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Difficult season: Antivirus-flinger Avast decides to 'wind down' Jumpshot

JCitizen
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@noflyzone

I've had too many years doing support for poor bastards that used Norton (Symantec) than to EVER recommend them!! ESET is probably the best AV bar none, but I get by pretty well with my lifetime licence of Malwarebytes Anti-malware. It is pretty much an AV as well as an AM solution now. I does a better job by itself than Avast has been able to for years now. I was quite the Avast fan for many years - but when detection got so low with all the products out there, it was better to at least use something that could thwart ransomware - which MBAM has a reputation of being able to do. It also keeps some undetected malware from gaining operating system permissions, which makes it more valuable than any other cheap solution. I don't know what NOD32 charges for a year now, but I'd assume it isn't cheap.

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