RE: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[John Weller]

Thanks to everyone for their replies.  Interesting to see the wide variety
in use, no one program seems to stand out which suggests that they are all
pretty good.  I'll definitely be looking at Sophos Home as that is the free
version of the one we used when I first encountered anti-virus programs.

John

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RE: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[John Weller]

Hi Andy,

I don't intend to travel to India which is probably just as well - I had no
idea that India was so restrictive!  However I should have remembered my own
comment from when I visited in 1991 as aircrew - we gave them bureaucracy
and they raised it to an art form!  I had to get 12 signatures before the
flight plan would be cleared, wait 20 minutes for a met brief I'd already
had from Lockheed and they wanted the serial numbers and rpm of each of the
4 engines :-)

John

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> I've used Norton - no complaints - for years, but now Defender+2
> 
> for pensioners who travel a lot (and many of us do!) - then you could try
and
> explain/recommend the stuff here:
> http://www.indiamike.com/india/electronics-in-india-f15/portable-internet-
> programs-for-online-security-t54467/13/
> 



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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[AndyHC]

I've used Norton - no complaints - for years, but now Defender+2

for pensioners who travel a lot (and many of us do!) - then you could 
try and explain/recommend the stuff here:

http://www.indiamike.com/india/electronics-in-india-f15/portable-internet-programs-for-online-security-t54467/13/

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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Jan Bucek]

Dne 21.2.2017 v 9:55 Dave Crozier napsal(a):

Avast ... Used it ever since AVG became too bulky and slow


Avast - used it ever since the name was not Avast on MS-DOS.



Dave

-Original Message-
From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller
Sent: 20 February 2017 21:33
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on 
internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good 
anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on Win 
10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of recommendations 
here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying that Defender is not 
very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a 
discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their decision. 
 What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so will 
be going for one of the free ones.

Thanks

John

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07976 393631




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RE: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Dave Crozier]

Avast ... Used it ever since AVG became too bulky and slow

Dave

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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller
Sent: 20 February 2017 21:33
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on 
internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good 
anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on Win 
10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of recommendations 
here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying that Defender is not 
very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a 
discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their decision. 
 What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so will 
be going for one of the free ones.

Thanks

John

John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631



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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Malcolm Greene]

MacOS Sierra with following standard OS X security guidelines.

Malcolm

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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Alan Bourke]

Sophos Home

-- 
  Alan Bourke
  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, at 09:32 PM, John Weller wrote:
> I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on
> internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good
> anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender
> on
> Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of
> recommendations here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were
> saying
> that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
> They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a
> discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their
> decision.  What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend
> Defender?
> Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners
> so
> will be going for one of the free ones.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
> John Weller
> 01380 723235
> 07976 393631
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Michael Glassman]

AVG from Grisoft (http://www.avg.com/gb-en/download) is my free AV software
of choice.



-Original Message-
From: John Weller [mailto:j...@johnweller.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:33 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on
internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good
anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on
Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of
recommendations here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying
that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a
discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their
decision.  What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so
will be going for one of the free ones.

Thanks

John

John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631



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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[rafael copquin]

Ditto here. Kaspersky rocks!

Rafael Copquin

On 20/02/2017 18:59, Stephen Russell wrote:

Kaspersky has been my go to for the past 8 years or more.  You can get a 3
pack license with rebate, for under 15 USD and it used to be free in the
old days.

I like how it hooks into chrome and will give you a heads up on a site not
being safe to continue to but letting you still make a dumb mistake on your
own if you so wanted to.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:32 PM, John Weller  wrote:


I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on
internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good
anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on
Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of
recommendations here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying
that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a
discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their
decision.  What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so
will be going for one of the free ones.

Thanks

John

John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631




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RE: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[José Enrique Llopis]

Bitdefender here.

Jose Enrique Llopis
www.multilinkcrm.com


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Asunto: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on
internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good
anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on
Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of
recommendations here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying
that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a
discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their
decision.  What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so
will be going for one of the free ones.

Thanks

John

John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631



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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Stephen Russell]

Kaspersky has been my go to for the past 8 years or more.  You can get a 3
pack license with rebate, for under 15 USD and it used to be free in the
old days.

I like how it hooks into chrome and will give you a heads up on a site not
being safe to continue to but letting you still make a dumb mistake on your
own if you so wanted to.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:32 PM, John Weller  wrote:

> I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on
> internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good
> anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on
> Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of
> recommendations here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying
> that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
> They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a
> discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their
> decision.  What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
> Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so
> will be going for one of the free ones.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
> John Weller
> 01380 723235
> 07976 393631
>
>
>
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Re: [NF] Anti-Virus Programs

[Mike]

John Weller wrote:

I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on
internet security.  One of the points I will make is that you need a good
anti-virus.  I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on
Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of
recommendations here.  In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying
that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test.
They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a
discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their
decision.  What anti-virus are you using?  Do you still recommend Defender?
Any thoughts or comments?  I will be recommending one to the pensioners so
will be going for one of the free ones.

Thanks
John


Defender +1

Rather than expect an anti-virus Swiss-Army knife to provide total 
safety, I use several different vectors of protection.

1. Defender (and keep it up to date)
2. OpenDNS for DNS resolution
3. CryptoPrevent for Crypto-hijack thwarting
4. A constant, some would say annoying, reminder to all those I support 
to never open email attachments that they weren't already expecting to 
receive.


Mike Copeland

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