Avira AntiVir Personal

aliEnRIK

Ive never had to use a license with avira. Are you sure you didnt download some trial version or something?
Uninstall and reinstall from here
http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html
When it asks for any details just skip it

AVG is cr*p, Espresso sticks to it like mud, though I really have NO clue why.

Email scanning etc is NOT needed so Aviras fine

espresso

aliens talk a lot of crap!

aliEnRIK

espresso wrote: »

aliens talk a lot of crap!

Explain oh GOD of computers?

[Deleted User]

espresso proper winds me up. I'd always chose the opposite of what they say as they always seem to get it wrong. I expect they only push AVG as it's linked on the MSE site and they've not bothered to read any sites comparing AVs as they'd see AVG always lags behind in detection rates. Avira doesn't have email scanning but I wouldn't open an attachment from an unknown person. Even if I did Avira would pick it up as I opened it.

espresso

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Explain oh GOD of computers?

aliEnRIK wrote: »

AVG is cr*p, Espresso sticks to it like mud, though I really have NO clue why.

Email scanning etc is NOT needed so Aviras fine

This is simply your opinion, I disagree. If e-mail scanning is not needed, why do they include this in the paid for version?

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

Even if I did Avira would pick it up as I opened it.

Exactly. The same with scanning downloads, messenger etc. As soon as you open something dodgy then it will stop it in its tracks.

aliEnRIK

espresso wrote: »

This is simply your opinion, I disagree. If e-mail scanning is not needed, why do they include this in the paid for version?

Exactly the same reason tvs manufactureres include a ton of extra 'screen processing' modes. People think its 'better' somehow.

Zebra

Downloaded ................................... wait for it ........................................Avast!

Not too keen on the interface to be honest, Avira seemed much simpler to use and update. Haven't registered it yet, so got 60 days to try it out before deciding whether to go back to Avira or try AVG.

I've also downloaded "No script" for Firefox but I don't really understand what it does or what scripts actually are!

Finally, I saw Sandboxie mentioned in quite a few threads so I downloaded that although I haven't read the guide yet.

To summarise - my security at the moment is Windows Firewall, Avast anti-virus, Firefox with no-script add-on, Sandboxie and Spybot (with Immuniser). Is there anything else I should be using?

I understand Malawarebytes and Superantispyware seem to the best anti- spyware software, is there any need to download these unless I have a problem?

espresso

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Exactly the same reason tvs manufactureres include a ton of extra 'screen processing' modes. People think its 'better' somehow.

Yes just like £100 mains leads that some fall for!

:rotfl:

aliEnRIK

Most sites use 'scripts'. Which means they have programs within the webpages running to run for example flash videos (you tube), map direction (AA site) etc
BUT, some sites have nasty viruses in. So if the computers set to allow ALL scripts and the anti virus doesnt recognise it as a virus, then youll get infected.