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We've come a long way if people are being warned off Norton on account of its association with Avast. (in my day we were warning people off Avast on account of
by lucideer 4d ago
We've come a long way if people are being warned off Norton on account of its association with Avast.
(in my day we were warning people off Avast on account of its similarities to Norton)
- vavkamil 4d agoThe parent company is Gen Digital now, and its product line is: Norton / Avast / AVG / Avira / CCleaner I have no idea why anyone would install and use their browser.
- 9dev 4d agoI moved out of the windows world a long time ago. Are virus scanners still a thing? Like, not just a revenue stream, but something you really should run?
- yonatan8070 4d agoI don't think anybody actually installs them on purpose. A lot of systems come with McAfee (Lenovo) or others pre-installed. Interesting point, I've even has a Lenovo Legion and some ThinkBooks install McAfee autonomously after I installed Windows 11 Pro. In enterprise environments it's a different story, McAfee and the like have similarly named products for the enterprise which actually do useful things for corporate security (like blocking unauthorized USB devices, blocking unauthorized software, reporting incidents to a central SOC system, etc.)
- user2722 4d agoI do install them. This day only ClamAV I guess. I used (paid for) ESET Linux before they cancelled their Linux consumer line. On the fence about trying Kaspersky AV Linux. Wouldn't install their suite on Windows though, last I looked at it hooked too many places, causing weird bugs and slowing everything down. Less bad than Comodo, which was able to bork Cygwin, but still.
- msm_ 4d agoIn home environment: no, because Windows Defender is pretty good now. Some people install other antimalware solutions, but there's no great reason to do it. In enterprise environment: definitely, for both compliance, management and actual security reasons.