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Glue in the network RJ45 and USB ports used to work exceptionally well, however with all this wireless around these days, more drastic measures need to be taken. It is possible to rip out the antenna on most modern laptops, although I was still able to get an intermittent signal by placing the laptop right on top of the access point.
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I found installing DOS 3.1 a better solution...
apart from protection users from bad things on the internet helps to save the planet from toxic glue fumes, and as a bonus users get to type cryptic text commands at the flashing block cursor just like in the movies.
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We run fsecure here at work and the only thing I've had to do have been tweak its firewall to get all programs to work correctly. Centralized distribution and management works perfectly. Not sure what we paid thou.
At home I run bitdefender currently and liking it, can't say how it would do in a work environment but no complaints there either.
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I've been using Avast at home for several years and rate it highly. It comes in both personal and enterprise versions.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I used to run MSE and had no problems, but when I "upgraded" to Win 10 it bogged the machine badly every afternoon. So I switched to Kaspersky which has been fine for me, with two exceptions.
1) The "safe browsing" window it opens for banks and so forth takes forever to load the first time each day - so it's disabled now
2) It hasn't found any virus, malware, or trojan problems - which could either mean it doesn't work, or I'm too careful about where I go and what I download... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's the irony with antivirus, those that has it doesn't need it...
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I ran Kaspersky on a small home net for several years b/c it was the only internal product Wingate offered. Individuals' machines ran AVG. I think Kaspersky reported exactly one virus over the period, while AVG regularly churned out warnings albeit sometimes of minor significance.
Then there's the issue of the nice Russians messing with their competition...
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- Kaspersky and Bitdefender are really the best. They REGULARLY are "Test winners" since years
- Stay away from Norton (Symantec) it sometimes hurds the system and is instable
- Avast and Avira are also good
The paid versions have features which are worth the money.
Tip 1: for good security are strong passwords essential
Tip 2: an external backup saves important data
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Another vote here for bitdefender. I've noticed no resource hogging. It has occasionally flagged up some malware-infected sites and asked me if I want to proceed, otherwise it sits on the system tray without annoying me and keeps itself up to date. Most importantly it gets top reviews for effectiveness. You have to register and maybe re-register each year.
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I'm using Bitdefender free, it really is light on resources, works 100% automatically and it works, but you can't set exceptions, if you don't need it it is a nice choice, if you need it forget about this automatic solution.
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Yeah, I recently tried Bitdefender and then uninstalled it because of the lack of control (exceptions!).
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Jacquers wrote: Looking for recommendations for an antivirus, for work, so paid or free. Something that won't bog down the system and get in the way of dev work as some of them do. Thx 
Next-Generation Endpoint Protection & Threat Intelligence | Webroot[^].
I have Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection install on 10 computers at a customer site and even the old (really old) XP boxes aren't slowed down.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I found out today that my bank offers this for free for their customers. It's a bit of a crippled version with detection only, but I think I'll give it a try.
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Where I work we use Sophos - in the 3.5 years I have been in the business we have not had any infected computers. We do also have a beefy firewall which catches everything before it hits anyone's computer.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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A company I know insist on using Sophos. I find it a resource hog and have always avoided using it myself. A couple of years ago the company using Sophos got hit by a virus that infected Sophos so that it quarantined some of its own executables and in so doing shot itself in both feet. One infected computer was completely hosed and effectively unrecoverable.
On another occasion the Sophos updater detected the latest update as a virus so it wouldn't install it. Sophos had to distribute a patch by email to be installed manually to recover Sophos' updatability.
My recommendation: STAY AWAY FROM SOPHOS.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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We were affected by the Sophos update being detected as a virus, which broke the whole update system - fortunately our ops guys were on-the-ball fixing it very quickly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Dettol?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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AVG doesn't seem to clean up after itself so over a period of time its virtual memory use gets pretty high. A corollary is that about that time it presents a big popup announcing that a reboot is necessary (presumably due to an update), and won't take 'no' for an answer (although it allows delays up to 24 hours). I hate rebooting b/c I invariably have several things on-going.
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I am using trend micro at work and MSE for personal laptop, both are good. bit-defender and kaspersky are good if you want to buy one.
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I used AVG Free Internet Security which also provide Antivirus protection approx 2 years, still I didn't find any VIRUS, Malware and trojan horse problem in my system...
Don't watch the clock;
Do what it does.
Keep going.....
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I use MSE and don't browse dodgy websites and had no problems
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Personally, I really like ESET.
It is fast and Flexible.
When I renew, the new expiration date applies to all connected computers.
It has one Issue. If you want to use it over a VPN, it wants to scan each file you touch over the VPN, no way to indicate to not do this, but to keep scanning network drives. Network drives are fast, VPN is typically really slow.
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Second that. Used it for years, never had a problem. Doesn't take over, but does the job.
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