Virus Protection what do you use?

FishOil Wrote:Sorry you're right and I was wrong. There I just admitted it.

I did some quick research and it appears I vastly underestimated the windows vulnerabilities. Man...... you gotta really be wishing for that new education right now. Call the local school board and see if they let a 16 year old into third grade.

I work tech support. I don't mind the vulnerabilities since it keeps me employed

The Linux vs Windows debate always makes me laugh.. keep it up boys!!!

Quote:I went for many years without running anti virus on any of my home Windows machines. Did I get a virus... about once every 2 years. Did I lose any data... never. Did I ever need to reformat and start over... never.
I also did not click on spam links or allow 3rd party scripts to run.

Ditto. Don't run AV on my Windows XP machine (my primary machine).

Quote:Well the biggest Anti Virus for me is Common Sense...

Exactly.

I guess if you have to run something, run Microsoft Security Essentials.

Less bloat, less resources.

waldo22 Wrote:Ditto. Don't run AV on my Windows XP machine (my primary machine).

Exactly.

I guess if you have to run something, run Microsoft Security Essentials.

Less bloat, less resources.

yes and if you want a little more protection, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12

less bloat then the consumer version (Norton 360 Protection). Love small business edition AV designed to run on low-end PCs and small HDD

Common sense really, not had a virus in any time frame i can remember but i use MSE, would never buy AV, see 10's of PC's everyday with norton and every other form of AV on, with viruses. (work as IT Technician)

Kaspersky i use, never had any problems for years now!

Avast does the trick on my Windows box.
Never ran one when I had a macbook and on my Linux machine purely because its a lot less prone to viruses at the moment.

Beer40oz Wrote:On Microsoft Security Essentials do all the OS Updates have to be there? or it does not matter?

I am trying it now... it turned on my Automatic Updates.... I don't like that so I disabled the Automatic Updates.

hehe... so you want antivirus software but don't want to apply the OS security updates... dat make no sense.

Livin Wrote:ignorance is bliss...

Linux reported vulnerabilities according to National Vulnerability Database, 2011 YTD = 212
of those 69 are the highest severity rating

all OSes have vulnerabilities, period. Windows has the highest # reported and fixes are published way faster too...

+1, however doesnt ms release patches like once a month. open source patches are usually nightly builds (multiple times a day sometimes like xbmc).

also my linux server has only been cracked a few times (guest account) and never did it go offline. since windows runs one large monolithic kernel, a faulty mouse driver will blue screen a server. linux (and mac now that it is based on bsdi unix) has a modular architecture so when software crashes, it wont bring down the whole server down with it.

Durex!!!!!!