What Security do you use?

thomas01155

Comodo beta is out now looks good might try it at the weekend.

donnajunkie

the helkern worm has made a few attempts to attack me today. i think kaspersky has stopped it but as kaspersky is hard to understand i am not sure. there is a list of events were it says 5 have been scanned and 5 have been blocked. so i suppose it has done its job.

thomas01155

donnajunkie wrote: »

the helkern worm has made a few attempts to attack me today. i think kaspersky has stopped it but as kaspersky is hard to understand i am not sure. there is a list of events were it says 5 have been scanned and 5 have been blocked. so i suppose it has done its job.

There may be something else downloading it. It might be worth doing a quick scan with Malwarebytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

donnajunkie

thanks. i have already done quick scans with malwarebytes and super antispyware. both found nothing. i also made sure they were upto date beforehand.

donnajunkie

just had another pop up from kaspersky. this is the message in full.
network attack intrusion.win.mssql.win.helkern: udp from 122.6.143.113 to local port 1434. blocked. attacking computer not blocked, its address is possibly spoofed.

edt.
sorry the name didnt have the word work in it i dont know why i typed that. it is now corrected.

Dalbs_2

All free stuff but it seems to have done the trick over the years (fingers crossed):
Avast! Antivirus, Comodo Firewall, Spybot S&D, Spyware Blaster, Firefox addons (adblock plus, Iconix, Noscript).

Thanks for mentioning the Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 offer, ill seriously look into that.

darude

If you want Kaspersky there's no better place than eBay , been using licenses purchased from ebay for the past four years without any problems.

drunkenmonkey

No Firewall or Anti-Virus on Laptop, just uses vital resources for no need! Have my router locked down and only accepts ports I manually configure, plus it's in NAT state.

aliEnRIK

drunkenmonkey wrote: »

No Firewall or Anti-Virus on Laptop, just uses vital resources for no need! Have my router locked down and only accepts ports I manually configure, plus it's in NAT state.

So what happens if you go on a webpage with a script with a virus in?
What happens if your sent an email with a virus in?

wizk1

drunkenmonkey wrote: »

No Firewall or Anti-Virus on Laptop, just uses vital resources for no need! Have my router locked down and only accepts ports I manually configure, plus it's in NAT state.

Completely agree with aliEnRIK. I can understand that you are protected by your hardware firewall, but running without a virus scanner is just begging for trouble.

I've had to install a software firewall on my laptop as I often use my 3G dongle when out and about.