Like i can see every guy and specialist got his own security and its the way to the users if he choice this or no. Like i say i got all Microsoft mentioned for a essential security to protect my pc. So if i want bonus i will do it. But for now im not plained to install/uninstall a security to replace or something.
So i appreciate your recommendation David but for now i dont need it. Just dont worry about my pc. I handle it.
Bye and thank you.
Have a nice day.
Mr.Agent
Yes its your choice, but when giving/offering/suggesting advice to others then you have to be a little more careful and confirm what you say is fact rather than conjecture.
So now you have said some registry can destroy your PC, which if anything supports having a specialist anti-spyware as it is entirely possible for malware to do exactly that. That is why a specialist application is more likely to get it right in that regard, however, like anything security related you shouldn’t take anything at face value and conform detections before taking action.
Registry cleaners too would fall into that category could damage your system, but they too are specialist tools and choose the right one which back-up before removing registry entries are less likely to cause unrecoverable issues. The same is true of specialist anti-spyware that back-up/quarantine detections to give a recovery option.
As you said your system your choice, but that is it your choice, so others should make their own informed decision based on fact rather than conjecture.
Well i can say i got some security program and yeah Avast! is a part of my anti virus and i can say since i got Avast! i never did got any problem. Before i was having Kaspersky,Mcafee,Norton… And my computer was getting owned all time by these virus. But until i get Avast! its learning me a lot and now i recently dont get virus or something. So yeah i did learning a lot with Avast! by these nice users. And if there was a follow problem again a virus that Avast! or my anti spyware scanner that will fail again it. For sure i would try these 2 on demand anti spywares that u said. That what its great to suggest. Because more we talk about anti virus product and security. Then more we will know and discover.
Mr.Agent
Ok guys, that was very helpful so far. I really had better picture about this. Since I post this thread asking for “Advices, suggestions, recommendations” just wanted to hear from more experienced/knowledgeable what works. If someone thinks “essentials” are enough that’s OK, I respect that. But I am looking for additional layers of protection to have “piece of mind”.
@DavidR
I have read some nice reviews about “Threatfire” (and some so-so) why you don’t recommend it? ???
When I was reading some reviews on other sites, there was something it was really annoying. It is advertisement that pops-up when you slide mouse over a word that is “underlined” with 2 lines. I would really like to avoid this thing. How?
Sorry for bothering, but like I said I’am not very experienced about software.
Thanx again,
Gor
wth. I like SpyBot.
Gor, there are multiple layers of protection you can have, but you need to be careful not to have multiple antivirus programs installed simultaneously. AV programs’ primary function is as something called TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident,) which means the Antivirus runs in the background and acts accordingly when it needs to. If you have mutiple AV’s installed at the same time, they can sllloooowww your system down by scanning each other or the same files you’re trying to access, together, all day long. There are other programs called antispyware or antimalware, which don’t scan your system in the same fashion, and thus don’t conflict with your antivirus. Among these antispyware programs, some of them edit your Hosts file or registry to block installation of certain spywares, while others are used to scan your computer for spyware to discover if any are installed. SuperAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, and Ad-Aware only run scans when you tell them to check for spyware (unless you pay, and it will schedule it.) SpywareBlaster edits the registry and host file to block spyware installations. SpyBot does both.
Okay, so first thing… Norton sucks. Never use Norton. Ever.
Second, Avast is wonderful as an Antivirus software. It’s free and imo, it works at least as well as Trend’s PC-cillin does, if not better.
Third, with regard to “multiple layers of protection,” I would suggest installing SpywareBlaster, SpyBot, SuperAntiSpyware AND Anti-Malware.
Use SpyBot’s immunize ability and SpywareBlaster to prevent certain programs from ever installing.
Use SuperAntiSpyware and/or Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware to scan for spyware if you’re suspicious that any could be installed on your machine. These two programs have better active scanning abilities than SpyBot does, but I find that SpyBot’s Immunize option works well.
And, of course, use Avast!. I got a virus/malware once with AVG, that Avast! would have detected.
#1 Personally I have never felt the need to use it given the other protection that I have and there have been a number of topics reporting problems with it and other programs (firefox add-ons for one).
#2 This is normally in the html code (mouseover) that can change the text colour, size and as you can see small notification pop-ups. It entirely depends on how they achieve that (javascript, html or css, etc.) and the browser you are using. So there really is no easy way to answer as there is no information to work with.
Me I would suggest firefox and noscript as if this is script based (javascript not html) then noscript would block it unless you gave permission for that site to run scripts.
Thanx DavidR for all help it’s highly appreciated,
Let me hear opinion for couple more freebies:
Spyware Doctor Starter Edition - paid version has very high reviews
Spyware Terminator
Returnil Virtual System
Thx,
Gor
Sorry I forgot to add
a-squared Anti-Malware 4.0
THX
Spyware terminator review- part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YjBO2hmwvI&feature=channel_page
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEYEXwBme0&feature=channel_page
A sqaured review - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mrizos&view=videos&query=squared Watch all 5 part
Spyware doctor starter edition has decent detection but is a memory hog
Never tested Returnil virtual system
It’s not an antispyware but a “system freeze” tool, a full sandbox of the system partition: nothing is saved to it, you restart your computer and it’s turned back to the original (freezed) state.