anti-viruses don't detect it. Just laughable.
EDIT: When I come to think of it, you should probably get an anti-virus that actually does its job and scan your PC. You might as well be infected without even knowing.
Quote from: Blizzard on July 04, 2010, 10:04:34 am
100% Norton. I remember my first anti-virus.
@Sub: Norton doesn't even detect the most Common USB stick viruses. I remember one time when I took some stuff from a collegue and as soon as I plugged it into my PC, NOD detected it. I told that guy he had a virus and he wouldn't believe me. "That's impossible. I have Norton Blabla-Ultimate-Editon-whatever and paid a nice amount for it" We put the stick back into his PC without cleaning and it didn't detect a thing. Back into mine, NOD's still detecting it. I remove it, put it back into his, then we even scanned the stick, still nothing. Finally when we put it back into mine, the virus is back. So much to Norton.
This happened recently.
Most free anti-viruses wouldn't detect the USB stick virus as well. The currently widest spread virus type and half of the anti-viruses don't detect it. Just laughable.
EDIT: When I come to think of it, you should probably get an anti-virus that actually does its job and scan your PC. You might as well be infected without even knowing.
That's why I said '@Sub'... Or weren't you talking to me?
I don't use antivirus software. My old computer, which I never used antivirus on, lasted 6 years with no problems (it's still fine, but I upgraded because it was getting out of date).
I'm convinced that all the popular anti-virus programs treat other files as viruses, or install extra viruses on your computer, just to make it seem like you need their product more. On my parent's computer, for example, on which they have McAfee, they had 98 viruses in one month. All my parents do is use email and read the news.
McAfee has a lot of negative reviews...
Oh, sorry, SBR. I thought it was directed at me. >.<
@winkio: It's not impossible. Create a market where none is, eh? >.< Though, from my experience it was the opposite. At one moment my computer started acting funny and when I installed Norton, it found Jeefo. So I got the anti-virus program and got rid of it. I got rid of Norton as well back then. As for NOD 32 I have nothing to say. It never detected viruses out of the blue. I was either downloading a really suspicious torrent (e.g. a Zelda - Parallel Worlds torrent was infected), I was about to download a crack or a hacking tool or somebody infected my memory stick again. Other than that, it doesn't detect anything. There were a few interesting ocassions where I almost caught a virus from a local network, but luckily my shared folder is not writable. NOD even caught it once before it happened to actually access my shared folder. I showed NOD's message to a collegue and we laughed. I also tried to netsend the IP where the virus came from. IDK if the infected PC ever got the message that it has AIDS. xD
i might try the 30day free trial on NOD was going to look for a new anti virus anyway
I can also recommend Bitdefender and Kaspersky. Though, those two are resource heavy and Kaspersky can be a bitch with automation. e.g. it would ask me each time I wanted to connect to a WiFi network even though I already marked it as trusted network. It even tells me that it's trusted, but still asks me if I want to connect. xD
I personally prefer NOD because it's very lightweight compared to others. I'm talking about v2.7, of course. I didn't like v3.0, it was ruggish. In the end, whatever you use, just stay away from Norton and maybe some of the free anti-viruses. As I already said, I know a lot of people who like to use AVG. It's one of the better free ones.
Yeah, the only 'negative' thing is that you have to use Windows Firewall, and I just don't like stuff from Bill Gates other than Windows itself. My father uses an illegal version of Adobe, he had to upgrade Windows Firewall or something, and the illegal version began screaming that he should buy a legal version...
When i get 1 i might have to get Kaspersky. I looked at Best Buy and besides Norton there was only Kaspersky and Trend.
edit: i thought I'd post saying that since my virus detector is out until I can get another one I won't be able to support any of my scripts.
I still will post just won't be as active I use my ps3 / psp / mom's iPod to post just sort of a headache to post on these
get bitdefender. its good. my brother mistook the delete for quarantine over the windows files... so it got deleted and the laptop did not work anymore. but we fixed it?
I didn't see bitdefender at any stores I don't like buying things online
edit: I will have a few scripts to post when I get my virus detector