keitha
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Post by keitha on Feb 18, 2022 22:49:26 GMT
As a shareholder I have 2 choices
the default of $7.61 + 0.0302 Norton Shares per Avast Share
or $2.37 + 0.10937
Currently Avast is trading at about £6.22
Norton at $27.99
If you do the calculation the default is about 4% more in cash terms at todays prices.
However I Anticipate that Norton Shares will jump in value if you add £6.48 Billion company to a $17B You should get a new company worth between $24B and $26B so as I guess a 25% increase in value of Norton shares is within the realms of possibility. this would make the second option much better.
Well that's just my take and that's the option I've gone for
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Post by adrianc on Feb 19, 2022 8:03:15 GMT
<groan>
And I've just installed Avast One on a mate's machine. I'm going to have to uninstall that now, and put something else on instead.
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Post by keitha on Feb 19, 2022 10:35:36 GMT
tell me I like avast but Norton won't let it be free ...
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Post by adrianc on Feb 19, 2022 10:39:04 GMT
I liked BitDefender, but they killed the free version. Kaspersky's good, but there may be... political concerns. AVG alternates between good and dire, and is nag-heavy. There's always Windows Defender... It'll probably be Avira. |
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Post by keitha on Feb 19, 2022 10:43:35 GMT
I liked BitDefender, but they killed the free version. Kaspersky's good, but there may be... political concerns. AVG alternates between good and dire, and is nag-heavy. There's always Windows Defender... It'll probably be Avira. Avira will be my go to too I liked malwarebytes but it nags now, and if you install the "free" trial upgrade the only way to get the free back is to uninstall and reinstall. That's OK for me, but for others I've installed it for who are not tech savvy, it ends up with a visit or a remote session
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Post by Greenwood2 on Feb 21, 2022 18:20:36 GMT
I liked BitDefender, but they killed the free version. Kaspersky's good, but there may be... political concerns. AVG alternates between good and dire, and is nag-heavy. There's always Windows Defender... It'll probably be Avira. Avira will be my go to too I liked malwarebytes but it nags now, and if you install the "free" trial upgrade the only way to get the free back is to uninstall and reinstall. That's OK for me, but for others I've installed it for who are not tech savvy, it ends up with a visit or a remote session I've got a free for life Malwarebytes (not sure if I paid something (not a lot) quite a few years ago for that) and I'm never exactly sure what updates come free, but OK so far. Edit: I mean normal updates are free, but some 'upgrades' I haven't tried and I suspect may be at a cost.
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Post by JamesFrance on Feb 23, 2022 10:40:17 GMT
I have found Comodo Internet Security which is free to be good protection, since first finding their firewall in 2006. It has not let anything onto my PCs in all that time. I found that beta testing and trying various experimental components emailed by their developers made an interesting hobby in their early days and I still use the latest version although no longer involved with their testing.
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Post by overthehill on Feb 23, 2022 11:30:46 GMT
I have found Comodo Internet Security which is free to be good protection, since first finding their firewall in 2006. It has not let anything onto my PCs in all that time. I found that beta testing and trying various experimental components emailed by their developers made an interesting hobby in their early days and I still use the latest version although no longer involved with their testing.
I've used the free version of avira antivirus for a similar time with similar results. Primarily because the repair shop always installed it but they stopped because it started to be more soliciting over time like most popular software. I've never seen it as a problem, it updates automatically in background. It tried to covertly install other software for a while but they seemed to have stopped that. I noticed recently the latest version detects the latest version of utorrent client as a PUA, potentially unwanted app, which is nonsense, so I'll be using an old version of utorrent for the foreseeable future.
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Post by stevepn on Mar 2, 2022 10:30:19 GMT
Which is the best free antivirus? I have Mcafee through BT at the moment but that finishes at the end of March.
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Post by overthehill on Mar 2, 2022 10:35:22 GMT
Which is the best free antivirus? I have Mcafee through BT at the moment but that finishes at the end of March.
Free avira antivirus. No idea if it's the best as it's the only one that I have used in 15 years and no breaches. Mind you if are following Anonymous twitter feed and their work in retaliation for the Russian invasion, then it is basically a numbers game and herd immunity - keep in the middle and keep up.
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Post by benaj on Mar 2, 2022 14:01:48 GMT
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Post by JamesFrance on Mar 2, 2022 14:21:54 GMT
He seems to be using Windows defender which is an antivirus. He is correct in saying that an av only blocks things in it's database so you need to stop zero day malware with something else. Comodo CIS runs anything unknown and not signed by a trusted provider in a sandbox, which stops it reaching your system.
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Post by adrianc on Mar 2, 2022 15:15:45 GMT
He seems to be using Windows defender which is an antivirus. He is correct in saying that an av only blocks things in it's database so you need to stop zero day malware with something else. Except that any half-way competent AV vendor has been using heuristics for years to detect naughties that aren't explicitly in the database. B'sides, think about attack vectors. Unless you're a complete idiot in what you download and execute, then the biggest zero-day risk of naughties arriving at your machine will be via email... and any half-way competent email provider is doing a heck of a lot of high-tech scanning at the back end before it comes near delivery. Viruses are nowhere near the risk they used to be. Windows is far less insecure-by-design than it used to be. WinDef is a perfectly decent baseline AV. But I'd still always supplement with a good free AV from a good vendor. No need for all the charged-upsell bells and whistles. Just a good, solid free AV. ...or a decent OS
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Post by overthehill on Mar 2, 2022 16:08:47 GMT
It is much safer using a non-administrator Windows account for your normal daily activity. Create a separate Administrator account and you will be prompted for its password if required for discrete tasks like downloading.
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