the risk of trojans is hyped up somewhat, lucky but not very lucky I would say.

I use the internet usually for many hours a day and for several years, the amount of trojans my AV has popped up with I can count on one hand. I think all on email not a single one over www.

Just seems strange to ask after a decision had been made and acted upon. A free version could have been added to the machine with the option to purchase once the answers had been received.

I used AVG free a while back. Whenever I have to give an email address, I include some sort of identifier, I used avg@my_account_my_isp_domain and the address very soon became inundated with spam advertising all sorts of rubbish.

I've had similar problems with other companies but nothing as bad as this was.

Like others I now use MSE day to day.

Can't say I have ever noticed that. Although for registering with AVG I used my throwaway hotmail address rather than a uniquified variant of my main email address which I only use for contacts with whom I have a closer, ongoing relationship such as my bank.

Only once has a uniquified address been spammed and since I no longer have any dealings with the company who let the cat out of the bag then a simple rule to Junk anything addressed to that that variant does the job.

Edited by gomezz (Tue 06-Dec-11 16:07:26)

Perhaps he has not been lucky, but a good lad and kept away from porn sites!

MSE here too with the free version of MBAM which I run periodically