Well Many years ago in the dark ages before broad band I used Norton and used to spend hours downloading game demo's and tied up my phone line to do that.
Then one day while surfing I got a huge whamy, this sucker just started eating the data off my drive and blue screened me.. I was not a happy guy considering all those hours of downloads just went down the toilet.
When I bought my Norton CD I was told that it would have updates for life, come to find out that was crap. So I went and bought an updated version of their home securty suite. and still from time to time would get infections. so I realised it was crap. then I found a few boards out there that were based on that stuff and found out there were other options.. web browser, adAware etc.. so I started to use like 10 different things to make sure my PC was safe.
Then a few years later more advanced AV engines came out so I started to test them as I was never going back to norton, when I found Panda I was sold it found stuff on CD's that I had burned all these other spyware programs on and found some of those were infact trojen horses them selves.
and also learned that the Main Stream (by that I mean bundled versions of AV) were just not up to par.
Real strong AV programs you won't find hacked on p2p nor will you find them bundled on any CD.
Of all the AV's I have tested over the years (if you want to test your AV program just type Warez into IE, lol) only Panda and AVG have been bullet proof, I am currently testing Comodo AV and firewall, not tested enough yet to try the warez test.
I am open to any suggestions and opinions on this because the more you learn the safer you and your PC will be.
Then one day while surfing I got a huge whamy, this sucker just started eating the data off my drive and blue screened me.. I was not a happy guy considering all those hours of downloads just went down the toilet.
When I bought my Norton CD I was told that it would have updates for life, come to find out that was crap. So I went and bought an updated version of their home securty suite. and still from time to time would get infections. so I realised it was crap. then I found a few boards out there that were based on that stuff and found out there were other options.. web browser, adAware etc.. so I started to use like 10 different things to make sure my PC was safe.
Then a few years later more advanced AV engines came out so I started to test them as I was never going back to norton, when I found Panda I was sold it found stuff on CD's that I had burned all these other spyware programs on and found some of those were infact trojen horses them selves.
and also learned that the Main Stream (by that I mean bundled versions of AV) were just not up to par.
Real strong AV programs you won't find hacked on p2p nor will you find them bundled on any CD.
Of all the AV's I have tested over the years (if you want to test your AV program just type Warez into IE, lol) only Panda and AVG have been bullet proof, I am currently testing Comodo AV and firewall, not tested enough yet to try the warez test.
I am open to any suggestions and opinions on this because the more you learn the safer you and your PC will be.
