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By lance on February 10, 2015 7:57 PM | 8 Comments

A legend in the field, a loser in his dotage.

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Got Harsh? | February 10, 2015 8:15 PM | Reply

Meh....

Perhaps a modern day Howard Hughes.

Edward Teach | February 10, 2015 8:53 PM | Reply

Peter Norton is still the devil incarnate.

nold | February 10, 2015 9:11 PM | Reply

Take the Avast free version. It's more than adequate and it works.

lance replied to comment from nold | February 10, 2015 9:41 PM | Reply

Avast/AVG free versions:

Avast won't do scheduled scans. AVG will (although you do have to enable it).
AVG isn't as diligent in real-time as Avast is.

I do recommend either Avast or AVG, if you have to go with the free versions it's better than nothing, but paying for a subscription has benefits for both products. Use either in addition to an anti-malware product like SuperAntiSpyware or MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Both have free versions, but are worth paying for.

nold replied to comment from lance | February 10, 2015 11:40 PM | Reply

When I bought this computer(Vista) 8 years ago I went with the free Avast and other than adding memory it has all worked very well, touch wood.

oldwhiteguy | February 11, 2015 6:14 AM | Reply

cogeco security is also effective and is included in the pkg at no extra cost.

richfisher | February 11, 2015 2:20 PM | Reply

Apple, baby!

Daniel Ream | February 11, 2015 3:24 PM | Reply

Blaming either John McAfee or Peter Norton for the feces sandwich their products have been turned into by their current owners is like blaming Steve Wozniak for the iPhone 6 case problems.

Scheduled scans are an anachronism. Like full file backups, they date from a time when filesystem filter drivers were hard to write and involved a huge performance hit. If you aren't turning your AV shields/screens/services off, you don't need to do scheduled scans.

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Daniel Ream: Blaming either John McAfee or Peter Norton for the feces read more
richfisher: Apple, baby! read more
oldwhiteguy: cogeco security is also effective and is included in the read more
nold: When I bought this computer(Vista) 8 years ago I went read more
lance: Avast/AVG free versions: Avast won't do scheduled scans. AVG will read more
nold: Take the Avast free version. It's more than adequate and read more
Edward Teach: Peter Norton is still the devil incarnate. read more
Got Harsh?: Meh.... Perhaps a modern day Howard Hughes. read more

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