I use Norton as my anti-virus. I also used McAfee in the past. These are the only two anti-virus that I've used...

I use Norton as my anti-virus. I also used McAfee in the past. These are the only two anti-virus that I've used. But people say they're garbage? Why?

What would you recommend as good anti-virus?

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>But people say they're garbage? Why?
Because they're poorfags who can't even afford paying for an antivirus subscription. Norton and McAfee are among the top antiviruses as shown in all tests.

8/10

It's a virus in itself.

> Paying for RAM eaters with shitty uninstallers
Nowadays to avoid viruses you just have to stop being stupid.

Found the poorfag. Norton includes advanced protection technologies to prevent malware from removing it from the system, that's why it's so difficult to uninstall. It will rather cause a BSOD and protect the user than let malware uninstall it.

I've been using avast for over a decade.
While my laptop is at 16 percent from the win10 anniversary update(taken 2+ hours to get this far) I read by some people that third party AV fucks with win10 updates, MS don't like third party AV.
Why is this if true?
Leads me to suspect that some third party AV packages likely get in the way of win10's spying?

Newer Windows versions have Security Essentials built in. If you're on Windows 7 you need to install it yourself. That + an adblocker on all your browser's is a pretty good way to stop any forceful attacks.

If you absolutely can't trust yourself to not accidently install any viruses, then get another free anti-virus (Stay away from Norton, Mcafee, and AVG). Kaspersky and Avast are okay.

90% of viruses and malware can be prevented with common sense. Just make sure everything is legit and and everyone/everything is trying to infect you of its not coming from a reputable source.

Good luck.

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norton is cancer if you torrent or crack, otherwise it's pretty ok

>Slows down your machine and manages resources poorly
>Scans directly on startup when other applications are competing for I/O time.
>You have to wrestle for authority with it
>I don't want to block X because the filename was on your hitlist, let it go already!
>Collects all your info, file names, hashes to assist in "securing" other machines.
>I need my botnet email scanner, without it I would click big bad links.
>Running 24/7
>Yes this program I am running is doing effectively nothing but rehashing my HDD contents. But tomorrow it will surely catch something!

Common
Sense
2016 and on into 2017

haahahahahahahahaha

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We use McAfee at work and it's such a drain on resources that it slows everything to a crawl.
There are 31 processes that run for McAfee. It scans every application when you start it, even signed applications from Microsoft.

It slows everything so much that my morning routine is:
- log on to computer
- start Visual Studio
- check my email
- walk to break room for a cup of coffee
- small talk with coworkers
- get back to my desk
- Visual Studio is frozen because McAfee is scanning it again
- walk around office; more small talk with coworkers
- Visual Studio is finally running

I try to stick with Bitdefender or ESET -- Better detection rates, less false positives, and low system impact. That being said, I have an HP that came with McAffee on (the new one from intel) and it's surprisingly okay in terms of not slowing the system down.

>detection rates
this is such a fucking meme. Detection rates vary between 95% and 100% and this only applies to known malware. And Antivirus software won't do any good against an unknown and well programmed piece of malware, despite of "heuristics" and other memes. You want to be absolutely safe? Create another user account with restricted rights along with uMatrix in your browser.

AntiVirus programs are memes.

Nobody said you would be absolutely safe.

You need to go to an anger management class.

It isn't safer either. Many Antivirus programms even mess with SSL certificates etc in order to be able to scan your https traffic which makes things even less secure. Anyone who installs these tools is a retard, sorry to say.

> He believes that shit

Why do you say this? I haven't had any problems with any of my torrented software while using Norton. Please explain

Interesting. Which ones mess with the SSL certs?

>pirated antivirus
I swear.. like it isnt bad enough that people use antivirus software, they even use cracked versions of it.

Sorry it's in German but the video should be self explanatory youtube.com/watch?v=_odqJyMLSd0

People say a lot of bullshit. Norton is fine. Fuck everybody who says otherwise.

I have no knowledge of computer science. How do I "create another user account with restricted rights along with uMatrix in your browser"?

Are you talking about creating a user with no administrative rights, and only use that? What is uMatrix?

> Implying computer science is that
Please user, give more credit to actual computer scientist, you're just describing a technician/codemonkey/NEET .

Install GNU+Linux.
a.k.a Common Sense.