Symantec affirms why I don't believe in Anti-Virus

[ocabj]

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/anti-virus-dead-or-dying-symantec-144954

You're better off just running host intrusion detection software at this point with backup / snapshot workflow for data corruption mitigation, and a host rebuild workflow (e.g OS drive imaging) for fast recovery.

[Baeleron]

Seems like 70% beats 0% though. I use Security Essentials, because it's free and doesn't nag me, and then just try to be smart about what I download. I've had an infection once in 10 years, and knew I was being risky when I got it. Reinstalling the OS once in awhile isn't always a bad thing.

[ocabj]

Seems like 70% beats 0% though. I use Security Essentials, because it's free and doesn't nag me, and then just try to be smart about what I download. I've had an infection once in 10 years, and knew I was being risky when I got it. Reinstalling the OS once in awhile isn't always a bad thing.

Back when I was a student managing a campus computer lab, we used primarily Deep Freeze in combination with McAfee. McAfee was more oriented to keeping user media clean, but Deep Freeze was used to keep the drive clean. If a computer was infected with malware, simply rebooting it got it back to an uninfected state.