How often does you AV save you from an infection?

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  1. Mercurial
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    Windows 7 32bit RTM
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    TechOutsider said:
    Have been running a netbook on public, free, and unsecured wifi for a month w/o any real-time AV (no infections). Hint: online scanners.
    what happens if you get infected so badly you can't even access online scanner sites :)? and believe me that happens.... oh not today... but someday if you keep that up lol.
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  3. zigzag3143
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    TechOutsider said:
    Have been running a netbook on public, free, and unsecured wifi for a month w/o any real-time AV (no infections). Hint: online scanners.
    the average time before being infected is dropping from 15 mins, to a little under 5

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  4. ten
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    It's not that bad. I haven't run AV since 1996 and have only been infected twice.
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  6. Cindy
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    My Antivirus informs me of anything as I'm downloading and gives me options as what i want my AV to do, mine is retail and to me worth it as i download a lot ! (all legal stuff of course )




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  7. Mercurial
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    sadly all that popups when downloading something gets annoying after awhile :)
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  8. edrik
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    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
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    My Kaspersky Internet Security hasn't let me down yet :)

    I have not had an infection since I was in XP (I think I was using avast back then.)

    Only drawback from Kaspersky is it eats a lot of system resources so it's not advisable on slow systems.
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  10. ten
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    Cindy said:
    My Antivirus informs me of anything as I'm downloading and gives me options as what i want my AV to do, mine is retail and to me worth it as i download a lot ! (all legal stuff of course )
    edrik said:
    My Kaspersky Internet Security hasn't let me down yet :)

    I have not had an infection since I was in XP (I think I was using avast back then.)

    Only drawback from Kaspersky is it eats a lot of system resources so it's not advisable on slow systems.
    Glad to hear that but that wasn't the question.
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  11. Antman
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       New #28

    Never.
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