Free Virus Protection

Farel01

pineapple wrote: »

Good idea thanks. I've no idea why everyone doesn't use sandboxie. It's free and you don't have to be a technical guru to install/use it. I'm certainly not!

Reason one; their website looks like they've html'ed it together in notepad and looks like you're downloading dodgy software. Why developers seem to be unable to create professional websites is beyond me. And it's not free software, why not spend a few of those hard earned Euros to get it done?!

cynicalgit_2

Buy a Mac and you want have to worry about it.

forgotmyname

I would rather have a free AV than something like McAfee that some banks give you.

Buy a Mac... Yeah because they dont have security flaws do they..

Uxb

Farel01 wrote: »

Reason one; their website looks like they've html'ed it together in notepad and looks like you're downloading dodgy software. Why developers seem to be unable to create professional websites is beyond me. And it's not free software, why not spend a few of those hard earned Euros to get it done?!

I find this thread a laugh
Here we have Sandboxie costing Euro15 per year PER computer which is said to be wonderful.
At the same time we have anyone who so much as thinks of paying around £20 per year an anti-virus internet security suite generally sold as for up to THREE computers described as totally off their heads and wasting their money. (so that is £20 divided by 3 computers divided by 365 days per year to give a running cost of 1.8 pence per day per computer.)

aerostar

Farel01 wrote: »

And it's not free software,

It is free - you just get a 5 second delay on startup for the free version

cynicalgit_2

forgotmyname wrote: »

I would rather have a free AV than something like McAfee that some banks give you.

Buy a Mac... Yeah because they dont have security flaws do they..

If you owned one then you might understand.
Have both so I know what I'm talking about.

Gillor

Uxb wrote: »

.... £20 per year an anti-virus internet security suite generally sold as for up to THREE computers ...

A full security suite for three computers for 20 quid? Sounds too good to be true. Which one?

pineapple

Farel01 wrote: »

And it's not free software

Wrong. As with many products you can choose whether to upgrade/donate. I choose not to. Free users have a pop up with a 5 second delay when they click to connect. The pop up reminds you that paid users don't get the pop up. But if you are OK with that, it is free.
For as long as you want.
Check your facts.

forgotmyname

cynicalgit wrote: »

If you owned one then you might understand.
Have both so I know what I'm talking about.

Going back the Mac Classic's there have always been virus files out there.

I worked in a print shop and we had to throw away all artwork discs that were sent out because they all came back infected.

Bit of an overkill, But one shop lost a lot of data, So my manager said not to reuse them just in case.

Going back a few years, (i dont take much notice these days) Apple had more security updates than Microsoft.
Several months running..

They are not immune.. Crippled and Locked down yes they are safer than a PC where you can do what you want not what a compant want you to do.

Farel01

pineapple wrote: »

Wrong. As with many products you can choose whether to upgrade/donate. I choose not to. Free users have a pop up with a 5 second delay when they click to connect. The pop up reminds you that paid users don't get the pop up. But if you are OK with that, it is free.
For as long as you want.
Check your facts.

I meant it is not solely a free product, some users that appreciate the functionality and the work that it requires to create and upkeep this kind of software probably pay for it.