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You miss my point.
there is NO guarantee of absolute security. To think otherwise is either hubris or folly (or more likely both). If you access the Internet, you are at risk. The goal should be to strike a balance of minimizing that risk while also being prepared to deal with the very real potential scenario of your computer being compromised.
And to answer your question, I use Webroot, primarily because it has the smallest impact on my system usage though. But it's just one piece of my overall personal security package/plan.
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jRaskell1 wrote: there is NO guarantee of absolute security
I agree with that.
Much in the same way that when I leave for work in the morning I set the house alarm, make sure all my windows are shut securely and make sure my doors are locked. It's all about getting thing lined up in your favour as much as possible.
It's not going to stop people getting in and taking all my things if they're really determined, but it's better than leaving everything open and unsecured, surely?
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: turn on UAC
I'd rather be infected 
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The main way virus's are spread these days is by drive by installs on trusted websites that have been compromised. If you browse the web and don't have AV protection, you're begging to be pwned without warning while visiting a site that is normally safe.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Exactly which company are you referring to? I get 5 results when filtering by "Computer Software" and none of them seem to be antivirus companies... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Most of their revenue is from selling advertising space, and from products other than AV Software - which they (at least previously used to) provide free of charge.
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Because most people aren't like us; they believe the "internets" to be safe.
They will open spam messages, they will look at naughty or cat pictures on the internet, they will run programs received by emails to make they computer safer without thinking about it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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No, except once a year to do a scan just in case (but it never finds anything significant). Apart from that time I don't even have it installed, because it's AV is a sneaky bastard itself, worming itself where it shouldn't go and eating up your resources.
Meanwhile my dad has AV and still gets viruses that I have to remove manually. Lame old viruses that should be trivial for any AV, not the newest NSA-grade malware. So if it works then evidently it only works a bit.
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Two times in my life I did not use an antivirus. The only two times I got virusses in my life.
First time I had a 640 Kbps ADSL (the fastest connection a home user could have in 2004 here), opened WinMX (first time user of any P2P) and in 5 minutes I had a dialer on my pc. Way to go! Reset and restore.
Second time I was smarter, 2010, with a GPRS pen-drive at 32 kbps, I had to visit ONE trusted site, three pages: first one to open gamefaqs, second the search results, third the walkthrough: got virus. That PC was never connected to the Internet.
So yes, I keep a licensed antivirus at all times. The other experiences of virusses I had were related to the Pc of my family, often with freeware antivirus or outright cracked ones.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Two words - Minecraft Mods. My darling children do insist on downloading them and installing them - complete with all the viruses, browser hijackers, etc, that they come with. That's why their machines have AV software and Adware apps running.
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I like "feeling save" 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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tell us the truth... in your computer you have a sticker that reads "THIS IS SPARTA!!!!"
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Joan Murt wrote: in your computer you have a sticker that reads:
"THIS IS SPARTA!!!!
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,<br />
that here obedient to their laws we lie. "
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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1st things 1st... I won't announce on a programmers website that I don't use anti-virus, after all, all hackers are programmers.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >></div>
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those that buy insurance and those that don't. Both types are equally unlikely to suffer a major loss but only one survives with their bank balance intact if they do.
These two types also inhabit the computing world but for some odd reason the uninsured of this world seem to think it is their duty to bring the insured over to their way of thinking. 'It's never happened to me; I've never had a problem', they say as though that is a significant statement of truth rather than the mere statistical workings out of probability. By definition, after all, anything which affects a minority does not affect the majority. 'I already do everything in my power to prevent problems', they say as if this is isn't exactly the kind of thing that virus writers love to hear, the challenge which makes it worth getting out of bed, the smugness which they devote their lives to puncturing; as if the existence of things beyond their power is a logical impossibility.
They are the people who stand on the roofs of skyscrapers welcoming the aliens in Independence Day. In short, optimists, the most dangerous creatures on the planet. Resist their evangelism, my brothers and sisters. Realists, bathe in the glory of your rationality. Pessimists, hold true to your prophetic insight. And never uninstall your defences!
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I don't. I have but nowadays I figure 1) Google and my ISP are gonna scan for me, and 2) I'm careful with thumb drives and the like.
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Umpire , noisily contacting the dead Electrical engineers without a resumé , makes bubbles. (13)
I think this may be V Hard. So OG will probably crack it in 3 minutes!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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To maybe get other started:
Umpire - Ref
noisily - er or ur
contacting the dead - ??
Electrical engineers without a résumé, - some word containg cv with cv removed.
makes bubbles - goodchampagne  -> could be a refractometer, no that I come to think of it.
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Of your four:
One is accurate.
One is partly accurate
One is wrong
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Just let us know which one is correct
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Maxxx wrote: makes bubbles. (13)
FartingInBath
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Thought about it, but did not dare. Have my 5.
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I think we *might* need a bit of help.
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