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Brent Jenkins wrote: Even though you think that you have you machine covered, you don't.
Again, 100% coverage is not realistic. No AV claims that percentage.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Companies like Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, and the like all have teams of hundreds (if not more) of guys working on dealing with security threats every hour of every day.
No, not with security in general, but with detecting malicious code.
If you have malicious code on your machine, then who is going to guarantee the integrity of the scanner itself?
Brent Jenkins wrote: No matter how good you may be, you simply can't match that.
Learning to protect your machine is not the same as knowing every virus and making a living out of that. I'm preaching hygiene; not claiming to be better than the doctor - but with sufficient hygiene, you will visit your doctor somewhat less often.
Brent Jenkins wrote: And even with all of their resources, they slip up pretty often too.
So, no, I am not going to trust some application to clean up after me.
Sorry, I am not buying the idea that simply installing an AV-suite is actually safer than thinking about your machine, consequences and risks. On the contrary; someone who relies on others tends to be less careful in other areas.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'll bet you don't wear a seatbelt when driving either? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Brent Jenkins wrote:
I'll bet you don't wear a seatbelt when driving either? |
Your comparison is still incorrect, and it seems that you are looking for arguments to defend your position
..but to answer, no, I don't have a car. I use the train. As for the house, I have not hired a private eye to sweep every room and closet - I only made sure that it is very hard to enter without explicit permission.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's fine, you're happy with your security arrangements and it doesn't effect me, so who cares?
As for me, I'll drive carefully as much as I can, but I'll make sure my car has airbags, side impact bars and I'll always wear my seatbelt. Of course I'll never need any of them, because I'm such a great driver..
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Of course I'll never need any of them, because I'm such a great driver..
Like I already stated, your analogy is broken, and no, I did not claim to be a good driver.
Brent Jenkins wrote: so who cares
The one who is infected, with 40 PC's giving the same virus-warning after the AV automatically updates the virusdefinitions
..and with the majority sharing their attack-vector, it could be easily prevented.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Show me someone who claims they aren't behind the curve and I'll show you an up and coming victim..
I show you Norton Security.
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So, what works better than an off-the-shelf security package?
What do you use (obviously it has to be something you have written yourself as anyone else's software is sub-standard)? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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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.
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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.
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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+++*
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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."
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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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