I have macafee virus guard that it came with my laptop. The subscription must be ended now because i have bought this laptop around 2 and 1/2 years ago. Now my virus guard is showing that i have another 600 days of protection. But 2 days ago i got a email from macafee that my subscription has ended .
I dont understand. How could that happen.
My worry is that can somebody hacked into my laptop ??. and change this to show that my protected which im not ?? so they can remotely control my laptop ??
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Why do people insist on recommending MSE which is by fat the worst AV? That's pointless - these are other free anti-virus sollutions that do a much better job.
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Real life scenarios however as well as user experience of multiple years seem to show that MSE/Defender is at least on par with other solutions in regards to protection (this isn't just an isolated 'opinion' of a single person however... I have installed MSE/Defender on other people's computers and routine checks have shown it was fine... and that was confirmed after quickly installing and removing another free AV like Panda and Avast just out of curiosity).
MSE/Defender seems to work fine.StormJumper likes this. -
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For many months/years now, MSE/Windows Defender has been on the bottom of the AV-TEST and AV Comparatives tests:
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- 70 viruses found
Renewed Kaspersky for another three years on multiple systems; consistently high kill-rate, low resources and fewest false positives. Also, it doesn't bother you with flagging those tiny .exe's that you sometimes erroneously run before lowering the speaker volume ...downloads and Spartan@HIDevolution like this. -
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Dude, chill. What do you want; full Defender log plus an Avira log? Not going to happen; help people fix their desktop/laptop and move on. If it were my system; sure, logs ceiling-high. But they aren't, so ...
Btw, sorry to offend you, but also happened to run Kaspersky today (30-day trial) on, again, someone else's laptop; 8 hits, of which 3x adware, but the other 5 quite serious (inc. backdoor+keylogger). Thing is; 'Defender = off' this time, but AVG free was running and updated. No false positives, either; uploaded to meta-virus check. Had I read your post before; logs. Maybe next time.
Hmm ... logs can be falsified, too. So ... make a copy and upload them to the meta-compare. Can check which AVs catch it, then you can download them to a Defender-only system and see what happens. Deal?
And any AV can increase sales by increasing resource demand (pc is slow -> get a new one). Difference is that (most?) other AV companies don't sell pc's and/or os'es. There's the virus, too, of course, if it's BitCoin mining, say. Truthfully, though, Defender isn't that bad at this, there's worse. Only thing is; it'd better do something useful with resources granted, no? From my, admittedly, anecdotal experience that AV-TEST seems fairly accurate. Not going to bother making an exhaustive study out of it, though; anti-virus is like getting a root canal; it has to be done, doesn't mean you want to make it last longer than necessary.
But really; chill. If you're happy with Defender, then that's all that matters.Spartan@HIDevolution likes this. -
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Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by lahi88, Sep 13, 2015.