what antivirus do you use.

thought this was gonna be an ebola thread

i use a mac

 

AVG. It tries to take over your internet browser so you need to reset some things.

I talked to a tech support guy on the phone last week who said it is good though.

 

I use Norton aswell.even tho I cant tell if it actually works or not,but my computer is super slow.those vine videos everybody posts,after 4 of them it goes to a whitescreen with a circle in the middle.god please kill who ever invented videos that play without u clicking on them

 

And burn their body. That schit pisses me and millions of others off.

 

On the real. If you dont work in accounting you should be on a mac. I've had my 13" Pro since 2009 and never had 1 issue with it.

 

we've just summoned the mac haters

 

F Them. I bet they are all using IE too!

 

no antivirus with macs for many reasons

bscly, you would have to install the virus (trojan) yourself (not just by clicking a link)

also like 99% of virus stuff is written for windows

 

let the nerds tell you

i just cook at waffle house

 

Zone Alarm freebie

If you wanna get geeky, there's a group called EICAR that is pretty much the guardians of the internet. They have produced a special text file for use in testing antivirus software. If you wanna test your anti virus, go there and read up. The little text test file should pop up as a virus, even though it isn't, if you download and open it. Read everything before proceeding. It's harmless, but it might be scary.

http://www.eicar.org/86-0-Intended-use.html

 

Anti virus software is one of those things that you kinda wonder if it's really working. How can you know, right? To REALLY test it, create a new blank text document, say on your desktop. Next, copy and paste the small EICAR test file into it, then save. If you then open that new text document, your anti virus software SHOULD alarm and quarantine it. If it doesn't I'd get new AV software, or fix the one you have.

Enough geekery for one day.

Good night.

 

Norton here...and, yes, I know it's working. Used to use McAfee until IE got hijacked...well, I reinstalled my OS, switched to Mozilla, kept using McAfee and got hijacked again. Haven't had any problems in the 9 years I've been using Norton.

 

I use a condom

 

Don't do a bunch of sketchy sh** online and you don't need it. Stock windows defender is just as good if not better than those other programs....

I have all my anti anything software turned off because it creates conflicts with some of the streaming I do. It messes with IRC, BitTorrent and all that stuff.

With that being said, just don't use anything and if your machine starts acting funky, just download malwarebytes free version. Run a scan. Clean everything up. Remove the malwarebytes from your PC and registry, then do it again if it acts up.

Reminder: You only get viruses (computer) from doing sketchy things. Period.

 

Macs get viruses. I find plenty of them.

MalwareBytes is a good one.

 

microsoft security essentials and common ****ing sense