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If your looking for free.....
1) Avast(the best IMO)
2) AntiVir
3) AVG
1) Avast(the best IMO)
2) AntiVir
3) AVG
Go get the free version of malwarebytes, let it update & run. let it remove everything it finds. Never seen it to have a false positive yet. For rootkits, gmer is awesome.
O.K. here is my Smart Ass remark. If you were using a properly designed Operating System, then you would not have to use any sort of Anti-Virus software. The fact that you have to add this software, and probably pay a yearly registration fee to boot, indicates that the underlying operating system is flawed to begin with. How many OS-X (Mac) or Linux users have these sorts of problems?
Microsoft, was so affective at keeping competition out of the Marketplace by breaking numerous anti-trust laws, that no one was the wiser regarding other options. I would say that Desktop versions of Linux are very usable at this point. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop.
if mac was the most popular OS you can bet there would a lot of viruses targetted towards it but since its such a small % that use anything but windows it simply makes no sense to spend time targetting others. Its not that mac is a superior OS. linux might be but its not something the average user can run.O.K. here is my Smart Ass remark. If you were using a properly designed Operating System, then you would not have to use any sort of Anti-Virus software. The fact that you have to add this software, and probably pay a yearly registration fee to boot, indicates that the underlying operating system is flawed to begin with. How many OS-X (Mac) or Linux users have these sorts of problems?
Microsoft, was so affective at keeping competition out of the Marketplace by breaking numerous anti-trust laws, that no one was the wiser regarding other options. I would say that Desktop versions of Linux are very usable at this point. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop.
if mac was the most popular OS you can bet there would a lot of viruses targetted towards it but since its such a small % that use anything but windows it simply makes no sense to spend time targetting others. Its not that mac is a superior OS. linux might be but its not something the average user can run.
spot on
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