I'm considering keeping my primary photo and media editing PC completely offline. Personally I'm more concerned about ransomware, making our media files inaccessible until a ransom is paid. According to some recent news reports, malware development is run like any conventional business, with incentives for the best malware developers. There's money in ransomware, security data theft, keyloggers and zombie/bot malware. Malware is big business and the malware developers are way ahead of us. Fortunately I'd never installed or accessed those older files so no harm was done.īut we need to be realistic. The Avast deep scan picked up some malware problems with old files I'd copied over from my older PC back in 2012. I'm using a combination of Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast freebie. I contacted McAfee about some abnormalities with browsing and their rep said if I had an infection they would help me recover them otherwise they were not interested. I dumped McAfee on this machine before the free, bundled installation ended and never used it on the other machine. Kaspersky is another very good security suite. Windows 8.1 on 2 computers, Firefox with bluhell firewall, ASC, Norton. ASC is available in both free and paid versions at, worth having. I still use Malware Fighter as it is combined with Advanced System Care which does a very good job of keeping the registry clean and defragmented, junk files cleared, and similar tasks. I switched to Norton as it was on sale just before the first of the year and can be installed on 5 devices. I was running Comodo internet security suite, free version, for years and contracted two viruses recently that it did not detect nor did Advanced System Care Malware Fighter free version.
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