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Title: Anti virous programme
Post by: Tony H on 15 September 2015, 16:29:41

H all can anyone recommend a free anti virous programme.Its for an old tower computer thats running on Windows XP I use this machine very infrequently just as a back up.

Tia

Tony

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: STEMO on 15 September 2015, 16:46:16

Quote from: Tony H on 15 September 2015, 16:29:41

H all can anyone recommend a free anti virous programme.Its for an old tower computer thats running on Windows XP I use this machine very infrequently just as a back up.

Tia

Tony

Ooooops....wrong button  ;D

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: al brown on 15 September 2015, 19:57:59

I have used avast for years, never had a problem with it and it updates definitions every day. Do get some pop ups from them now and again asking if I want to buy the pro package but that's the worst of it.
Al

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: STEMO on 15 September 2015, 19:59:35

AVG, avast, both resource-hungry bloatware, but if it's only a backup computer.......

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: al brown on 15 September 2015, 20:14:32

OK, can't say I've noticed an issue, was much happier with avast than the Norton the computer came with.
Will wait and see what suggestions othes  come up with for free anti virus that is hopefully less of a draft on the system.

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: omega2018 on 17 September 2015, 00:02:49

microsoft security essentials.  free, basic, doesn't try and sell you stuff all the time, always compatible with windows unlike market leaders like kaspersky sometimes (apologised last time and gave me a refund)

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 17 September 2015, 11:33:18

MSE here to  :y

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: zirk on 17 September 2015, 14:06:06

Yep here too, MSE in the background and a full blown scan of Malwarebytes once a week.  ;)

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: TheBoy on 17 September 2015, 18:28:00

MSE is good enough, but will always show as vulnerable on XP due to the OS being EOSL'd

Title: Re: Anti virous programme
Post by: omega2018 on 19 September 2015, 21:58:24

Quote from: zirk on 17 September 2015, 14:06:06

Yep here too, MSE in the background and a full blown scan of Malwarebytes once a week.  ;)

agree malwarebytes is great and seems ok on top of MSE