This beats em all, me thinks.
I’ve had it for a few weeks and tested this thing going
to all kinds of .ru sites with my old laptop I’m about to trash and it catches everything
so far…try THAT with your free OR paid protection, yes even with wimpy Bit Defender and
your estrogen filled Kaspersky.
Cut the Mustard…get the best, it’s FREE dammit.
http://www.seczine.com/article/information-security-news/180813/CYSEC-Free-Anti-Virus-Review.php
I use avast
Avast is the best. When Norton wasn’t working for my work laptop our IT wiz downloaded Avast Trial. I now have it on my PC and personal laptop. Highly recommend.
Also, that and Malwarebytes will pretty much take care of what you need, but I’ve been fine with just Avast. Enjoy.
I pay because I’m not a cheapskate when it comes to online security.
[quote]theuofh wrote:
I use avast[/quote]
Avast has been doing really well lately on the free side. You can also run it with scheduled scans of malwarebytes to keep things clean.
Microsoft Security Essentials is decent too if you’re not practicing any unsafe browsing habits.
The best thing I have seen so far to fight infections on a machine is RollBack Rx or programs like it. What they do is freeze an image of the computer in time. They also take snap shots during reboots to roll back installs and updates. So if you don’t like the way a program looks you just reboot and bang back to the last image of the machine.
I deployed this on a laptop and told users to do there worst to it. Go to all the places on the net that would for sure infect and add the worst search bars …fake antivirus what ever they could do to mess the machine up. Even deleting the registry.
1 reboot and selecting my last image and the machine ran like a factory restore with a 2 to 3 min reboot time.
Dirtman, don’t ever get wet lest you change your name to Mudman.
This Rollbackrx looks badass…I love this obscure shit, but ‘‘they’’ don’t want us to know
about these things in the same manner the FDA is threatened of natural cures and they want you to
go see ‘‘Doctors’’ instead, because Doctors are to be worshipped, and you, yes YOU are nothing…an ignorant
pipsqueak, a mere patient with a wallet…so HERE, take the pharmaceuticals we give you, and submit to the system!
[quote]dirtman wrote:
The best thing I have seen so far to fight infections on a machine is RollBack Rx or programs like it. What they do is freeze an image of the computer in time. They also take snap shots during reboots to roll back installs and updates. So if you don’t like the way a program looks you just reboot and bang back to the last image of the machine.
I deployed this on a laptop and told users to do there worst to it. Go to all the places on the net that would for sure infect and add the worst search bars …fake antivirus what ever they could do to mess the machine up. Even deleting the registry.
1 reboot and selecting my last image and the machine ran like a factory restore with a 2 to 3 min reboot time.[/quote]
that is a great option for those that routinely screw their system up, or for like a Kiosk
AVG is great. I have used it for 6+ years and have been virus free. Not sure if it is still free or not.
[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
AVG is great. I have used it for 6+ years and have been virus free. Not sure if it is still free or not. [/quote]
I use AVG as well and haven’t ran into any problems so far. They do have a free version (which is the one I use) and they do have a premium version which you have to pay for.
I guess I should add since folks mentioned paying. I have the licensed versions of Avast on both of my computers (PC and laptop). It isn’t that expensive and worth the piece of mind.
FYI that rollback functions sounds like something already pre-built into the Windows system. You can rollback to a prior version/update of your system if you encounter a problem. When you encounter an error you can restart under safe mode, enter the Windows back-up and select a date prior to the issue’s inception. I believe it rolls back and any updates/programs downloaded after that point are lost.
I’m a big fan of the MSE + Malwarebytes combo
[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
I guess I should add since folks mentioned paying. I have the licensed versions of Avast on both of my computers (PC and laptop). It isn’t that expensive and worth the piece of mind.
FYI that rollback functions sounds like something already pre-built into the Windows system. You can rollback to a prior version/update of your system if you encounter a problem. When you encounter an error you can restart under safe mode, enter the Windows back-up and select a date prior to the issue’s inception. I believe it rolls back and any updates/programs downloaded after that point are lost. [/quote]
It does not always work on infections. Most infections aren’t “installed” so it’s still there.
What these “magi-clean” programs do is generally take an image at the time of your choosing saving that system state onto a hidden partition on your disk drive. Then in the event you ever need to “clean” your system back to that state it will take that snap shot and make it so when the computer boots it is back to that saved state.
There’s several options out there and really should only be needed if you just can’t stay off the freak nasty porn and keep downloading weird things.
I don’t think there’s anything more scarier than ‘‘Ransomeware’’, specifically ‘‘Reveton’’…I caught it on another old laptop
and HAD to trash the computer because of it…next to impossible to remove and It LOCKS your computer
COMPLETELY and Website Page stays on the page so you can’t surf the internet…PERIOD!
I had the highly rated AVAST, Superantispyware AND Threatfire at the time and it did NOT catch it,
it’s apparently extremely sophisticated and nothing can really stop it
except your very cautious surfing…Some can be a little reckless to
test how good one’s so-called internet security really are.
Ahh thanks for the clarification. I had the sneaking feeling I might be slightly off, good to know.
That being said, if someone can write a program against a virus, a virus can be written to counter a program. I hope that makes sense. A hidden drive location is only hidden until a programming savvy person with a nasty streak downloads the software learns how it segments the hard drive, and then writes code to corrupt the segment. Sadly anyone with one semester worth of programming can write a basic virus. I still never understood what drives people to such douche-baggery.
In cases where your PC gets screwed up beyond repair, its always good to keep your original OS disc. You just re-format and restart the PC from scratch. You’ll lose the software but not the hardware (the expensive part). The other thing just takes time to re-download all your favorite “video clips” :P.
I’ve used Hitman Pro to remove ransomware. Comes with 30 day full version trial. First time computer was completely locked up so had to run the scan through a manual boot with thumb drive. Theres a good instructional video on how to do it. Second time I was able to restart it and scan before it took over.
I should probably stop going to all those Christian websites.
Linux.