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What antivirus program do you use?

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Microsoft Security Essentials. Before that it was Avira and before that AVG. I really like the MS software and don't see myself going back to either of the other two.
 
None. Occasionally, I scan my system with Malwarebytes, which always comes up negative. Windows Defender scans regularly though, but it never finds squat.

I'd run Linux Mint, but I enjoy PC games too much. 🙁
 
Avira, free version ... you need to turn off that buy me, nag screen ... easy to do instructions via google
 
indamixx99 said:
Norton 2009. Yeah yeah, flame me all you want... however, they completely rewrote this program from the bloated piece of crap 2008 and older were, to something that uses very little system resources and installs quick.
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Ive been using norton internet security for years and I have no complaints. It is very defective and as kept my systems virus free.
 
Avira on all my win7 boxes, but I just installed MSE on my laptop to see how well it will do.

Symantec corporate at work.
 
MS security essentials is what I use . I do virus research as a hobby , I keep a pc that has no protection, just an imaged backup ,that I infect with malware/rootkits/virus on purpose to see what they are doing, then I disassemble them to see how they work.

Most virus used to be vbscripts but that has changed especially in the past year. An idiot programmer decided it would be cool to create a virus creation tool that requires no programmer knowledge. It is a menu and check box driven program that allows someone to run it, pick what they want the virus to do, then it creates the virus program and can even scramble and obscure the code so AV programs cannot easily find it. That program has caused a flood of new virus to appear since now non-programmers can create them.

I like MSE since it doesn't get in the way. It isn't as light on resources though as many think. If you are just looking at the Mssecs.exe that isn't the amount of resources it is using. That is the interface and menus for it. Instead look for MsMpEng.exe , that is the actual program, for me that is 148MB . Still not too much for me not to use it.
 
Modelworks said:
Instead look for MsMpEng.exe , that is the actual program, for me that is 148MB . Still not too much for me not to use it.
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What's the CPU hit though? If your system is up a week what's the CPU Time for that process. That was my problem with Symantec; leave your system up for a week and rtvscan.exe is the top CPU Time process. Not to mention it rapes your HDD.
 
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