What Security do you use?

CrapBag

Kaspersky is Brilliant! Costs around £40 for a one user pack and £50 for a 3 user pack. Ideal if you have more than one pc/laptop to the household!

iviv

linge289 wrote: »

I have a mac and a pc with vista home edition

With the vista pc i use Avast! home edition, and everything else (firewall ect) is the windows standard programmes, which isnt brilliant but i rarely use this computer anyway (i used vista for a year as my main computer and then bought a mac....)

My Mac has nothing, as it doesnt need it. and thats the way i like it :T

Ignorance is bliss, eh?

Marty_J

Yesterday I changed the antivirus on my sister's PC from AVG 7.5 to Avira Antivir Personal.

On the first scan it found 24 trojans which AVG didn't seem to pick up, which was rather alarming.

Not that I get any thanks.

Marty_J

iviv wrote: »

Ignorance is bliss, eh?

Let's not start this again.

Barry_Badrinath

CrapBag wrote: »

Kaspersky is Brilliant! Costs around £40 for a one user pack and £50 for a 3 user pack. Ideal if you have more than one pc/laptop to the household!

how easy is that to use, do you have to be an experianced user or is not for novices, i only ask as its been reccomended to me recently and i can only find sort of mixed reviews, either really great, or really bad .

iviv

Marty_J wrote: »

Let's not start this again.

I'm not trying to start a PC Vs Mac debate. Its just that Macs aren't invincible. There are viruses out there that can hit them, there are exploits, and there are anti-virus programs designed for macs. No matter how good with computers you are, or how safe you think your OS is, the only excuse for not running an AV program is having a PC that's not connected to the internet.

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iviv wrote: »

I'm not trying to start a PC Vs Mac debate. Its just that Macs aren't invincible. There are viruses out there that can hit them, there are exploits, and there are anti-virus programs designed for macs. No matter how good with computers you are, or how safe you think your OS is, the only excuse for not running an AV program is having a PC that's not connected to the internet.

You raise a very good point that I don't think should be over looked. The machine is only as secure as the person who is using it.

Let's not forget that Apple still haven't correctly patched the DNS exploit that was discovered recently and spawned a huge industry wide collaboration to fix it..

iviv

Let's not forget that Apple still haven't correctly patched the DNS exploit that was discovered recently and spawned a huge industry wide collaboration to fix it..

Indeed. Though I dunno why anyone would want to use an apple server in the first place. For design and video editing and that sort of thing, apples should be the first port of call, if you can afford one. But as a server? Linux or Windows are what people use.

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iviv wrote: »

Indeed. Though I dunno why anyone would want to use an apple server in the first place. For design and video editing and that sort of thing, apples should be the first port of call, if you can afford one. But as a server? Linux or Windows are what people use.

It affects the desktop machines too, not just servers afaik

iviv

But surely the exploit is centred around poisoning the DNS cache stored in the DNS server, forcing it to return malicious websites instead of the site it is supposed to. And I don't know why you would want to be using a desktop machine as a DNS server