Why We Won’t Trust Windows Defender We’ve been reading with some interest of the U.S. government’s increased scrutiny of Russian-owned Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky, as you may know make antivirus & security software. Kaspersky is being investigated by the FBI, CIA and NSA because of its ties to the Russian government. Kaspersky, on the other hand,… Read More »
Bob’s antivirus program gave us a bad rating My anti-Virus gave you a very bad rating. I will try to correct that rating with them. Maybe you should do the same. Trend Micro Titanium is the ant-virus. Love you guys. You’ve been only helpful to me. Bob Our answer Thanks for your nice comments, Bob.… Read More »
Ted wants to know about Bullguard I have a friend who owns a computer repair shop near me, and I’ve always trusted his advice (not as much as yours though). He said that he didn’t think very highly of Microsoft Security Essentials – he doesn’t think very highly of Microsoft in general. He recommended Bullguard… Read More »
For years now, we’ve featured Trend Micro’s “Housecall” as our recommended online virus and spyware scanner. We’ve always encouraged you to run it once a week to double-check your installed anti-virus and anti-spyware programs to make sure they haven’t missed anything. And, we still recommend Housecall as a free online scanner. But, we thought you… Read More »
Harold asks about AVG I have MacAfee in my PC now I was going to renew it but the price is very high, I intend to use AVG but after reading this now I have my doubts but I would like some input about AVG. Our answer AVG as well as most antivirus programs with… Read More »
We’ve been recommending Microsoft Security Essentials for quite a while now. Last week we were besieged by folks who’d read an article in another newsletter which bashed MSE – basically saying it offered very poor protection. By the number of emails we received, it appeared that this article got a lot of attention. We mention… Read More »