Vista - Free Antivirus vs Paid Antivirus

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does one really lower you chances of getting a virus more than the other? What in the free edition of say, Norton, is disabled that is not disabled with paid Norton? I can think of one such example with avast in that avast premium has script blocking, whereas avast free does not. Is this kind of thing typical?

Also so I don't forget, if an AV (especially a full and paid AV) has script blocking where would I check to confirm this?

Thanks.

Sometimes, the better AV programs are free. I have comodo and it is a free, life-time license and it is almost perfect for me. I suggest free AV programs to everyone that i know. I also suggest that you get some free AS and AM programs as well.

Well, paid AV programs allow you to work with a tech from the AV provider if you can not correct a virus problem. We experience this at work. We have ESET on our work computers. A coworker got a virus that no matter what we did with ESET any anti-virus program/malware program the virus would shut it down. Then the virus would rename itself. After two hours we called ESET and it took about an hour with ESET to get rid of the virus. Then ESET said to send in the virus as it was a new one to ESET. Without ESET we would still be working on the issue. So the decision is yours.

IMHO - There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I bet that it was because the system recovery was on. You should just ask them and let me know

Wow, this sounds very familiar to my virus. Was it called Windows Smart Security? Registry Defender 2009? etc.

Are you saying you created this virus?!?! Or are you saying that you were infected by this virus?

Also, its technically called a rouge trojan.

Ben

Lol no, in fact I said some time ago that these virus makers are going to hell...because believe it or not computer viruses can screw up lives. It kinda did with my grades since for a while and up until now I am trying to fix the computer and my grades have suffered as a result...but then there are my few other problems as well, but those are irrelevant.

No, we shut down recovery. We are not entirely inept. We tried Restore. No good. We loaded Malwarebytes and it would start then the virus would shut it down. There were new registry entries found. ESET was shut down. We then tried several other malware programs. All got shut down. Then ESET said to load Combofix. This was able to run it's full course, isolate and elimate the virus/trojan. It was the nastiest virus I have seen. When you logged onto the internet any old page would load. Just nuts. When it was done ESET said to send in the quartined package as this looked to be a new threat. Man, what a bit in the but.

Haha,
Sorry, i didnt mean to insult you

Ben