by drikko » Fri May 21, 2010 4:52 am
Hhhmmm, interesting comments above. I worked for one of the biggest AV companies in the world until last Tuesday, I won't say which as it would get me instantly sued bigtime. A google search for "Best AV" results is NO indication of what is actually best. All that means is they have managed to milk the search engines best. That's not a hard thing to do.
I don't beleive for one minute the big corps are necessarily the best, but they do have technology that beats the free ones hands down.
However having said that I still run free AVG at home even though I can get free licenses from my recent employer. Reason is I have been running AVG for many many years and never been compromised. Only run the free one.
A false positive is better than not finding something bad. It's much easier to recover from.
BTW I also run both hardware and software firewalls. The former isn't necessary if you have the latter, we sell hardware firewalls so I can get free ones. Also run CCleaner (free) regularly and either Spybot (free) or Adaware (free) and you should be OK! It is increasingly difficult to get them free from their websites but if you follow the prompts you will.
So in summary you don't have to pay a single cent to be safe on the Internot. Just don't be dumb and beleive the emails that say to click on this link to update your information no matter WHO they are from. They are the enemy at the moment! DELETE THEM!
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