[Updated] Which security solution do you swear by?
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
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Our company used Trend Micro for a few years so I used it on my home machines as well. But we had 2 instances of it failing to update & fixing it took literally days, having to strip out every scrap of it from the Registry, etc. before fixing it. They have now moved onto Sophos which appears to be even worse - it has centralised monitoring & every time I look at the monitor I see half the machines are not updated & the rest have 1 or more problems. I am just using Microsoft Security Essentials on 3 machines at home. Caught a few attacks and had minimal problems so far. It will do me.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
MSE is free. For small businesses (up to 10 PCs) it is still free (which is almost better than free). Sure it is not perfect, nor is any other, but IMHO there is nothing less intrusive and more reliable. Hell yes.
Dwayne J. Baldwin
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
I have a similar dilemma, I have a paid for license for AVG but have been getting annoyed with how the newer versions are resource hogs, that said my machine is geriatric (XP, single 2.5GHz core, 1GB RAM) so I may simply be being unrealistic. McAfee is in my experience the worse resource hog of all, I had it at work for years because we got it free via a site licence. We now pay for the excellent Sophos, but that is not available for personal use. PCs are about twice the speed as a result. People I work with are recommending Norton, which is interesting given other comments here. I had it in 2002 or so, but abandoned it for AVG when the one time I had a virus it was not detected, and I felt the support people were spinning me a story rather than taking my report seriously.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
I was using the free version of AVG for years and never had a problem. I did find out recently that my cable company provides three free licenses for McAfee full version, so I installed it on my two home PCs and I love it. (If it's free, it's for me :) )
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Windows Firewall is decent but I guess it will have to do. If possible I'll look at free firewall alternatives. Thanks!
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I use a combination of MSE + Comodo Firewall and its great so far.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
Microsoft Security Essentials. Light and Reliable.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
I have seen many as I have worked on/setup/built computers of relatives/friends/coworkers. The one I use that is by far the least intrusive is ESET's NOD32. Great product. NUZZI
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Nortons is almost a virus itself.
Sounds like you've had too much of it. :-D The only time I used Norton was way back in 2000 and 2002. Installing was a pain, scanning was a pain, updating was a pain and uninstalling it was a breeze. Only thing in which they succeeded in proper implementation. :sigh:
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Nithin Sundar wrote:
... and uninstalling it was a breeze. Only thing in which they succeeded in proper implementation.
In 2003, they fixed that, and uninstallation became a nightmare, as well: lots of registry references left behind, didn't uninstall the updater (which then kept attempting to update software which was no longer installed), etc ...
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
I would vote for either AVG free(free yet stellar) or NOD32(not free but still stellar) both outperform* all the "popular" anitviruses such as Norton and MacAfee. Neither will bog down your system I've used both and can attest to that. *I saw this in an article that went over a whole bunch of antiviruses to see which ones caught viruses fastest(which is most important to me in the long run)
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
I'm surprised Comodo Internet Security isn't more popular here. Non-techies are confused by its notifications whenever anything potentially suspicious happens on the computer, but I love knowing whenever a program tries to connect to the internet, modify the registry, install hooks, write an executable file, etc. There's really no intrinsic difference between a virus and a legitimate program in terms of what types of things they do. The only virus solutions that work are to run in an environment with only authorised programs (iPhone) or to have the user authorise every important action taken on a machine.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
NOD32! Non intrusive (doesn't give you useless popups). Catches everything without any user interaction. Good gaming performance while running nod32 even on an intel centrino duo 1.66GHz with 2GB ram, ati x1400 (Counter Strike Source)
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NOD32! Non intrusive (doesn't give you useless popups). Catches everything without any user interaction. Good gaming performance while running nod32 even on an intel centrino duo 1.66GHz with 2GB ram, ati x1400 (Counter Strike Source)
Forgot to mention, it uses ~25 MB in memory, which is less than any other AV program and seems to use less cpu cycles than any other for real time protection.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
The security solution I swear by is manifold: It starts with the concept of tweaking my machine so that it is as unique as possible. Most security attacks are based on common, standard configurations as well as using well known products, which are the focus of the attackers' efforts. I am not a security expert, just a layman who reads a lot (CodeProjects' Daily News is indispensable) and experiments with various products. I am also a firm believer in having as much control over my machine as possible and prefer a click or two more with the mouse over allowing all programms to automatically do updates (some I trust), execute programms and other things behind the scenes. I am also required to go as cheap as possible. I don't use Adobe Reader, and IE only as a backup. My browser's default configuration is with JavaScript and all plugins disabled (ToggleFlash for IE, http://flash.melameth.com/[^]). Immunization of Browsers using Spybot Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/[^]). Firefox and IE users should also checkout Spyware Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html[^]). Comodo is my Firewall of choice (http://www.comodo.com/[^]). I only use the firewall, the Antivirus scanner catches and deletes Programms I trust (NirSoft as an example) and all realtime scanners I've tried use more resources than I prefer to sacrifice. USB sticks are not a problem, for those I use the following registry hack:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;Disable parsing of autorun.inf files
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"I have also innoculated my machine and all my USB sticks and external hard drives using Flash Disinfector (http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/Flash_Disinfector.exe[^]) becau
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I'm surprised Comodo Internet Security isn't more popular here. Non-techies are confused by its notifications whenever anything potentially suspicious happens on the computer, but I love knowing whenever a program tries to connect to the internet, modify the registry, install hooks, write an executable file, etc. There's really no intrinsic difference between a virus and a legitimate program in terms of what types of things they do. The only virus solutions that work are to run in an environment with only authorised programs (iPhone) or to have the user authorise every important action taken on a machine.
same here. probably the initial flood of "approval pop-ups" scare people off of Comodo, but a few hours of training mode solves most of it. it allows control on everything every program does AND is really lightweight, which is the reason i like it so much. oh, and it's free for all, both home and commercial. Also Comodo Antivirus is quite decent. on the other hand, MSE is a real "setup and forget" solution. in my opinion, currently "MSE + Comodo Firewall + Comodo Defence+" would be a rockhard and feather weight free overall security solution, but I have always been too lazy to skip Comodo Antivirus and do a seperate intall of MSE :)
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It so happens that my license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ran out about 2 days back. I'm pondering about getting the 2011 version instead of renewing my own. A friend suggested McAfee and some other name which I forgot. Which ones do you people use? I'm open to suggestions. Suggestions: Kaspersky 2011(mine), Trend Micro, NOD32 and Microsoft Security Essentials as of now. Thank You!
My Blog What you do, when you don't know what to do is what you do when you don't want to do what you do.
I also used Kaspersky before, but switched to eScan. If you look at at it technically, eScan is the best...it wouldn't hog your resources and simply run smoothly in the background...and false positives rate is also very low. Check out the trial version at escanav.com, and you will surely fall in love with it :)