On 1/30/2015 7:20 PM, Mayayana wrote:
You don't say what "accounts and settings is. It
looks like settings for a cellphone. given what you
said about AV I'd assumed you were talking about
Windows.

A couple of thoughts:

* I'd agree about avoiding anything from Symantec.
It's all bloated junk. Avira causes too many false
positives. I've installed Avast for friends, as the lesser
of the evils. Personally I don't use AV and would never
use Malwarebytes. It's not that I don't think people
should use them. It's just that they take a lot of
resources and don't work very well. The whole idea is
outdated. But for people who don't know how to protect
from malware, AV is better than nothing.

A great many users fall into the trap of renewing their Norton or McAfee
"protection" every year and then get very defensive when it's pointed
out that equivalent, or better, protection is easily available for lower
cost, or free. McAfee actually scores pretty well in independent tests.
The independent test labs no longer test Symantec because there is no
longer a standalone Norton Anti-Virus program.

See: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2c2817%2c2372364%2c00.asp and
http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/avc_sum_201412_en.pdf


I recall having to get my late mother off of Norton. She had renewed it
and Symantec was not recognizing the renewal ever though she would call
them and read them whatever confirmation they had sent. She asked me to
go over there to talk to them, since at the time I could see their
headquarters from my back yard (they have since moved). I explained to
her that no one there would be able to do anything.

Malwarebytes seems to use very few resources except when it's doing an
actual scan (which in the paid version you can schedule).