[Ask the Gulch] I hate Avast. Webroot is billing me twice for the same product I just paid for. McAfee and all the others loser programs that used to be good are out of the question. Any decent virus protection programs that are run and marketed honestly? - Page 2 - Galt's Gulch

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[Ask the Gulch] I hate Avast. Webroot is billing me twice for the same product I just paid for. McAfee and all the others loser programs that used to be good are out of the question. Any decent virus protection programs that are run and marketed honestly?

Posted by MichaelAarethun 10 years, 6 months ago to Ask the Gulch

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Posted by Hawron 10 years, 6 months ago

Product function aside, if you are looking for "good business ethics" or no catch billing etc.
The answer is all of them pretty much are lying snakes.
Do a web search for complaints on any of them.

The way to avoid it, is never give them payment info, buy a boxed product from Amazon or a local store, then all is good.

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Posted by Snezzy 10 years, 6 months ago

Some people simply run Linux. No such worries at all.

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  Posted by jsw225 10 years, 6 months ago
  
  Viruses are created for the most popular markets. One of the selling points of old Apply / Mac was that there weren't any viruses. So people flocked to those computers. Now that they are gathering a larger market share, there are now viruses for those OS's.
  
  So, if more people start using linux, there will start to be viruses for it.
  
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Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 6 months ago

Avast began to crash windows to BSD on my laptop about 6 months ago. Then the same thing happened on another laptop. Avast was not responsive. I switched to Avira (free.) So far so good.

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