McAfee DIDN'T protect me
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McAfee DIDN'T protect me
14-04-2011 12:42 PM
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Just a thought I wonder if plusnet will refund what I have paid to clear these problems which wouldn't have arisen had I not installed their useless internet security.
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14-04-2011 12:51 PM
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I doubt that very much, You must be visiting awful sites.
Quote from: vikingman Just a thought I wonder if plusnet will refund what I have paid to clear these problems which wouldn't have arisen had I not installed their useless internet security.
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14-04-2011 12:55 PM
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also you will need to have proof of repairs and statments from who repaired it to say it was virus related
plus i'm not sure what the T&Cs are on using it
if they are even liable.
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14-04-2011 12:58 PM
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In that entire time of many years of using Windows, I only once for certain got a virus, and suspected I had a virus on perhaps half a dozen other occasions.
I think your own behaviour (or that of other users of the computer) are by far a bigger factor here than the anti-virus software you use.
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14-04-2011 1:30 PM
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A lot of the free AVs (Avast, AVG, etc) perform just as good if not better than many of the paid for ones.
I use AVG, Malwarebytes, AdAware, Defender and Spybot S& D.
I have never had a virus, trojan, etc. infect any of my PC as they have always been found and deleted first.
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Re: McAfee DIDN'T protect me
14-04-2011 1:42 PM
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14-04-2011 3:02 PM
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Quote from: Steve ... run your browser In a sand boxed environment.
Steve M is using jargon. In Windows terms the best thing to do in order to follow his advice would be to create a new user account, make it a Limited rather than an Administrator account, and use that specifically for web browsing.
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14-04-2011 3:04 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_%28computer_security%29
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14-04-2011 3:12 PM
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I'm not sure what level of sandboxing technology Windows supports these days, but if you really need to surf dodgy websites best to do it inside a Virtual PC or VirtualBox installation of Windows. Take a snapshot before browsing, when finished, roll back to the snapshot, that way your virtual machine (aka Sandbox) will remain clean itself.
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14-04-2011 3:22 PM
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Unfortunately no anti-virus software can be 100% effective, they are all 'best effort' services and try to stay on top of any new threats detected in the wild.
As others on here have alluded to, even with anti-virus software installed you need to take caution on the Internet as there are more than just virii out there (malware etc).
Snippet from the end user license agreement you are presented with before downloading the software:
[quote=EULA]MCAFEE MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL PROTECT AGAINST ALL POSSIBLE THREATS OR BE ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM INTERRUPTIONS OR OTHER FAILURES OR THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS.
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14-04-2011 3:32 PM
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14-04-2011 3:37 PM
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14-04-2011 3:39 PM
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14-04-2011 3:49 PM
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