What anti virus do you use?
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Dec 24, 2014 at 8:06 AM
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I signed up with malware tips forums and they solved my problem. It's all good now. I still can't get a firewall because my internet service sucks.
Feb 7, 2015 at 10:42 PM
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Nah, i guess being part of >3 botnets almost certainly slows you down more than a resource hungry anti virus programm.Moon said:
I used to use pandacloud in my first days on the pc, and i rather quickly changed to avira, after i successfully infekted two pc's with viruses. Nearly 2 years ago I switched to Gnu/Linux (without any virus protection) and since then i never needed to worry about viruses again.
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May 17, 2015 at 9:28 PM
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Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
May 17, 2015 at 9:44 PM
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Common sense
I'm too poor for antivirus
but not for long because i'm apparently related to a Nigerian prince who's going to give me free money!
I'm too poor for antivirus
but not for long because i'm apparently related to a Nigerian prince who's going to give me free money!
May 18, 2015 at 7:41 AM
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I have settled for turning off automatic scans in AVG entirely.Moon said:
May 18, 2015 at 4:12 PM
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Kaspercy, full version and Malwarebytes, free version.
May 18, 2015 at 10:03 PM
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I use AVG free as well as malware bytes free for back-up. Sometimes, Malware bytes finds stuff where AVG doesn't. (At least it happened to me)
May 19, 2015 at 4:44 AM
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Keep in mind that this isn't because Linux is secure, but rather because Linux isn't mainstream. However if you turn that Linux/Unix box into a web server then you'll find that the reverse will be true.Anuken said:
This is pretty much my situation.
May 19, 2015 at 8:34 PM
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andwhyisit said:
You're right, for the most part. But considering that it took ages for a mac virus to show up, I don't think there will be any viruses on linux for a while.
From what I've heard, Linux is slightly more secure than windows.
May 19, 2015 at 10:36 PM
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multiple antiviruses will cause them not to work.QuoteHax said:
who in the world would use Norton?QuoteHax said:
May 20, 2015 at 12:39 AM
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Any OS, no matter how secure, can be failed by any insecurity within a third party component.Anuken said:
May 22, 2015 at 1:49 AM
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its not a matter of security, its that not many have bothered to make very many viruses for it, yet. you may one day find that when a truly harmful virus for linux OS's is released its gonna be quite troublesome because there will be no real security program for linux that would recognise it because of how few there would be at the time.Anuken said:
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May 22, 2015 at 8:42 PM
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Still using AVG free as well. It can be aggravating when I hear it chewing up the HDD... even with automatic scans disabled. But, it does its job and I feel reasonably safe by its protection these last several years.