[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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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 :)