Which Security software?

chili

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As above currently i use Eset smart security have used this for the past couple of years, i guess it works fine because i have been fortunate enough not to have got any viruses.
My question is really are there any good free alternatives that are just as good as a paid for suite.
Do i really need a security suite or will just a virus killer suffice?
 
chili said:
As above currently i use Eset smart security have used this for the past couple of years, i guess it works fine because i have been fortunate enough not to have got any viruses.
My question is really are there any good free alternatives that are just as good as a paid for suite.
Do i really need a security suite or will just a virus killer suffice?
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How do you know you haven't got any viruses, it may be that Eset doesn't have a detection for it yet?

While an AV will help with most viruses, it won't help protect you against any of the threats below.

Zero-Day Attack
Drive-by Downloads
Phishing Attacks
Keyloggers
Search Engine Poisoning
Rootkits
Rogue Security Software
Ransomware
Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Botnets

;)
 
mysticsniper said:
While an AV will help with most viruses, it won't help protect you against any of the threats below.

Zero-Day Attack
Drive-by Downloads
Phishing Attacks
Keyloggers
Search Engine Poisoning
Rootkits
Rogue Security Software
Ransomware
Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Botnets
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I'm not a big fan of anti-virus, but your statement is bull. Some anti-virus products will take care of some of the items on your list, some of the time.
 
I'm a big fan of giving yourself the least access you require.

IE, put your media on a NAS, give your user read-only access to this data.
 
mysticsniper said:
How do you know you haven't got any viruses, it may be that Eset doesn't have a detection for it yet?

While an AV will help with most viruses, it won't help protect you against any of the threats below.

Zero-Day Attack
Drive-by Downloads
Phishing Attacks
Keyloggers
Search Engine Poisoning
Rootkits
Rogue Security Software
Ransomware
Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Botnets

;)
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Mmmm alright then let me assume i have no virus on my pc as everything seems normal, my bank balances are fine, i have yet to meet my clone, and wife has not left me yet. So looking on the bright side i will say i have no virus on my pc. i do also run malawarebytes etc.

what i did not see after your sweeping comments is that you failed to recommend anything positive in reply to my thread for example what do you suggest i use to protect myself (please don't say "a rubber :) )
 
KIA said:
I'm not a big fan of anti-virus, but your statement is bull. Some anti-virus products will take care of some of the items on your list, some of the time.
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Brilliant, so maybe an AV might take care of some threats, but not bother with the other ones; really? lol

So apart from the rootkits and scare-ware which a decent AV should detect in your opinion how would the OP protect themselves from the rest of the threats if they only have the Anti-Virus & malware-bytes?


chili said:
Mmmm alright then let me assume i have no virus on my pc as everything seems normal, my bank balances are fine, i have yet to meet my clone, and wife has not left me yet. So looking on the bright side i will say i have no virus on my pc. i do also run malawarebytes etc.

what i did not see after your sweeping comments is that you failed to recommend anything positive in reply to my thread for example what do you suggest i use to protect myself (please don't say "a rubber :) )
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I have been using Kaspersky (using Pure at the moment) for the past 10 years, and in my opinion it has been great and served me well. It would take something drastic for me to change to another vendor anytime soon.
 
mysticsniper said:
Brilliant, so maybe an AV might take care of some threats, but not bother with the other ones; really? lol

So apart from the rootkits and scare-ware which a decent AV should detect in your opinion how would the OP protect themselves from the rest of the threats if they only have the Anti-Virus & malware-bytes?




I have been using Kaspersky (using Pure at the moment) for the past 10 years, and in my opinion it has been great and served me well. It would take something drastic for me to change to another vendor anytime soon.
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mystic - you offer no solution of your own but pick someone up for stating that you're incorrect, which you haven't denied.

Bottom line is that other than AV and something like malwarebytes the best protection is simply user awareness and training, arguably it's the best defence to start with but if you are targeted there's little AV/malewarebytes is going to do as most payloads for the likes of Randsomware are updated several times a day and AV typically can't catch it quick enough and certainly won't catch it at rest on e-mail servers, so by the time AV is updated on the e-mail server and locally the PC is already infected if someone is a prodigious and click happy e-mail checker. How do you protect against that sort of thing? User training/awareness, proper permissions, don't share your PC if you can help it, keep the UAC on (it's not great but helps), not running as a local admin etc etc.

Bottom line is that there is no guaranteed way of protecting yourself, all you can do is minimise the risk and keep several backups in different locations.
 
ok thanks for the replies eset smart security v7 will do for now along with malawarebytes. if i did have to move i think kaspersky would get my vote.
 
mysticsniper said:
Brilliant, so maybe an AV might take care of some threats, but not bother with the other ones; really? lol

So apart from the rootkits and scare-ware which a decent AV should detect in your opinion how would the OP protect themselves from the rest of the threats if they only have the Anti-Virus & malware-bytes?
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100% protection doesn't exist.
 
KIA said:
100% protection doesn't exist.
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I agree, and I also think that educating users on the threats is also a step in the right direction. But having some extra layers of protection other than an AV and PUA scanner would be advised.

I use Kaspersky Pure which offers you that extra layer of protection with the Firewall, application watcher, vulnerability scanner and URL advisor. It also adds sandbox protection for online banking and shopping. :)
 
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Maybe check out Microsoft EMET (5.2), with recommended settings. You have to import the popular software profile (XML) that the install includes. It's not Anti-Virus though.
 
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I've been happy with ESET for a long time now. Things did used to slip through, but it's very rare that happens now - if it all.

Look out for a v9 of ESET. It's still in beta testing, but when I tested it, I found it a lot more responsive. But I'm not awfully keen on the new user interface - it's very metro now. But maybe that's because ESET's interface hasn't really changed much while I've been using it and I'm used to it now. :o
 
I don't use any...never had.

Although I won't say I've never had a virus either. Last time was probably 10 years ago mind.
 
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