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MelW
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Anti-virus recommendation
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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.
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Terry-M
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Re: Anti-virus recommendation
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January 12, 2023, 08:51:26 AM »
Malwarebytes, used this for years.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/for-home
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Fred A
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Re: Anti-virus recommendation
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January 12, 2023, 09:38:16 AM »
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Any recommendations would be appreciated.
My experience was finally getting rid of AVG, and getting ESET NOD32
Works like a charm.
Fred
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admin
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Re: Anti-virus recommendation
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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
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MelW
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Re: Anti-virus recommendation
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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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