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Do you run 3 rd party antivirus software? (WITH POLL)

Do you run 3 rd party AV

  • YES

    Votes: 61 54.5%
  • NO i let Windows look after me

    Votes: 44 39.3%
  • I let me look after it

    Votes: 7 6.3%

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Can Norton's qualify as a virus? It is in my book.

Mine as well. It wasn't always, but even on it's best day it was pretty borderline.
 

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When i help friends that has problems with their browser acting "funny" with a lot of pop-ups, normally i take a look at their browser history.
If its young boys or men, then they have like 30plus sites of p*rn then I allways think, "oh boy" this is going to take a long time to clean.

The reason I allways use f-scure is because its cloud based, it has a secure browser installment, it simply catches everything you trow at it, if it dosent, a copy will be sent to f-scure and within 1 hour your system is updated and its really easy to remove. Sometimes(rarely) it can provide a false positive, but that normally changes within 1 hour.
I dont have to make a scan, because if theres something duggy on your machine, the system will give you a notice that it has stopped that programme or expansion in starting up, thats when my own redlight goes off, and its time to do a little cleaning.
 

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Which is why Firewalls are effectively useless against Trojans.

Yeah ABP and NoScript is my recipie as well.......:)

A good firewall will scan the header at the very least these days to check if it's a known file.
 
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Still liking Panda Cloud AV, it stays out of my way and when it wants to ever get in the way it tells me why and I can make exceptions (you know what I mean here) that do not cause a total fuck up of game installs.

Its very light weight too.

For browser, uBlock does a great job without being intrusive or asking me silly questions. It's 100% certainly better than AdBlock-related versions (AdBlock and AdBlocker are doing some shady business, avoid them now).

Tried Ghostery but that is just plain annoying. I stopped caring about Google data mining my shit.
 
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A good firewall will scan the header at the very least these days to check if it's a known file.
Headers only contain packet source/destination info.
Internet Firewalls block suspicious traffic, i.e port scans, DDOS attacks etc, but they won't stop a machine from being infected by malware. Usually by the time you really need a firewall it's because the machine is already infected.


For packet analaysis u need a Packet Sniffer which is what some ISP's use... I don't think the average AVAST or AVG would have that capability... could be wrong, but I'd be surprised.
 

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Headers only contain packet source/destination info.
Internet Firewalls block suspicious traffic, i.e port scans, DDOS attacks etc, but they won't stop a machine from being infected by malware. Usually by the time you really need a firewall it's because the machine is already infected.


For packet analaysis u need a Packet Sniffer which is what some ISP's use... I don't think the average AVAST or AVG would have that capability... could be wrong, but I'd be surprised.

AVAST in the passed when i used to use it some years ago blocks the download before the download even gets on your system.

I use Outpost SS for a reason which has daily updates for malware detection + a bunch of other things. And a good firewall will not automatically add the file as trusted it will check with a database and ask the user.

Although it's true for most firewalls but not ones like Outpost Pro.

Either way i do recommend using 2 malware programs just might want to not have them both running at the same time,
 
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I don't use any antivirus. Haven't for years.

I use browser add ons which block malicious sites and such.
 
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Which is why Firewalls are effectively useless against Trojans.

Yeah ABP and NoScript is my recipie as well.......:)

This above was my recipe as well. I've always liked ABP, I can't really mention a single negative other than having to untick the box about selective ads. About six months ago, I switched to a combination of uBlock Orgin and Privacy Badger and I've been quite pleased with it. Although...I'm leaning toward uBlock slowing down my browser vs. ABP. So, I might switch back and try an ABP/Privacy Badger combo. PB is good stuff....AFTER...it learns your browsing habits and you tweak it a little.

Best,

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It's 100% certainly better than AdBlock-related versions (AdBlock and AdBlocker are doing some shady business, avoid them now).

Meh, I wouldn't exactly call the "non-intrusive ads" campaign shady.. It makes sense, and it is just a one time opt-out if you don't like it.
 
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I have Defender disabled and only use Malwarebytes. I didn't have a virus/malware for years.

Same. Been running like this for 12 months never had a problem. (premium edition, realtime scanner running)

I manually download Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool once a month, no detections so far.

That being said, maybe my PC is a BOT robot and I dont even know it :laugh:
 
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Funny comment that is if you really think about it. Due to the fact you saying you never had a virus for years could simply mean the programs used have failed to find one and in no way means you never had one ;).

Well I dont use torrents or any p2p, I dont browse dodgy websites, I dont open attachments in emails if I dont know the sender I dont use any toolbar and I'm using chrome with adblock plus. Chrome which in most cases blocks before it would load a malicious website. I have seen malware/virusses before on someone elses system and it mostly has some noticable impact on the system. Comodo firewall gives a popup when some new process wants to run and I just use common sense as most others do.
 
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It's weird. I've been doing IT Security forever now. And still could care less about antivirus on my home pc. On the other hand though i use a deep discovery inspector, in line with passthrough taps on both my ingress and egress pipes. Also use a vmware hypervisor to house dns, domain server, and virtual router/gateway. On top of it all i love opendns for it's malware dns blocking.

So technically i found other ways to work it without having to install an agent lol.
 
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Meh, I wouldn't exactly call the "non-intrusive ads" campaign shady.. It makes sense, and it is just a one time opt-out if you don't like it.

Allow me to explain why it is shady business. You need to ask some critical questions to understand.

- Why would an Adblocker get into bed with commercial companies?
- What power does this give the creator of the Adblocker?

There is only ONE reason: money. The commercial parties would love to see Adblockers go away. Adblocker is commercialising the very thing that is their core business and reason for existence. This is not odd to you? The effect of this is very easy: commercial exploits will see an additional cost imposed on their ads and Adblocker is perpetrator, jury and judge at the same time. A lot of Adblock companies get bought in due time to make sure they go away, Adblock is just increasing the cost of its sale for the (near) future. These people are not here to protect your interests. They are here to make money.
 
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Isn't the reason for ANY company's existence to make money?

If ABP whitelisted ads from companies that paid them with no way to opt out, then yes, it's shady and defeats the purpose. But that is not - and never has been the case. It takes 1 second to opt out, and they tell you how right on the first run configuration page.

Lots of small, private sites/forums rely on ads to survive. Lots of them use AdSense. If the ads are in fact non-intrusive, they don't bother me. They'll never get click revenue off me but I don't mind letting little text ads load for impressions.
 

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I know i opened the thread and poll but i thought i better add my input
i run

malwarebytes
windowsdefender
adblockplus in chrome


thanks to all who have spent time adding and those who do add

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I only use Defender. Have so since it was MSE and whatever it was before that...
 
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Spybot Search and Destroy

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
 
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I'm regularly testing security software, I'm a security tech freak and every single time I return to avast!. It has its problems like any program, but in general it's the best overall package. And it has the lowest performance hit from my experience.
 
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Use only the built in... I rarely do some scans... malwarebytes or avast then...(I hate Kaspersky) once a year maybe... never had anything... only false positives.

Well if you don't use torrent for warez, cracked games, shady scam sites with pr0n etc... it is pretty much hard to get one actually.
 
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Use only the built in... I rarely do some scans... malwarebytes or avast then...(I hate Kaspersky) once a year maybe... never had anything... only false positives.

Well if you don't use torrent for warez, cracked games, shady scam sites with pr0n etc... it is pretty much hard to get one actually.

Well if you cant use torrents or porn sites and other things without getting a virus or something else then your all doing it wrong lol
 

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I'm regularly testing security software, I'm a security tech freak and every single time I return to avast!. It has its problems like any program, but in general it's the best overall package. And it has the lowest performance hit from my experience.


@RejZoR

and your last detection was what? and when?
 
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