Windows bashing was: Re: Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux

Sun May 12 16:15:26 EDT 2013

Hi,

      I wonder if y'all could find it in your collective hearts to find a 
more appropriate list for discussing your favorite virus scanners for an 
operating system which, apparently needs them, to another list. ${DEITY} 
knows that the world is infested with Windows users, so, surely such a 
list must exist.

           Thanks.

-- 
           Bill in Denver

On Sun, 12 May 2013, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I'm just curious, where are you getting these various recommendations
> from? Word of mouth, or one or more sites? If sites, which ones?
>
> I had a look at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software
>
> and it seems that MSE doesn't provide boot time scanning, and web
> protection. While AVG doesn't provide as much as other scanners, it
> does provide those two. That, along with the fact that I haven't had
> problems with AVG so far would still prompt me to choose it over MSE,
> but that's just my personal choice of course.
>
> Yes, AVG is free for personal use, but not for business. It's been
> this way since I started using it in the 6.x days:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG_(software)#Versions_for_Windows_desktop_clients
>
> If there's a nominal fee, I'm not aware of it. I'm using it just fine,
> and haven't been asked once by AVG for a credit card number.
>
>> From what I know, avast requires one to register, even though it's
> free. Nothing wrong with that, but if I have to choose between free
> alternatives which require me to register, and those that don't, I'll
> naturally go with those that don't, as long as they work for me.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:33:23AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
>> As I said, my experience with AVG was many years ago on Windows 98, so
>> perhaps some of the issues are fixed nowadays.  My machine didn't totally
>> lock up, but it was so slow that it might as well have.  I could just plan
>> on not having my machine for about 15 minutes and there seemed to be no
>> way to stop it.  I looked into it last year for my brother's Windows 7
>> notebook and it wasn't recommended.  Norton Internet Security and
>> Microsoft Security Essentials seemed to be the recommended options, so we
>> went with Norton because it's relatively cheap and the notebook is for
>> business.  AVG was not free for personal use as I recall, but after not
>> only my problems with it but reading about several other people having
>> problems and several months going by with no updates, I assumed it was
>> dead.  I thought I read that you had to pay some nominal fee even for
>> personal use, but that could be wrong.  I know that it isn't licensed for
>> a business which was the main concern.  I liked the looks of Nod32, but it
>> was too expensive compared to Norton and the other options.  As it turned
>> out, his Norton expired and he's onto something else anyway.  Avast now
>> seems to be the recommended personal free virus scanner.
>
>
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