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'trojan/viruses' etc are designed to defeat/bypass/stop av sw working, whether
or not there's been a timely update, depends how the av sw's designed

Spybot wouldn't prevent 'hard' t/v it's only good for . . .
HijackThis doesn't prevent, only records some of what's starting on boot, so
hard t/v mostly won't register there

following are the main av test sites - test programs vary - their results are now
in pdf format only:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews
http://www.av-test.org/index.php
http://www.antivirusware.com/testing/performance/
 
Quote from JaiSreeram:

A good thread with informative links. :) Had a discussion with a software professional who had switched over from anti-virus programs to programs like "Spybot" and "hijack.exe" to protect their computers; things have been really good with almost nil attacks.

Can anyone elaborate on the above?
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spybot doesnt update new protection automatically so you have to occassionally go pul it up add it's updates
 
I use firefox for web browsing and Webroot for anti virus/spyware and I never seem to have any viruses or spyware on my computer according to the scans i run (full sys scans every ~3 days). Now, either firefox/webroot combo is the very best there is or things are slipping by and my software isn't picking them up.

anyone else use firefox and/or webroot and have any comments?
 
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I use firefox for web browsing and Webroot for anti virus/spyware and I never seem to have any viruses or spyware on my computer according to the scans i run (full sys scans every ~3 days). Now, either firefox/webroot combo is the very best there is or things are slipping by and my software isn't picking them up.

anyone else use firefox and/or webroot and have any comments.
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I use Safari and Web root. Couple times week, I have it on automatic scan at 9:00 pm every night, but at times my machine is off at night so not getting every night

Seems ok, like you say "seems"

Once in a while I run AVG free download...

FIREPLACE rocks! FIREPLACE.. too funny, very generic
 
Quote from Wallace:

'trojan/viruses' etc are designed to defeat/bypass/stop av sw working, whether or not there's been a timely update, depends how the av sw's designed

Spybot wouldn't prevent 'hard' t/v it's only good for . . .
HijackThis doesn't prevent, only records some of what's starting on boot, so hard t/v mostly won't register there

following are the main av test sites - test programs vary - their results are now
in pdf format only:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews
http://www.av-test.org/index.php
http://www.antivirusware.com/testing/performance/
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Quote from ammo:

spybot doesnt update new protection automatically so you have to occassionally go pul it up add it's updates
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Thanks for the informative replies, Wallace & ammo :)
Guess we need to have an anti-virus software and others like "Spybot" or "Hijack.exe" to protect our PC to have maximum security. Is that correct?
 
Quote from JaiSreeram:

Thanks for the informative replies, Wallace & ammo :)
Guess we need to have an anti-virus software and others like "Spybot" or "Hijack.exe" to protect our PC to have maximum security. Is that correct?
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Dunno , dude-seems all these things do is slow your pc down and stuff all else.

However, just FYI, had been using comodo firewall (not csi) liked it a lot, checked for updates-nothing, but for the heck of it, checked the site-Woohoo!! they now have CSI , integrated anti-vir+firewall.

Wait, CSI is a television program, maybe it was CIS. Nevermind, dont bother downloading version4 unless you are an advanced user, because it wont effing install. Period.

I should have known-only been out a few weeks, practically a beta version, like all things software , "wait" until it's proven itself.

Worst thing, is i stupidly uninstalled previous version Comodo firewall prior to this, trusting the brand/company (hey, its free, how much trust is available for free) then finding it wont install.

Only to find, it would "eventually " install as an integrated update. All I had to do, was NOTHING, and it might have worked great.


Yay.
 
I've always run the free version of Avira and the free version of Malware bytes. Never had a problem in years. I have heard good things about NOD as well. AVG is too clunky and never performs well in test compared to others.
 
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Microsoft Security Essentials is free and awesome. I run MSFT SE on all my 32-bit machines and Symantec Endpoint Protection on all of my XPx64 machines.
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Ditto. I also have Anti-Malware Bytes as backup in case MSE missed something.
 
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