On Fri, April 3, 2015 8:29 am, James B. Byrne wrote:

On Thu, April 2, 2015 17:11, J Martin Rushton wrote:

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Sorry to mention the "opposition" here, but I have a family member's laptop to protect, and I'm not allowed to upgrade it to Linux. What's the current best recommendation? Thanks,

We (Harte & Lyne Limited) formerly used F-Prot out of Iceland for the remaining MS based desktops. We are presently switching to ClamAV for Windows (http://www.clamav.net/download.html).

Norton is better than nothing; but nowhere near adequate. The rest of the AV field I have no basis for evaluating.

MicroSoft's SE has sort of dropped out of the AV race. See:

http://www.howtogeek.com/173291/goodbye-microsoft-security-essentials-micros...

I for one would never trust MS as far as AV software is concerned: after they first declared their system is not safe to run without 3rd party software (antivirus).

All that said about AV options, I can't hold myself from mentioning:

The whole antivirus idea is fundamentally flawed. It is based on the attempt to "enumerate bad". You can not enumerate bad. You can enumerate good, and prohibit everything else.

Valeri

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