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    Quote Originally Posted by Wade Lippman View Post
    Check the reviews. Microsoft AV is completely worthless.
    Quite the contrary...it's been scoring well for some time now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Lehnert View Post
    "Microsoft's Antivirus Scores Soar"

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492125,00.asp
    If you're using Win 7 or 8.1.
    Re-read the article. Paragraph 6.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Al Launier View Post
    Kaspersky has been my AV choice for years & have not been disappointed with it.......................yet.

    +1 on Kaspersky. - But I'm not on Win10 yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Art Mann View Post
    Maybe AVG is no good but I have used it for close to 10 years and it has detected every virus that showed up on my computer. How do I know? I occasionally use a variety of other programs to double check the effectiveness of AVG and I have nevere detected a virus with any other product that slipped by AVG.
    Same here, I've been using it for nearly a decade and not a single virus has gotten through. For something that's supposedly no good, it's amazingly effective.

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    Not to put too fine a point on it, but we found viruses fairly often on computers where people said exactly the same thing; "been using X for years, never had a virus."

    This was particularly true of folks who used the free versions.

    anyways, I am not trying to convince anyone of anything. Use whatever product you wish. Just passing on an observation made from years of servicing computers and networks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by paul cottingham View Post
    as a further aside, i don't know if i would trust any review in a mainstream PC magazine. Not any more than I would for a mainstream woodworking mag.
    I do not consider PCMag (et al) to be good testers of the more technical stuff (and AV software definitely fits that bill). Their "testing" is dubious, at best.

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    +1 on AVG free. I have used it for more than 10 years without issues. My pc is usually on 24-7 and I spend a fair amount of time on the web. It does not take over my pc as Norton did and as I hear McAfee does.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Al Launier View Post
    Kaspersky has been my AV choice for years & have not been disappointed with it.......................yet.
    Yes I have used Kaspersky for years with zero problems.

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    I've used McAfee, Norton, AVG and Avast.

    All will stop viruses. The problem is, most will also nearly stop your whole computer. Years ago my sister somehow had Norton AND McAfee running. Took 22 minutes for XP to become useable from boot-up. After cleaning them out totally I ran AVG for a few years, until it did the same thing. Then I started using Microsoft Security Essentials. And my computers NEVER noticed it was there. Gee, imagine that...

    But then came the end of XP service, and with it the end of MSE. So I've been using Avast since the XP scare, since I have 8 XP's on the internet. One of them is running zero firewalls or AV protection on purpose, just to see what happens. I have a Win98 computer that's been online over 5 years with zero protection. No issues. As for Avast, I love it, at least for XP. Most times it's barely noticeable. At worst, it's somewhat noticeable, but very tolerable.

    However, running the same exact free Avast on 8.1 is a different story. When Avast is doing ANYthing, the computer is nearly useless. Windows won't scroll. Zooms won't zoom. Button pushes that are typically instantaneous take 8 full seconds to 'catch'. 8 seconds? What can possibly cause a 3 gig 4-core 8 gig ram computer 8 seconds for a mouse click to open a dialog window? A Radio Shack TRS-80 wasn't that slow!

    I don't blame Avast for this, since my non-supported XP's work just fine and my so-called-supported 8.1 doesn't. And I see no reason 10 wouldn't act the same way. I lay all the blame on Microsoft. Conspiracy theorist that I sometimes am, I see no reason NOT to believe Microsoft doesn't turn these computers into slugs on purpose. They didn't make any money on Avast, AVG, Norton or McAfee. It's a good bet that a Win10 running MS AV never misses a beat...

    And as for needing special tools to remove AVG, or anything else from your computer, download a copy of 'regscanner'. It'll even get rid of AOL!
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    I user Bitdefender free! I agree with Kev about McAfee, Norton, and AVG. I used AVG for years till it slowed my PC down to useless. Avast(free anyway) is just to annoying with pop-ups trying to get you to upgrade.

    Bitdefender is pretty unobtrusive, although it is also a tad heavy on memory usage if you don't have a lot to begin with. It is also one of the best rated, although that tends to change often.


    Oh, Windows 10 has been working very well here. Been using it since the first pre-release last Oct -Nov(2014). Considering I had mostly been using Linux, that say quite a bit!
    Last edited by Duane Meadows; 12-07-2015 at 6:13 PM.

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