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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 820044">This often forgotten when it comes to infections. People always blame the software, which may not be the case. Like you said, if they disabled it to install something, well how can the program stop it? Habits are everything, if people choose to ignore the prompts, disable the AV, constantly visit sketchy sites, etc... a security program can only do so much. No program can protect users 100% of the time. People need to start looking at how they got infected and learn from it, rather than blaming the program and constantly switching programs thinking it&#039;s going to be different the next time around IMHO.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" />Well to be honest, malware removal isn&#039;t always easy. A lot of malware like to hook themselves into system processes and files, which may potentiality break things and or render the system completely unusable. It&#039;s very much a &quot;well if I&#039;m going down, I&#039;m taking you with me&quot; approach. The only true way to ensure you are infection free is to restore from a clean image, or do a complete clean install of Windows. They vast majority of programs focus more on prevention than removal anyways, there isn&#039;t a ton of programs that can say they are excellent at cleaning a system after an infection. Personally I would rather have a program that has better prevention, as prevention if far better than trying to mess around cleaning a system and wasting time trying to fix things that are broken.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 820044"] This often forgotten when it comes to infections. People always blame the software, which may not be the case. Like you said, if they disabled it to install something, well how can the program stop it? Habits are everything, if people choose to ignore the prompts, disable the AV, constantly visit sketchy sites, etc... a security program can only do so much. No program can protect users 100% of the time. People need to start looking at how they got infected and learn from it, rather than blaming the program and constantly switching programs thinking it's going to be different the next time around IMHO.(y) Well to be honest, malware removal isn't always easy. A lot of malware like to hook themselves into system processes and files, which may potentiality break things and or render the system completely unusable. It's very much a "well if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me" approach. The only true way to ensure you are infection free is to restore from a clean image, or do a complete clean install of Windows. They vast majority of programs focus more on prevention than removal anyways, there isn't a ton of programs that can say they are excellent at cleaning a system after an infection. Personally I would rather have a program that has better prevention, as prevention if far better than trying to mess around cleaning a system and wasting time trying to fix things that are broken. [/QUOTE]

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