What Internet secrity & anti-spyware suites are you using?

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Monserrat said:
Yeah, the last decent version of Norton was 2003. 2004 onwards, it went down the drain.

For me, it's Avira for virus detection and Spybot/HJT/Spywareblaster for spyware detection.
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Have you seen the new 2010 version or read reviews/independent tests regarding it? The new versions are much more lightweight and score highly for speed and also for the amount of malware they detect. Av-Comparatives has it as the top scorer in their latest tests.

Just because it was bad in the old days, doesn't mean they can't fix it and it looks like they have listened to people at last and noticed their products had become a joke among IT people. I am a die-hard Avast user but gave their new 2010 AV a go and it is definitely much more lightweight than their old versions and installed in seconds.

More importantly it also UNINSTALLS fine which previous Nortons proved hard to do! You could never get rid of them. I have moved back to Avast not becaue it is faster or more secure (Norton scores more highly than Avast in tests all round the web) but because Avast is free and Norton is damn expensive per year (£40 or something for a 3-user licence and we have more than 3 machines at home!).

In the end it came to just getting the best free one I know about so went back to Avast and just use other tools like Malwarebytes, CC Cleaner, etc to hopefully pick up any nasties that Avast may have missed.

To be honest, keyloggers are my main concern and none of the anti-virus programs pick up most of the commercial ones available. All I can hope is that the way people deliver them triggers the AV and stops them installing. Once they are installed if you run a scan it may not even detect it which is the only thing I worry about so hopefully malwarebytes, etc can scan for commercial keyloggers that people may have packaged in other software if they get passed the AV.
 
Why do you need a suite of bloatware? If you're behind a router with NAT you don't need a firewall. To avoid getting mal/spyware just use common sense and don't install random apps off the internet.
 
beh said:
Why do you need a suite of bloatware? If you're behind a router with NAT you don't need a firewall. To avoid getting mal/spyware just use common sense and don't install random apps off the internet.
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Wait till you get a trojan that isn't detected by your AV as no AV is 100% effective and you won't even know it's uploading your data. It will go straight past your router to it's destination without blinking an eye lid.
 
Totality said:
Wait till you get a trojan that isn't detected by your AV as no AV is 100% effective and you won't even know it's uploading your data. It will go straight past your router to it's destination without blinking an eye lid.
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I'll be waiting a long time as I don't use AV either, haven't done for the last 4-5 years. When I did use them I don't exactly recall battling with viruses and trojans on a daily basis, in fact never detected anything. Once or twice since then I've installed one for a quick scan but again nothing picked up. Anyway, as you say, no AV is 100% effective.

Given that I'm the only person that uses my computer, where is this trojan going to come from?
 
Totality said:
Wait till you get a trojan that isn't detected by your AV as no AV is 100% effective and you won't even know it's uploading your data. It will go straight past your router to it's destination without blinking an eye lid.
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Most keyloggers/trojans are installed via exploits e.g. adobe flash or browser exploits. Keeping up to date on software updates mitigates a lot of the entry points.
 
Totality said:
Wait till you get a trojan that isn't detected by your AV as no AV is 100% effective and you won't even know it's uploading your data. It will go straight past your router to it's destination without blinking an eye lid.
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But it won't be stopped by outbound filtering either if it hooks a legitimate application for internet access. Anything beyond that should be the realm of AV, not firewalling.
 
i don't use any virus or anti spyware.

just never run anything dodgy and always d/l from trusted places.

i am the anti-virus :D

also windows power tools help if you think you did run something dodgy

taskmon
tcpview
regshot is also useful

use peerblock also
 
day to day usage of the PC ,Avira Antivir, Prev X and Malware Bytes ,Win 7 firewall, UAC.

When the kids are using it, as above but with Shadow Defender enabled and Sandboxie for all web browsing
 
Glad to see a majoirty stepping away from AVG, and hopefully people stop recommending it to friends and family

Ive lost count of the number of riddled pcs i've had to fix that ran AVG, Most end up the that Security Tools malware junk that just basically screws the whole system, on vista too but mainly XP, Anti Malwarebytes does get rid of it but its time consuming and theres always loads of other stuff hiding in there too

AVG = Aint Very Good
 
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