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Title: Anti-virus recommendation Post by: MelW on January 12, 2023, 01:38:05 AM New computer. Thinking of trying a different anti-virus program. I remember from this forum that some of them didn't play nicely with QU updates. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Anti-virus recommendation Post by: Terry-M on January 12, 2023, 08:51:26 AM Malwarebytes, used this for years.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/for-home (https://www.malwarebytes.com/for-home) Terry Title: Re: Anti-virus recommendation Post by: Fred A on January 12, 2023, 09:38:16 AM Quote Any recommendations would be appreciated. My experience was finally getting rid of AVG, and getting ESET NOD32 Works like a charm. Fred Title: Re: Anti-virus recommendation Post by: admin on January 12, 2023, 11:51:30 AM NOD32 all the way! Many AV programs these days have adopted a cry wolf policy where they mark everything "potentially malicious" if they haven't seen it before, giving a ton of false positives. This allows them to claim 100% detection but it is useless because it is always crying wolf and you never know what is really malicious versus the guilty-until-proven-innocent assumption. NOD32 has never slowed my computer down and never let me down. I use Malwarebytes as a backup/second option but only to do an occasional full scan: I don't let that run real time (in the background) as it is also one of the cry wolf programs that gives a fair number of false positives.
Mike Title: Re: Anti-virus recommendation Post by: MelW on January 13, 2023, 05:53:48 AM Thank you! NOD32 it will be. Personal note - NOD32 comes from Bratislava; my Dad was from a village just a few miles northeast of there.
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