'trojan/viruses' etc are designed to defeat/bypass/stop av sw working, whether or not there's been a timely update, depends how the av sw's designed Spybot wouldn't prevent 'hard' t/v it's only good for . . . HijackThis doesn't prevent, only records some of what's starting on boot, so hard t/v mostly won't register there following are the main av test sites - test programs vary - their results are now in pdf format only: http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews http://www.av-test.org/index.php http://www.antivirusware.com/testing/performance/
spybot doesnt update new protection automatically so you have to occassionally go pul it up add it's updates
I use firefox for web browsing and Webroot for anti virus/spyware and I never seem to have any viruses or spyware on my computer according to the scans i run (full sys scans every ~3 days). Now, either firefox/webroot combo is the very best there is or things are slipping by and my software isn't picking them up. anyone else use firefox and/or webroot and have any comments?
I use Safari and Web root. Couple times week, I have it on automatic scan at 9:00 pm every night, but at times my machine is off at night so not getting every night Seems ok, like you say "seems" Once in a while I run AVG free download... FIREPLACE rocks! FIREPLACE.. too funny, very generic
Thanks for the informative replies, Wallace & ammo Guess we need to have an anti-virus software and others like "Spybot" or "Hijack.exe" to protect our PC to have maximum security. Is that correct?
Dunno , dude-seems all these things do is slow your pc down and stuff all else. However, just FYI, had been using comodo firewall (not csi) liked it a lot, checked for updates-nothing, but for the heck of it, checked the site-Woohoo!! they now have CSI , integrated anti-vir+firewall. Wait, CSI is a television program, maybe it was CIS. Nevermind, dont bother downloading version4 unless you are an advanced user, because it wont effing install. Period. I should have known-only been out a few weeks, practically a beta version, like all things software , "wait" until it's proven itself. Worst thing, is i stupidly uninstalled previous version Comodo firewall prior to this, trusting the brand/company (hey, its free, how much trust is available for free) then finding it wont install. Only to find, it would "eventually " install as an integrated update. All I had to do, was NOTHING, and it might have worked great. Yay.
I've always run the free version of Avira and the free version of Malware bytes. Never had a problem in years. I have heard good things about NOD as well. AVG is too clunky and never performs well in test compared to others.