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Originally Posted by kamspy
I agree that it's need in business environments for the reasons you stated.
But no educated individual has a good reason to spend a dime on it for their home computer. Even the free stuff eats up CPU cycles, memory, and pops a ton of false positives which likely confuse the user even further.
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Who's buying software to protect! I am not it's all free!
This all started back in the early 90's when Norton AV first was available for DOS. There wasn't much AV back then. But Viruses did exist. There here, those in Euro started the trend. It's been business. I've been hit here myself from other users PCs but there are some free software to stop USB devices to allow to spread the pest.
New pest popup every day... On the internet, so there are real just have to believe there out there. If you want I can tall you how you can get them on your system. Then you can tell me if you think they can do damage or not? Then you might need to get one of those free-AV to get rid of the pest. I've taught many how not to get them and what to do so they don't get them. Once all this crap is going just using 4 tiny programs that don't even use very little system resources to prevent the worst from ever happening again.
DNSChanger
A new version of DNSChanger trojan has been discovered. This time, the malware doesn't only affect the system DNS settings. It targets the router itself. From a list of different routers URLs and a dictionary of default passwords, the malware brute force the web interface and hijacks DNS settings.
Well the underground folks know of these pest but these pest are getting very dangerous and software sold by Symantec can't keep up with them.