Up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies may have been affected by the Zeus trojan, according to research by RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan division, part of EMC. The trojan installs keystroke loggers to steal login credentials to banking, social networking, and e-mail accounts.
Up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies may have been affected by the Zeus trojan, according to research by RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan division, part of EMC. The trojan installs keystroke loggers to steal login credentials to banking, social networking, and e-mail accounts.
Atheists_Pwn
If yuo have common sense and use a reliable anti virus then you are relatively safe from viruses.
None, if you're internet smart you don't need one. I feel like it's a waste of computing power.Ringx55
You need something, because just going to any website can lead to an infected ad that will automatically download a virus. This happens on legitimate websites.
[QUOTE="Ringx55"]None, if you're internet smart you don't need one. I feel like it's a waste of computing power.Person0
You need something, because just going to any website can lead to an infected ad that will automatically download a virus. This happens on legitimate websites. No, it really doesn't. Just don't go on stupid website, end of problem. And even then, goolge chrome usually warns me about malware on a page.
AVG Free 9.0. It hasn't been successful in stopping the entire deletion of Google Chrome off my computer, inability to open or uninstall FireFox, and corruption of XP default themes. So yeah, I should probably get better anti-virus software.
[QUOTE="Ringx55"]None, if you're internet smart you don't need one. I feel like it's a waste of computing power.Ringx55
You need something, because just going to any website can lead to an infected ad that will automatically download a virus. This happens on legitimate websites. No, it really doesn't. Just don't go on stupid website, end of problem. And even then, goolge chrome usually warns me about malware on a page. I dont know about you but i would rather be safe, most security suites use very few resources I am using kaspersky right now and is only using 30mb of ram which is barely anything.
Edit: Why do so many people use AVG when Avast and Avira have been proven in almost all major tests to have a higher detection while using less resources? (They are also free)
Up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies may have been affected by the Zeus trojan, according to research by RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan division, part of EMC. The trojan installs keystroke loggers to steal login credentials to banking, social networking, and e-mail accounts.
Person0
If yuo have common sense and use a reliable anti virus then you are relatively safe from viruses. not really, considering ant viruses scanfor signatures and most malware is polymorphic now. Just use Linux
Same goes for sex and STDs, and the solution isn't to just stop having it. If Operating Systems are "sex" then Linux is just a different kind of sex. Its free. Windows isnt. You mean to tell me you should be paying for sex? :) Seems like youre more likely to get a virus if you pay for sex... same with operating systems. I never thought of it that way until now. heh
Up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies may have been affected by the Zeus trojan, according to research by RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan division, part of EMC. The trojan installs keystroke loggers to steal login credentials to banking, social networking, and e-mail accounts.
Atheists_Pwn
If yuo have common sense and use a reliable anti virus then you are relatively safe from viruses. not really, considering ant viruses scanfor signatures and most malware is polymorphic now. Just use Linux
HIPS/Application control plus sandboxing software= pretty damn safe. Kaspersky Internet Security(which i use) has those plus a very good signature detection rating. This has kept me safe from 30 trojans.
[QUOTE="Person0"][QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="Person0"] If yuo have common sense and use a reliable anti virus then you are relatively safe from viruses. not really, considering ant viruses scanfor signatures and most malware is polymorphic now. HIPS/Application control plus sandboxing software= pretty damn safe. Kaspersky Internet Security has those plus a very good signature detection rating. Just use Linux "Kaspersky Internet Security has those plus a very good signature detection rating." I dont think you understood my point. the fact that it scans signatures is a bad thing.
[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="Person0"][QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"] not really, considering ant viruses scanfor signatures and most malware is polymorphic now. HIPS/Application control plus sandboxing software= pretty damn safe. Kaspersky Internet Security has those plus a very good signature detection rating. Just use Linux "Kaspersky Internet Security has those plus a very good signature detection rating." I dont think you understood my point. the fact that it scans signatures is a bad thing. But signature scanning is not the only defense it has, A multiple layered defense means your are 99% safe as long as you dont go looking for viruses.
[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]Avast for the rudimentary stuff SuperAntiSpyware for everything it can't seeTeenaged
Do you have them both running real time, or do you do custom scans with SuperAntiSpyware every now and then? custom scans with SAS every now and then. =) It's only ad-related cookies that manage to sneak around Avast every now and then, nothing big. =)
"Kaspersky Internet Security has those plus a very good signature detection rating." I dont think you understood my point. the fact that it scans signatures is a bad thing. But signature scanning is not the only defense it has, A multiple layered defense means your are 99% safe as long as you dont go looking for viruses. "A multiple layered defense" How?
Same goes for sex and STDs, and the solution isn't to just stop having it. If Operating Systems are "sex" then Linux is just a different kind of sex. Its free. Windows isnt. You mean to tell me you should be paying for sex? :) Seems like youre more likely to get a virus if you pay for sex... same with operating systems. I never thought of it that way until now. heh Oh god, you're right, I opened up a horrible analogy. :lol: I don't even want to try getting into comparisons to being open source.
[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="Person0"][QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"] "Kaspersky Internet Security has those plus a very good signature detection rating." I dont think you understood my point. the fact that it scans signatures is a bad thing. But signature scanning is not the only defense it has, A multiple layered defense means your are 99% safe as long as you dont go looking for viruses. "A multiple layered defense" How? The HIPS looks for suspicious behavior and flags programs, then if i dont know what it is i mark an untrusted and the file will not be able to do anything. If i am going to sketchy websites then saferun(sandbox) makes it so that anything changed or download with the internet is isolated and deleted right when i close the internet. On top of that i have 98.00% detection rate on signature scans so, i am relatively safe.
[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]Avast for the rudimentary stuff SuperAntiSpyware for everything it can't seeBiancaDK
Do you have them both running real time, or do you do custom scans with SuperAntiSpyware every now and then? custom scans with SAS every now and then. =) It's only ad-related cookies that manage to sneak around Avast every now and then, nothing big. =)Oh thats what I do too.
But I also scan with Malwarebytes Antimalware.
But I asked because of what I hear when you have two anti-virus programms running at the same time (real time).
But I asked because of what I hear when you have two anti-virus programms running at the same time (real time).Teenaged
I tried running AVG home edition (full version) and a free version of Avast at the same time for almost a month.
Nothing big happened, AVG just kept complaining about Avast. It kept requesting to take over certain functions previously performed by Avast, there were no real conflicts. You can try it out for yourself, although it makes no sense to do so, since they won't cooperate on functions with eachother, it's one or the other.
[QUOTE="Person0"][QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="Person0"] But signature scanning is not the only defense it has, A multiple layered defense means your are 99% safe as long as you dont go looking for viruses. "A multiple layered defense" How? The HIPS looks for suspicious behavior and flags programs, then if i dont know what it is i mark an untrusted and the file will not be able to do anything. If i am going to sketchy websites then saferun(sandbox) makes it so that anything changed or download with the internet is isolated and deleted right when i close the internet. On top of that i have 98.00% detection rate on signature scans so, i am relatively safe. sandboxing is usually safe, but some sandboxing software has proven to not work well in some cases
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