came across this recently, very interesting read
http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-paying-...are-good-enough
thoughts?
http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-paying-...are-good-enough
thoughts?
Painguy said:hmmm. i used to have that software years ago, and when i got rid of it and replaced it with another it found 2 viruses that MSE didn't find. maybe the software has improved since then (this was like 6 years ago lol). i guess i could test myself aswell. :\
Security Essentials is a lot better than OneCare, that's for sure.Painguy said:oops i meant to say Windows Live OneCare. hahah silly me
Bull.kai445 said:MSE has no herustic engine, so it is useless against 0-day and unknown threats.
ive actually had that before, it was really weird, I ended up reinstalling windows, but i kind of wanted to anyway as I had too much crap on itRupeeClock said:I was using Norton Anti-virus for the longest time, thinking it was doing it's job because I was never detecting viruses during regular scans, but then one day I actually got a virus that started fucking with my Google search results, a false page that'd occasionally produce spam links instead of real links.
That's the thing, I hadn't done anything that I would recall getting the virus at all, one day I just suddenly had it.Terminator02 said:ive actually had that before, it was really weird, I ended up reinstalling windows, but i kind of wanted to anyway as I had too much crap on itRupeeClock said:I was using Norton Anti-virus for the longest time, thinking it was doing it's job because I was never detecting viruses during regular scans, but then one day I actually got a virus that started fucking with my Google search results, a false page that'd occasionally produce spam links instead of real links.
btw i got it from doing something really stupid involving a link in a youtube comment
while it may be old, it is still relevant and all of the programs mentioned are still aliveJoe88 said:this article is over a year old
I already get free 3rd party anti-virus/spyware/firewall/ect.. protection from symantec endpoint from my school