Anti virus

[Mike Rogers]

I use the free one compliments of my internet provider Plusnet.

Mike

[Jethro_uk]

Get Linux ?

[Tim Lamb]

Hmm.. I have my business account with them! I'll have a look. Ta.

[Tim Lamb]

Not seen one from John Lewis but I'll have a dig round their site. Ta.

[Tim Lamb]

You missed the *technical competence* comment:-)

[Andy Burns]

which isn't an anti-virus.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Nah?

If you have someone install it for you, or talk you through simple steps, no technical competence necessary, certainly for day to day web surfing, word processing and writing emails.

Try it on some old hardware, you really won't look back, or have to worry much about viruses.

£45 gets you a decent Corei3 Lenovo M72e paperback sized PC from eBay which I'd prefer over a Raspberry Pi any day of the week.

Or pay a little more and get Windows 10 Pro on that.

[Tim Streater]

Well he should steer clear of Windows. That's what created the OP's problem in the first place.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Go back to the Microsoft inbuilt one and occasionally manually run something like malwarebytes or superantispyware.

I do not, personally think that there is any such thing as a perfect anti virus program that you can run that will not slow your machine down get in the way of doing things, and be worth what you pay for it. I do not see any company suggesting that merely paying for their product if you get infected they will cover your losses from any infection you get. Like with anything, the internet is full of chancers and some infect your machine or scam you the rest sell anti virus software. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

I still get virus updates for windows 7 from Microsoft. but from experience on xp, when the day comes they stop supporting their anti virus, there seems very little to worry about on a modern router, you get some pretty decent drive by protection and the main thing in the anti virus fight is to not do stupid things like visit unknown sites directly, use start pages proxy thingy to view it first. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

That is only software updates, not so for anti virus updates. The only reason xp has no security essentials updates is due to the redesign of the engine, which cannot use the old updates, at least that is what the errors imply, but as I say, my router seems to be protecting things including the phone and Amazon devices and the tv, according to the blurb, but of course a lot of the virus stuff is hype, since its using strange wifi connections outside your own or visiting dodgy hacked sites and responding to phishing emails that is the biggest issue. They rely on there being at least some unwary people who know nothing about computers to do their dirty deeds. I mean unless you run a business, even ransom ware can be just ignored, reformat and put back a back up from before the infection. Its annoying, but its companies they are mainly after.

Brian

[Andy Burns]

I thought MSE updates were supposed to stop in 2020, but it seems not

But it seems you can't install MSE on Win7 if you haven't got it already.

[Peter Johnson]

+1 (In a similar situation to the OP's a few years ago I switched to the MS equivalent and have had no problems or issues. And it kicked in the couple of times that I clicked on something I shouldn't.)

[Tim Lamb]

In message [e-mail], Peter Johnson [e-mail] writes

I am still counting down the threatened cut off days.. however, this morning there was an update waiting installation and they seem to have stopped the threats! Still getting the inadequate security advice and offers to solve all my potential problems:-)