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What AV do you use the most?

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craig3000 said:
Doesn't monitor outgoing connections for a start, I'm not the one to moan about firewalls in general a firewall is a firewall and there's not much between them but in XP's case it's very outdated.
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Personally, I don't see the point in an outgoing FW, you've already had your system compromised if you see outgoing traffic that you don't recognise. Prevention is better than cure.
 
But you would never know your system were compromised, if a firewall request didn't come up therefore you would be continuing to use a compromised system? If your AV missed it, unless of course you monitor network activity all the time which I assume you don't :p but regardless it's better to have the full package.
 
craig3000 said:
Doesn't monitor outgoing connections for a start, I'm not the one to moan about firewalls in general a firewall is a firewall and there's not much between them but in XP's case it's very outdated.
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Outbound filtering in regards to malware protection is pretty redundant. Firstly, for outbound filtering to play an active role, your system has to have already been compromised and in which case, you can't trust your system is doing what you want it to do. Secondly, if you're running as an administrator, as a lot of people still do, malware will simply circumvent any security policy you may already have in-place at will. And thirdly, instead of the malicious code opening up a new connection and alerting the user, it will simply hijack an existing connection of a process you have already granted access to.

There is also the fact that outbound filtering on Windows XP would have been useless, it simply wouldn't be able to offer it in a secure fashion. Windows Vista and Windows 7 offers a new capability of being able to highly restrict services due to Service Hardening. The default behavior of the Windows Vista / 7 firewall as far as outbound filtering goes is to block any unnecessary traffic from services and this is just about all that can be done for a compromised system. This capability simply does not exist on the Windows XP platform.

Outbound filtering is only really useful for administratively controlling types of traffic you know you do not want to allow which already happens by default on Windows Vista and Windows 7 for services, as explained above. If you would like to further this for certain applications, you will have to manually do so.

An quote from Steve Riley to sum things up:

Steve Riley said:
Protection belongs on the asset you want to protect, not on the thing you're trying to protect against.
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Exploring The Windows Firewall - Steve Riley
 
Even if they fix it I'd still stick to Avast, has a lower memory footprint and actually auto updates without spamming up my Windows Update log, or requiring Automatic Update to be set to auto install. Plus Avast has a higher detection rate from the tests I've seen published.

Not to mention the fact its scan speed is much, much faster than MSE, I can do a full system scan with Avast in just over 3 minutes on my SSD.
 
i have used a few of them. my favourite is still avast.
low footprint and the boot time scanner is an added bonus.

avira is also fairly good.

avg is crap. most virus infections i see, avg is the installed A/V

eset is the best rated but i haven't tried it yet.

norton is a resource hog. also have you ever tried to uninstall it?

i am giving mse a try, it seems fairly good.

also best online scanner is in my humble opinion is eset.
 
i dont bother with anti virus lol my set up consists of malwarebytes, spybot search and destroy and a free comodo firewall, scanned weekly, most i get is tracking cookies lol
 
I recently moved from kaspersky to avast and have notice avast is tidier and less intrusive on the system, although i was on kaspersky 10. Anyone tried the new 'kaspersky pure' yet?
 
What is the best antivirus program to use on a machine with windows 2000 server on it.. as many of the free software will not work on windows 2000 server?
Thanks in advance guys :)
 
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