We continue to recommend Microsoft Security Essentials and we continue to use it on all own computers. Avast has gone Norton. AVG has gone Norton. AntiVir is a good free antivirus but its nag-screen is annoying. There is no proof anywhere that paying for an antivirus provides you with better protection — but we have ample proof that paying for an antivirus doesn’t provide you with better protection. We’ve examined computers protected with Norton and computers protected with Avast or Kaspersky that we infected with all manner of rogues, spyware and badware. We’ve yet to see a computer using MSE infected with anything — but nonetheless — no antivirus is perfect.<\/p>\n
But why pay for something unless you really have to? If you want to spend money — visit our donation station and donate the $50 to us — you’ll get better information and more security for your dollar that with a paid security suite. Save your money.<\/p>\n
If you’re going to be changing antivirus programs there’s something you need to know. You must uninstall your current anti-virus first. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. You can’t get rid of many antivirus program by using Control Panel\/Remove Programs. Doing that is sure to leave something behind. And what that something is is a service that continually runs in the background and does absolutely nothing but use up resources.<\/p>\n
If your going to be changing anti-virus programs soon, here’s a list of special removal tools for some of the major antivirus programs and suites. Use these special tools to remove the respective antivirus program from your computer.<\/p>\n
Avast Removal Tool AVG Removal Tool Kaspersky Removal Tool McAfee Norton Removal Tool Trend Micro Removal Tool and Instructions That covers the major brands of antivirus you’re likely to have. If you have something else google “removal tool+name of your antivirus” and see if there’s a removal tool for your antivirus product.<\/p>\n I know it seems strange that antivirus products can’t be remove using Control Panel\/Remove Programs but most can’t be completely removed that way. Even Revo Uninstaller won’t remove some of the remaining files because they are locked by the operating system.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We continue to recommend Microsoft Security Essentials and we continue to use it on all own computers. Avast has gone Norton. AVG has gone Norton. AntiVir is a good free antivirus but its nag-screen is annoying. There is no proof anywhere that paying for an antivirus provides you with better protection — but we have ample proof that\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.avast.com\/uninstall-utility<\/a>
\nYou must boot into safe mode to completely uninstall Avast.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.avg.com\/us-en\/utilities<\/a>
\nBe sure to download the correct tool for your computer.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/support.kaspersky.com\/faq\/?qid=208279463<\/a>
\nBe sure to read the instructions on that page.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/service.mcafee.com\/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS101331<\/a>
\nBe sure to read the information on this page if you want to uninstall McAfee products. It’s not easy. Make sure you read the instructions carefully. If you got your McAfee free through your ISP, be sure to read the information on that page.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/goo.gl\/XDpTt<\/a>
\nIf your Norton product came from your ISP, you might have to contact them for removal instructions.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/esupport.trendmicro.com\/solution\/en-us\/1036064.aspx<\/a>
\nBe sure to read the instructions for using the tool<\/p>\n