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Are you satasfied. Why? Sorry for so many questions.

 

Let me know if this is already taken...

 

Personally I use Avast! sense I just a familiar with this.

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More options are required. Bitdefender is a well known antivirus brand and it's not on there.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

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I personally use none, and just use common sense when browsing online. Haven't had a virus in years. :D

Still, it dosen;t eat much resources and you can really never say no to safe.

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I alwasy mess something up even if its not a virus. Anyway, like i said, why say no to another wall?

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More options are required. Bitdefender is a well known antivirus brand and it's not on there.

My bad. I never heard of it.

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More options are required. Bitdefender is a well known antivirus brand and it's not on there.

Updated.

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No anti-virus. 

 

Windows and Web-Browsers have been updated enough to not make it an issue anymore. 

 

Welcome to 2013. 

 

 

 

 

 

But no seriously I don't know of anyone who has had a virus on their computer in the past 5 years or so. 

 

Welcome to 2013, where 0day exploits are traded online, some of which are never fixed. Running Windows without an antivirus is risky, not matter how smart you think you are. Big name software developers products are essentially wide open for exploitation. The only way I think someone could justify not running an antivirus is if they are running Linux or some other niche operating system.

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Welcome to 2013, where 0day exploits are traded online, some of which are never fixed. Running Windows without an antivirus is risky, not matter how smart you think you are. Big name software developers products are essentially wide open for exploitation. The only way I think someone could justify not running an antivirus is if they are running Linux or some other niche operating system.

The only way I can possibly imagine someone getting a virus is if they pirate loads of software. 

 

 

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The only way I can possibly imagine someone getting a virus is if they pirate loads of software. 

 

That may be a major source of malware but its easier than you think to get infected. Browse the web? ads regularly serve up malware, compromised sites regularly serve up malware, use java on the web? java has large amounts of unpatched 0day exploits that are in use all the time which has led to Firefox blocking Java by default. Part of a windows network? Malware on infected machines will often immediately propagate across a network to infect as many machines as possible. Share usb drives with friends? plug usb drives into public computers? (ie uni, libraries, etc) There are loads of ways that malware can be transmitted in ways you don't always think of.

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That may be a major source of malware but its easier than you think to get infected. Browse the web? ads regularly serve up malware, compromised sites regularly serve up malware, use java on the web? java has large amounts of unpatched 0day exploits that are in use all the time which has led to Firefox blocking Java by default. Part of a windows network? Malware on infected machines will often immediately propagate across a network to infect as many machines as possible. Share usb drives with friends? plug usb drives into public computers? (ie uni, libraries, etc) There are loads of ways that malware can be transmitted in ways you don't always think of.

 

While a lot of that might be true those are all really specific scenarios. I don't remember the last time I was sharing flash drives with some random person in a library. 

 

All I'm saying is that it is a bit silly that people are spending money on anti-virus when if you are really paranoid you could use something like Avast as a scheduled file scanner. 

 

 

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While a lot of that might be true those are all really specific scenarios. I don't remember the last time I was sharing flash drives with some random person in a library. 

 

All I'm saying is that it is a bit silly that people are spending money on anti-virus when if you are really paranoid you could use something like Avast as a scheduled file scanner. 

 I don't mean sharing usb drives with someone in the library, I mean sticking your usb drive into a public computer which is infected, LOTS of malware is transmitted via USB drives, even the famous Stuxnet virus was supposedly transmitted via USB to nuclear facilities in Iran (some stupid employee probably found a usb in the parking lot and plugged it into company machines).

 

I do agree about people spending money on paid antivirus can be silly for consumer use (the only one I would definitely encourage people to pay for is NOD32, it is worth the money). Most antivirus software won't even protect you against determined hackers but will at least stop you from being infected by existing malware that has been catalogued.

 

Personally I run avast free with comodo firewall so I can monitor what is trying to access the internet, I also apply a large dose of common sense.

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 I don't mean sharing usb drives with someone in the library, I mean sticking your usb drive into a public computer which is infected, LOTS of malware is transmitted via USB drives, even the famous Stuxnet virus was supposedly transmitted via USB to nuclear facilities in Iran (some stupid employee probably found a usb in the parking lot and plugged it into company machines).

 

I do agree about people spending money on paid antivirus can be silly for consumer use (the only one I would definitely encourage people to pay for is NOD32, it is worth the money). Most antivirus software won't even protect you against determined hackers but will at least stop you from being infected by existing malware that has been catalogued.

 

Personally I run avast free with comodo firewall so I can monitor what is trying to access the internet, I also apply a large dose of common sense.

Common sense is a large part of it. 

People who just click through software installers and install all that bloatware are the people in need of anti-virus. 

 

Also those people who fall for those ads to install some magic software to make your computer run faster. 

 

 

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