I can't play freelancer anymore.

Only software that had recieved certification was tested. If the software did not achieve a minimum level of security under test it didn’t get certified and it was discarded. If it is not on the list, consider it worse than Kingsoft which in your words is crap, so I figure It’s fairly safe to say so as you put it.

MS security essentials features in tests it qualifies for and does rather well, that’s free and getting better with every version. What I was attempting to illustrate is that even top notch paid for AV will let a percentage through whilst surfing, what that says to me is that it’s wise to use a fairly good piece of software if you have data on a machine that’s worth protecting. AVG will be the first to tell you that the free version of the software they provide is not near as good as the paid for, if it wasn’t who would ever pay?

Each to their own.

This thread sucks. A lot of people are talking a lot about things that, in all honesty, I don’t really believe they know that much about.

Browsers, anti-virus, firewalls - I’m not sure half of you even know what you are saying here. Before anyone jumps at me, I don’t purport to know much whatsoever, but what has been said by many people is balderdash.

Kaspersky is a very good - enough said. There are alternatives, some of which are free - enough said

Chips wrote:
This thread sucks.

You’d better explain that to the guy who’s holding a gun to your head, forcing you to read it!

It is full of inaccuracies… nuff said.

Hah!

Me use-um Spybot and SpywareBlaster.

No antivirus.

Me not have problem.

Once in blue moon me get virus, and me reformat um disk.

But me make image of um fully-loaded clean disk and all me need is um restore image on um disk only!

About 15 minutes.

See here for how: http://forums.seriouszone.com/showthread.php?55706

But last time there was no virus, only the blasted Google redirect trojan - and I found out how to fix that without restoring my disk.

I’m not telling you lot to do what I do, only telling what I am doing, and showing you how you can do if you want-um.

Me smokum virtual pipe to disappear in virtual cloud of smoke…