[RESOLVED] What do you think?

[Darren Wilson]

Never been without an Antivirus program and haver never been infected (AV picks it out first). It saves me time, it saves me hassles, NAV2000 does not tax or affect the way my system runs, regardless of what others say, updates regularly available as and when are needed. If you don't use a AV program, don't complain when you do get infected as there are now viruses that hide in ActiveX features in web pages & email attached viruses that DON'T require the email or attachment opened or run to infect you.

To put it in perspective, running a PC without AntiVirus software is like sleeping with a person who is infected with HIV or another disease and thinking that there is the small chance that you won't catch anything. Even Linux isn't safe now......

[Pogi]

6 years? The law of averages will catch up to you, no matter how careful you try to be. Get an AV prog and KEEP IT UPDATED.

[geeksRus]

There used to be a saying:
'Practice safe computing, wear a write protect tab!'
(the other cavemen will know what that is)

Now, I would say it is just foolish to use your computer without AV protection.

I clean virii off customers machines several times a week. Most of them are still using the MacAfee AV that came with Win98 Plus and have never upgraded it. Sad.

[Pyroate]

Originally posted by pumpkinhead77:
I am begining to wonder if getting a virus protection program is a good idea for a home user. I mean, I have been using computers for 6 years and I have yet to get a virus on MY pc. It is my belief that if you are careful then you will not get a virus. What do you all think?

Go to either Macaffee's or Norton's and lookup bubble boy. a virii can be in almost anything not just what looks suspicious.

[Mayet]

I thought I was going real well too. i just upgraded to win2k and loaded programs for two days. I was so happy, My system for once was loaded just the way I wanted it...Until Coral came along. Coral is one of my elderly customers who receives a lot of junk mail from friends in the Salvation Army nursing home...Well someone told coral she had a nasty virus so she thought she better send me an email to my personal email addresss so I could check it right out for her. Needless to say the one thing I hadn't reloaded was my virus protection program.....And as for Coral I cleaned out her system totally and then explained very slowly to her the difference between good emails and bad emails.....Well the next day no joke she reinfected herself and sent me another email telling me she thought she was infected again.... She was infected again big time.... and guess what So was I. She told me when I questioned her that it was from her friend and she had told her not to send her junk But HA HA funny pass this on... was a goood email wasn't it.......No it was bad email it cost her another format

[Polychronopolis]

Ok, this is something I really feel strong about. I can not stand people that tell others that AntiVirus software is a waste of time. Some people do not need it, some people despise it, but keep it to yourself!

Never once have I been in any store and found "Common Sense" in the store. It is something that you are born with. Some people will never develop "Common Sense".

Just because you have never had a virus doesn't mean that little Mrs. Moronovitz down the street will never get one. Don't go telling her that it isn't necessary because obviously, you're not the one she calls when she gets Happy.99.Dumb.Monkey.Format-C written by 1.lame-{sKryPt kiDDiE #257209487602}.

--So Rants Polychronopolis..

[CampbellD]

Hi All,

I am a systems Administrator for a mid sized organisation, which used to run McAfee for Anti-Virus protection, but decided to drop due to the fact that McAfee was using 20-30 percent of the PCs grunt. Now we use InoculateIT from CA. This product is Excellent, automatic updates and bugger all processor. For the persons who don't have anti-virus software on there how home PC, i guess it's your choice, but don't moan when you PC gets infected, you have no backups and you have no choice to use the Format C: command and start from scratch.....

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When i first bought my pc at the end of dec 2000 i was surfing the net for 3 weeks without and AVP and i then decided to buy NAV.
I installed it as soon as i got home and it detected 9 virus` in my systen straight away.And i had no idea that i had them.

My advise would be-Get an anti-virus prog and i`d recomend NAV 2001

[MacGyver]

I think the stories in this thread point to one important fact that most people overlook: regularly scheduled backups are critical to prevent against data loss, since no one AV software can protect against every virus floating around out there. Trust me, knowing that you have a reliable backup to fall on is very comforting in times of crisis.

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Originally posted by MacGyver:
I think the stories in this thread point to one important fact that most people overlook: regularly scheduled backups are critical to prevent against data loss, since no one AV software can protect against every virus floating around out there. Trust me, knowing that you have a reliable backup to fall on is very comforting in times of crisis.

I actually use 2 AV scanners one is the NAV 2001 and the other is the sophos AV scanner available from Sophos both are good as i have tried both out with virus` that was on one of my Floppy disks(which is now formatted).

[Roamer_1]

I just got done peeling a crashed partition for a guy who bought NAV three years ago and never upped the defs. He also never backed up anything. The four virii on that drive pretty well wrecked it, but I was able to get back about a third of his valuable data, the rest is lost for all time. A little investment in software and maintenance would have served him well. Too bad.