Antivirus Software Comparision...
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Extract from SearchSecurity
Your antivirus product isn't doing the job you think it is.
Antivirus is one of the most mature infosecurity technologies and the undisputed mainstay of desktop and network defense against nasty code lurking on the Internet. But, too many of us put unwavering trust in these applications to stop malware attacks.
Such blind faith is misplaced, as Information Security found in its month-long test of 10 leading desktop antivirus products against 11 criteria.
We found that many antivirus products are surprisingly easy to defeat, can't detect malware using alternative attack vectors and are difficult to manage. Strikingly, the capabilities and reliability of the products varied greatly.
In the two decades since the first viruses appeared, most antivirus vendors continue to push the same basic signature-based technology. Feature sets have been added and functionality improved, but the products haven't evolved as rapidly as the capabilities of viruses and worms.
For this reason, rather than simply testing the breadth and effectiveness of vendors' signature libraries, we focused on other critical -- and often neglected -- aspects of antivirus products: effectiveness against attack mechanisms designed to fool or disable antivirus protection; detection of increasingly popular forms of malware such as spyware and backdoors; and, in particular, enterprise-scale manageability.
We discovered that not all antivirus products are equal, and many don't provide the protection you think they do.
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i'm using Panda now...
the stupid Norton was shut down by a virus and so did AGV...
panda killed ALL the viruses and eliminated all the spyware in my PC
also keeps tabs on port scanning and all that... and blocks the places where the port scanning comes from
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Anti-virus software...dun leave home without it
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Anti-virus softwares all got flaws one lah. I maintain my system's integrity by monitoring run-time processes and registry entries regularly to keep it top notch. Rarely using email is an added advantage.
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Well my house is using AGV.. recomended by my lecturer cause maybe 1 reason that it is free ba....
And can do free live updates too..
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the safest PC is one which is
1) not connected to the internet, ie no network card, no modem
2) no floppy drives
3) no cdroms
4) no USB drives
5) no zip drives..
basically 1 system which has no means for any virus, trojan to come in.. but then again.. what's the use of such a system when u dun have anything at all...
security and convenience are 2 sides of a balance scale..
if security goes up, sacrifice on convenience..
if convenience is desired.. security does down... -
i have been using norton products for quite some time, so far it has served its purpose, no complains...
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norton was working...
updated...
did a scan with a spyware checker... i had resident 980 spyware bits..Originally posted by thoreldan:i have been using norton products for quite some time, so far it has served its purpose, no complains... -
Originally posted by DevilAngel77:the safest PC is one which is
1) not connected to the internet, ie no network card, no modem
2) no floppy drives
3) no cdroms
4) no USB drives
5) no zip drives..
basically 1 system which has no means for any virus, trojan to come in.. but then again.. what's the use of such a system when u dun have anything at all...
So in short, you're just saying its a CPU casing?
security and convenience are 2 sides of a balance scale..
if security goes up, sacrifice on convenience..
if convenience is desired.. security does down... -
not a CPU casing... but a standalone PC with all external resources disabled.. kekeOriginally posted by ditzy:So in short, you're just saying its a CPU casing?