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| Thread ID: 117121 | 2011-04-03 07:23:00 | Which anti-virus to use | QW. (15883) | Press F1 |
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| 1191660 | 2011-04-04 04:26:00 | Well, I have just bought NOD32 again - a three licence jobbie for the three PCs in our house. I found that MSSE just seemed to take over at times and interfered too much with performance, particularly with my laptop which is getting a bit aged. Yeah I found that too, I have NOD32 on half my boxes, and have ditched MSE on my main one to try Avira. MSE would occasionally destroy all performance on the system by chewing up the CPU for no reason at all. I wasn't impressed. So far Avira has been great performance-wise, just like NOD32, but because I keep my nose clean I can't really comment on its performance for catching nasties. Thought about a stickied thread, could be a good idea actually! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1191661 | 2011-04-04 05:26:00 | I always recommend using Microsoft Security Essentails for a free AV and NOD32 if you have too much money & wanna pay for one. But gotta say I'm broke- as at the moment but will use my Nod32..lol | Paul Ramon (11806) | ||
| 1191662 | 2011-04-05 00:15:00 | keep in mind that some of the free AV's WILL NOT scan SSL POP email (eg xtra & sendmail/465/995/SSL on laptops ) Avira does have more false positives than the others (is that fixed??) , so I just turn down the heuristics Avira free wont scan emails. :thumbs: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1191663 | 2011-04-05 00:25:00 | Mines been very good so far. There was one file that MSE and NOD32 picked up as a false-positive, but Avira ignored it. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I dunno ... :D Scanning SSL shouldn't work because it's an encrypted connection. What some AV products *may* do is scan your downloaded inbox files AFTER they've been received, but AFAIK because it's SSL, no AV product should be able to scan it? Correct me if I'm wrong ... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1191664 | 2011-04-05 02:10:00 | Some of the free ones require upgrade to pay version to scan SSL email. I think Nod scans ssl email (??) Not sure how they scan it. I use Eudora, it extracts out the attatchments as they are downloaded & they get scanned as a file .So I get equivalent to email scanning even tho Avira free doesnt do any email scanning at all. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1191665 | 2011-04-05 21:58:00 | Another Avira user here. I've been using it for years and apart from a few false positives, it's been working fine. I tried MSSE, but it didn't give me any option to do manual updates - so out it went :D As for email scanning, I use webmail to screen everything. Anything slightly spammy gets deleted before it gets downloaded to my pc. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 1191666 | 2011-04-06 08:29:00 | does security essentials have any downside? | QW. (15883) | ||
| 1191667 | 2011-04-06 13:14:00 | Occasionally it goes rogue with your cpu and maxes it out... :pf1mobmini: |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1191668 | 2011-04-08 02:22:00 | So avast may be another option to MSE? | QW. (15883) | ||
| 1191669 | 2011-04-08 03:03:00 | I am using MSE at the moment but Avast is a good alternative. | Bobh (5192) | ||
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