Re: Anti-Virus Software Again
Hi Ann - You might also want to consider downloading the free Malwarebytes AV app to use as a supplement to your core AV. The free version is not a real time protection product so you would not want to use only it, but it seems to be extremely effective in finding malware as a stand alone scanner. Run it once a week or so as an extra level of protection - the old 'belt and suspenders' approach. It won't suck up resources when it is not scanning and might find stuff that the others miss. Mark On 4/19/2014 4:17 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Two of you guys recommended AVAST to me and BRian said it promised to support XP for 3 years... Havent had a chance to download it yet.. real life interfers ann On 4/19/2014 15:08, Bob W wrote: I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice telling me every time it updated itself. They changed it recently to an even more annoying English voice. Anyway, regardless of that, I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the recommendation of people here, and it too seems to be ok and is completely unobtrusive. B -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: 19 April 2014 19:58 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Anti-Virus Software Again I've been using AVG for several years and up until this very morning I've been quite satisfied with it. But it seems like they've made some kind of deal with Yahoo and the latest update this morning has installed some kind of Yahoo Error Handler & a Yahoo/AVG search page that I can't figure out how to get rid of. I managed to get my homepage back, but every time I open a new tab it goes to Yahoo/AVG. I don't want tabs to open to Yahoo/AVG. Plus, whenever any link fails to load quickly enough (which I've been having a lot of trouble with recently) it redirects to the Yahoo Error Handler page and there's no way to try to reload the page unless I've memorized the link URL and can type it in manually. So now I'm looking for new Anti-Virus software. Is there a good (preferably free) Anti-Virus product that *won't* hijack my browser for their own purposes? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Anti-Virus Software Again
Two of you guys recommended AVAST to me and BRian said it promised to support XP for 3 years... Havent had a chance to download it yet.. real life interfers ann On 4/19/2014 15:08, Bob W wrote: I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice telling me every time it updated itself. They changed it recently to an even more annoying English voice. Anyway, regardless of that, I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the recommendation of people here, and it too seems to be ok and is completely unobtrusive. B -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: 19 April 2014 19:58 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Anti-Virus Software Again I've been using AVG for several years and up until this very morning I've been quite satisfied with it. But it seems like they've made some kind of deal with Yahoo and the latest update this morning has installed some kind of Yahoo Error Handler & a Yahoo/AVG search page that I can't figure out how to get rid of. I managed to get my homepage back, but every time I open a new tab it goes to Yahoo/AVG. I don't want tabs to open to Yahoo/AVG. Plus, whenever any link fails to load quickly enough (which I've been having a lot of trouble with recently) it redirects to the Yahoo Error Handler page and there's no way to try to reload the page unless I've memorized the link URL and can type it in manually. So now I'm looking for new Anti-Virus software. Is there a good (preferably free) Anti-Virus product that *won't* hijack my browser for their own purposes? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Anti-Virus Software Again
I've been using MS Security Essentials on our pre-Win8 machines and MS Windows Defender on the Win8 machines for a while now. No complaints on either and they seem to be keeping the bad guys out. -p On 4/19/2014 2:08 PM, Bob W wrote: I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice telling me every time it updated itself. They changed it recently to an even more annoying English voice. Anyway, regardless of that, I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the recommendation of people here, and it too seems to be ok and is completely unobtrusive. B -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: 19 April 2014 19:58 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Anti-Virus Software Again I've been using AVG for several years and up until this very morning I've been quite satisfied with it. But it seems like they've made some kind of deal with Yahoo and the latest update this morning has installed some kind of Yahoo Error Handler & a Yahoo/AVG search page that I can't figure out how to get rid of. I managed to get my homepage back, but every time I open a new tab it goes to Yahoo/AVG. I don't want tabs to open to Yahoo/AVG. Plus, whenever any link fails to load quickly enough (which I've been having a lot of trouble with recently) it redirects to the Yahoo Error Handler page and there's no way to try to reload the page unless I've memorized the link URL and can type it in manually. So now I'm looking for new Anti-Virus software. Is there a good (preferably free) Anti-Virus product that *won't* hijack my browser for their own purposes? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Anti-Virus Software Again
I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice telling me every time it updated itself. They changed it recently to an even more annoying English voice. Anyway, regardless of that, I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the recommendation of people here, and it too seems to be ok and is completely unobtrusive. B > -Original Message- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms > Sent: 19 April 2014 19:58 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: OT: Anti-Virus Software Again > > I've been using AVG for several years and up until this very morning I've > been quite satisfied with it. But it seems like they've made some kind of deal > with Yahoo and the latest update this morning has installed some kind of > Yahoo Error Handler & a Yahoo/AVG search page that I can't figure out how > to get rid of. > > I managed to get my homepage back, but every time I open a new tab it goes > to Yahoo/AVG. I don't want tabs to open to Yahoo/AVG. > > Plus, whenever any link fails to load quickly enough (which I've been having a > lot of trouble with recently) it redirects to the Yahoo Error Handler page and > there's no way to try to reload the page unless I've memorized the link URL > and can type it in manually. > > So now I'm looking for new Anti-Virus software. > > Is there a good (preferably free) Anti-Virus product that *won't* hijack my > browser for their own purposes? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
