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Topic subjectIs Kaspersky Virus protection the best?
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302182, Is Kaspersky Virus protection the best?
Posted by Case_One, Fri Apr-28-17 11:50 AM

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302183, Archive. n/m
Posted by Numba_33, Fri Apr-28-17 12:46 PM
302184, Save the SNARK for GD.
Posted by Case_One, Fri Apr-28-17 12:49 PM
This place is already on life support.

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302204, No idea - but my articles
Posted by handle, Tue May-02-17 11:03 PM
http://lifehacker.com/5865356/the-best-antivirus-app-for-windows

I don't use anything other than Windows Defnder and staying away from skeevy sites.
302206, You're a writer?
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Wed May-03-17 02:37 AM
No shark intended. You mentioned 'my articles', so I'm deducing that you wrote the article.
302209, Sorry no,did write them - it was a bad subject line
Posted by handle, Wed May-03-17 10:18 PM
>No shark intended. You mentioned 'my articles', so I'm
>deducing that you wrote the article.

No, I was probably not paying attention to the subject line. I started by saying what my company uses - but then I found that article.

We use McAfee at work - about 30,0000 devices, and it works for us.



302212, Oh, okay.
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Wed May-03-17 11:06 PM
McAfee is a good product. Their Total Protection product came pre-installed on my laptop and it's worked out well for me.

It probably helps that my web browsing is mostly on legit websites tho.
302211, Oh, there's deals to be had too
Posted by handle, Wed May-03-17 10:43 PM
https://slickdeals.net/f/10115144-kaspersky-anti-virus-2017-3-pcs-key-card-free-after-35-rebate-at-newegg?src=pdw

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2017 (3-PCs Key Card) Free after $35 Rebate at Newegg


Slickdeals has a ton of offers like that.
302214, Windows Defender + Malwarebytes and you're good
Posted by Playa_Politician, Wed May-03-17 11:15 PM
most AVs are decent nowadays. you just need to make sure you don't get one that will bog down your system resources (norton is/was notorious, but i havent used it in at least a decade). I like Trend Micro, i've heard good things about Bit Defender.

i'm good with the Windows Defender (already built into Windows 7/10) and Malwarebytes combo for my home PCs. for Malwarebytes i do pay the subscription because i like the real-time scanning feature. i have a raspberry pi running DNS (Pi-Hole) at home too where i subscribe to various blacklists feeds so i'm not hitting known bad sites.
302482, Depends if you want to be "safe" or safe.
Posted by TheAlbionist, Tue Jul-04-17 05:52 AM
Most AV scanners are much of a muchness these days - I manage a McAfee EPO infrastructure for a large financial org and they've always had definitions added by the end of Day Zero of any exploit... best you can hope for really. Far as I can see Kaspersky and most of the other big names manage the same, so they'll all offer more-or-less the same protection from viruses (i.e. you'll be protected after about 4 or 5 hours of an attack being in the wild).... which is something, but isn't a huge amount given the potential speed an exploit can spread these days.

If you want to *actually* be secure, you're better moving away from blacklist products like traditional AV (Blacklist i.e. it holds a list of known viruses, blocks them and allows everything else) towards Whitelisting products like Bit9 Defender which learn your machine's usual behaviour then block everything else. Better for servers than workstations really - for your home PC I'd suggest a decent AV scanner, a decent software firewall and, most importantly, a strict regime of not acting like a dickhead on the Internet.
302604, No.
Posted by jetblack, Mon Jul-24-17 09:03 PM
302613, antivir is what I've been using for years.
Posted by tariqhu, Thu Jul-27-17 08:44 AM
its free and has worked well on all of my home machines.
302669, fbi is bugging
Posted by Effa, Fri Aug-18-17 09:26 AM
https://www.cyberscoop.com/fbi-kaspersky-private-sector-briefings-yarovaya-laws/

i use kaspersky at the job. annoying to administer but so far so good.