does it really matter what version of an antivirus program you have? i mean will norton antivirus 2005 be BETTER than norton 2002?
lesson of the day: NO version of norton is better than the other. norton is a horrible virus scanner. download AVG Free. its free, and way better. as soon as I uninstalled norton and ran AVG, it found 7 viruses, two were trojans! Don't use norton!
with norton & mcafee probably yes as the engines get changed. avg6 that i was using lasted 3yrs til replaced with 7
i use mcafee, but the principle remains the same. a virus scanner that is out of date isn't a virus scanner. new viruses are out probably every day, hence updates for virus programs are out a few times a week. I have mine to set to auto-download new update definitions/or engine etc every night. There was even a nasty MSN Messenger virus out a while back that bypassed the URL's for all the major virus scanners on your machine, thus stopping your machine going to find updates. But even that's not enough. Over the last few years at work we have had 2 staff actually release their own home-grown viruses, the giveaway was that each time Mcafee or whoever the companies were, hadn't come across the viruses before, so they were either brand new viruses, or in our case, new as they'd been home-grown hence not known to anyone else. I used to use software firewalls but got sick of them not working so bought a new modem (well it's a router, 4port switch and firewall all built in). Just type "shields up" into google and go thru the Shields Up test, it'll show how secure or insecure your machine is
