Originally Posted By: lugNutz
Originally Posted By: Subdued
I just think it's extremely dangerous for someone to take their own clearly limited experience and suggest that the product works great, when there is a mountain of opposing evidence suggesting it's ineffective.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
Congratulations... you are officially added to list of idiots that learned big words in other threads and googled what they meant -- then repurposed them in an attempt to seem intelligent. (See bold below from last month)
Originally Posted By: eljefino
Originally Posted By: DBMaster
I have no problem with people buying whatever they want. I just don't want to hear them whine when gas prices go up!
You make your bed, you sleep in it. You don't answer to me for using more resources than someone else. This is still America. We waste more than just about any nation on Earth.
Yeah exactly this. I'm lucky to live somewhere where annual costs for reg, insurance, inspection on a 1995 F150 are ~$275 a year. I drive this truck when I need to, which is not often. My other vehicles are properly sized for commuting, hauling family, etc. Gas could be $10 and I wouldn't be upset that I bit of more than I could chew, and I wouldn't undergo the cognitive dissonance of "I assumed gas would be three bucks for the next twenty years straight."
Now, I am pretty sure that your wildly incorrect statement was directed towards me, but I will not bother devoting any additional time aside from this reply, to the unintelligent, especially since your 3 chime-ins have proven nothing except you probably just finished building your first computer and think you are god's gift to technology. You should go to Google and find the definition of experience. It is rather clear given what I do for a living and my previous statements that I in fact DO have experience.
OVERKILL has his OWN personal experiences, and the same goes for Mystic and myself, which is where the intelligence remains encapsulated in the latter half of this thread. It's like different brands of cars, oil, oil filters, etc... People buy them, love them, and stick with them. If you become dissatisfied, you move on. In my case, I have had great experiences with a product in which others have not. A lot of major corporations and home users use Microsoft's security, and I am fairly certain they wouldn't, if it didn't work for them. Same goes for ANY applications that serve similar purposes. In no way did I tell anyone they should not use the security of their choice or bash them for doing so. Good luck to you with your endeavors Mystic, hope it all works out.
MSE IS still widely used by the average home user, and most don't have a problem. I'll give you that. It's a fact.
HOWEVER!!!!
That doesn't mean it's an effective solution, that just means those people haven't run into something that compromises it yet.
I will always lean towards what I know to be an effective solution. Right now for me it's Bitdefender. That could change in a year. Unfortunately the end-user home free AV market is in a state of constant flux. Solutions that were elegant, lightweight, and effective one year can be bloated pieces of dung the next. It's actually quite maddening.
Now to address this utter rubbish you posted above:
First, I don't need to recycle and google terms. I know exactly what I'm talking about, and your extremely angry reply and insulting name calling says it all. I use big words sometimes because I know what they mean and they fit better than using a lot of small words you might be more able to understand. Your poor vocabulary is not my problem.
Second, I'm a network engineer, and have been for some time. I have 20+ years of experience in the business starting with PC building and repair and moving up from there. Sorry, your experience is probably limited compared to mine. It's just a fact, don't get all mad about it.
Third, "Microsoft's security" (whatever that even means) is NOT widely used by business. I've supported hundreds of businesses, and several large (over 500 employees) companies and a few (over 20,000 employee) corporations in several states, and NOT A SINGLE ONE uses microsoft anti-malware solutions. Not one.