No antivirus needed!
I have been dealing with a computer for more than 8 years. With the Internet for 4 years. During all this time, I had an antivirus only for the first year. The rest of the time I do without this useless "gadget". Once every six months I reinstall Windows, and since my hard drive is broken, I don't have to reinstall everything, well, except for a few programs. So throw all antiviruses into the trash and don't bother with these problems.Max Runner
Once in half a year I reinstall Windows and why not every day then? ....
I have already installed Windows for three years and do not complain. I'm not going to reinstall.
Oh, well, not needed. I have a licensed Casper, and he lives his life, eats 20 megabytes of RAM + blocks almost all ads, or is it an xD browser - I no longer remember what I set up for the ad block. Once set up and that's it. The fact is that if you come across some keylogger, then goodbye accounts with mails and so on, although if you climb on normal sites, you may not pick up anything, but I'm not used to sitting on the same sites. A week ago, a friend of mine was sitting quietly with a Microsoft browser and one day everything was stolen from him, but he was lucky - he tied it to the phone and restored it, but it's not worth it that the antivirus will live its own life and block this rubbish
The rest of the time I do without this useless "gadget".
Are you missing the pop-ups in your browser?
Once every six months
I reinstall Windows, My classmate also always claimed that the best antivirus is FORMAT C :, only as an opportunity arose for some reason, he immediately installed Casper.
But the athlete is right. And even sometimes doubts arise, but does the antivirus itself create an "alarm" and immediately remove it safely? The other computer has nothing at all. Wherever it was fiction, what kind of porn I did, everything is alive and well. The firewall will take care of everything. It's just calmer with antivirus.
I agree with the author. I was sitting on WinXP, which was installed back in 2009, until May 2012, and without any antivirus software. In general, the best antivirus is straightforward.
If you don't run anything downloaded from anywhere, then you don't need an antivirus. But it is not always known - is it possible to download it from here? If there is new malware, then no one will know anything and the distribution will not be covered.
Antivirus is not needed if you run programs with user rights, use Software Restriction Policies, HIPS and download programs from official sites and old distributions.
On the one hand, yes! If it's safe to walk somewhere, then antivirus is not needed., I tried different antiviruses for a long time, then I worked without them, and everything worked fine ..
But it turned out that through the mail (Answering messages), the computer began to glitch. , Trash was sent to the client, and at the same time passed on to me !.
Now with Avast, he doesn't eat a lot, but the protection is decent and there are no problems!
Much also depends on the built-in protection in browsers, sometimes even some official ones are blocked.
Did anyone install Microsoft Security Essentials? Free of charge. Isn't it better than any other free one? Although the firewall in Windows 7 is specific. It seems not bad against real malware, but it seems to skip one test program (collect and send a list of installed programs) (unless you create a rule specifically for this application).
ZY And also a joke. The program seems to find out the list of programs through the registry, but the antivirus did not find it :)
Another strange assessment of the best antivirus:
1. Kaspersky.
2-4. (it's really not clear here) BitDefender, Avast, Dr.Web.
In general, the results are obvious, but this is only an estimate for the last couple of years.
ZY Anmawe, did you find HIPS without an antivirus?
You are suicidal on your computers along the way. You may continue to think that antivirus is not needed at all ...
MSE showed itself excellently, though at first it ate user cracks and executables, but then it (xs how) unlearned it. For the sake of decency, sometimes I banish others, it seems clean.
Z. s. But in fact - if you wash your hands before eating, then you will not pick up any infection)))
For more than three years now, Kaspersky has been installed for show. I turn it on only when I go in / download something suspicious.
The Firefox-WOT-AdBlock-NoScript suite almost completely protects the internet presence.
And my MSE showed itself disgustingly. At one point he replaced Kaspersky with it. While this antivirus was standing, it got infected with rubbish that gradually killed all .exe files, MSE did not react to it. As a result, I installed Kaspersky again and cured the entire computer with two full checks.
RicoChiko
If one check is missing, it's not good. The virus is multiplying during the scan process (there was something like that).
El Tarno
What others? Only Casper can be considered really reliable (the power of their tools is quite enough to combat real infection - he infected himself). It is also questionable whether MSE cleans the registry well - it depends on whether the axis will work after the treatment of dangerous malware.
And with the number of signatures, besides, Dr.Web is a big question. Some antiviruses exceeded 6 million back in 2012, while Dr.Web has fewer of them now (AVG has even a little more, but this is about the same level).
VITYA_KOLYADENKO
I agree about kasperich. But a habit))) Ideally, it is necessary not to treat, and not to allow infection) I think so. And MSE suits with silence, and work flawlessly. I will not say anything about the registry, tk. I periodically clean up and optimize it with other programs.
El Tarno
Here's about the registry. I really didn't understand how "the author did it", but there was not quite a winlock in the antivirus test, but just a virus that replaced explorer.exe with the same functionality. Antivirus removes it, the registry does not clean. An example of a relatively successful treatment from that test:
"The virus has been removed, but after each reboot, the desktop.ini file is opened on the desktop in notepad."
And unsuccessful treatment is when in all registry branches, instead of one dll of the csrss.exe process, a file created by a virus is registered, which is easily removed by an antivirus. And another antivirus (Avast) can remove the infected ndis.sys driver altogether (especially smart antiviruses then ask to insert the Windows installation disk and fix everything) or some other (and then not only the network will not work, but in general Windows will not boot) ...
So throw all antiviruses into the trash and don't bother yourself with these problems.
Antivirus protects against threats that are in the virus database. So don't throw it away.
You are suicidal on your computers along the way. You can continue to think that antivirus is not needed at all ...
- Antivirus usually does not detect new threats
- When antivirus swears at a crack / keygen / trainer / patch, etc., many turn it off. The question is, why then an antivirus if you do not believe it.
- A virus, a Trojan is not black magic, they do not just get on the computer. The presence / absence of antivirus does not affect the likelihood of infection. Here the point is completely different.
In general, a normal antivirus can catch 98% of the viruses it knows
Antivirus catches 100% of viruses known to it and 0% of unknown ones. This is confirmed by all virus epidemics with Trojans ransomware, Winlocks, etc.