Your AntiVirus

[GENIUS]

lol @ Comet

:facepalm: getting a Mac doesn't mean anything it's just slightly harder to get attacked, but you should get an antivirus

see what I mean, Ewan? :>

Ewan free AVG or paid?

 

[Comet]

lol @ Comet

:facepalm: getting a Mac doesn't mean anything it's just slightly harder to get attacked, but you should get an antivirus

see what I mean, Ewan? :>

Ewan free AVG or paid?

I never said I was invincible. But from what I have known, Macs only really get Trojans.

 

[Ewan]

LOL, we were just discussing it in the other thread

Free version.

 

[м¢ℓσνιη]

Do you have 2 anti-viruse programs running at the same time?

No, because they would both conflict.

 

[Ewan]

I never said I was invincible. But from what I have known, Macs only really get Trojans.

Not exactly true. EXE programs that contain or unpackage viruses can still harm your system. I'd get something just to be safe.

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No, because they would both conflict.

That's exactly what I was going to tell Genius. A lot of people, myself included at one point have made that mistake.

 

[GENIUS]

No, because they would both conflict.

Yeah I remember I had AVG and Norton running at the same time and it fucked my computer till I had to go in Safe mode and remove one (Norton) >_<

 

[м¢ℓσνιη]

That's exactly what I was going to tell Genius. A lot of people, myself included at one point have made that mistake.

Well, in fact you can, but you have to configure them that they will not be able to conflict with each other. It's better thought to have one.

 

[Ewan]

Well, in fact you can, but you have to configure them that they will not be able to conflict with each other. It's better thought to have one.

Yeah. I find it fine just to use one unless you need one to cover features that your main one doesn't offer.

 

[Comet]

Not exactly true. EXE programs that contain or unpackage viruses can still harm your system. I'd get something just to be safe.

I thought Mac's were incompatible with .exe?

 

[Ewan]

I thought Mac's were incompatible with .exe?

Sorry, or what ever type of file extension Mac's support for self executable programs.

 

[м¢ℓσνιη]

I thought Mac's were incompatible with .exe?

No they can still use .exe

 

[Comet]

No they can still use .exe

Well every program that I download as .exe doesn't run, it just opens up a notepad with a bunch of random ass non-english letters.

 

[Ewan]

Do Mac's have some other type of file extension for executable programs?

 

[Comet]

Do Mac's have some other type of file extension for executable programs?

They run .jar

Windows runs .exe

 

[Ewan]

They run .jar

Windows runs .exe

Ah, ok. Well .jar files can contain viruses then.

 

[Effexion]

It is pointless using an anti virus IMHO. A lot of the stuff that is backdoored is crypted, and a lot of stuff reports false positives so it's ignored anyhow.

 

[E.T.]

I like my AVG 2012, but I also use Malware Bytes. Both great and reliable programs.

 

[Aggie]

I use that AVG 2013. Its truly the best out.

 

[Tempah]

AVG 2012
Considering just switching to Malware bytes and or something else, AVG is just slowing my computer down horribly.