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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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
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-pr...
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
John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631
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
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explain/recommend the stuff here: http://www.indiamike.com/india/electronics-in-india-f15/portable-internet- programs-for-online-security-t54467/13/
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 john@johnweller.co.uk 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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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 john@johnweller.co.uk 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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Bitdefender here.
Jose Enrique Llopis www.multilinkcrm.com
-----Mensaje original----- De: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] En nombre de John Weller Enviado el: lunes, 20 de febrero de 2017 22:33 Para: profox@leafe.com 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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AVG from Grisoft (http://www.avg.com/gb-en/download) is my free AV software of choice.
-----Original Message----- From: John Weller [mailto:john@johnweller.co.uk] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:33 PM To: profoxtech@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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Sophos Home
MacOS Sierra with following standard OS X security guidelines.
Malcolm
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
John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631
Avast ... Used it ever since AVG became too bulky and slow
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@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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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-bounces@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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