Bit of fun? Security Advice Wizard.

PhylPho

Agreed. It's all down to user experience and user preference, there's no universal panacea because what suits one isn't necessarily going to suit another.

free4440273

PhylPho wrote: »

Agreed. It's all down to user experience and user preference, there's no universal panacea because what suits one isn't necessarily going to suit another.

I agree also. I just use what I consider trust-worthy - and my common sense. That does help when browsing!

JJ_Egan

Apart from high end testing the only real way to test security is to ask those who are infected what have you been using to protect your computer .
Past experience and multiple forums with users help posts are usually None or an AV product beginning with A .
AV product lowly ranked in any test is going to be fine for 99%of use its that 1% when a nasty gets through that is the problem .
You have read the reviews chosen your fav PC mags top rated AV installed it and hopefully updated it . But did you then bother to test your security and see if its working well or not .
Friend of mine was forever getting into trouble despite having excellent AV security that was updated daily . Reason why was you could send him an an email or pop up saying this is Mickrosoft your computer is in danger just download and run this .This was somebody whose internet usage was a million miles from the dark side of the net .

jje

spud17

The thread title suggests not to take it too seriously.

Give me the 'nag' screen anyday over that 'your database has been updated' of Avast (does it still have it?), which doesn't seem to get mentioned as much as the nag screen.

Yes thanks I know how to disable both of them.

To my surprise, I'm apparently an 'experienced user', not bad for an old git who's learned everything more or less from scratch in the last 5 years.

I recommended Avast to a workmate 2 years ago, he installed it on his new Dell, he was in the habit of leaving the PC running and just turning off the monitor, all in his bedroom.
He had to change the sheets, when at 3.00am the first night, a very loud American said 'Virus database has been updated'. :rotfl:

chunter

..and what's catching the rootkits...

it's the user who clicks on the $40 (now up to 60 or 80 I believe) false antiviruses.

None the A antiviruses get near them. Malwarebytes won't get them.
Norton & McAfee will most like be corrupted by them.

TDSS might get some of them
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/solutions?qid=208280684

Combofix might get some of them.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

It is worth running both the above on a regular basis.

esuhl

Hmmm... It recommended me Avira AntiVir, Malwarebytes' Anti Malware and Comodo Firewall. I use all three! (Although I also use Spybot and Spywareblaster.)

Knarf44

Superantispyware also scans for rootkits and includes the TDSS tool.

Another good rootkit scanner is F-Secure's Blacklight

spud17

Knarf44 wrote: »

Superantispyware also scans for rootkits and includes the TDSS tool.

Another good rootkit scanner is F-Secure's Blacklight

And with the increase of 64bit in particular Win 7, it's good to note that SuperAntispyware is the only one I know of that offers a 64bit version.