anti virus?

[Azazel]

thx dude emmm do u have a link to download spybot..i cant find it..weird

 

[Azazel]

nm found it

 

[Solaris17]

I use avast runs in the background has a resident protector that is always watching all kinda of bad stuff...then i use comodo firewall the new version imo is crazy good and scans stuff inbound and outbbound..iv had no problems with viruses or malware using these guys.

 

[Azazel]

I use avast runs in the background has a resident protector that is always watching all kinda of bad stuff...then i use comodo firewall the new version imo is crazy good and scans stuff inbound and outbbound..iv had no problems with viruses or malware using these guys.

ah thx mate

 

[Solaris17]

here im gonna throw you some quick screenies this is what avast does...

Avast has 7 diff scanners in the background that always scan for random threats...it also has a wicked small foot print all this doesnt take up alot of ram and it updates itself every day and the options and settings menu isnt watered down you can totally tweak this.


This is comodo...this is the defense+ tab this scans for malware and stuff....the firewall tab is just as intricate and also has a sub tab like the defense+ tab that says advanced the summary tab is just a summary of the inbound/outbound traffic what ip what program how long how many bytes of data and what programs uset he most bandwidth....

thought this might help in your decision...and My GF uses my rig sometimes and when shes looking for brushes or something for photoshop or looking to get drivers or something she has a habit of clickong on the first couple of links and this thing has caught the viruses that the sites try to put on my rig...i big box pops up saying virus detected and as a precaution avast refuses the connection untill you tell it to disconnect or allow it...it works everytime and iv never had anyhting slip by..avast also scans when a file is saved to the disk or opened from the disk and or net connection "run option" it scans those files so even if already saved to the disk or say i download avast and instead of saving it i click on run instead avast scans that to and commodo reports ips blocks connections stealth ports the whole works...granted thuogh comodo is a little annoying at first asking your permission for everything while its "learning" but its alot safer imo than letting some norton preconfigures firewall let through what IT thinks is safe...and besides after a couple days the firewall doesnt give you much trouble after it lears....you can also customize the type of rules a program follows FE:

 

[KBD]

+1 on that solaris, Comodo is also very good and its free!

 

[Azazel]

here im gonna throw you some quick screenies this is what avast does...

Avast has 7 diff scanners in the background that always scan for random threats...it also has a wicked small foot print all this doesnt take up alot of ram and it updates itself every day and the options and settings menu isnt watered down you can totally tweak this.


This is comodo...this is the defense+ tab this scans for malware and stuff....the firewall tab is just as intricate and also has a sub tab like the defense+ tab that says advanced the summary tab is just a summary of the inbound/outbound traffic what ip what program how long how many bytes of data and what programs uset he most bandwidth....

thought this might help in your decision...and My GF uses my rig sometimes and when shes looking for brushes or something for photoshop or looking to get drivers or something she has a habit of clickong on the first couple of links and this thing has caught the viruses that the sites try to put on my rig...i big box pops up saying virus detected and as a precaution avast refuses the connection untill you tell it to disconnect or allow it...it works everytime and iv never had anyhting slip by..avast also scans when a file is saved to the disk or opened from the disk and or net connection "run option" it scans those files so even if already saved to the disk or say i download avast and instead of saving it i click on run instead avast scans that to and commodo reports ips blocks connections stealth ports the whole works...granted thuogh comodo is a little annoying at first asking your permission for everything while its "learning" but its alot safer imo than letting some norton preconfigures firewall let through what IT thinks is safe...and besides after a couple days the firewall doesnt give you much trouble after it lears....you can also customize the type of rules a program follows FE:

oh man thx allot for this dude...emm is avast free..im on the site and i cant find any sort of prices around...

 

[Solaris17]

yep absolutely and so is comodo.. here you gio

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

then after you download it click on the registration button on that download page and enter you email and fill out the simple info and theiy'll send you a key its good for 90 days then you just go back and get a new one..

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

and comodo

 

[Azazel]

yep absolutely and so is comodo.. here you gio

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

then after you download it click on the registration button on that download page and enter you email and fill out the simple info and theiy'll send you a key its good for 90 days then you just go back and get a new one..

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

and comodo

oh sweet..that will save me a few quid cheers mate

 

[Solaris17]

have fun hope it helped..i have norton mcafee and some others on a disk and i always though bought /expensive stuff was the way to go i mean they charge a prioce for a reason right? but switching the only diff i saw was the amount of ram and disk space i saved and the fact that avast and commodo protect alot better.

 

[Azazel]

yeah...i have been fooled by that for many years....hehe...iv spent atleast £200 on anti virus software in the last few years...sucks

 

[Polaris573]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080209/tc_pcworld/142318

You two people that think AVG's website was hacked may want to re-read that article as it has nothing to do with AVG except that AVG's chief research officer was commenting on what happened to AvSoft's website. AVG is owned by Grisoft not AvSoft in case you were unaware. AvSoft's product is called SmartCop not AVG.

 

[Azazel]

You two people that think AVG's website was hacked may want to re-read that article as it has nothing to do with AVG except that AVG's chief research officer was commenting on what happened to AvSoft's website. AVG is owned by Grisoft not AvSoft in case you were unaware. AvSoft's product is SmartCop not AVG.

oh thx..i just skimmed it...

 

[xfire]

after the virus attack with avg....no thanks

Read properly the website hacked was Avsoft. Avsoft doesnt make AVG, Grisoft does.
The chief research officer of AVG just commented on that.

AvSoft, based in New Delhi, sells an antivirus product called SmartCOP

 

[Mussels]

what anti virus do you use...? im currently trying out avg gold..and i don't like it...it makes my internet run slow and every time i try to play lineage 2 it gives me some error and i have to close down some avg program..i think it was resident shield or something..emm is there a way to stop this..or a better antivirus i can use

Kaspersky and nod32.

Kaspersky is the best, but some peopel claim it slows the system a little (i havent seen that, but i DO have very high end rigs)

 

[PaulieG]

thx..ya..im downloading the free edition of avg now...the gold one just sucks...

emm whats better for spy ware..

spyware doctor or avg anti spyware???

try threatfire. Free version works great.

 

[PaulieG]

Kaspersky and nod32.

Kaspersky is the best, but some peopel claim it slows the system a little (i havent seen that, but i DO have very high end rigs)

I have high end rigs too, but I could notice a slow down with Kaspersky. It also use to crash 2 of my systems. I'll never use it again.

 

[das müffin mann]

kas the only noticeable time when i saw a slowdown was when i was trying to stream movies, and lot of web surfing

 

[ShadowFold]

I just use windows defender. Its free and its not like I go anywhere that I could get anything from anyway.

 

[King Wookie]

We have 5 machines in the family running Bitdefender.

Much cheaper than the normal behemoths, and works well.

 

[Mussels]

I just use windows defender. Its free and its not like I go anywhere that I could get anything from anyway.

Win defender isnt an antivirus. Its anti spyware... it wont find or stop any virus.

 

[Azazel]

thx guys il try out the other suggestion if avast and comodo dont work out so far so good though

 

[Solaris17]

hey azazel iv got a tweak for you if youd like its for comodo adds alot of security...do this....


first go into your firewall tab...under the common tasks button then click on the stealth ports wizzard.

after you do this you will be greated by a screen with different config options.....if you dont share files and you dont need to be seen my computers on your home network you dont use file sharing like utorrent and if you dont let ppl remote to your computer select the last option

now if you do have a network or use utorrent select the first setting than click next...chances are when you installed comodo it asked you to allow a network it does it every time...well after you hit next you have to set the global rules for it...now this is relatively easy...it allows you network at home to see you but not the outside world so things like shating folders and utorrent will work...now utiorrent IS the outside world but what happens is the ony way outsiders can connect to your ports is if you have already sent a request...so at any rate make sure the first bubble is checked and then go to the drop down menu and select the network comodo auto configured when you installed it...

after this click fiish the settings will be come effective immediately...now time ot test..


http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/

go here and click the port scan button...after youve completed this site go here

http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

and click all service ports it will give you a detailed analysis of the ports stealthed etc on your rig.

 

[KBD]

kas the only noticeable time when i saw a slowdown was when i was trying to stream movies, and lot of web surfing

I only noticed a bit of start up slowdown with Kaspersky Internet Sec 7, it added about 2 seconds to the startup time, but it is still faster than most other firewalls/AV i had.

@Shadow Ford, Mussels is right, Win Defender is anti-spyware and it must be used in conjunction with other anti-spyware programs, check out my earlier post on that.

 

[das müffin mann]

i think i may have to go with comodo again