I disagree. I had been using that anti-virus for years (XP, XP sp3 and Win7 since rc1) and still had to reformat severall times due to mal- and adware. During that time, it pestered me about totally benign things on a regular basis, used up system ressouces like it was going out of style and showed a huge ass pop-up every time it updated, i.e. every day. I switched to MSE and have not had any of those problems. Well, Microsoft doesn't wan't me to use cracks or keygens either but I only have to allow the program once and MSE leaves it well enough alone.
And even though this is slightly OT, I would also recommend NOT installing a "personal firewall" on a Windows 7 machine. They do not protect you, Windows has a supperior one built-in and they are a huge pain in the ass if you don't know what you are doing. Furthermore, if you are connecting to the internet through a router with NAT - virtually every broadband and business internet connection is - you are behind a firewall by design, anyways.
This is pre-WWII. You can sort of tell from the sketch style, from thee way it refers to Japan (Japan in the 1950s was still rebuilding from WWII), the spelling of Tokyo, lots of details. Nothing obvious... except that the upper right hand corner of the page reads "November 1931." --- Simon_Jester
Avira is a bit of a system resource hog now, but it didn't start out that way. When I had it, I never once had an infection from anything and it only reacted to innocuous stuff that actually contained worm type code stuff.
Of course, I've been routinely running Spybot S&D and Spywareblaster as that passive backup to inoculate the browsers above and beyond what my AV does, but I've not been very diligent about keeping them updated anymore.
The popup Avira throws up is the price you pay for it being free.
I've had more trouble with Avast just deciding to do things on its own to files I actually needed and then having to go through the recovery process two or three times since the program just wouldn't fucking take a hint and respect the exceptions I set.
As far as ditching Avira goes, the last straw for me was when they updated it so that it constantly bothered me about installing the ask.com toolbar, which should be classified as fucking malware in and of itself. I will not even consider installing that program personally anymore and will always recommend MSE and Avast before it, but it still beats the pants off things like AVG, Norman or Norton (all of which are nothing but various grades of evil)
Warwolf Urban Combat Specialist
Why is it so goddamned hard to get little assholes like you to admit it when you fuck up? Is it pride? What gives you the right to have any pride?
–Darth Wong to vivftp
GOP message? Why don't they just come out of the closet: FASCISTS R' US –Patrick Degan
The GOP has a problem with anyone coming out of the closet. –18-till-I-die
Speaking as a long-time professional tech, what the fuck is Norman? Is that an exclusively European thing or something?
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Out of Context Theatre, this week starring Darth Nostril.
-'If you really want to fuck with these idiots tell them that there is a vaccine for chemtrails.'
Edi wrote:As far as ditching Avira goes, the last straw for me was when they updated it so that it constantly bothered me about installing the ask.com toolbar, which should be classified as fucking malware in and of itself. I will not even consider installing that program personally anymore and will always recommend MSE and Avast before it, but it still beats the pants off things like AVG, Norman or Norton (all of which are nothing but various grades of evil)
No.
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Out of Context Theatre, this week starring Darth Nostril.
-'If you really want to fuck with these idiots tell them that there is a vaccine for chemtrails.'
どうして？お前が夜に自身お触れるから。 Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
-Aku, Master of Masters, Deliverer of Darkness, Shogun of Sorrow
They do have a few nifty things, chief of which is the malware cleaner tool, the couple of rootkit removers and the uninstall tool. Which will absolutely, positively kill any Norman installation dead and then cleanse the corpse with fire. Best way to remove that AV suite from the way of something better.
Warwolf Urban Combat Specialist
Why is it so goddamned hard to get little assholes like you to admit it when you fuck up? Is it pride? What gives you the right to have any pride?
–Darth Wong to vivftp
GOP message? Why don't they just come out of the closet: FASCISTS R' US –Patrick Degan
The GOP has a problem with anyone coming out of the closet. –18-till-I-die
More properly, first uninstall the program normally, then run the removal tool. That will nuke everything in sight. I've seen some instances of Norton that were not the least bit phased by the removal tool, it had absolutely zero effect. Those needed the standard uninstall, then the removal tool, then manual nuking of anything else that was left followed by Ccleaner's registry tool.
Was the only way to kill the bastards dead. Norton 360, IIRC. One of those just recently.
Warwolf Urban Combat Specialist
Why is it so goddamned hard to get little assholes like you to admit it when you fuck up? Is it pride? What gives you the right to have any pride?
–Darth Wong to vivftp
GOP message? Why don't they just come out of the closet: FASCISTS R' US –Patrick Degan
The GOP has a problem with anyone coming out of the closet. –18-till-I-die
This is pre-WWII. You can sort of tell from the sketch style, from thee way it refers to Japan (Japan in the 1950s was still rebuilding from WWII), the spelling of Tokyo, lots of details. Nothing obvious... except that the upper right hand corner of the page reads "November 1931." --- Simon_Jester
