{"id":4665,"date":"2012-08-11T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2012-08-11T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:15:04","slug":"one-of-our-newsletter-readers-says-we-dont-know-much-about-anti-virus-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/one-of-our-newsletter-readers-says-we-dont-know-much-about-anti-virus-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"One of our newsletter readers says we don’t know much about anti-virus programs."},"content":{"rendered":"

Vicki says we steered her wrong
\n<\/strong>Good Monday Morning. I have a “bone” to pick with you two concerning the recommended “free” anti-virus and spyware programs you recommend. These two programs did not save us from the virus that cost us two weeks of our time trying to repair the infected files the virus destroyed. We were told by the tech that these “free” anti-virus programs are only temporary not to be used for an un- specified time! The suggested anti-virus program we installed was the Microsoft Security Essentials, and the spyware program was the “SUPERAntiSpyware.” I am very disappointed that you recommended these “free” programs when in the long run they do NOT protect us as you promised they would. Sorry for starting your Monday out on a negative note. But it’s information that I feel should be shared!! Vicki<\/p>\n

Our answer
\n<\/strong>Your computer tech doesn’t know what he or she is doing and trusting your computer to someone like that is far more dangerous than installing a free anti-virus.<\/p>\n

First of all, there are independent testing labs that test antivirus programs — free and paid. There is no evidence that paid antivirus offers any better protection than paid antivirus.<\/p>\n

Secondly, your tech has to learn the difference between malware and rogues and viruses. There isn’t a single antivirus made that will protect you form 100% of all viruses. And there isn’t one made that will protect you from rogues or from yourself if you intentionally install malware like the 100+ from the FunWebProducts family.<\/p>\n

It’s important to get your information from people who you trust. Anyone can call themselves a computer tech. Your computer tech can’t back up his statements at all. He or she obviously doesn’t know the difference between a virus, a rogue, and self-inflicted malware (comes with bundlers and careless user installation).<\/p>\n

We’ve cleaned computers protected by Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro and Kaspersky which were infected by dozens of malware programs. But they were not infected with viruses — they were infected with Trojans, rogues and malware — and anyone who lumps those all into the category of “viruses” is simply not well-informed.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to see the proof — free antivirus vs paid antivirus from an institution whose job it is to know about antivirus programs — not from someone who calls him or herself a computer tech.<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.virus-bulletin.com<\/a>\u00a0 and look at the data and the facts. There our several other independent anti-virus testing labs that can give you actual data and facts to repute what your misinformed “computer tech” told you. One of them is AV Comparatives\u00a0http:\/\/avcomparatives.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing angers us more than someone calling themselves a computer tech who charges money for “fixing” a computer while dispensing potentially misleading and costly misinformation — like that that dispensed by your computer tech.<\/p>\n

It’s very important to learn, on the Internet as in life, who you can trust. In this case, you trusted the wrong person. And you’ve spent money unnecessarily, and worse, your computer is still not protected from very same things that you were infected with when your “computer tech” came to the rescue. Those weren’t viruses at all.<\/p>\n

We stand by our claim that free antivirus protects your computer as well or better than paid antivirus from VIRUSES. None of them will protect you from yourself or from all rogues or malware — paid or free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vicki says we steered her wrong Good Monday Morning. I have a “bone” to pick with you two concerning the recommended “free” anti-virus and spyware programs you recommend. These two programs did not save us from the virus that cost us two weeks of our time trying to repair the infected files the virus destroyed. We were told\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\/4665"}],"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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}