Do You Use Avast Anti-Virus?

[FusRoDah]

Only some occasional pop-ups. But Avast is free and best Antivirus, So I can live with that.

 

I wouldn't even use another Antivirus even if they payed me.

[thesapien]

Because everybody knows you can ONLY get a computer virus when looking at porn' date=' right?

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Or whenever caution goes out the window. Like I said before in this thread, I've been surfing the web since there was an internet to surf and have rarely used antivirus software beyond firewalls. Yet I can only remember being infected once, maybe twice (but not sure but am throwing in a 2nd case by chance I just forgot about it or my memory is blurring two separate cases into one).

That's what people tell you so you'll be too scared to look at porn. Sort of like how people tell their kids masturbating will give you hairy palms and make you go blind XD

Then how else are you letting your guard down enough to get infected? I'm just wondering what people are doing to get infected and why they then feel the need to use a 3rd party antivirus. I just like to run with the latest OS with its updates and stick with the browsers with the best tracks records at the time, like Chrome or Firefox with plugins, today. My email is always set to text only so only after I deem something safe do I click to open it further. Stuff like that has worked well for me. Saves a lot on lag and processing time to not have antivirus running and checking everything I do.

[creeposaurus]

There's lots of ways. Mostly out of stupidity. Trojans from downloading freeware carelessly, bad torrents, opening attachments from random emails, etc.

 

Antivirus programs are mostly for people who like to takes risks and scour every corner of the web, people that aren't really tech-savvy, and people who believe that viruses manifest themselves into your system out of thin air.

[Mashi]

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Antivirus programs are mostly for people who like to takes risks and scour every corner of the web' date=' people that aren't really tech-savvy, and people who believe that viruses manifest themselves into your system out of thin air.

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Yeah that's not really true. Most infection vectors these days are from 0-day vulnerabilities in javascript and flash. And the biggest points of attack are via facebook, and normal websites(financial/news/information/gossips/gaming) that use standard adhosts/servers pushing out bad ads that aren't checked, or look clean. Notice how flash has pushed really hard for an automated no-user input system to update? That's because it's become so much of a problem, they want to roll out updates as quickly as possible to as many people as possible.

 

Our company just saw this on our internet enabled network. Luckily all of our acad machines run on their own network that's not connected to the net.

[thesapien]

Maybe I'm just lucky. Even when I get paranoid and load up a few antivirus programs to scan, I never catch anything good.

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

In about the 13 years I've been using the Internet, I've found maybe 10 virus infections on my machines. All caused by exploits in older versions of Java and Flash.

 

I swear, if not for the fact so many damn things require them, I'd just disable them both and live computer virus free for the rest of my life.

[thesapien]

That reminds me of a competition a couple of years ago with teams trying to hack various browsers in windows vista and apple os-x. I seem to remember that they quickly hacked into os-x on the first day but could only get into vista after Adobe products were installed.

[adrenaline]

That reminds me of a competition a couple of years ago with teams trying to hack various browsers in windows vista and apple os-x. I seem to remember that they quickly hacked into os-x on the first day but could only get into vista after Adobe products were installed.

 

I really hate Adobe, especially the annoying flash player. It always force people to update and never stop it.