I take it for granted that you will install it, for test and development of course.įirst, do you upgrade the release candidate? Or clean install? Daniel Moth says the upgrade is OK, but I plan to do a clean install eventually, despite the hassle. If you are one of them, you will have one or maybe two tricky decisions to make. MSDN subscribers can now download the final build of Vista, which means it is available to a large number of people outside Microsoft for the first time. If the malware gets so far that only the AV software catches it, something else is probably wrong. I do suggest that it is considered a last resort. I am not suggesting that everyone removes their AV software. At worst, bugs in AV software have been known to make a computer less secure than it would be without it.Ī further concern is that users may think they are fully protected by some supposed “security suite”, and therefore make bad decisions about what they download and execute from the web or from emails. Third, it’s not unusual for AV software to interfere with the normal running of your system, through false positives, conflicts, or disabling useful features. First, there is the cost of the subscription. However I am not convinced that it is worth its cost, which is threefold. I am not saying that AV software is completely useless. Most users have it, yet infections remain common. The failure of PC security is easy to prove. Robin Bloor has another pop at the antivirus industry in this Businessweek comment.
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