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From:	koswix	19 May 2013 13:51
To:	ALL	1 of 48

I was using MSSE until recently, but it refused to remember an allowed object and stopped a game working everytime the laptop was rebooted.

I switched over to Bit Defender Free, but the interface and nagging to upgrade is annoying as hell.

What's the free AV du jour?


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From:	arq (ARQUETURUS)	19 May 2013 15:28
To:	koswix	2 of 48

40482.2 In reply to 40482.1
I still use Avast, as I have for quite a number of years. It's not as slim and transparent as it used to be but I think it still comes out top amongst the pack.

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From:	koswix	19 May 2013 15:31
To:	arq (ARQUETURUS)	3 of 48

40482.3 In reply to 40482.2

When I plumped for BitDefender I did have a quick look at some 'independent' anti virus rating place, and MSSE, AVG and Avast were all pretty low down the list for actually finding stuff. Although saying that, I've never had a problem while using MSSE apart from it refusing to remember to allow a certain hacked file.


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From:	arq (ARQUETURUS)	19 May 2013 15:52
To:	koswix	4 of 48

40482.4 In reply to 40482.3
and yet: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/AV-TEST-Certification-Security-Essentials-Double-Failure-0-Day,news-42157.html Edit: Which proves nothing but clearly was meant to in my hungover state. these might be more useful: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anti-virus-software.htm http://antivirus.about.com/od/freeantivirussoftware/tp/freeantivirus.htm http://www.av-comparatives.org/

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	19 May 2013 16:52
To:	koswix	5 of 48

40482.5 In reply to 40482.1
I use both avg and avast (on different pc's). dunno what the difference is, they both are free and get frequent updates. I think I got annoyed with avg for some reason. ---- "Some ideas make you dumber the moment you learn of them."

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From:	koswix	19 May 2013 17:24
To:	arq (ARQUETURUS)	6 of 48

40482.6 In reply to 40482.4

Ta, I'll check those links out. I know MSSE failed a bunch of tests, but it does stop windows moaning that you have no AV do it fulfilled my requirements!


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From:	koswix	19 May 2013 17:25
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	7 of 48

40482.7 In reply to 40482.5

I used to use AVG, but I fell out with it too. Can't remember why, possibly because of the bloat.


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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	19 May 2013 19:40
To:	koswix	8 of 48

40482.8 In reply to 40482.1
That's strange I use bitdefender and it's never nagged me. Have you registered it? ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	koswix	19 May 2013 20:22
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	9 of 48

40482.9 In reply to 40482.8

Registered the free version, it pops up every logon to tell me I should pay for the premium One. And it keeps nagging me to do a system scan. I don't want to so a system scan, my system is fine :@


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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	19 May 2013 22:14
To:	koswix	10 of 48

40482.10 In reply to 40482.6
I just turn the nagging off. I seem to occasionally get viruses at about the same rate whether I use AV or not. So I avoid the performance hit and just don't bother. , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	koswix	19 May 2013 23:25
To:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	11 of 48

40482.11 In reply to 40482.10
I should probably just do that. I can't remember the last time I actually got a virus, or even an alert (that wasn't a false positive from a keygen or something). It was possibly the time I was trying to diagnose what was infecting another computer and instead of right clicking the file I'd extracted I double clicked and ran it by mistake :$ ▪ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ │ │ │ │ ▪ │ └────┘ │ │ ──┐ ┌── │ ▪ ┌──────┤ ▪ ▪ │ ┌┘ │ │ ▪ ┌─┤ └──┐ │ │ ┌──┘ │ │ │ ││ ││ │ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┼┤ └┴─┴───┘ │ │ │ ─┘│ │ │ │ ┌──────┐ └┬──────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┘ └───┘ If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	19 May 2013 23:31
To:	koswix	12 of 48

40482.12 In reply to 40482.11
:D <claps> , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	20 May 2013 02:33
To:	koswix	13 of 48

40482.13 In reply to 40482.1
Are you sure you downloaded the right thing? I just got this for my brother in law and saw this. And I know I've never seen a single nag screen about anything, and I've used this for at least 6 months now. ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well
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From:	koswix	20 May 2013 06:27
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	14 of 48

40482.14 In reply to 40482.13

That doesn't look like what it gave me :|


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	20 May 2013 09:51
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	15 of 48

40482.15 In reply to 40482.13
You know what I think I've recently done the same as Kos. I got bit defender a while back for another PC that looked like that picture but the one that I recently downloaded was labelled bit defender 2009 or something and nagged and didn't look the same. I smell something fishy (nj). ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	20 May 2013 10:21
To:	ANT_THOMAS	16 of 48

40482.16 In reply to 40482.15

Yup, 2009 free trial edition. I had a look on the wbesite this morning and that's the only one you can download for free (unless 2013 is super well hidden...)


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	20 May 2013 10:42
To:	koswix	17 of 48

40482.17 In reply to 40482.16
But I definitely downloaded the one Ken attached a few months ago. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	20 May 2013 10:45
To:	ANT_THOMAS	18 of 48

40482.18 In reply to 40482.17

Very strange. I downloaded 2013 from this link (found on the BitDefender forum), but it'll only give me a 30 day trials :|


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	20 May 2013 10:48
To:	koswix	19 of 48

40482.19 In reply to 40482.18
The one I downloaded previously I think you had to register then it was free for a year or something. It does seem like a struggle to find the actual download. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	20 May 2013 10:49
To:	ANT_THOMAS	20 of 48

40482.20 In reply to 40482.19

That's the process I went through 2 weeks ago and it gave me 2009 :|


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