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Re: What AV are you running?

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None (and computers have never been infected for many years).
I play the role of AV for my computers.
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Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

reply to Mele20

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Outpost Security Suite 7.1 + Malwarebytes.
Not really running it though just did my first scan in 61 days. Not sure if it real-times, mainly use it for HIPS and firewall rules?
Hardly ever install any programs as it's got what i want for sometime.
Only surf with Sandboxie so i'm hoping nothing will try and slip through.
Rather use my resources on Folding than waste it on resource hogs with a high priority on them.

AV nowadays is less important now.
Patching the OS and software applications is the number one important step to keep in mind here.
And a firewall with HIPS.

There are also Group Policy settings in Windows also which is overlooked. Of course, An average PC user would not think of this.
But well worth the effort to lock down the OS and IE browser via the GPO Editor.

And common sense.

reply to MarkAW
I guess you didn't see my thread?

»Avast detecting trojan in WinPatrol

I submitted the detection to Virus Total and it shows Avast and GData (which uses Avast engine) as the only two AV detecting this "trojan".

If you Google you will find that Avast (and a few other AV) have detected this trojan falsely several times over the past few years and not just in WinPatrol. Since no one else is seeing it currently, I suspect that this is an old Avast FP that I am getting because GData, when it installs, has really OLD definitions and GDData begins IMMEDIATELY to update them without my doing anything. The detection in WinPatrol is made just as GData is updating its definitions...in fact GData is also updating the program itself yet its scanner is doing an idle scan when it probably should wait until its program is updated and its definitions are also updated. I now think it is detecting this off the definitions that come with the installation and those are old. It is a false positive from Avast...just not a current one.

GData support is puzzled but I didn't tell them when I emailed support that GData apparently is so zealous that it is doing an idle scan before it finishes updating its definitions. I will tel them that now and ask why the definitions that come with the download are so very old.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

reply to Trooper
Sophos, mainly because I used to work there -- and because it has the best detection rate when it comes to more obscure malware.
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The more I C, the less I see.

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Bitdefender internet Security. Newegg had a two year subscription for free after rebate.

Love it.
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Live and learn........

reply to Trooper
Been running Panda Internet Security for about 3 years now. Never paid full price each time either! I wait till im about 2 days from expiring and they offer me to renew for $20 each time.

reply to Mele20
That's not avast that is saying Winpatrol is a trojan. May be you should look at your own thread and see. Gdata may use a Avast engine but it's not Avast, and the two replies in that thread prove that it's not avast.
Then again you only started that thread a day after this thread to try and prove a point which was a fail (imo), since it's your Winpatrol host file according to your post in that very thread that Gdata is detecting.

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MSE on my 1 and only computer...and it works great !
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Lonnie

reply to Trooper
After Eset lost its certification I dropped it and tried Avast free for a while. It was more than I wanted and seemed a bit intrusive. Also I didn't need the email scanner and various other modules.

Currently running no general AV. Instead a combination of Zemana. Superantispyware. MS defender and WinPatrol in real time.
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"It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt

MSE4 and Mamutu from EmsiSoft, 100% coverage!!!

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Avira Premium on three Windows 7 machines
Avast Mobile on my Android devices

I also run Online Armor Free and SAS realtime

Considering trying Bitdefender as it has scored well @ AV Comparatives and was product of the year for 2012...
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Hike up your skirt a little more, and show your world to me.

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reply to MarkAW
Virus Total shows that Avast detects that file as a trojan. Avast and GData (using the Avast definitions) are the only two vendors that detect it as malware. Avast forum has references to it, but not current ones, and that is another reason I think the detection was made from GData's Avast definitions that come on the download of the product trial version and if GData hadn't been so fast to do an idle scan but had waited until the new product updates and definitions were loaded it probably would not have detected it as Avast fixed the FP.

I didn't start that thread to prove a point. The timing was coincidental. I was waiting to hear back from GData support.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

Guys....I said this many many times. AVOID FREE AV solutions like Avast...It ain't good.

If u really cannot afford your data to be compromised, then an Endpoint security enterprise solution is the way to go IMAO...