Windows Vista : One year without using antivirus | The Coffeehouse

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

I use Vista to Day One Italy release, and i not using Antivirus

Now waiting SP1 18 April in Italy i decided to format my Windows VIsta for having a clean set up!
Yesterday is out One care beta 2.5 and i try to see if my systema is clean 100%

this is a result

clean 100% 1 year without antivirus!!!

Who among you as do not use anti-virus ??

THX

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

I haven't used any form of AV since late-2002 and everything's fine.

When I need individual files checked I use Kaspersky's online file scanner.

wisemx
Live it

Won't run naked but...I do love Windows Live Onecare.
By far the best system protection I've used on a Dev machine.

In comparison, try running those heavy products on a system with SQL Server and VS.

Guy0510

I use Nod32 because it is light and doesn't get in the way. It comes up on the leaderboard in comparisons I see all the time which is nice too.

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wisemx wrote:
Won't run naked but...I do love Windows Live Onecare.
By far the best system protection I've used on a Dev machine.

In comparison, try running those heavy products on a system with SQL Server and VS.

OneCare's antivirus is great. The only big problem I've had with it is that the Firewall doesn't play nicely when running as a limited user-- you don't get any prompting or notification at all that a program's being blocked and have to log in as an administrator just to find out that OneCare's the reason your application can't connect to the internet (OneCare's firewall is a two-way firewall and can block outgoing programs too).

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:
OneCare's antivirus is great.

That isn't what the experts say. In fact it is one of the lower scoring anti-virus packages. Nod32 and AEC TrustPort (which I've not heart of) are doing really well at the moment.

PS - That being said, OneCare is much cheaper than most of the competition if you include the number of computers allowed. £37.99 for 3x PCs compared to Nod32 @ £46.99

magicalclick

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

wisemx wrote: Won't run naked but...I do love Windows Live Onecare.
By far the best system protection I've used on a Dev machine.

In comparison, try running those heavy products on a system with SQL Server and VS.

OneCare's antivirus is great. The only big problem I've had with it is that the Firewall doesn't play nicely when running as a limited user-- you don't get any prompting or notification at all that a program's being blocked and have to log in as an administrator just to find out that OneCare's the reason your application can't connect to the internet (OneCare's firewall is a two-way firewall and can block outgoing programs too).

Nah, that' just the same problem with Norton AV. It blocks my shared printers within my own network, and there is no massage. I guessed it is AV because I always put the blame on AV first, which I was right.

This is why I don't use any AV in my own computer. It is a gamming machine, AV will hammer it. Besides, there is only two cases I got virus, I run the virus from attachment and an old famous GIF email attack. My PC is clean all the time. And I regularly PC recover to clean up my junks and potential trojen horse. Vista PC backup all the way.

Ray6

Avast! is pretty good, and free for home use (though you do have to re-register every year.)

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

ManipUni wrote:

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:OneCare's antivirus is great.

That isn't what the experts say. In fact it is one of the lower scoring anti-virus packages. Nod32 and AEC TrustPort (which I've not heart of) are doing really well at the moment.

antivir scores better than nod32 (see the tests on av-comparatives.org) and has a free edition too. I wish it had an office plugin to avoid keeping realtime scan always running Sad

alexmac

Trend anti virus doesnt seem to slow anything down and seems quite good. The free AVG seemed ok but not sure how effective it is. Norton is a pos. The latest PC pro mag didnt seem that impressed by one cars detection rate and email scanning abilities.

I didnt have any antivirus for a while and was fine until I lent someone a usb stick - cue restore when they gave it back and I plugged it in...

DigitalDud

Yeah I don't run AV either, the performance cost isn't worth it.

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:
OneCare's antivirus is great. The only big problem I've had with it is that the Firewall doesn't play nicely when running as a limited user-- you don't get any prompting or notification at all that a program's being blocked and have to log in as an administrator just to find out that OneCare's the reason your application can't connect to the internet (OneCare's firewall is a two-way firewall and can block outgoing programs too).

Wow; there are actually people who run as a limited user? Is this a family computer or do you not trust your monitoring tools?

ZippyV
Fired Up

Ray6 wrote:
Avast! is pretty good, and free for home use (though you do have to re-register every year.)

I installed it for a relative but it failed detecting 1 mail-virus after a couple of months. Laptop couldn't even boot anymore. Sad

TimP

I got bit once with an unpatched exploit (I think I got hit on a Monday, the patch came out on a Tuesday Sad

), since then I've switched to Vista. Call it blind faith, but I feel a bit more secure with Protected Mode, UAC, and x64 not allowing unsigned kernel modules. It's not really the big obnoxious toolbars and ad malware I'm worried about, but the stuff that tries to hide itself through various means.

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SlackmasterK wrote:

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:OneCare's antivirus is great. The only big problem I've had with it is that the Firewall doesn't play nicely when running as a limited user-- you don't get any prompting or notification at all that a program's being blocked and have to log in as an administrator just to find out that OneCare's the reason your application can't connect to the internet (OneCare's firewall is a two-way firewall and can block outgoing programs too).

Wow; there are actually people who run as a limited user? Is this a family computer or do you not trust your monitoring tools?

I'm the only user of this computer (it's my personal laptop). I trust my monitoring tools just fine... it's just that running as a limited user has its benefits if you get hit by a zero-day exploit, for example (the same principle as is behind Vista's UAC).

Running as a limited user on XP really isn't that bad, either. The Run As command works for virtually all programs and installers that need administrator access (with the exception of OneCare, which is why I've ditched it).