• The Anti-Virus Megathread
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[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;35808162]I think those were virus samples.[/QUOTE] on a machine called lol? Yeah good sample name
[QUOTE=Tucan Sam;35810949]on a machine called lol? Yeah good sample name[/QUOTE] The hostname of my ThinkPad is 'bleh'.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;35809751]Why would you pay for an AV? [/QUOTE] Why don't you ask the millions of businesses that do?
[QUOTE=bye;35819160]Why don't you ask the millions of businesses that do?[/QUOTE] Because they get a phone number that they can scream down when something goes tits-up. Plus many of the free ones don't allow commercial use. (That dumb was a misclick, and can't seem to remove it, sorry)
[URL="http://pfsense.org/"]This[/URL] + common sense = the best protection.
No antivirus and some careful browsing is still the best thing...... Been running without any sort of protection/firewall/antivirus and I never caught a virus in more than 4 years.....
[QUOTE=maxolina;35820813]No antivirus and some careful browsing is still the best thing...... Been running without any sort of protection/firewall/antivirus and I never caught a virus in more than 4 years.....[/QUOTE] "I never got any vaccinations and I haven't caught any of those diseases yet" This is a severely flawed mentality, not to mention there could be any number of malware running on your system [b]that you don't know about because you don't have an antivirus program.[/b]
[QUOTE=maxolina;35820813]No antivirus and some careful browsing is still [B]the best thing[/B]...... Been running without any sort of protection/firewall/antivirus and I never caught a virus in more than 4 years.....[/QUOTE] yeah, because those free anti-viruses that take minutes to install and use close to zero resources to run sure are a bad thing.
[QUOTE=maxolina;35820813]No antivirus and some careful browsing is still the best thing...... Been running without any sort of protection/firewall/antivirus and I never caught a virus in more than 4 years.....[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-news-trends/reports/security-threat-report/html-08.aspx]Read this, and then read the next two pages or so. It will hopefully explain to you why you're wrong.[/url] [editline]4th May 2012[/editline] Actually I recommend everybody watching the full report if you have the chance, it's quite interesting.
What I still hate about these threads is that while they're informative, there are still too many opinions on anti viruses. But oh well, opinions are still helpful. I'm using Avira right now. For some reason I just don't like it. It might be the pop up ads or not, but I want to use another antivirus. I was using Comodo before, and I was alright with that. Then I jumped to avast and then MSE. What's the general consensus? I know, rating poll! Agree to stay with avira, disagree to go back to Comodo, funny for avast, and useful for MSE. Or dumb for something else, and suggest something else.
[QUOTE=That Ninja;35825763]What I still hate about these threads is that while they're informative, there are still too many opinions on anti viruses. But oh well, opinions are still helpful. I'm using Avira right now. For some reason I just don't like it. It might be the pop up ads or not, but I want to use another antivirus. I was using Comodo before, and I was alright with that. Then I jumped to avast and then MSE. What's the general consensus? I know, rating poll! Agree to stay with avira, disagree to go back to Comodo, funny for avast, and useful for MSE. Or dumb for something else, and suggest something else.[/QUOTE] Avast or Kaspersky. Kaspersky might take the half from your internet speed but it is not that visible if you have more that 4000 kb/s internet. Even if kaspersky is not free it´s worth it. At least you can try an month.
Avira as main anti virus, Malwarebytes + super anti spyware for a full scan every week + common sense.
I use Avast Free Antivirus 7. Works great.
MBAM making a fullscan every week. + AVG
Starting to have doubts about MSE... Downloaded a few things the other day from FrostWire. They open, and work fine. They play normally in WMP. In general everything seems fine. Turn on my PC the next morning, and random music starts playing from an "Unknown Source", and I can't open my task manager. So naturally I look at MSE and it reports nothing. So I run good old MBAM and.... [img]http://puu.sh/t7Cx.jpg[/img] I want to know why MSE's real-time scanner didn't pick any of this up.
[QUOTE=deano270;35841008] [img]http://puu.sh/t7Cx.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] What the hell did you download?!?
[QUOTE=myalt22;35841018]What the hell did you download?!?[/QUOTE] Well, it was some video files.... I'll leave your imagination to do the rest :v: [editline]6th May 2012[/editline] I'm usually really cautious about what I download over P2P software, and I checked up on the page. It had a lot of positive votes (60+) and about 1500 seeders, so I felt confident it was Ok.
[QUOTE=deano270;35841043]Well, it was some video files.... I'll leave your imagination to do the rest :v:[/QUOTE] I download so much porn, and I've never gotten a virus. I'm talking about a terabyte's worth. FYI, I'd stay away from any rars/zips/7zips unless you're using a private tracker.
[QUOTE=deano270;35841008]Starting to have doubts about MSE... Downloaded a few things the other day from FrostWire. They open, and work fine. They play normally in WMP. In general everything seems fine. Turn on my PC the next morning, and random music starts playing from an "Unknown Source", and I can't open my task manager. So naturally I look at MSE and it reports nothing. So I run good old MBAM and.... I want to know why MSE's real-time scanner didn't pick any of this up.[/QUOTE] Because MSE's detection rate blows compared to other AV's.
[QUOTE=deano270;35841008] I want to know why MSE's real-time scanner didn't pick any of this up.[/QUOTE] nobody ever believes me when i say mse is shit [editline]7th May 2012[/editline] i guess deano's computer must be too biased [editline]7th May 2012[/editline] Wow, I'm turning into an asshole.
Comodo + MBAM on windows and ClamAV for scanning suspicious shit in Linux.
[QUOTE=myalt22;35841226]I download so much porn, and I've never gotten a virus.[/QUOTE] Same, except I save all my hentai to my PSP.
[QUOTE=deano270;35841008]Starting to have doubts about MSE... Downloaded a few things the other day from FrostWire..[/QUOTE] MSE doesn't protect against stupidity
I use MSE. I used BitDefender for a while but I used MSE when I was doing software installs at school and liked it so much I switched over. Best of all, it's free. I scan with Malware Bytes every 2-3 days. Occasionally I go over it with Spybot Search-n-Destroy for some added security.
Ok just wondering something I have that Alureon.E trojan which I mentioned in another thread around these parts, anyways being too lazy to actually have to find a CD and use gparted to get rid of the threat through booting off of that, I'm trying alternate solutions to getting rid of the issue. MSE detects it and deletes it, but because the trojan is on another partition and it seems MSE wont (or cant) touch that it reappears everytime I launch Windows). Malwarebytes couldn't find it. Trying some thing called Anvi Smart Defender. First of all, anyone know if it is legit/decent? Research didn't really come up with much, call me stupid but I installed it anyways. Seems a bit too fancy to be legit but scanning about has already picked up 11 things mainly in the registry. TLDR is Anvi Smart Defender legit and how can a lazy ass (well to be fair I don't have any spare discs anyways) get around to removing Alureon.E without having to use gparted?
TDSSKiller, will get the hidden partition, then run combofix to clean up the other shit it leaves
[QUOTE=Antdawg;35871943]Ok just wondering something I have that Alureon.E trojan which I mentioned in another thread around these parts, anyways being too lazy to actually have to find a CD and use gparted to get rid of the threat through booting off of that, I'm trying alternate solutions to getting rid of the issue. MSE detects it and deletes it, but because the trojan is on another partition and it seems MSE wont (or cant) touch that it reappears everytime I launch Windows). Malwarebytes couldn't find it. Trying some thing called Anvi Smart Defender. First of all, anyone know if it is legit/decent? Research didn't really come up with much, call me stupid but I installed it anyways. Seems a bit too fancy to be legit but scanning about has already picked up 11 things mainly in the registry. TLDR is Anvi Smart Defender legit and how can a lazy ass (well to be fair I don't have any spare discs anyways) get around to removing Alureon.E without having to use gparted?[/QUOTE] Try looking it up on the internet, find it's registry file, find out how to delete it manually.
I use ESET Smart Security 5. Just upgraded from version 4, and 5 seems to slow boot times a bit, but there is a maze of options that could probably fix that. Never had an infection with ESET, but I do practice safe browsing and downloading habits.
[QUOTE=Metalcastr;35895965]I use ESET Smart Security 5. Just upgraded from version 4, and 5 seems to slow boot times a bit, but there is a maze of options that could probably fix that. Never had an infection with ESET, but I do practice safe browsing and downloading habits.[/QUOTE] I'm using their NOD32 AV, is their firewall really worth the extra dosh? The AV itself is only £15 for a year.
[QUOTE=Noi;35928707]Tried MBAM — lags at scan, nothing found.[/QUOTE] Actually at the time I write this post my computer runs just fine as if nothing was happening. But yeah, something suspicious went on this morning: I woke up and logged in to find that Windows Security Alerts was in my system tray, and that MSE had been turned off. But the icon was there, so I just satisfied it and turned it on. I run a nightly full scan and no threats were found. The Sidebar that comes with vista, the gadgets were blue. Like the sun was blue, the credit-converter was blue, just recolored. But yeah, running a scan with Malwarebytes won't slow down your computer, MSE will.
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