Garbage antivirus

A woman brought her laptop in running Norton 360 and Moon Secure antivirus. Moon Secure? Sure, Moon Secure.

When I saw this my first thought was, “Gross Norton!” but my second thought was if the program is legit. It is, I suppose. It’s based off the ClamAV virus definitions. ClamAV doesn’t do on access scanning, that’s what this Moon program adds. It’s limited in user control, there is no GUI, and it’s based on Clam… Why is she using this? Because someone said it was awesome. +1 for underground security solutions.

Removing it fixed the problems she had. I would have removed Norton and installed MSE but people get upset when you remove the bloatware they paid for at Best Buy.

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