Re: Antivirus
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Gene
The resistance comes from a lot of bad publicity
both programs got about a year ago as to their effectiveness. According to
what I've read recently, they have improved but they are still not considered as
top programs or more than just tolerable.
At the time they got the bad publicity, it was
contraversial whether they deserved the bad publicity and I'll let those
interested look up information. I wrote about the contraversy at the time
and I don't want to go into it all again.
Gene
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I really don't get the resistance to either Microsoft Security Essentials or Windows Defender, depending on whether you're running Windows 7 or a later version of Windows, respectively. Both are accessible and very serviceable antivirus/antimalware programs. Both offer realtime scanning. Both allow you to set up exclusions to scanning if a program you know to be legitimate is being picked up as part of their scans. No antivirus program or security suite is able to protect you from all
possible routes of infection. If you've been interacting with cyberspace
for years and aren't routinely getting items quarantined that indicates that
your browsing/downloading habits, which are your best defense against infection,
are good. If you're getting frequent identification of infections you
definitely need to analyze what you're doing (and most often this is something
that comes from operator actions) that is causing this and cease and desist or
eventually something will get past whatever you're using. I worry a lot. . . I worry that no matter how cynical you become it's never enough to keep up. ~ Trudy, in Jane Wagner's "Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe"
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