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I have had a good experience using AVAST. A few years ago, my Sony notebook
starting freezing almost every time that I used it. . I paid to have it
corrected, and it was a lot better when I got it back, but it continued to
freeze a few times a month. Then I installed FREE AVG.
This reduced the freezing to perhaps, once a month. Then I misunderstood
the AVG notices they were sending out in late, 2006, and I thought they were
discontinuing the free version. so I uninstalled AVG FREE and installed
AVAST FREE in the early part of January, 2007.
Knock on wood, but since then, I have had no freezes at all. Maybe this
has nothing to do with Antivirus. Maybe TJ made some changes to Amibroker
that solved my freeze problem. I always test the latest versions of
Amibroker on the Sony notebook before I install it in my desktop. Who
knows. Ron D
----- Original Message -----
From: "Homar Simpson" <x77777x@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:40 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: OT: Free AntiVirus
> I'm afraid that NO AV will protect you 100% if you are 'unlucky' or
> not careful.
>
> I recently got a RARE email spam that was clearly a link to an
> infected file. I downloaded the file and alerted the compromised
> server admin.
>
> Now here it is 3 weeks later, and at least 15 AV's still do not
> recognize it. Among them some majors.
>
> Backing up your system to a clone drive regularly, is the only true
> defense. Back up your personal files a few times a week to a DVD or
> offsite source.
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Yuki Taga <yukitaga@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Sunday, February 25, 2007, 2:50:29 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> d> A word of advice ... you get what you pay for!
>>
>> An oft-quoted aphorism ... that is correct ... about as often as it
>> is not. ^_^
>>
>> d> I used to use Avast and managed to get a nasty Trojan that wrecked my
>> d> operating system.
>>
>> I've been using Avast for years now. Never a problem.
>>
>> The truth is, pay-ware or free-ware, there is no way *any* antivirus
>> program can completely protect you from malware.
>>
>> It's exactly like a moving average: There is some lag.
>>
>> Yes, most of the antivirus programs now have some form of heuristics,
>> which attempts to identify malware on some basis *other* than
>> comparing to a known-malware signature database. But nothing has
>> proved perfect so far, and you can set your level of heuristics
>> detection so high that you are bothered by endless false positives.
>>
>> Avast often updates virus definitions two, sometimes even three times
>> a day. It's not like they are exactly sleeping.
>>
>> Moreover, one does not just 'manage' "to get" nasty Trojans. Almost
>> everything out there requires user interaction, or visiting a
>> dangerous Web site with defenses down or non-existent, or with a
>> machine that has already been compromised. If you can get a nasty
>> Trojan with Avast, I'll wager you can get one with F-Secure, too.
>>
>> The best defense against all of this stuff is between the chair and
>> the keyboard. (I'm convinced that I could run with only my NAT
>> router as a defense -- no firewall, no antivirus -- and I'd probably
>> never have a problem, simply because I'm pretty careful.)
>>
>> FWIW, I'd be interested to know:
>>
>> 1) how you identified what you got (the name, too)
>>
>> 2) how you first noticed you that you got it (the symptoms)
>>
>> 3) if you had any backup plan in force that would result in you
>> having had a clean image to restore
>>
>> I often suspect (even though I know it's really a low probability)
>> that antivirus programmers have a "black staff" that writes attacks,
>> too. ^_^
>>
>> "Yes, our program knows about that one; too bad yours was apparently
>> behind the curve."
>>
>> None of them catch all the newest attacks. None of them. I'm sure
>> F-Secure is a fine product. But beware, there are none out there
>> that will let you simply treat your computer as "locked-down". You
>> will need to think about how you got that Trojan, and what behaviors
>> you may need to change to avoid getting another one.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Yuki
>>
>
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