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I like anecdote time!

When I was very young I had this job where I would go to people's houses to repair their computers. What I would often find would be computers so slow to the point of being unusable. After a few months I'd realized there were only two scenarios here:

- Computer full of spyware. CleanUp / Restore and anti-spyware + anti-virus installation would often work wonders for the customers.

- Computer running Panda Antivirus. Uninstalling Panda and installing Avast would always work wonders for the customers. Best thing was when they've asked how I solved their problem so quickly and I replied "uninstalling Panda". "But I paid for it" would be their response, to which I would follow up with a "call them and get a refund".

Anti-virus, what an interesting industry!



The funny thing is that Avast which used to be my go to choice for the past 5-7 years has gotten quite bloated and intrusive as well.

They even bought/merged with AVG which was quite annoying 10 years ago.

So MSE it is for friends/relatives.

I miss the days when one could run the virus scanner once a month and not have it always be on.

In fact some of my Win7 computers behind NAT I run without any active anti-virus.




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