New 'Protect Your PC For Free: No-cost Anti-Virus and Other Software' discussion

Jake'sGran

fiddiwebb wrote: »

but Avast keeps telling me in it's loud American voice that it's "been updated"

Ha! wait till Avast starts using Brian Blessed's voice, then the Yanks will know who is bigger and louder

I presume you update Avast and Malwarebytes and run regular scans?

I have the free Avast too but, for a few weeks now, every time I start my computer, I get a large - almost fills the screen - popup from Avast telling me my free version is about to expire and I should buy the full version. Has anyone else seen this?

While I am on the Techie section I will just mention once again that I am really cheesed of with cursor moving to different places and text going with it. I have a separate mouse and have searched endlessly on Sony's site and others about deactivating the touch plate but no joy so far. Even in Control Panel there is no reference to the touch panel on this VA10. They only refer to "the mouse".

closed

avira or avast? avira free has always had the popup.

if avast - re-register it.

don't touch the touchpad or disable in bios if it allows it.

PaulHUK

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Just as a sidenote. Does this mean everything will have a higher ping rate too? (Anything thats scanned will surely higher the ping rate)

Why would that be? (Excuse my ignorance!)

PaulHUK

23n1th wrote: »

It would definitely delay web browsing as all traffic is going through a middleman.

I would imagine Talk talk are trying to do what opera mini has done. However whereas opera minis main function is to improve speed with the user data as an added bonus. Talk Talk are just interested in the user data and can only think of "security" as a way of scaring people into using it.

That's what I'm thinking is happening...

23n1th wrote: »

I wouldn't touch it. Sounds like Talk Talk are trying to track what you do on the internet to make money. No Thanks I'll keep my privacy.

I agree. Of course, what people get if they say what you just said is this: What have you got to hide? Must be paranoid or you are up to no-good? Utter rubbish of course.

How do people go about putting a stop to this before TalkTalk and Symantec/Huawei manages to get it off the ground? They have so many customers so does a few leaving make a real difference, What about complaining to authorities because it should surely be ilegal!!!!

aliEnRIK

PaulHUK wrote: »

Why would that be? (Excuse my ignorance!)

Simple maths

broadband with no scanning = x ms
broadband with scanning = x + y ms

GunJack

PaulHUK wrote: »

Why would that be? (Excuse my ignorance!)

as RIK said above, any extra scanning increases ping time. Some may remember I ran a few trials on my setup, where MSE caused highest ping, avast lower, and avira lowest - hence I use avira even though I do like avast, the ping times were the decider.

And if symantec have anything to do with the TT scanner....we're doomed :mad:

PaulHUK

GunJack wrote: »

as RIK said above, any extra scanning increases ping time. Some may remember I ran a few trials on my setup, where MSE caused highest ping, avast lower, and avira lowest - hence I use avira even though I do like avast, the ping times were the decider.

And if symantec have anything to do with the TT scanner....we're doomed :mad:

Thanks for the explanation RIK.

Yes looks like symantec are connected with the Talk Talk scanner thing. Doomed as you say? Hope so!!!

The symantec link is not the only one. On that discussing thread at the Talk Talk member forum, someone has pointed out that the china company Huawei had a website page where they were showing a link with Phorm.

So Phorm was a disgraced company in this country (google company name and you see the details) and Symantec are now indirectly linked in some way with Talk Talk through Huawei. Talk Talk did toy with the idea of using Phorm but never apparently used their system in the past.

I wonder if any talk talk customers have tried reporting the talk talk activity to their police as yet. They could have a point because it seems to be an inteception of communication without a warrant and without consent by the talk talk customers. :eek::eek::eek:

aliEnRIK

GunJack wrote: »

as RIK said above, any extra scanning increases ping time. Some may remember I ran a few trials on my setup, where MSE caused highest ping, avast lower, and avira lowest - hence I use avira even though I do like avast, the ping times were the decider.

And if symantec have anything to do with the TT scanner....we're doomed :mad:

A member on here changed from AVG to AVAST and the overall download rate dropped from 12MB/s to around 8Mb/s!

dougz_2

The version of Agnitum Outpost Firewall Free 2009 linked in this article looks to be old and unsupported, but their latest free version 7 is a suite also including an antivirus, see http://free.agnitum.com/. Has anyone tried this free suite, and how does it compare to the old free 2009 version firewall, and the other free antivirus available like avira etc?

Senator

i've the free 'Avast! FREE ANTIVIRUS' and 'SUPERAntiSpyware'. Can i shop and bank online safely or do i need an internet security software that you have to pay?
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