Anti-Virus Software
- Thread starter Misery
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Just be aware that even the safest looking sites might have been targeted by the bad guys to carry malware. You can drive safely on the roads, it helps but it doesn't provide you with complete safety.There's always the other guys.
with strangers met in locations such as bars, street corners, crack houses, third world countries etc...ya know
Porn site are really the only major culprits of that anymore. Most major sites that deal with sensitive information encrypt their cookies server-side, but you're right, there are sites that don't.
To be honest, I use Norton that comes with Comcast. I think it does a much better job than the Norton of the past.
There are a lot of sites that do not. It's not just porn sites. There are ****-poor coders everywhere.
For this reason I use a dedicated browser session running as a locked down user when I have to handle transactions and other commerce on-line. Heck, I do this for porn browsing too, a dedicated user with limited access and his own browser session.
Surely there's nothing wrong with being as safe as possible, but I literally can't think of a mainstream website I regularly visit that doesn't.
I use Avira Antivir, but many times there is a false alarm!
That's why I use Noscript, to whitelist such sites. Most well-funded sites are not coding like crap, and not loading up with adware that is not.
Then again even Google Ads just recent got hit by some privacy ********* code. It's just hard to filter them out completely, even on sites you trust.
Terry Sleeper
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Kaspersky is a bit of a tecchie's tool - very fiddly, and it clamps its jaws down on everything that isn't Kaspersky. I found it to be more trouble than it was worth -a bit like owning a guard-dog that bit your house-guests! But, together with ESET NOD32, it is the best non-free antivirus.
The free AVs are OK, but they don't perform like paid AV software. As with anything else in life, you get what you pay for.
On a general point, there is no reason to believe that porn sites are more infected with viruses and spyware than any other sites. Or so my tecchie-friends advise. (This is a point already made in this thread by other contributors). Anyone know any different?
Not to threadomance, but does ESET require you to be a UK/Euro resident?
It doesn't appear to let "international" users try the free trial.
It doesn't appear to let "international" users try the free trial.
FU malware/virus!!! :fire: :***: :ak47:
We use Debian (that's a Linux distribution). My ******* who's a system administrator introduced me to it some years ago and I love it. No need for anti virus programs or a firewall. It took my wife some getting used to but she now loves it as well
Is Debian free? I'd like to take it for a test drive to see what you're talking about
Here's an article that tested all the popular free AV programs that you might like to read to help you decide what's a good fit for you:
Can You Trust Free Antivirus Software?
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Is Debian free? I'd like to take it for a test drive to see what you're talking about
Yes, Debian is completely free of charge as well as the software that comes with it. There's also a Premium Link Upgrade . That's basically the operating system on a cd so you can run it from the cd without installing it. If you like it you can download the Premium Link Upgrade , burn it to a cd and install it to your harddrive.
