Free Antivirus?

nullogik

superscaper wrote: »

Pretty difficult for me as an individual to test for how good it's prevention and detection are without deliberately or by chance exposing my pc to a virus.

Good point!

Thanks for taking the time to reply. My Kaspersky license is up soon, so NOD32 might be getting my money, it all depends on how I (or rather my system) likes Kaspersky v7.

superscaper

nullogik wrote: »

Good point!

Thanks for taking the time to reply. My Kaspersky license is up soon, so NOD32 might be getting my money, it all depends on how I (or rather my system) likes Kaspersky v7.

Well thought I'd take the plunge, always difficult proving the non existence of something. Reminds me of the correlation logic fallacy, paraphrasing Lisa Simpson, I could say I've got a tiger repelling rock. I see no tigers so the rock really must be working well as a tiger repellant. Just because I don't get a virus does that mean my antivirus app is working well or would I not have got one anyway under the same circumstances? Especially after reading an article about there not being a need for AV software at all if you're a safe browser and have a decent firewall and even then an infection isn't the worst thing in the world and is relatively simple to sort out (Luis Q&A in PC Format, July issue I think).