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freedomdwarf1 -> RE: BDSMstreak (9/9/2013 3:04:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Online4Abuse
Thanks, freedomdwarf, some good points there.
Yes, I did have Malwarebytes installed but because as you say, these things often interfere with each other cut my protection down to one antivirus and one anti-spyware app I had to reinstall Malware bytes when teh other two failed to find Ransomware on a scan.
It seems that even if an AV program recognises one version of the trojan, there are often so many variations that one can slip through. And no AV program will catch everything - as you say, they are good for some things and less good for others. I've never found AV software to be good for trojans and worms, hence the need for ant-spyware in addition.
If you are finding that variations of some virus or trojan is not being recognised by your AV software, then perhaps you have not setup the preferences correctly.
When I use mine, I always, as a matter of course, set it up to use extreme heuristics, extreme scanning, and also to scan inside archives and all file types.
A lot of them, especially the freebies, either don't have that option or are turned off by default.
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ORIGINAL: Online4Abuse
Btw, I'm using Panda Cloud, so updates to virus definitions shouldn't need to be downloaded - they should be available as soon as installed by the AV provider. Anyway, who updates their virus definitions every 2 hours? :-)
I update my AV and MB every 10-15 minutes - or at least check for updates.
The same as I do a defrag and a full AV scan at least once, usually twice, every single day on every drive installed.
I have more than 4,000 Gigs on just this one PC alone so it's in my best interest to make sure everything is clean.
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ORIGINAL: Online4Abuse
I don't like pay-for programs ever since I found it nearly impossible to eradicate Norton when I wanted to change to McAfee (and McAfee wouldn't run properly until Norton was completely uninstalled, including all the DLL files it leaves behind...). And I've never found them necessary; not convinced Norton or McAfee would find all versions of all Trojans, but I'm not going to test it empirically!
You might not be surprised to learn that I actually have tested most AV stuff to destruction [:D]
And to remove Norton completely, download the Norton removal tool from their website.
Let me tell you a little adventure I had when doing this...
Bear in mind I am running 12 PC's here on a home network and all machines are online 24/7.
Obviously, each machine once installed and setup and scanned, are setup as "trusted" sources within the network - everything else is considered as 'hostile'.
A friend brought his PC to me because it was running extremely slowly and he thought he'd got a virus. He was at a loss because he'd paid $7,500 for his MacAfee business level AV and thought he was pretty safe and secure.
I didn't trust putting his machine on the network so I just hooked up his 120GB hard drive and scanned it with Norton Internet Security (it has the AV built-in).
I turned off the AV scanner after 3 days.
Why?
Because it had found over 15,000 viruses and trojans and was only halfway through the scan!!
So you can guess what my opinion of MacAfee is. lol.
That said, I'm not saying Norton is the best either - but it is quite reasonable.
My objection is the cost of the renewal yearly subscriptions for most of them.
Quite often, you can buy the latest retail release off the shelf for more than 25% less than a yearly renewal.
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ORIGINAL: Online4Abuse
As for login patterns, I've never noticed that "last on" updates regularly when someone forgets to log out. Usually, it will say (for example) "Last on at 8:00" until they do something (such as read a mail). It seems some people who use phone apps can have a "last on" stuck at an earlier time until they log in again, no matter what their activity, but those of us on PCs will see it update with activity.
Please educate me if I'm wrong, but if someone's profile says "Last on 8:00" then "Last on 8:02" then "Last on 8:04" and so on throughout the day, it usually means they are doing something, doesn't it? Or they have a program that is doing something for them...
That can be attributed to updates on the site's streaming adverts and is quite common.
I have a friend who uses the Yahoo IM on her smart phone or ipad.
But instead of signing out properly, she just turns her phone/ipad off.
I have told her many times that turning her phone off doesn't disconnect her from Yahoo.
At my end, she still shows as 'online' but obviously when her end is turned off, she doesn't know about any messages people send her until she turns it back on again.
So I wouldn't necessarily put much credence into what the site is telling you. lol.
You might be interested in what I use for security (and I just know you're gonna laugh)....
Good old Ms Security Essentials - and it's free!
It's surprisingly good for what it is.
It has detected attempted hacks, bad websites, infected emails, all manner of trojans and stuff that Norton, Avast, and Kaspersky didn't pick up. What's more, no false positives either.... yet.
Although it's good for those, like a lot of other AV's, it's not so good at finding other hijacks and malware that Malware Bytes detects.
So these days, I just run those two - Ms Security Essentials and Malware Bytes Anti-malware.
About once a month or so, I use the online scanners at Norton and a couple of others just to check - and they have never found anything at all at the end of a full scan.
That seems pretty encouraging to me.
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