I use MSE. It's a practical choice.
The thing is, as AV softwares advance, so do the threats. There will always be a new virus, keylogger, trojan, worm and whatever name they will come up next. And the biggest threat is the user actually. If you know you're in unfamiliar territory, don't allow yourself to be outsmarted. You know it's spam so don't click on that link. You know you shouldn't fill up shady online forms so don't sign up. You know there's a freeware alternative so stop forcing that keygen to activate a commercial software you probably won't even use, and stop wasting your time in shady sites and just be content with the friggin' freeware already.
Security softwares are great measures anyone should not take lightly, just don't rely on it too much. Sites and accounts can be hacked, so just be smart about it. The point of the internet is it doesn't have to be your world where you surrender your identity; it's a tool invented so you can acquire your own space to serve as your extension. Just drop by, mingle, move on.
MS Security Essentials not safe anymore?
Re: MS Security Essentials not safe anymore?
I used MSE for years but the fact it started to slip in the detection rates on AV-Comparatives worried me (not that I've ever had a virus nor a detection in years, common sense works wonders) so I tried Avast. Avast lasted about a month before it totally peed me off with it's self aggrandisement. It woul block a webpage and proudly announce that it had saved your computer from crashing? Sorry but how? I have known Firefox lock up my PC for stupid reasons (OTT garbage collections but my own fault for using nightly) but buggered if I've ever known a web page cause my PC to crash.
So I switched to Bitdefender free after reading about it on a list of anti virus programs over at Raymond.cc. That and Bitdefender scores high in detection rates. But as Midas said it will just delete anything on your system it thinks is a virus with no warning at all. It also likes to block webpages with no option to just let you view it regardless same as Avast.
I was waiting for Kingsoft Antivirus 2013 which as well as being cloud based was going to use the Avira engine as it's secondary engine but it's not been translated to English yet.
So I switched to Bitdefender free after reading about it on a list of anti virus programs over at Raymond.cc. That and Bitdefender scores high in detection rates. But as Midas said it will just delete anything on your system it thinks is a virus with no warning at all. It also likes to block webpages with no option to just let you view it regardless same as Avast.
I was waiting for Kingsoft Antivirus 2013 which as well as being cloud based was going to use the Avira engine as it's secondary engine but it's not been translated to English yet.
Re: MS Security Essentials not safe anymore?
I digged that...ajfudge wrote:The point of the internet is it doesn't have to be your world where you surrender your identity; it's a tool invented so you can acquire your own space to serve as your extension. Just drop by, mingle, move on.
@carbonize: I kinda took the same detour back to MSE...
Re: MS Security Essentials not safe anymore?
Actually, now we have a proof that MS indeed spies on Skype users worldwide:m^(2) wrote:Well, hardly surprising.
And I would find it hard to believe that the same isn't happening in the US.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/i ... 62870.html
http://www.h-online.com/security/featur ... 65629.html
Re: MS Security Essentials not safe anymore?
Anyone still looking for AV alternatives should check Raymond's latest memory footprint group test:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/which-free-a ... ory-usage/
See also http://www.raymond.cc/blog/comprehensiv ... nti-virus/...
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/which-free-a ... ory-usage/
See also http://www.raymond.cc/blog/comprehensiv ... nti-virus/...
Re: MS Security Essentials not safe anymore?
I do have it and do not worry. Anyway I do regular system and files backups.