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After not having used it for years, I tried it again a couple days ago. I use MSE, and run MWB at least weekly, and even after that SB found a few things. My PC had been slowing down, and now it's noticeably faster than it was a week ago after I deleted what SB found.
My poorly educated opinion is that while some programs are better than others, on a given day any one of them may find something that another did not. I've seen this many times on all my machines.
Good ol' Spybot.. it's been around for years with that same "old school" interface, but it gets the job done.
I bought Malwarebytes and scheduled it to daily auto-update and scan. I use AVG (free) for antivirus. AVG should not be used with MSE.
No real time anti-virus app should be run in conjunction with ANY other real time anti-virus app, this is computer 101 stuff. Malwarebytes is not an anti-virus app, and it is designed to be used side by side with your chosen AV app.
As a side note, AVG has been off my and many peoples list of recommended freebie AV apps for a while, it isn't what it used to be.
So I have Norton Internet Security 2011 on my desk top and the 2012 on my laptop. Just installed Malwarebytes and ran scans twice (a week apart) on both machines.
Folk here could not say enough about how wonderful Malwarebytes is and how Norton sucks. So why is it that when I run Malwarebytes it finds nothing?
Could it possibly be that Norton does not suck?
No need to have a nonuseful program on my computers. Tell me why I should not uninstall Malwarebytes. I suspect Malwarebytes is a good partner with other free antivirus programs. Thus the praise. Me? I don't mind paying for top shelf protection.
These results say absolutely nothing for Norton's effectiveness, many of us can and do run computers with no AV application at all and have no problem keeping them malware free. If your's is clean, it's more likely due to your web browsing habits and practicing "safe hex" rather than the effectiveness of what ever AV app you're running.
As far as convincing someone to keep or remove an app, as was stated earlier, few of us really care what anyone does, it has no affect on us, so why take up our time trying to convince anyone either way
The problem isn't with Norton's effectiveness against malware, its with its annoying nature. I'd rather not be harassed constantly by my software. I don't run Norton and I could run a Malwarebytes scan right now and not find anything. That's not because my antivirus is so awesome, but because I don't download stupid crap or blindly click on everything I can, so there's nothing malicious to find on my PC.
One thing: Avast is takes care of viruses and malware and it automatically keeps the program updated. Plus it is free.
Don't waste money when the girl is free, so to speak.
Free, yes. I did miss something, though. If there is a new version it may need human intervention, otherwise the updates are free.
I just thought I'd see what MSE was about, so naturally I had to get rid of Avast. Can't have them both running. MSE is like Avast in that respect, that the little updates don't need me to do anything, but new versions most likely will need my help.
Free, yes. I did miss something, though. If there is a new version it may need human intervention, otherwise the updates are free.
I just thought I'd see what MSE was about, so naturally I had to get rid of Avast. Can't have them both running. MSE is like Avast in that respect, that the little updates don't need me to do anything, but new versions most likely will need my help.
New versions of MSE come via Windows update so you get them like any other security update.
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