Trojans, Rootkit and Security

[prescott28]

last night I found a couple of different trojans on my machine as well as what my Rootkit checking tool though was a rootkit. I am using AVG (Free version) and it did manage to clean up the files with AVG. However, as a precaution I haver formatted and re-installed my boot drive (and got rid of a lot of rubbish too) and I seem to be fine now.

The question is, ought I to invest in a paid-for anti-virus program and if so which one. Obviously if there is a better free one that would be better but I need security rather more than anything else.

My machine is operating via an ADSL router running NATS but I doubt that has any affect on trojans etc.

Any suggestions would be most welcome. I read the sticky on this topic but it is a bit old and things change rapidly in this area.

 

[prescott28]

Thanks for the replies guys! I suspect this is a much more difficult question that I thought.

ALienBC, I think you rae right about people liking the software they own, but there seem to me to be more problems here. For example, I have been using AVG Free and Windows Firewall and have been quite safe for ages when in pop a load of Trojans and a rootkit or two. Now if have tried any of the AV programs last week they would have all got the same result - nothing detected. If I try one for the next month there might not be anything to be caught and if there is not, how do I know the software was any good?

I had wondered about Kapersky but there don't seem to be the tests to see how well it performs against the completion. I used to run Avast free version and had no trouble but was that luck or good software? I think a paid for solution is likely to be better in the long run so I'll go and have a look at Kapersky and Nod32 and investigate them. I'll report back when I have tried them.

Anyone else got any suggestions on this one?

 

[prescott28]

Oh well, I'm going for the free trial of Kapersky and see how it goes. That leaves a few weeks to decide whether to buy it and where from too.