rck281 wrote:
I would strongly disagree. Virus protection doesn't have anything to do with the need for a good backup. All hardware is subject to failure.
Sorry, this was a typo. I was saying you don't need a backup in place of antivirus, because defender works well. But yes you absolutely need backup for your files and an image backup of your disk. I must have been watching tv and did not finish my thought.
I suggest macrium reflect for PC, it is free and does everything you need except for incremental. They even have a free business version.You can mount the backup as a disk and pull files out or mount it in a virtual machine and run it as a virtual computer on a different piece of hardware.
Fredrick
Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area
jerryc41 wrote:
"Norton" was very good in the beginning - when it was his company. Then he sold his company and his name. He made his fortune with his unerase program.
And with his fortune, didn’t he go and kill himself?
I dropped Norton over 15 years ago. I've been using ESET NOD32, and find that it is very unobtrusive to running programs.
Fredrick
Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area
BebuLamar wrote:
He is still alive.
Oh, you’re right. I was thinking of John McAfee.
jerryc41 wrote:
I've been using the free version of Avira for years, and it's never found a threat. All it has done is warn me about things that are not threats. Now I see that I have AGV Antivirus. It must have tagged along when I downloaded something else. I had that run scans, and all it found as threats were a PDF I made and three word-processing documents. In addition to that, Avira will occasionally use a lot of power, memory, and hard drive. The hard drive sounds like a machine gun. I'm using the standard Microsoft antivirus, and from what I've seen online, that's very competent. So, I'm tempted to remove Avira and AVG. Definitely AVG - the uninvited guest.
I've been computing since the beginning, and I can't recall an A-V program ever finding an actual virus. Everything they have found has been questionable or harmless. Sometimes I think that AV programs pop up warnings just to make me think they're necessary.
I've been using the free version of Avira for year... (
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But it’s FREE it has to be good!!
Hi
Well Eset Antivirus, is another great product.
www.eset.comAlvin
Fredrick wrote:
Oh, you’re right. I was thinking of John McAfee.
I think Norton quit writing program before I heard of McAfee. I still have a copy of Norton Utilities for DOS. I run it sometimes for fun.
I used AVG for a while, but was flooded with ads for the paid version, so removed it. We used McAfee at my job but I would not use it at home. Same goes for Norton, it came installed on a PC I bought and every time they updated the definition files, Norton wanted a reboot. Now I let Windows Defender do it.
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