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Making a random "out from the peanut gallery" appearance, here...

Did a little soldering on the DNA250 board, finally. Damn, I'm rusty! :laugh: When I took the 510 pin of the 200 board, I was admiring how (relatively) well I'd soldered the 18ga wire to the Output soldering point. Definitely not the same outcome on the 250... :facepalm:

Also, I'm starting to feel disappointment with every rta that I have (4 in my rotation) and annoyance with my go-to rda.
You should use some liquid flux (Kesters 951) to get the solder to flow and harden into nice looking blobs.

I have 3 types of RTAs in my rotation (4 if you consider Aromamizer Supreme and Supreme Lite different). The KF5's (9) I've been using for the last year or 2 have been great. The Aromamizers are hit or miss so I don't really use them much and the Lites still leak around the juice control and AFC even after replacing the o-rings. I have a few Serpent Minis and they work great but the 2ml capacity gets old fast. So I go back to my KF5's and I've been pretty happy with them.
 

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Thanks Mike!
Well it sounds like it works very well but it catches maybe a little too much for a novice. They say it false flags unknowns that may be legit then you have to decide to OK it or wait 24 hours while their team checks it out but it does keep you safe, how often that would happen I didn't see them mention.
 

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I've seen mixed reviews of PCmatic, Willie. Now whether the complaints were limited to the "free", or low cost version or applies to all versions I can't say. I just did a test drive of Bitdefender and, while it's pretty good, was missing a few things I've come to like that Symantec/Norton has. Overall, all of the "big" names seem to be good products and the differences are more feature related to me. I use Norton/Symantec because it's a hangover from my days in IT, corporate standard.
 

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@Mowgli has been at it again.........

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I've seen mixed reviews of PCmatic, Willie. Now whether the complaints were limited to the "free", or low cost version or applies to all versions I can't say. I just did a test drive of Bitdefender and, while it's pretty good, was missing a few things I've come to like that Symantec/Norton has. Overall, all of the "big" names seem to be good products and the differences are more feature related to me. I use Norton/Symantec because it's a hangover from my days in IT, corporate standard.
I agree, all the big guys are decent. Who is statistically the best changes from month to month, but not significantly.

TBH, the most effective protection is good "user" discipline. Avoid the things that put you at risk.

AVs are only as good as the known signatures, new ones surface every day (called Zero Day threats) that can elude all of AVs until the threat becomes known andd they can add the sig to their package.
 

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I've seen mixed reviews of PCmatic, Willie. Now whether the complaints were limited to the "free", or low cost version or applies to all versions I can't say. I just did a test drive of Bitdefender and, while it's pretty good, was missing a few things I've come to like that Symantec/Norton has. Overall, all of the "big" names seem to be good products and the differences are more feature related to me. I use Norton/Symantec because it's a hangover from my days in IT, corporate standard.

I'll keep that in mind, I'm going to do some more research before I pull the trigger. I keep seeing these PCmatic commercials on TV, that's what got me looking at them.
 

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the most effective protection is good "user" discipline
and a decent browser! i surfed with xp pro for over 2 years with no av protection but using ff and not a single problem! ;)

but since ff gave up supporting xp in september i was forced to switch to windows 10 :?:
 

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I'll keep that in mind, I'm going to do some more research before I pull the trigger. I keep seeing these PCmatic commercials on TV, that's what got me looking at them.
There's a saying: When you need a lawyer, the one you want probably doesn't advertise on TV. I suspect the same is true of anti-virus programs.
 

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