I hope your 2010 is happy, healthy, prosperpous, and virus-free!
I just stopped by to offer my well wishes before moving on. The only reason I had Avast was that it supported Win 98, but that support will soon end. As will my time here. I’ve bought a new computer with Win XP, so I’m off to download and install AVG, my preferred AV product. It never gave me a moment’s trouble and absolutely never a FP on trusted software like SpyBot S&D.
Can’t win them all. But I cannot believe any av solution is without an occasional FP, but we cannot fight how others feel. I always based my opinion on facts, and then I feel towards avast,
Anyway if the new computer has XP I hope it has XP SP3, it is run without full admin rights, or safeXP is installed, the man uses a browser with script blocking and request policy add-ons installed like Firefox with NoScript and RequestPolicy, a configuaration like that will make any av solution more secure.
If not Windows XP will soon be the malware getto because it is coming near the end of its life cycle, and a decennium is a very long time in terms of Windows computers, as a computer out of the box and installed a la default also for applications it is les secure, but secured in the right way it can survive another couple of years. On the other hand developers etc. will leave the platform like they did for Win 95 and Win 98 SE and off course MS wants it that way, they openly declared war on linux now and advertised for an anti-linux manager: https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=9914&jlang=EN
