/me officially hates whorton and /me <3 AVG

i use avast wit hsygate. and a bit of spybot s&d. those three do the trick for me.

Quote from Luke.S :

/me officially hates whorton and /me <3 AVG

AVG? Give your computer a brick to carry, that could slow it down a little more, whats wrong? Windoze is too fast for you?

Anyone heard of Blackice? I remember it being on my Dads computer as a kid. My dad said as soon as you got a virus you got alerted straight away. I have never used it so I don't know if it is good or bad.

I can't say I have used it either, but getting an alert as soon as you get a virus is the general idea or anti virus, prevention comes first though.

...If I ran a linux virtual machine within windoze running a p2p app and downloaded a virus to VM.tmp would the virus be contained within kernel or would it spread through memory to windows filesystem anyone???

I had to read that a couple of times, but then I have just woken up.... If I'm "getting it" then I would say YES!

...how, afaik linux kernel won't allow the virus permissions to start itself and most virus rely on various windows services to activate themselfs...but in this case its contained in a state of hibernation untill it is opened in a wondoze window for example...

Quote from [nism0]M5 :

AVG is the best it has a free version which includes Basic Virus protection

www.grisoft.com

And I thought most of us had established it was not the best? Really, there are faster, more simple programs that are much more functional. Most of them are free, the one's that are not can be found on a shelf at WHSmiths, and those are all the pretty one's that don't work very well.

Quote from CSU1 :

...If I ran a linux virtual machine within windoze running a p2p app and downloaded a virus to VM.tmp would the virus be contained within kernel or would it spread through memory to windows filesystem anyone???

If it is downloaded to a folder that has both Windows and Linux access then yes, if not then no. By that I mean virtual machine shared folders.

For example sure it's safer to download the warez on a Linux virtual machine, but at some point you are going to run it on Windows (assuming we're talking about Windows software here), so unless you have it scanned before Windows can access it you haven't really solved the problem.

AVG used to be very good several years ago, now it's gone the way of lots of popular software - bloated. The real time file scanner thing is a joke, literally grinds a modern PC to a halt.

Avast + Spybot S&D + Windows Firewall.

Does it for me

Quote from pb32000 :

If it is downloaded to a folder that has both Windows and Linux access then yes, if not then no. By that I mean virtual machine shared folders.

For example sure it's safer to download the warez on a Linux virtual machine, but at some point you are going to run it on Windows (assuming we're talking about Windows software here), so unless you have it scanned before Windows can access it you haven't really solved the problem.

AVG used to be very good several years ago, now it's gone the way of lots of popular software - bloated. The real time file scanner thing is a joke, literally grinds a modern PC to a halt.

myer

To be honest this is what turned me off it, I can only use the word flamboyant to describe how she allows services to run.

I've never seen or been encumbered by an obvious virus(still trying).

But most run bloatware in fear their active scanning firewall missed something obvious, slow death for any man or machine, why tf are people this paranoid in the first place?

In windows I used to use a program called 'Seem' to look at running services and the drivers alongside. I don't know what IT people use or how to access this type of filters through the management console. I'd like to see someone make a services managment console for Services.msc that has the use of updated web cache like Ad Aware.

I'm fed up turning off all the BS services in windows for people, it's boring.

I know there are literally millions of combinations of software I could use to achieve a services/drivers management console but a clean official MS running services/drivers manager suite would be nice, with options to turn everything off.

Virus = owned by servises filter

considering that no software is perfect, using antivirus software patches some holes, but adds new to any system.

you lose performance and usability

you don't gain anything

those who don't know enough about "computers" they will manage to get a virus even with antivirus software (my gf managed to get a virus within hours of a new xp sp2 installation. WITH antivirus.)

Those who know, don't need it. in 20 years of experience (and not-entirely-legal activities) i have one time gotten a virus. in 1992 or thereabouts on a diskette with Crystal Caves.

Thanks for all the replies guys. I'm just going to go with Avast since most people here seem to like it. It's a mediacenter pc do the internet is only used for tv guide listings and that kind of stuff... so I'm not even that worried.