Re: Security: what are you using?
I use Sophos antivirus. the interface is quite accessible, and doesn't have a whole lot going on. It's free, and also receives pretty good ratings. the one sticking point is that it uses the cloud to operate, so you do need an active internet connection to do scans and such. You also need to log into your web account, called a dashboard, if you want to tell it not to scan a particular file or directory, or if you need to get something out of the quarrantine.
One way you can get around the web requirement is that you can download their malware scanner, whose name I can't remember off the top of my head, but it works a bit like Microsoft Safety Scanner, Vipre Rescue, or the Eset web scanner, I believe it's called. The point is that you can download a separate application that you can use to run scans either from a bootable media or via the PC itself. It doesn't require an internet connection, so it should work fine in all instances. it's also acce ssible, I used it once.
One more positive point about Sophos, you won't notice a lot of resource hogging, which is more than I can say about a lot of both free and paid antivirus solutions nowadays. For awhile, before I heard about Sophos and did some research on it, I was using Vipre. Talk about a resource hog, which also slowed down the boot process a lot. Also, the accessibility of that program is slipping quite a bit.
Last I heard, Clamwin was getting bad reviews. is this still the case? I used to have Clamwin installed as a backup, back when I used Eset Smart Security, but after I heard from some reputable sources that it wasn't that great, I got rid of it.
Oh, and as a backup, I do have Malwarebytes installed, the latest version. I probably don't run scans with it as often as I should, but that's because, as far as I know, there's no accessible way to tell it which files you want to delete, and which you want to keep once a scan has c ompleted. But if I truly feel that it's warranted, I do open it and see if it finds stuff.
I'm using Windows 10 here, and the latest version of NVDA.
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