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What AV do you use the most?

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Ph4lanx said:
I'm looking at moving my anti-virus away from AVG Professional after I found out it is causing problems with multiplayer games using Source-based engines.

I've been looking at internet security suites and was thinking, is it worth running a software firewall aswell as a hardware one? My router runs a firewall already for the whole house.

Also, has anyone run Comodo, NOD32 or MSE successfully when playing TF2 or any other source-based game?
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As above, Comodo Internet Security runs great with Half Life 2 etc. :)
 
Norton 2011 has been released!!

Broken Hope said:
Has anyone tried Panda cloud? It seems to do very well in tests.
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Yes I have, detection rates are good but for some unusual reason it seems to slow the computer down a bit.

Norton 2011 update

Just incase anybody uses Norton 2010/09, 2011 has been released today. You can update by bringing up Norton 2010 by clicking the system tray icon > Going to 'Support' (top right) > Then 'check for new version'

This will take you through a self explanatory process which is v.easy, 2011 is looking good.
 
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Glad CA hasn't got any votes. The piece of **** has had yet another bad update that has caused havoc with the PCs at work and at our remote sites. It's decided to quarantine and kill our remote administrator software this time. Really hope the bunch of amateurs go bust because this is the fourth update that has wrecked machines within the last year. It's actually more of a threat to our network and computers than bloody viruses :mad:
 
Comodo IS V5 has been released recently. it's much better the v4, and well worth an update.

What's New In COMODO Internet Security 2011?

THANKS! COMODO would like to thank the beta testers whose feedback made this release possible!
NEW! Extended spyware scanner and improved malware cleaning
NEW! Cloud Based Antivirus Scanning
NEW! Cloud Based Behavior Analysis
NEW! Cloud Based Application White-listing
NEW! Game Mode
IMPROVED! Application Control
IMPROVED! Default Deny re-engineered to improve application compatibility
IMPROVED! Application user interface

Cloud Based Infrastructure:
2011 family of products(Yes COMODO Firewall too!) are now armed with cloud based file rating technologies. The cloud computation, enabled by default, is used for a variety of purposes.(Do not be surprized if COMODO Firewall gives you a malware alert!!!).

With cloud computation;

Cloud based Whitelisting: Safe files and trusted vendors are now easily identified. The concept of “Trusted Publisher” is now cloud based.
Cloud based Anti virus: Malicious files are detected even if the users do not have an up-to-date antivirus product or an antivirus product at all.
Cloud Based Behaviour Analysis: Zero-day malware can be detected INSTANTLY by COMODO’s cloud based behavior analysis system CIMA(Comodo Instant Malware analysis).


Extended Spyware Scanning
COMODO’s vision and focus has been about “keeping a clean computer clean” from early days. Now that We have achieved that COMODO is focusing on “cleaning an already infected computer”. This is why we extended the spyware scanning in COMODO Internet Security 2011 and COMODO Antivirus 2011 and now include a new spyware scanner which is capable of scanning the windows registry and computer disks for the signs of malware infection.
This new scanner is implemented to improve the detection and successful cleaning rate of already infected systems.

Game Mode
2011 family of products are now gamer friendly security applications. When they are put into the game mode, the operations that can interfere with users’ gaming experience such as alerts or resource intensive virus database updates, scheduled scans are suppressed.

Stronger and Smarter Application Control
2011 family of products have a highly smart application control mechanism which extends the functionality of the previous versions.
The new application control provides the users the ability to lockdown their computers such that only the known good applications can be executed.
The new sandbox introduces a new default application isolation level, partially limited, which improves the compatibility with many windows products.

Nowadays, a lot of malware come in other forms than standalone executables. For example, some come in the form of visual basic scripts while some come in the form of java binaries. When they come in such forms, they are executed by “interpreter” applications such as wscript.exe or java.exe etc.
2011 family of products can identify such applications heuristically and detect the real file behind the requests of “interpreters”.
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knowledge123 said:
Comodo IS V5 has been released recently. it's much better the v4, and well worth an update.
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+1, I've been using this since early beta days, and it's a cracker. I've tested it against hundreds and hundreds of 0day malware samples, and haven't gotten anything past it yet. By that I mean due to default-deny and the sandbox, even if malware is allowed to enter the user's environment it is confined to the sandbox and can't do any damage. Every reboot starts a clean slate, with no infections possible, while allowing the user to continue using legitimate programs as normal. Very sound release, and blows paid-for products out of the water imho.
 
knowledge123 said:
Thanks for that information, nice to know :) It is good that they have tidied up the UI and listened to user feedback. I would love to see it on the AV-comparatives site, and it is a shame that it isn't.
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Comodo missed the deadline for submission on the last round of tests, but it will indeed be part of AV-Comparatives this next time around. :) Be aware though, that AVC only test based on signatures alone. I'm not saying Comodo will do abysmally, but don't take it as a 100% real-world reflection.

For example, with signatures only, even if (hypothetically) Comodo only scored 1%, it still catches 100% of malware in the real world due to the fact it's bundled with Defense+ and the sandbox. Layered security is important, and it's foolish these days to rely on signatures when the worst infections are rampant before they even hit AV vendors' labs.

A proactive stance (eg D+ and sandboxing with default-deny) are important preventative measures. You can literally run CIS 2011 with the AV turned off, and still catch the nasties thanks to D+ and the sandbox. Not that I'd recommend it, but I'm sure you see what I'm getting at. AV-Comparatives will be a nice additional string in Comodo's bow if it does well. But if it doesn't, I won't be running away for the reasons stated above. :)

EDIT: I'd forgotten that AVC now do a 'whole product test', so in that case I'd expect CIS 2011 to do exceptionally well there, but perhaps not too stellar a performance in the signatures-only test (JMHO). This is why I dislike things like MSE, which isn't great at detection and has no fall-back. MSE scored ~97% detection in the latest AVC, meaning it missed hundreds (thousands) of samples. Only one of those would cripple a real-world machine. At least with a truly layered approach (a la Comodo IS 2011) you get safety nets and additional security. The signatures and heuristics miss a 0day malware sample? So what? D+ and/or the sandbox catch it. No biggie. :D
 
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gazzamcg said:
Using norton internet security 2011.

Really liking it.
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Norton 2011 fails miserably at protecting against 0day malware, even with Sonar and all the extra bells and whistles turned on. Check this video review out; it's by languy99 (a well established reviewer) and Norton stood by and let the OS get so badly damaged it wouldn't even boot. :o

 
Hey Rainmaker :)

Have you tested NIS 2011 personally ?

From your testing with Comodo for 0-day malware it does sound good.

I agree Norton may not be the best for 0-day malware but I have tested it against 0-day malware and it blocked all. Although I am no expert and it wasn't many links that I used ...

Personally though and it may sound strange ,0-day malware is not really a concern to me for the usage that I do and I use multi-layer software also like sandboxie, malwarebytes and hitman pro etc.

There are other videos on youtube where it shows NIS 2011 blocking all the 0-day malware used. Languy99 is also a mod on the comodo forum, not that i'm suggesting the review he done on NIS 2011 was rigged or anything and I do find his testing interesting, but personally I prefer to trust the pro's testing like AV etc where Norton is usually near the top of the tests.

I wouldn't trust Comodo until it has been tested for a good few months by the likes of AV etc ... lets see if indeed Comodo is in the next testing of AV.

Ultimately as you know, not one security product is 100% guranteed to catch everything though.

I'm finding NIS 2011 easy to use, fast and I do trust in most cases to catch anything nasty, if that fails I also have faith in the other security software that I use to catch it. I've also installed NIS 2011 on my Dads pc and laptop and my Sisters laptop. Both of them are not pc savvy and if choosing NIS 2011 was the correct decision, time will tell. :D

Aslo, there is a 6 month free trial of NIS 2011 going around, so I don't even have to pay to use it @_@

Also, after melih, the ceo of comodo recently issued symantec to do a test between the two, the herald tech has today issued a test between CIS 2011 and NIS 2011 :

http://www.thetechherald.com/articl...urity-vs-Norton-Internet-Security-2011?page=1
 
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