[ekim68]

http://www.neowin.net/news/comcast-s...-for-customers

[namenotfound]

Symantec sucks though. My school rents out laptops, and they're all loaded with Symantec. This ironically blocks Wi-Fi access, even the processors complain about them. Which is why the number of rentals dropped, as more and more students and bringing their own laptops from home to campus.

Maybe they fixed something, but the version of Symantec loaded on those laptops block Wi-Fi. The weird thing was, the Dells were ok Wi-Fi wise with Symantec, but all the other brands they had for rent, all had Wi-Fi blocked from it.

[JohnWill]

From one bloated AV product to an even more bloated one! Some improvement.

[Mumbodog]

Out of the frying pan into the Fire!


Free is better

http://download.cnet.com/Avira-AntiV...dlPid=11012914

http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Vi...-10320142.html



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[JohnWill]

You forgot Microsoft Security Essentials, they don't get any respect, the Rodney Dangerfield of AV products.

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

You forgot Microsoft Security Essentials, they don't get any respect, the Rodney Dangerfield of AV products.

If Windows had good security in the first place, you wouldn't need anti-virus protection

All joking aside though, what I really like about Windows 7 is they finally included anti-virus in with the OS. And it's not that bad either, cleaned a virus up I had a couple of days ago

[Mumbodog]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

You forgot Microsoft Security Essentials, they don't get any respect, the Rodney Dangerfield of AV products.

I didn't forget, I don't trust MS, might just be another bit of spyware from them.

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[Mumbodog]

what I really like about Windows 7 is they finally included anti-virus in with the OS.

???? included?? I must have installed the cheap version. ;-)

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[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by Mumbodog

???? included?? I must have installed the cheap version. ;-)

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I'm not sure if all versions include it, I have Ultimate.
That's also something I hate about Windows, so many different versions for the SAME version...

Starter
Home Basic
Home Premium
Professional
Enterprise
Ultimate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions

[JohnWill]

No AV was "included" with any version of Windows 7. You can get Microsoft Security Essentials for free from Microsoft, and it's actually an excellent package.

I have Windows 7 Ultimate running on three systems, and none of them had an AV after the installation.

[namenotfound]

No AV was "included" with any version of Windows 7

There is, it's called Windows Defender.

[Mumbodog]

Windows Defender is not AV software, not sure what it does ; -) , I always disable it, worthless imho.

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[namenotfound]

Like I said above, it found and removed a virus I had. In my opinion, if it can do that, then it IS anti-virus.

[Mumbodog]

Removing it after it is on your system is not really anti anything, defender is the first thing that gets disabled during a Real infection, it is worthless.

Nothing personal, its just my opinion.

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[Mumbodog]

See here is one, Defender is not running, 99.9% chance malware has done this

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vi...t-working.html