Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Slow and Painful Death of McAfee
My anti virus software must be running out? or something. Because it has been jumping up every two minutes all up in arms about how it can't run a virus scan. I'm kind of irritated but also worried because I don't really know what it is doing. Do I need McAfee? Can I get something for free that does the same thing that won't start freaking out when its at the end of its prescription? Ugh.
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There are plenty of good free virus/spyware programs available. I like Avira antivirus for daily scanning:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.free-av.com/
It's free, well regarded, and not too intrusive - sometimes it asks if you want the premium version, but you can just tell it "no".
I also have a backup hardcore program call Malware Bytes Anti Malware that I will update and run "on demand" whenever I suspect someone tried to sneak something onto my laptop. It catches and deals with 99% of the crap that is out there - only some versions of "Conflicker" and a 'scareware' program making the rounds are too much for it.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Hope that helps!
Thank you thank you thank you!
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