Originally Posted by
ScottC
Depends who you ask. Microsoft says yes, the av firms say you will NEED their products to stay safe.
I'm going to trust MS on this one, firms like Symantec and Mcafee haven't made a decent product in years. Their bloatware is worse than Vista could ever be.
Scott knows that Symantec and Mcafee aren't the only AV software choices out there and that there are much better choices like free AVG, etc.
Also, if you ask the security community, they have pointed out that you do want a variety of solutions in the field to make it harder for the bad guys that could just attack the most common set or only one out there in the field.
Sorry, not all of us will just trust MS on this. They don't have a decent track record in this area yet, and they don't play well with the external expert community. I haven't seen any evidence of that changing.
-David