mine i use mcafee
[question posted by mavijayne]
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I am using Symentac...Thank you so much for question. Its a great experience to be here on mylot... I would like stay here for a long time... What about you guys... Are you only here for money or to make friends... [manzician]
I use norton on my computer. [senna9]
iam using norton anti-virus,its nice and useful for me [naha123]
well my gut i also use mcafee it is da bomb [finidinwa]
well my guy gbosa for u i love mcafee [finidinwa]
I use Avast, you just can't beat it. [Lackingstyle]
U have right,I have used antiviruses: Norton Antivirus, Avg, F-prot, Nod32, Bitdefender for me only Kaspersky is working! [pzoliweb]
AVG because it workd great and it is free. It will also do updates EVERY single day. It also does not slow down your PC like most of them do [MercyGurL]
I'm using AVG 7.5. It's fast and trustworth. [marcosfilho]
In the virus dictionary approach, when the antivirus software examines a file, it refers to a dictionary of known viruses that the authors of the antivirus software have identified. If a piece of code in the file matches any virus identified in the dictionary, then the antivirus software can take one of the following actions: 1. attempt to repair the file by removing the virus itself from the file 2. quarantine the file (such that the file remains inaccessible to other programs and its virus can no longer spread) 3. delete the infected file To achieve consistent success in the medium and long term, the virus dictionary approach requires periodic (generally online) downloads of updated virus dictionary entries. As civically minded and technically inclined users identify new viruses "in the wild", they can send their infected files to the authors of antivirus software, who then include information about the new viruses in their dictionaries. Dictionary-based antivirus software typically examines files when the computer's operating system creates, opens, closes or e-mails them. In this way it can detect a known virus immediately upon receipt. Note too that a System Administrator can typically schedule the antivirus software to examine (scan) all files on the user's hard disk on a regular basis. Although the dictionary approach can effectively contain virus outbreaks in the right circumstances, virus authors have tried to stay a step ahead of such software by writing "oligomorphic", "polymorphic" and more recently "metamorphic" viruses, which encrypt parts of themselves or otherwise modify themselves as a method of disguise, so as to not match the virus's signature in the dictionary. [edit] Suspicious behavior The suspicious behavior approach, by contrast, doesn't attempt to identify known viruses, but instead monitors the behavior of all programs. If one program tries to write data to an executable program, for example, the antivirus software can flag this suspicious behavior, alert a user and ask what to do. Unlike the dictionary approach, the suspicious behavior approach therefore provides protection against brand-new viruses that do not yet exist in any virus dictionaries. However, it can also sound a large number of false positives, and users probably become desensitized to all the warnings. If the user clicks "Accept" on every such warning, then the antivirus software obviously gives no benefit to that user. This problem has worsened since 1997, since many more nonmalicious program designs came to modify other .exe files without regard to this false positive issue. Thus, most modern antivirus software uses this technique less and less. [edit] Other approaches Some antivirus-software uses of other types of heuristic analysis. For example, it could try to emulate the beginning of the code of each new executable that the system invokes before transferring control to that executable. If the program seems to use self-modifying code or otherwise appears as a virus (if it immediately tries to find other executables, for example), one could assume that a virus has infected the executable. However, this method could result in a lot of false positives. Yet another detection method involves using a sandbox. A sandbox emulates the operating system and runs the executable in this simulation. After the program has terminated, software analyzes the sandbox for any changes which might indicate a virus. Because of performance issues, this type of detection normally only takes place during on-demand scans. Also this method may fail as virus can be nondeterministic and result in different actions or no actions at all done then run - so it will be impossible to detect it from one run. [1] Some virus scanners can also warn a user if a file is likely to contain a virus based on the file type. [edit] Issues of concern * The spread of viruses using e-mail as their infection vector could be inhibited far more inexpensively and effectively, without the need to install additional antivirus software; if bugs in e-mail clients, which allow the unauthorized execution of code, were fixed. * User education can effectively supplement antivirus software. Simply training users in safe computing practices (such as not downloading and executing unknown programs from the Internet) would slow the spread of viruses and obviate the need of much antivirus software. * Computer users should not always run with administrator access to their own machine. If they would run in user mode, then some types of viruses could not spread outside of their own personal area of the system, leaving the operating system and files belonging to other users intact. * The dictionary approach to detecting viruses does not always suffice — due to the continual creation of new viruses — yet the suspicious behavior approach does not work well due to the false positive problem; hence, the current understanding of antivirus software will never conquer computer viruses. * Various methods exist of encrypting and packing malicious software which will make even well-known viruses undetectable to antivirus software. Detecting these "camouflaged" viruses requires a powerful unpacking engine, which can decrypt the files before examining them. Unfortunately, many popular antivirus programs do not have this and thus are often unable to detect encrypted viruses. See Executable compression. * The ongoing writing and spreading of viruses and of panic about them gives the vendors of commercial antivirus software a financial interest in the ongoing existence of viruses. Some theorize that antivirus companies have financial ties to virus writers, to generate their own market, though there is currently no evidence for this.[1] * Some antivirus software can considerably reduce performance. Users may disable the antivirus protection to overcome the performance loss, thus increasing the risk of infection. For maximum protection the antivirus software needs to be enabled all the time — often at the cost of slower performance (see also Software bloat). Some antivirus software has less impact on performance. * It is sometimes necessary to temporarily disable virus protection when installing major updates such as Windows Service Packs or updating graphics card drivers. Having antivirus protection running at the same time as installing a major update may prevent the update installing properly or at all. * When purchasing antivirus software, the agreement may include a clause that your subscription will be automatically renewed, and your credit card automatically billed at the renewal time without your approval. For example, McAfee requires one to unsubscribe at least 60 days before the expiration of the present subscription, yet it does not provide phone access nor a way to unsubscribe directly through their website. In that case, the subscriber's recourse is to contest the charges with the credit card issuer. [edit] History The first anti-virus software was created by Peter Tippett in 1991.[2] Tippett was an emergency room doctor who also ran a computer software company. He read an article about the first computer virus released onto the market (the Brain, Lehigh and Jerusalem2 were the first viruses to be developed, but it was Lehigh that Tippett read about) and he questioned whether they would have similar characteristics to viruses that attack humans. From an epidemiological viewpoint, he was able to determine how these viruses were affecting systems within the computer (the boot-sector was affected by the Brain virus, the .com files were affected by the Lehigh virus, and both .com and .exe files were affected by the Jerusalem virus). Tippett's company Certus International Corp. then began to create anti-virus software programs. The company was sold in 1992 to Symantec Corp, and Tippett went to work for them, incorporating the software he had developed into Symantec's product, Norton AntiVirus. best antivirus [piratesbi]
I use the latest version of McAfee........ I have used Nortion, Avg & McAfee....... Nortion gives better protection. It has file recovery features....... But it takes a lot of your system resources....... Avg too takes more resources than McAfee........ AVG may be unable to detect all viruses........ McAfee protects your system without slowing down the system performance, compared to the other two mentioned above......... I have been using McAfee for a long time now. ......So far I didnt have any problems with McAfee.....Mcafee just rocksss ....... [9885773673]
ohhh!!! hii to all.. best antivirus i used ever is AVG-Antivirus... its more secure to use AVG although i also used Norton and Mcafee and many more.. but now i am satisfied with the AVG antivirus... its absolutely free and the updates are quite easily updated without so much of time... and it gives the high performance for my computer. Many a times when i am sharing something in my LAN,,, AVG immediately detects which type of virus is this and completey wipe out the viruses... So i would like to prefer AVG antivirus instead of any other antivirus. Happy Mylotting!!! [hackingrules]
When I was still using Windows, I am using McAfee for my virus protection needs. It detects almost all viruses, and with heuristics technology, it also detects virus-like activities, making your computer virtually virus-free. It is also light on resources, you won't even notice that it is running in the background protecting your computer all the way through. I also tried Norton, but sad to say it didn't pass my taste. It is a resource hog, and it slowed my computer like a turtle. But it is also good in detecting viruses! If Norton wasn't a resource hog, then it will be on my recommended list regarding anti-viruses for the Windows platform. But then again I switched to Linux a few years ago. Why!? I was tired with all the Windows bug that resurfaces with every release of Windows. Not to mention that almost all viruses and spywares are "designed" to work only with Windows-based computers. With Linux, I don't have to worry about viruses, hence no need to install any anti-virus software.:) [ryanrudolf]
I tried McAfee first and it worked great but I didn't like the yearly fee. Then someone told me about AVG and I used it for awhile and it worked ok. Then when I got a new PC I tried the free trial of Norton which I didn't like at all. The Norton Version 2005 worked ok but it used too many resources and I didn't like the fact that it would pop up and run a scan at all times of the day and I couldn't even customize those settings. So I went back to AVG. Then about 6 months ago my PC got some kind of virus that changed the date on my PC to a month ahead. I didn't realize what the problem was but I knew that AVG would not update and it would not find the problem. So I looked around and found Avast downloaded it and ran it. It found 6 viruses that AVG could not and cleaned them. Immediately, my Date and Time Properties popped up and I saw my date was wrong. I reset it and I haven't had a problem since. I haven't even had a virus in the last 6 months. With AVG I had one virus after the other pop up just about daily. And you may not believe this, but you don't even have to worry about running the full scan at all with Avast. The background protection keeps your pc safe at all times. I run it about once a week just to ensure that all is well. I will never use another program. Avast works and best of all it is FREE. Norton is not an virus remover, but instead only a virus detector. It found 2 files of adware, and one trojan dropper virus in c:\command.exe Was it able to fix anything? Nope. I went to their website and it said to just delete the file. So I did. Guess what? Now windows won't load. And, you have to pay for updates to norton after a year..... now that sucks !! [leon1987]
Mcafee and Norton provide a similar level of protection against unwanted threats and are similarly priced, but there are a couple of significant differences. If you want additional features, McAfee Internet Security Suite 9.0 provides just about everything you need, especially if parental controls are a major concern. However, installation was needlessly complex – many of these features have to be downloaded – and for performance and core components, Norton Internet Security 2007 is much more effective. [hiddenidentity]