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MovedGoalPosts · 06-01-2011, 17:13

If you simply connect a computer then you probably aren't at significant risk. Someone would have to hunt you out.

The real risks come from the user. It's what they download or open. Visit an unsavoury wbesite, or worse, open that spam email attachment and who knows.

Our company gets bombarded with up to 2000 spam / virus emails a day for only 20 users. The filters get rid of most of it. but still some gets through. A/V on the computers provides the final level of protection to the gateway filters.

At home, for just me, the protection can be lower and the free antivirus of the likes of avast is sufficient. But then I am not protecting a mission critical computer. I still run antispyware and such like scans periodically to be sure.

So most of the security software does rely on a level of paranoia. But when it only takes one small mouse click to go wrong, the majority will consider some protection a worthwhile investment, even if managing that security software creates a new level of nightmare.

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MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: do we realy need expensive AV software If you simply connect a computer then you probably aren't at significant risk. Someone would have to hunt you out. The real risks come from the user. It's what they download or open. Visit an unsavoury wbesite, or worse, open that spam email attachment and who knows. Our company gets bombarded with up to 2000 spam / virus emails a day for only 20 users. The filters get rid of most of it. but still some gets through. A/V on the computers provides the final level of protection to the gateway filters. At home, for just me, the protection can be lower and the free antivirus of the likes of avast is sufficient. But then I am not protecting a mission critical computer. I still run antispyware and such like scans periodically to be sure. So most of the security software does rely on a level of paranoia. But when it only takes one small mouse click to go wrong, the majority will consider some protection a worthwhile investment, even if managing that security software creates a new level of nightmare.