From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar03.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar03.coxmail.com [68.99.120.44]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92751EF08B for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 04:35:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dukecmimpo02.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.135]) by dukecmmtar03.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.8.01.05.06 201-2260-151-112-20120208) with ESMTP id <20130513083510.LXWR13174.dukecmmtar03.coxmail.com@dukecmimpo02.coxmail.com> for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 04:35:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.102] ([70.166.17.50]) by dukecmimpo02.coxmail.com with bizsmtp id bLbA1l00214oyBJ01LbAol; Mon, 13 May 2013 04:35:10 -0400 Message-ID: <5190A5BC.6040904@baechler.net> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 01:35:08 -0700 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Windows bashing was: Re: Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux References: <20130509193744.GJ2324@bmcginty.hopto.org> <518C29C9.90704@gmail.com> <518C2BCC.3010003@tysdomain.com> <518C342E.5020604@gmail.com> <518C4546.9040204@tysdomain.com> <518CF3D1.4030701@baechler.net> <518D0014.7010600@tysdomain.com> <518DFD9C.1010904@baechler.net> <20130512003512.GA21879@gregn.net> <518F53D3.5010100@baechler.net> <20130512192506.GA28732@gregn.net> In-Reply-To: <20130512192506.GA28732@gregn.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 08:35:15 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 5/12/2013 12:25 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I'm just curious, where are you getting these various recommendations > from? Word of mouth, or one or more sites? If sites, which ones? https://www.techsupportalert.com/security-wizard-infection-check.htm > > I had a look at: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software > > and it seems that MSE doesn't provide boot time scanning, and web > protection. While AVG doesn't provide as much as other scanners, it > does provide those two. That, along with the fact that I haven't had > problems with AVG so far would still prompt me to choose it over MSE, > but that's just my personal choice of course. I read from a site now gone (the Langa List) that several months went by with no AVG updates and no word as to why. I clearly remember registering AVG before it would run. It was free of charge but required a yearly renewal. I think I had to give them an email address for an unlock code, but I could be misremembering that part. This was all several years ago. I used Avast once and didn't like it, but I don't recall it requiring registration. Nod32 has been recommended several times by GW Micro and you can search the gw-info list archives. I used to have good luck with Norton Antivirus as far as accessibility but now Norton Internet Security has a totally different interface and I couldn't use it at all. After I installed ClamWin and was determining whether to dump AVG and switch to ClamWin as my primary virus scanner, I did a full system scan. What's interesting about that is how much less resources ClamWin used. It found about a dozen viruses totally missed by AVG. They were not active. They were email attachments which I didn't open and Eudora had saved before I switched to Thunderbird. > > Yes, AVG is free for personal use, but not for business. It's been this > way since I started using it in the 6.x days: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG_(software)#Versions_for_Windows_desktop_clients > > If there's a nominal fee, I'm not aware of it. I'm using it just > fine, and haven't been asked once by AVG for a credit card number. No, not for personal use. I wasn't asked either, but I'm pretty sure it showed an ad to upgrade to the pro version. I don't think the pro version is still around as I don't see it mentioned anywhere. > > From what I know, avast requires one to register, even though it's > free. Nothing wrong with that, but if I have to choose between free > alternatives which require me to register, and those that don't, I'll > naturally go with those that don't, as long as they work for me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRkKW8AAoJEPrAuJWnLe0ywJMQAKuHbC76Ky+4iWvgKaBdKxo0 8/vsutNKODxxDMXs/Ji1ZTZn5dsqvfVwgkMjCtNktG+iDBuCLnJc0z66nIWuQ8dl GlU8xZLE2FsOi47C1qE33RZHWae4mAOmQ0Ud5LxS4ZqpgclBGnfSiEJ4DTnTU6R0 DMAtCQZJD0G3rnPoegZZ2NcDvnrWCUBJcgmFnv9SUZCN5DKyYWqqORA9EH6Gt9vJ kBQ3Nly97rmpUejauPLE2K2Np7uLPRgKJSc6TRenlnA98uVAFQ0rv7z4fr3pU+Sv +/Ii18QDfi1qJh4FYJxXqPyIJniCpSoAEc6IprtAkoWwVVmdzNTU7sqmIDHNGLna pkB+k/A4PcWNljN5oqglv/URAxWMC8nec0Ndmk5n7ofWOsl993mfvZ94E4sdjJ5H 9q4PVNpZ+Jqhee20AHh4t47w8aqIPrh0elMoqT7ZYeI2U44MLdvS+vbSv3lpQqiU d9gVvIOnAPfoYgYZxZPiZvDjtdSfJqhqxvtJ3Yq688hMjnyGfpHKBY71+RznxwTg IIACnKDAd5uGaJzF8VQMh/RRoQeBRs1HAw6kzhCWy5O1wwZdfjM4Df69c04vFoOa HXGl1rQsswTyT8n9/v1X7eXzXBDFyN5L6oCgnDGvg1opQW7AXYMNQfv8HG/jGNoX sA9mmYh834wNoNyWqqmJ =qv3u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----