Re: ESET antivirus

While it is true that a disciplined 'surfer' will enounter minimal malware, there is still risk. Even the IBM Developerworks site was recently defaced.

I won't try to convince you to enable on-access scanning.  However, from the 'better safe than sorry' camp I would encourage you to at least run scheduled scans during the night when you aren't likely to be using the PC. You won't be awake during the performance hit and if your PC does contract something it's window of opportunity is reduced.

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On Jan 14, 2011 10:38 AM, Leif Guldbrand <Guldbrand@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1 and haven't had any problems so far :-)



Leif



----- Original Message -----

From: "Tom Huff" <tehuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:03 PM

Subject: Re: [PCTECH] ESET antivirus





> I stopped using antivirus software other than what MS sends about 5 years

> ago. It has been great. I talked to someone at Best Buy and they said that I

> probably had a lot of problems and did not know about it. So I purchased a

> virus checker and tested my laptop. It did not find anything to remove or

> fix. I think they are just trying to frighten us into paying for virus

> software.

>

> Tom