| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 128905 | 2013-01-22 21:19:00 | MSE Still recommended? | icow (15313) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1324401 | 2013-01-22 21:19:00 | www.theverge.com and www.av-test.org The high score of Norton makes me question this but maybe it actually detects stuff now (probably still a slow bloated piece of crap). Any opinions? |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1324402 | 2013-01-22 21:22:00 | Well I haven't bothered installing anything else on Windows 8... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1324403 | 2013-01-22 21:29:00 | I wouldn't rely on what sites say | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1324404 | 2013-01-22 22:06:00 | Microsoft have a good point, but still outta a few million customers that's a lot of people impacted. Its still too slow these days, misses too much, fires off scans at the wrong times, so I'm sticking with NOD32, the *one* thing I find worth paying for, for my PC. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1324405 | 2013-01-22 22:57:00 | yep for nod | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1324406 | 2013-01-22 23:45:00 | I used to use Norton a few years back, I kept quiet so as not be bitten by some people here, I was pleasantly surprised over the course of the 2-3 years that we had the subscription (wow, thinking now that was a looooooong time ago!) at how much the Norton 360 product improved. It was evident that Symantec were working very hard to clean the software up and make it less bloated. That was the main issue, bloat. As far as effective went it wasn't too bad. Also with today's computers running a slightly heavy handed AV program isn't an issue, back with XP/Vista it was. I don't pay for anti virus, if you run a shared PC, or have lots of foreign drives/computers accessing your network then it's probably worth it but tbh MSSE has only ever picked up false positives from *cough TPB cough*, I just run it for the mild peace of mind it brings. For most people MSSE or AVG will do the trick. If you're really paranoid/concerned or need to protect things NOD is the best. These days viruses are less of an issue, security is tighter and script kiddies can't just "hack" your PC, no one programmes a virus to cripple your PC for fun now. The threats these days can't really be classed as viruses and aren't picked up as such. It's more about the web attacks, phishing, spyware & shareware. Programs that display ads and try get you to buy things. All little ways to skim some money off you. These days a good virus scanner should concentrate on bloat rather than specific viruses, especially with mobile phones, tables and PC's taking over. Too many OS variables to target attacks for malicious programmer, web attacks are much better because they are cross platform etc. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1324407 | 2013-01-23 00:03:00 | These sites always show that there is something else better than what you have got. :crying I will stick with ESET NOD32. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1324408 | 2013-01-23 02:18:00 | Yes I'm still using MSE. I agree with the Error Guy Viruses are a bit over rated these days. A much bigger threat is scam emails and phishiing which really requires common sense to fight it seeing as how the ISP's (world wide) are not doing anything about them - close their accounts!. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1324409 | 2013-01-23 03:29:00 | Don't bother putting in the Free AV's anymore - I put in a trial of Nod32 and Advise to use /purchase that. You can advise people till you are blue in the face, but at the end of the day its upto them. Just got a Laptop here today, had Norton 2013 - obviously infected with something, which had also disabled Norton- after removing Norton, installed the latest Nod32 V6 ( its out of testing/RC now) right away the messages started popping up with warning about active infections. Good one Norton :rolleyes: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1324410 | 2013-01-23 04:57:00 | So out of the "free" Av's MSE still rates (not that it means anything)? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 | |||||