Was not asking for product recommendations, but thanks for the link.
I agree. But the place where my parents live just has a simple dial-up connection that is usage based. This is one of the reasons I am more...
Which drive image backup do you suggest? The one with just the OS+Drivers+Patches, OS+Drivers+Patches+Apps(except AV)or a daily incremental one?...
Nah, not false positives. They were actively preventing me from shutting down my system, opening web pages and causing massive system slow-down.
There is no question as such. Just wanted to know the opinion of all you fellow people regarding the next course of action. Those detections were...
If you read through the product pitch of Hitman Pro, your question will be answered automatically. Hitman Pro is a 'second opinion' scanner. It is...
Meh, detection or no detection, the performance drag that McAfee products place on the system is unacceptable in an age when even Symantec was...
Guys, thanks for your suggestions. I have decided to stick with MSE, since I cannot find any other AV that I can safely install on my parent's PC...
Thanks for your valuable input, but I am not looking for disinfection advice here.
Please take a look at the attachment. I think the picture pretty much says it all. And, this is a fully patched 32-bit Windows 7 based system....
Whats with the English - "Computer protection can be turned on your computer from attacks on the web" ?
Not true, even with service enabled you have to download the whole database again if you fail to perform an update for a few days.
Guys, looking for the changelog for avast! free 5.0.396, and cant seem to get any info regarding this. Any ideas?
Yes, my preliminary findings indicate the same trend. I seriously wonder why consumer and enterprise products are not in sync detection wise....
I doubt there is any such thing as Symantec AV 2010. At the most it is Symantec AV Corporate Edition 10. And that is not what I was referring to.
I would like the opinion of all you knowledgeable people regarding the difference between Symantec AV 2010 and the latest build of Symantec...
A multi-pronged approach: 1. MSE as the standard scanner, set to do a quick scan daily, even if computer is in use. (I would have recommended...
1. During installation of Avira, choose custom installation and uncheck the guard component. 2. During installation of avast!, choose custom...
Anytime you feel your suite is slowing you down, install McAfee for a few days, remove it, and install the previous one, your system will feel...
Very true, and I have already posted my experiences in detail regarding this. Even then, when I had to choose an antimalware for my parents' PC,...
I am pretty clear on the products that I will not even bother to try out: anything from McAfee, CA, ZoneAlarm, AVG.
But somehow when avast! does the same thing by breaking down its protection into multiple shields - IM,P2P,Mail etc, nobody complains.
Last night avast! 5 declared TeraCopy as malware and quarantined it automatically. After reporting it as a false positive, I was unable to restore...
Unable to perform a context-menu(right-click)scan. No scan windows is visible. Also, Windows Media Player started behaving erratically after the...
If you want to keep it real simple, couple it with on-demand scans from a-squared free.
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