Wanted: Best Free Internet Security Software

zenmaster

Leopard wrote: »

If you were to switch to a Mac, you'd be free of both the expense and the anxiety and hassle of having to combat the problem. :cool:

But then you'd run the risk of turning into an anal tw4t who posts on threads enquiring about PC security :rolleyes:

Leopard

But not of turning into a careless, prejudiced bigot who reads neither the title of a thread nor the first posting in it * before simply assuming that it is necessarily about PCs and Windows.

Which is what you have done.


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Mads84 wrote: »

Hi All,

I am not much of a computer whizz and every year I find myself buying a new Internet Security Package (Norton Antivirus etc). A lot of people have told me that you can get this software for free on the internet...

Where can I find this and which is the best one?

Thanks for all your help!

BillScarab

Leopard wrote: »

But not of turning into a careless, prejudiced bigot who reads neither the title of a thread nor the first posting in it * before simply assuming that it is necessarily about PCs and Windows.

Which is what you have done.


* Quote:
Originally Posted by Mads84
Hi All,

I am not much of a computer whizz and every year I find myself buying a new Internet Security Package (Norton Antivirus etc). A lot of people have told me that you can get this software for free on the internet...

Where can I find this and which is the best one?

Thanks for all your help!

Which is surely what you did in your first post suggesting using a Mac?

And to be fair everyone else has assumed the same.

zenmaster

Mads84 wrote: »

Hi All,

I am not much of a computer whizz and every year I find myself buying a new Internet Security Package (Norton Antivirus etc). A lot of people have told me that you can get this software for free on the internet...

Where can I find this and which is the best one?

Thanks for all your help!

Silly me! Of course OP might have meant Norton AV for OS X or Ubuntu but I just didn't think of that.

Leopard

BillScarab

BillScarab wrote: »

Which is surely what you did in your first post suggesting using a Mac?

And to be fair everyone else has assumed the same.

:rotfl:

Smart shot . But your aim is poorly targetted.


The thread is entitled: "Wanted: Best Free Internet Security Software"

The first post, reads:

Mads84 wrote: »

Hi All,

I am not much of a computer whizz and every year I find myself buying a new Internet Security Package (Norton Antivirus etc). A lot of people have told me that you can get this software for free on the internet...

Where can I find this and which is the best one?

Thanks for all your help!

In his/her zeal to be offensive to me, zenmaster carelessly and incorrectly described – initially by implication but now confirmed by his/her last posting – those two as forming "a thread enquiring about PC security :rolleyes: "

Which, self-evidently if you read them (and my point in self-defence was that he/she had not done so properly), they do not. There is nothing whatsoever in either of them to indicate that they refer specifically to either PCs or Windows.

My own first posting in this thread, if anyone reads that one correctly, was the ninth in it. It was (as I have already pointed out – in Posting #13, if one wishes to be what zenmaster accuses me of being – but which you don't appear to have read either) not "advice" and nor was it, as you now characterise it, a "suggestion". It was a mere observation and it was directed at those who had misread the original posting, rather than at the original poster.

You selected the wrong ammunition to fire at me and, like zenmaster, shoot yourself in your own foot.

But, unlike zenmaster, you do so without being abusive and for that I commend and thank you.

I'd also observe that although others, as you point out, had made the same unwarranted assumption as zenmaster (who appears to be more of a zen-novice), I didn't attack any of them personally for doing so. I only lasered zenmaster, by redirecting his own marksmanship pedally, because he had set out purely and simply to be abusive to me.

I have no animosity towards you, BillScarab. The reverse is true: I thank you for the courtesy with which you invariably address others and you are on my own personal (somewhat short) list of contributors for whose postings I watch out because they are normally insightful, correct and rewarding to read.



zenmaster,

zenmaster wrote: »

Silly me! Of course OP might have meant Norton AV for OS X or Ubuntu but I just didn't think of that.

Quite so. (Not that I'd dream of recommending Norton Anti-Virus to anyone, on any operating system.)

If you're going to lob rocks at people, though – and particularly if you're going to lob jagged ones at me – you'd be better off aiming at heads rather than rectal regions and to ensure that the greenhouse from which you do so is not paned with conspicuously untempered glass.

Because your posterior would seem to be where your own brain is located. :rolleyes:


I suggest that everyone now returns to the actual topic of the thread. :cool:

robt_2

And Leopard ruined another topic with fanboy views.

Leopard

robt wrote: »

And Leopard ruined another topic with fanboy views.

It was disrupted (but not "ruined") by those who used a simple (on-topic) observation of mine to pursue their personal agendas which have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

(An agenda which you share and which you have just used to ruin again the opportunity I suggested for everyone now to return to the topic of the thread.)

Marty_J

zenmaster wrote: »

Silly me! Of course OP might have meant Norton AV for OS X or Ubuntu but I just didn't think of that.

You mean this?

It's just as awful on the Mac as it is on the PC if it makes you feel any better.

chunter

Not wishing to stir the pot, but surely the OP was on about Antivirus software for Windows.

And to say, burn the house down & buy an Atari or an Apple or whatever its called, is simply ridiculous.

Methinks the cat has more chips than most people get on a Friday evening...

Marty_J

chunter wrote: »

And to say, burn the house down & buy an Atari or an Apple or whatever its called, is simply ridiculous.

As Leopard has already pointed out, he was offering an observation, not advice.