What Security do you use?

bluslike

security is very important for everyone in your life!

Gillor

JethroUK wrote: »

Maybe keep an aqualung in the boot of your car - after all, 1:100000000000000 people have driven into water and drowned

If you cant be trusted to walk around carrying a sharp pencil then you should install virus protection to prevent you from "installing" a virus on your system (shooting yourself in the foot) - the rest of us just need use a modicum of common sense and not "install" viruses disguised as "dancing coke bottles"

Eh? Strange analogy.

People don't buy cars with the purpose of driving into water so isn't it stating the "bl**ding obvious" that very few people per head of the population drown as a result?

However people do buy computers for the purpose of accessing the internet and despite using a "modicum of common sense", many will have problems with malware. It has been estimated that around 40% of all US households have been affected in one way or another. One can argue about the level of American intellect but surely they can't all be idiots that "can't be trusted to walk around carrying a sharp pencil".

But I suppose it's all down to the amount and level of risk one is prepared to take e.g.

Do I insure my house and property against fire and theft or do I use "a modicum of common sense?

On my next business trip to Africa do I take the malaria tablets or use "a modicum of common sense?"

Do I secure my computer against the thousands of pieces of malware that are released each day or do I use " a modicum of common sense" and hope I recognise them all?.

johnnyrubin

Peter the planter has a cracking list. I use all of these intermittently but not at once also I would love to use Comodo firewall but my gosh is it annoying for anyone but the most basic user. Every new outgoing internet traffic must be "allowed"... like EVERYTHING. sometimes it doesnt remember the previous assent you gave it. Yep, that was my last effort with a non-windows firewall (which is probably rather poor)

Blackjack2013

Ha ha ha ha we are such suckers (evil maniacal laugh). If we only had the salt to move over to linux it would be happy days for ever. but at the end of the day, ive ben there and done that and it was a headache and a half.

Back in reality I feel pretty happy running just avg or avast free editions, as it happens to be on my laptop or desktop.

And I temper my flippancy toward security with a zip-based backup every 2 days of work stuff.

BigGuySaver

Gillor wrote: »

+1 for Sandboxie.

Forget about which a/v is flavour of the month - Avast is better or worse than Avira, AVG is better than MSE, Kaspersky is better than McAfee and so on - they are all pretty useless at zero-day protection anyway.

Sandboxie properly set up; Malwarebytes, Virus Total or similar to check everything recovered from the sandbox; a light a/v - whichever runs best on your system - and light outbound secure firewall, plus a little common sense and you've pretty much got a watertight combo with no bloat and minimal system slowdown.







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Sandboxie is great! I've been using it for a year now. I also use McAfee, AVG and Kaspersky. I have a lot of anti-virus software in my computer. LOL. I just don't feel right if I only have one.

Racheya

Am I the only one that feels that Microsoft Security Essentials and being smart about browsing is enough? As long as you keep the OS and AV up to date then unless you take risks like clicking dodgy email links, you're fine.

If I was concerned about a virus I'd probably recommend Malwarebytes, using autoruns to check for any autorunning apps and the McAfee Stinger tool which I've used effectively before.

southern84

Just staying off dodgy sites keep the PC doctor at bay

waddler_8

southern84 wrote: »

Just staying off dodgy sites keep the PC doctor at bay

Read the previous page.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=62281711&postcount=2555

Gillor

southern84 wrote: »

Just staying off dodgy sites keep the PC doctor at bay

This strategy doesn't work anymore.

Google figures for the first week June:-

Legitimate sites compromised to host malware – 37,000
Sites set up for the sole purpose of infection – 4,000

Which means that nine out of ten malware infections came from compromised legitimate sites rather than so called dodgy ones.

EricGeek

I used to have a Kaspersky Antivirus license, but decided to switch to Avast products.

I use now Avast! Home Edition version. I like everything.)) For example, it works normally and it easily deletes computer viruses.)