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cyberarmy

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WKJ?:beanie said:
It might replace AVG Free as my preferred free anti-virus, from what I've read of it :) But for a paid option I'd still go with NOD32 :cool:
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I will not pay for any antivirus at the moment becasue non of them are perfect in my eyes, Eset is great in the VB100 test, but in real life it's another story (that's why some AV vendor is now trying to set up new test standard and phase out the VB 100 and anything similar that just scan at samples rather than see how it react to real virus/trojan/malware in real life).

I would not go into further details on this and want to avoid turning this into A VS B discussion. But just guys just bear in mind nowadays there are professionals sitting in front of the PC and QA their malwares with all major antivirus software to make sure it's clean before it's released on the net and they update some of these malwares more than 10 times a day to make sure it's not detected, so if you are high risk user/paranoid about security, you need to get multiple layers of protection (Antivirus+HIPS+Sandbox .etc):eek:
 
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The_Techie

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cyberarmy said:
I will not pay for any antivirus at the moment becasue non of them are perfect in my eyes, Eset is great in the VB100 test, but in real life it's another story (that's why some AV vendor is now trying to set up new test standard and phase out the VB 100 and anything similar that just scan at samples rather than see how it react to real virus/trojan/malware in real life).

I would not go into further details on this and want to avoid turning this into A VS B discussion. But just guys just bear in mind nowadays there are professionals sitting in front of the PC and QA their malwares with all major antivirus software to make sure it's clean before it's released on the net and they update some of these malwares more than 10 times a day to make sure it's not detected, so if you are high risk user/paranoid about security, you need to get multiple layers of protection (Antivirus+HIPS+Sandbox .etc):eek:
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I use Sandboxie quite often :D

Mind you, I am quite choosy about which websites I visit :D
 
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cyberarmy

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WKJ?:beanie said:
I use Sandboxie quite often :D

Mind you, I am quite choosy about which websites I visit :D
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I use regular expression to filter out small/zero height/width iframe in html, so most of the drive-by download (even reputable sites could be hacked and appended such iframe somewhere in the codes) does not affect me. :D

I used to be a volunteer on overseas PC forum for malware removal, quitted because it's a time consuming process and also I have been promoted to admin level :p
 
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killadoob

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i stopped using an anti virus since vista 64 bit

i have not a avirus or anything since i installed it

i load up avg once a week and check then uninstall again

think they have problems writing stuff for 64 bit systems
 
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AirWolf

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killadoob said:
i stopped using an anti virus since vista 64 bit

i have not a avirus or anything since i installed it

i load up avg once a week and check then uninstall again

think they have problems writing stuff for 64 bit systems
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Nod32 does have 64 bit version ;).
 
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Ekhaatvensters

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lol, killa means the virus writers have trouble writing viruses for 64-bit. Or at least, they have trouble getting them into the kernel and such.
 
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noswal

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FWIW installed Ver8 on laptop and with email scanner and link scanner on it froze my system, without those active it works fine
 
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