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Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus?

Posted by samzenpus on from the good-and-cheap dept.

First time accepted submitter paperclipman writes "I'm on the college student budget and want to make sure that my recent investment in an Acer laptop will last me a good long while. I like to think of myself as a reasonably competent CPU user so I'm no adventurous link-clicker, but I do download some music as a recent SoundCloud devotee. My Kaspersky antivirus will be expiring shortly and I don't particularly care to renew with that steep of a fee — any advice from fellow thrifts?"

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  1. Face + Palm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Really? REALLY??

    Is this the current state of affairs? No "I'm building a robot what are the best SDKs" or "What's the best open source reporting framework"

    There's no such thing as a dumb question but there are THOUSANDS of answers to this question you can find on dozens of security focused forums.

  2. Run Linux by Hatta · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just run Linux. Linux was fully featured enough to get me through college over a decade ago. Should work for you now. If you have apps that require Windows, put it on a VM which is used for nothing else. Problem solved.

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  3. Re:Simple by poetmatt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who would want even $1 of their money to go to windows?

    Format to Linux and suddenly there's a requirement for a lot more security upfront. Of course are families going to understand how to use it? With ubuntu it's pretty likely yes.

  4. Wipe windows by NumenMaster · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And install debian, (k)ubuntu, or any other linux flavor.

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