2011-10-16, 08:10
MSE Free...... Kasperski Paid
Livin Wrote:... funniest part is.....
Livin Wrote:50k - not even close to accurate...
FishOil Wrote:Sorry you're right and I was wrong. There I just admitted it.
I did some quick research and it appears I vastly underestimated the windows vulnerabilities. Man...... you gotta really be wishing for that new education right now. Call the local school board and see if they let a 16 year old into third grade.
Quote:I went for many years without running anti virus on any of my home Windows machines. Did I get a virus... about once every 2 years. Did I lose any data... never. Did I ever need to reformat and start over... never.Ditto. Don't run AV on my Windows XP machine (my primary machine).
I also did not click on spam links or allow 3rd party scripts to run.
Quote:Well the biggest Anti Virus for me is Common Sense...Exactly.
waldo22 Wrote:Ditto. Don't run AV on my Windows XP machine (my primary machine).
Exactly.
I guess if you have to run something, run Microsoft Security Essentials.
Less bloat, less resources.
Beer40oz Wrote:On Microsoft Security Essentials do all the OS Updates have to be there? or it does not matter?
I am trying it now... it turned on my Automatic Updates.... I don't like that so I disabled the Automatic Updates.
Livin Wrote:ignorance is bliss...+1, however doesnt ms release patches like once a month. open source patches are usually nightly builds (multiple times a day sometimes like xbmc).
Linux reported vulnerabilities according to National Vulnerability Database, 2011 YTD = 212
of those 69 are the highest severity rating
all OSes have vulnerabilities, period. Windows has the highest # reported and fixes are published way faster too...