2006-09-03 12:11:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Not at all! If people were more internet literate, they would know what causes viruses and wouldnt need anti viral protection! Anti virus protection leads people into a false sense of security! NO virus protection could possibly cover it all! It takes time to find new viruses, months to write software to remove it....I think its a cryin shame that people infect themselves because they are stupid enough to use P2P sites not knowing that what they download is from some other users system! They then help to pass it around not knowing their system is even infected! If you feel like kickin butt, start with your own!
2006-09-03 12:18:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure does makes you mad. But you want to know something? It's hard to make a program perfect because once a company fixes a glitch that was found by a hacker, somebody comes right behind them and finds a way of getting around that fix or finds another glitch in the program.
Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware programs only know how to properly get rid of a malicious program if it is told there is a way to do it. Currently, there isn't a definite way for a computer programmer to develop code to look for common patterns in detecting a virus or other malicious programs. The malicious program has to affect at least several computers 1st before companies like McAfee can develop a way to combat against it and that's pretty hard to do when the malicious program can (I guess you could say) mutate to disguise itself all over again.
2006-09-03 12:25:23 · answer #2 · answered by Matt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got rid of McAfee after the latest update slowed my computer and spiked by CPU usage at 100% every time I checked my email. I thought viruses did the damage not the ANTI-VIRUS software.
What a waste of money that was.
2006-09-03 12:22:48 · answer #3 · answered by scottish_stuart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My anti virus software is free and works a treat. so the answer is no.
You could try removing the virus in safemode if your having problems
Try googling (or yahoo-ing) AVG or Avast. Both excellent free anti virus programs
2006-09-03 12:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by flippin'eck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to apply AVG, that's the perfect loose one for my area. i ended making use of it via fact it conflicted with Sims 2. I now use McAfee, i'm getting it on ebay each and every twelve months (desires renewing each and every twelve months like Norton) yet in user-friendly terms value a max of £10, that's greater value-effective than getting it from McAfee themselves.
2016-12-14 17:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by sory 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, some viruses are designed as to bypass anti-viruses. You can't expect it to catch all of them. Just be careful when using the internet; don't go to shady websites or download questionable things and you'll be fine.
2006-09-03 12:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by MyYahooName 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats annoying more is when it says it cannot do anything, yet it does. Seem to see that a lot with various products.
2006-09-03 12:22:26 · answer #7 · answered by AnonyMoose_UK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, i do think so.
are you updating your anti-virus regularly though?
2006-09-03 12:14:09 · answer #8 · answered by 3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah.. i use now Kaspersky, it's kool, powerful, free and doesn't slow down my PC .. try that ;)
2006-09-03 12:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by yoyo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a ripoff when these ******* toolbars dont block popups while it is enabled
2006-09-03 12:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by im so fly 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋