![]() ![]() Life is too short, unless you get paid for doing this So far, Kaspersky has been fine.Īnd yes, on one occassion I had to reformat the whole hard drive, after the damn thing totally trashed it. It's getting better as the years go by, and as almost everybody moves over to XP and M$ Office (and very little else). AV s/w is known for all kinds of weird stuff like that. This malware is capable of compromising the privacy of the user by stealing security credentials and sensitive information of the cellular technology. A problem with Norton AV, for years, used to be that if the document was password protected, the AV s/w would wait for you to enter the pwd (otherwise it could not check the document) but the box where you entered the pwd was covered up by something else which the AV s/w put up, something like "checking document for viruses". I give you one example: typical AV software checks every Word doc you open, for (typically macro) viruses. Some of these hooks are going to be undocumented and not authorised by Micro$oft. In addition to Avast Pro Antivirus, Avast Software also offers a free version of the program. AV software, to be effective, has to hook into various places deep inside Windoze. ![]()
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