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Originally Posted by sidslotm
Sandboxing, this is new to me, I'm going to look into this, looks like a must have. I recently made a visit to a trusted site and clicked on a howto picture link only to be hit by a trojan. Security Essentials picked it up right away and wiped it, but the site has now been black balled as a bad risk.
Security Essentials seems to work quite well I recon, any thoughts on this ?
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Just think of it: people want free versions of a security software - that needs constant maintenance and daily updates - to work as reliable and do as extensive a job, as a payware suite.
Why would anybvody buy the commercial versions then? I used the free versions of Avira AntiVir years ago, and a free firewall. But the commercial Avira suite does plenty more things than any of the free programs, and it is not just cosmetic options.
I would always reciommend people to go with a solid payware solution. It does not compare to the free antivirus scanners. As Haplo indicated, software alone does not give you total security, it is your behaviour in the first. But by software you can raise the hurdles for the hiuge diversity of different malware trying to enter. I mean when you leave the house, you do not leave the front door open, you close and you lock it, don'T you. When somebody wants to get in, no matter what, he nevertheless will, by brute force or clever, subtle ways. But still: you lock the door. The many criminals-by-opportunity you have discouraged by that already.