[chirp_users] Possible Virus
Thank you to all that replied,
I thought it would be a false positive, as I am using Norton and would put it to the group to be sure.
Cheers Dave...
I am not a Norton fan. It and many of the mainstream antivirus software has let me down. I use one called avast. And it does fairly well. The have free versions and paid.
Just my two cents on antivirus software.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023, 6:20 AM g7jiq1 g7jiq1@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you to all that replied,
I thought it would be a false positive, as I am using Norton and would put it to the group to be sure.
Cheers Dave...
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On 7 Jan 2023 at 6:23, Dan Berry wrote:
I am not a Norton fan. It and many of the mainstream antivirus software has let me down. I use one called avast. And it does fairly well. The have free versions and paid.
Just my two cents on antivirus software.
As an IT pro for over 30 years at the University of Idaho, we have had "interesting" effects from Norton's.
At one time, it even flagged MS-Word as a virus....which you may regard as a "virus", I suppose. Even so we stopped using Norton's on campus and went to something more accurate.
Since I retired some time ago, after doing considerable research on anti-viri, since Microsoft is most familiar with how their OPSYS works, I have chosen MS' Windows Defender, supplemented with MalwareBytes.
Those seem to have done the job for several years.
In my opinion, all anti-viri have to have "hooks" into the operating system, so, in a certain sense, they are viruses themselves. Better to use an anti-virus designed by the designers of the OPSYS.
In any case, I have had catastrophic failures with several antiviri, therefore, the above.
Ken W7EKB
Just as a side note, a friend of mine is an IT top manager who recommends Malewarebytes for malware and ESET for virus protection both are top products
Frank KD2YEM
On Saturday, January 7, 2023, Dan Berry dgberry@gmail.com wrote:
I am not a Norton fan. It and many of the mainstream antivirus software
has let me down. I use one called avast. And it does fairly well. The have free versions and paid.
Just my two cents on antivirus software. On Sat, Jan 7, 2023, 6:20 AM g7jiq1 g7jiq1@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you to all that replied,
I thought it would be a false positive, as I am using Norton and would put it to the group to be sure.
Cheers Dave...
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