InoculateIT PE discontinuing program

spy, that question was meant to be a rhethoric one...

My point is that
a) user should have left IPE in the past already because of the missing engine updates
b) if they decide(d) to stay they may after all be able to go on updating just the signatures, if they really wish,i.e.
c) using a decent AV program pays...even if you have to invest a few $$ . I trust in DrWeb. Only the best experience with it .

 

I'd have to say, banking on a dead AV prog any longer to protect your systems may not be a great idea (especially one that was only so-so anyway)

It seems to me (and this is only personal opinion) that for the few bucks it takes for a top notch prog like Eset's NOD32 ($39 us) it is not worth gambling on any freeware we can get our hands on. I am a poor college student, but I don't have time to dilly-dally when it comes to security. If I get blown-out, and loose assignments I am working on, I just wasted a semester (and a few grand) Not worth it. It is illogical to spend more time attempting to save money than you could have made working. EG: when I work, I make between $15can and $65can per hour. So in a worst case senario, it takes about 3 hours of work time to afford NOD32 (probably less). If I spend 4 hours looking for and testing a free AV program, I spent $60 (or more) of my time doing something other than I'd rather be doing. That is counter-productive, and the program is no longer free. Not to mention I have no warrantee for my money.

I tried AGV, it sucked, plain and simple. It actually found a virus once, but it told me I had to upgrade to AGV pro to be able to remove it! Cha-ching now you are paying anyhow.

 

Interesting.

I hear a lot of people knocking AVG lately, see reports in anti-virus tests that AVG doesn't score well, etc., etc..

However, while I was using it for my primary AV on the old computer, it never failed to protect it, both from email-born malware or from numerous things floating around in NG's.

Never got infected with anything - it always warned me when something was trying to infect the computer and I just had it cancel whatever was wanting to happen. So I believe I'll quite happily leave AVG on the old computer - so far, it hasn't sucked at all, but it has blown-away all the virri it's so far been exposed to.

Of course, it never did find a virus already resident and have to do anything one way or the other with that (I used that other 'so-so' program IPE on the old computer prior to AVG), so I never knew it wouldn't clean one unless you had the pay version.

It's hard to remember sometimes, but there are people out here who actuallyneed a free - or nearly free, in the case of eTrust -  AV program. Pete

 

This is weird.
Computer Associates have given the use of IPE, free of charge and it was widely accepted.

Now they are removing IPE and charging for the replacement (which is still IPE under a new name) we are planning to rip them off. I really cannot see this working. Computer Associates will just close the door to any IPE update request.

For those who survive on the net using free programs, I guess AVG will be an alternative to consider. It's interesting that AVG fairs poorly in tests, yet so many at various forums speak highly of it's abilities.

I will stay with AVG until I see some realtime evidence that it has failed. I understand where you are coming from Zhen X. Your concerns are different to mine.