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Stupid can't be fixed but maybe it can be medicated?
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Forget micro doses - HUGE doses would explain a lot of the questions... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It also explains your profile picture
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Ah.
Well.
You know what they say. "If you remember the Sixties, you weren't really there" 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I must admit I often listen to psychedelic music when working... Never did any drugs though 
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Well, I've had to reinstall Win7 after a catastrophic system crash (caused by failing hardware), and I'm finally gonna dump MSSE (because it's been at the bottom of all testing labs ratings for a while now), and was wondering what everyone else is using.
BitDefender and Kapersky are currently getting (and consistently have gotten) the highest marks, but at the same time, I see people complaining about both, and mostly for the same reasons.
So what is the current consensus on A/V software?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I switched from MSSE to Kaspersky when I updated to Win10, and have to say it's not got in my way much. The switch to "Protected Browser" for the bank and similar is a little jarring as it takes far too long the first time each day, but it seems like a good idea.
Mind you - it hasn't found any problems either, so it's difficult to say if it's working at all... 
It's certainly less hassle than MSSE which used to slug my PC every afternoon while it did a scan I didn't want and couldn't stop.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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MSSE can be scheduled to do scans anytime you want. On the other hand, it's level of protection is the worst in the industry.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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MSSE & Windows Defender should have the worst protection in the industry. They're free, making any paid product that does worse than the MS free products a short lived product. Personally I have had MSSE and Windows Defender catch stuff that paid products have missed.
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On Windows 10 I use Windows Defender for real-time protection and MBAM for custom full scans each weekend. MBAM scans are slow, but very "accurate", even changed extensions like changed .doc to .bmp are flagged out as suspicious. I started using MBAM 2-3 years ago on Windows 7 because of its good reviews (seemed to be the best in detections, but can have "false positives" too  ...),
Cheers,
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I use Audacity for Audio and PowerDirector for Video (it came with the video capture device I bought).
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Anti/Virus
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You beat me to it!
You've got some Audacity!
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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I personnaly use Sophos products; almost never had any problem, and does not have the drawbacks of other A/V I have tested so far. There does not exist a free version, though; corporate users are granted a free licence for home, but something has to be done to allow clients to update on the company's servers instead of Sophos' ones.
I never finish anyth
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Currently I'm using the free version of bitdefender, it is 100% automatic, you can't set exceptions, it is not nagging with banners or too much information, it simply works and it is not a resource hog.
Just give it a try, you'll have to register and then let it work.
Tried Kaspersky time ago and the computer was terribly affected by it, Norton was more or less like Kaspersky, avira was nice, but it's free version is showing adverts each hour or so...
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What does the Outlaw Programmer need an anti-virus for?
I thought that when a virus got on your system, [insert Chuck Norris joke here].
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Because I can't always travel to kill virus authors myself...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yes, TSA is getting rather picky about letting us aboard much of anything with the proper tools for the job.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Quote: (caused by failing hardware),
Your fault that you are not using virtual PCs  
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I've had good results with ESET Nod32 the past several years.
Not free but I'm pretty sure they have a trial version.
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I use it as well and I am quite happy with the results and the performance
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Agreed, I switched to eset and now have a 10pc license for it.
I have it on all the machines I have.
Very efficient (unlike others, slowing my machine down).
I have exactly ONE complaint.
- If I try to exclude scanning *.XXX files, it applies it at the time for known drives only.
So if I connect to a VPN (I do all the time), it scans *.XXX files over the VPN, which is slow.
I don't want to turn off network scanning, but I get forced to if I have a slow VPN.
One complaint, like that, after years of usage.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: what is the current consensus on A/V software
IMO, no consensus.
I use Kaspersky, and it has works fine. But have friends swear by McAfee, aka Intel Security.
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Interesting, I only know people that swear at McAfee, me included, we have the enterprise stuff at work and it is REALLY irritating to see a processor taken up by the AV.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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