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[Wyvern]

At work we use Panda, at home I use MSE...

[JP'S]

Norton Internet security so far, works brilliantly in the background.

Eish! you can't use Norton and brilliantly in the same sentence

Using Avast... No problems at all.

[Dohc-WP]

MSSE = Seems to do the job admirably

[Mister 44]

MSE and malwarebytes on Win 7. On Android I'm running Avast. Used to have some form of Symantec at work but I nagged so much the one techie removed it for me and replaced it with Endpoint (which looks exactly like MSE?). My problem with Symantec was that it took ages to start up (once it was removed my boot time dropped with 2 minutes) and when it ran a scheduled scan it would render the laptop unusable.

I read an article a few years ago (PCFormat, I think) where the author basically dismisses the urban legend of anitvirus companies being behind most viruses. He does tell of how an unnamed company redesigned their AV software because their market researched showed that users have more trust in AV software that takes up more hardware resources. They "want to see it do something" was the expression used.

[Dohc-WP]

MSE and malwarebytes on Win 7. On Android I'm running Avast. Used to have some form of Symantec at work but I nagged so much the one techie removed it for me and replaced it with Endpoint (which looks exactly like MSE?). My problem with Symantec was that it took ages to start up (once it was removed my boot time dropped with 2 minutes) and when it ran a scheduled scan it would render the laptop unusable.

I read an article a few years ago (PCFormat, I think) where the author basically dismisses the urban legend of anitvirus companies being behind most viruses. He does tell of how an unnamed company redesigned their AV software because their market researched showed that users have more trust in AV software that takes up more hardware resources. They "want to see it do something" was the expression used.

on Iphone i dont need and AV

[Mister 44]

on Iphone i dont need and AV

Yip, bricks are safe from viruses.

[B1nary]

MSE has taken a serious dive over the last few months:

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home...8/janfeb-2013/
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/secur...antivirus-test

[Hagan]

Mister 44's avatar has realised that winter is upon us

[ViperGTI]

MSE has taken a serious dive over the last few months:

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home...8/janfeb-2013/
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/secur...antivirus-test

Interesting.
MSE used to be REALLY bad... then according to people on MyBB, it got really good in the last couple of years (haven't tried it since Vista) and now it is going down again.

[Mister 44]

Mister 44's avatar has realised that winter is upon us

It's colder than MalicE's heart out there.

MSE has taken a serious dive over the last few months:

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home...8/janfeb-2013/
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/secur...antivirus-test

I've seen this, but I don't download a lot of "linux distros" and I stay out of the shady back alleys of the web, so it's still doing what it's supposed to do well enough.