How often does you AV save you from an infection?

[Mercurial]

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.

 

[zigzag3143]

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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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[ten]

It's not that bad. I haven't run AV since 1996 and have only been infected twice.

 

[Cindy]

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 )

 

[Mercurial]

sadly all that popups when downloading something gets annoying after awhile

 

[edrik]

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.

 

[ten]

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 )

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.

 

[Antman]

Never.