Anti-Virus software that sucks, and doesn't

[NASHVEGAS]

I haven't used Norton in over 10 years. I quit using it when I used to run Windows 95 because I found it was a terrible resource hog.

I've been using McAfee since then and I used to swear by it but that's changed recently too.

With Mcafee running I mangaged to somehow get a trojan from some website and it infected everything including Mcafee. McAfee would run but all services were stopped and turning them on would give me the blue screen of death.

I contacted McAfee since I was paying for the software and they blamed my hard drive. After a lengthy conversation to convince them that my hard drive is scanned on a regular basis and everything was fine before I got this trojan they told me not to worry because they have a "crack team" of virus specialists that could remove any virus from my system... for 60 dollars.

That's when I got pissed. I said - Your company sold me this software designed to protect my computer from viruses and trojans and in the end the software couldn't even protect itself. You would think that no matter what the hell was happening to my computer the software protecting me would at the very least be capable of self preservation. So now you're asking me to pay you 60 dollars to remove a virus from the very software that you sold me that's supposed to be protecting me from viruses?

I gave up. I formatted the hard drive. I bought a second hard drive. I reinstalled everything on the second hard drive including McAfee since I'm still subscribed to it for almost a year and the virus problem has only happened once. I still don't trust it but it's better than nothing.

Then I bought Acronis True Image. Now once a week my computer automatically creates an image of my new hard drive on the original hard drive. I don't trust any AV software anymore. Somehow the crap manages to get in eventually anyway and this time I won't even bother trying to clean it. I'll just put the image of my uninfected drive back and carry on like it never happened

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[lots0]

If you want safe... stay in bed.

Question:
What is the biggest difference between the guys that write anti-virus software and the guys that write the viruses????

Answer:
Their bank account balances...




For myself, I use layers of protection... but there is very little or no protection from things like 'Zeus'. Zeus has been recently shown to move through all the big anti-virus software, free and paid both, like they weren't even there.

I would also say that if you use windows, M$'s Windows Defender (free) is a very good add on layer of protection that works well, even though it's M$ crap.

[skiny]

That's why I keep an updated image. I don't really care what you do anymore. I'll just put it back tomorrow.

[kakata]

I also use " iobit security 360 "(free) along with avg....never had problem.
Thats my experience and I passed it on....thats all.

[BingoT]

AVG is very good.
The only downfall is the pop ups you get each day.

[Achenar]

Hello i noticed you guys/gals were talking about anitivirus software.I have found a website that is independent tested.(they make no money) no advertisments.They rank the software accordingly to false positives etc check it out:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
hope it helps.