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In lieu of flowers, please donate to your favorite charity.
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Holy crap! That brings back memories! Time to find my AARP membership card. 
/ravi
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Yes, it's everything COBOL was not meant to be! But like COBOL, I guess it continues to be used on account of its extensive legacy. 
/ravi
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I think it's mainly because no one has figured out how to convert the "database" into something reasonable.
Decades and decades of veterans' data, for instance, still sitting there in the file system. Even if we went to the front ends all being modern, all they'd be doing would be RPC calls to run M functions on the back end. 
Luckily, my job isn't to program stuff. It's just to point to something someone else wrote and say "Here's the problem. You need TWO spaces after an E."
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InterSystems have some decent stuff for getting at Mumps
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Yeah, we do the Cache thing, too. It makes it a bit easier to get at the data for external purposes.
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It has been years since I had any exposure to Mumps. I do like to hear about stuff like that still running and doing a job
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I caught it once when I was little, made my ears suffer like hell.
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APOD(Racer)[^]
Lame pun, I reckon. But it fits the theme of the day.
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Yes, we have been forced to the conclusion that McAfee might just be the biggest virus out there. Have any of you had issues like we are having, that McAfee causes about 90% of our PC issues (drive corruption, slowness, system hangs, lockouts while it does scans that aren't scheduled, blocking of reboots due to it's endpoint encryption, etc. etc. etc.). We are really, really struggling with this product and wonder if any one else is having the same issues. What are your choices for a better solution?
mvarey
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Microsoft essentials/defender/whatever the name it has today, and lots of care.
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Yeah, if you want to invite all viruses, spyware and malware out there to have their party in your computer. I thought people know by now that the essentials/defender is kind of scam.
They can't detect even the most obvious malicious code even if you show it to them.
The only place where this crap can detect/clean virus is in the published "research" of some "sponsored" computer labs, published in some "independent" computer magazines. 
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I have been using it for two years now, and it did its job so far. (Here I set the timer for the answer that I know will come)
McAfee, as well as Avira, as well as AVG, in whatever flavor you may install them, are increasing your PC start-up time by 10,000% and are implemented as a pile of crap services that literally suck out your CPU. Never ever.
And you may notice I did not even dare to mention Norton, the Mother of all viruses.
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Rage wrote: I have been using it for two years now, and it did its job so far.
This is because you use a common cense when browsing. It was same with me, until my teenage daughter got a laptop and access to my computers and I got close encounters with all viruses on the net.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: you use a common cense when browsing
Indeed, read my post, I wrote "lots of care", this was only partly ironical.
I taught that lesson to my MIL once by formatting her computer after she got it infected by a "you won the lottery - click on that attached executable" email.
[quote] "Sorry, this is the only solution. I told you to be careful." [/quote]
I told her only two weeks later that she did not lose all her pictures (I backed them up) *evil grin*
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: until my teenage daughter got a laptop and access to my computers and I got close encounters with all viruses on the net
For that use case : Try a virtual machine to run the browser.
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If someone else who you know isn't careful is on your computer - virtual machine is the way to go for anything they need. That is non-negotiable with my computer.
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no need for common sense (most people lack it while surfing online) ,just don't use the computer as administrator and never give administrator rights to teenage daughter.
If admin authentication pop-up appears when surfing websites or opening email, something is fishy.
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Nope, not Avira. I noticed maaaaybe a 2 second increase in boot time. (Win10 x64, E6570, 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD as C: )
Edit:
Also, if you're looking at a corporate/enterprise AV product, cast an eye towards Sophos. I've had previous experience with them and can (and am  recommend them.
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AndrewJacksonZA wrote: 120GB SSD
Could that speed up a bit the scan at startup ... ?
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I don't know. Well, probably because it's an SSD any I/O impact would be minimized. I put the two second increase down to having to load and initialize Avira: my E6750 ran at 100% during boot up before installing Avira and now it has another program to load at startup (it only has two cores.)
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I've been recommending Microsoft's Defender/Security essentials for years.
My family and I (teenage daughters) have been using it without problems for as long.
Microsoft's suite performs well in all reviews/evaluations I've read.
I'd like to know how it is 'kind of a scam'.
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I have found that Windows Defender/MSE is far better than McAfee. As for MSE only being able to catch stuff in the lab I'd have to disagree. I use MSE/Defender on a daily basis and used to run it on a network with other AV packages deployed to the rest of the network. MSE would catch stuff that Panda, Vipre, McAfee, and Symantec would all miss. About the only product I have found that outperforms MSE/Defender in the real world is MalwareBytes.
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