Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Okay, clicking this link elicited a massive site content warning, and every siren in Christendom went off.

Needless to say, I hastily retreated. Was this opening post your doing, Agent Coulson?

[Mince]

If you mean your browser gave you a warning, try using Chrome. It's an interactive animation.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I was using Chrome. And McAfee jumped in with "When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors."

[Mince]

It has a flash animation. Perhaps it hates flash animations. I never install virus checkers - useless pieces of rubbish.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I'm sure if it does hate flash animations that it's all flash animations, and nothing personal. So it's perfectly safe then?

[Mince]

It was safe for me. It's a baked bean flash.

Try his blog: http://blog.simonpanrucker.com/

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Hmmmm - same warning.......   

[Mince]

And you believe McAfee because . . . ?

AVG says it's fine and so does Google.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Because I pay them to scare me like this.

Okay - I'll take the plunge...

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

So far, so good. As far as I can tell, I'm still in the land of the living, and SO glad I took the risk.

[Mince]

Because I pay them to scare me like this.

And you pay them as well? Use AVG Free, or the free antivirus from Avast or Avira: some reviews say they are better than McAfee anyway (though some say they are slightly worse). Personally, I don't bother with any of them as they slow down the computer. I tend to reinstall my computers at regular intervals.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I've only just renewed my subscription, so they'll be scaring me for another year. Perhaps next time. They tell me they've removed 4 viruses in the past two years though...

[Mince]

They tell me they've removed 4 viruses in the past two years though...

Are they likely to tell you that they're not needed? Were they viruses or just harmless cookies, temporary files, false positives?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Yes.

[Mince]

Yes.

Well, in that case, I think you know what you have to do.

By the way, I have a written a program that creates popups about finding viruses vigorously tracks down all viruses. It's £200 a year, which is a 50% saving on the usual totally made-up price of £400 a year.