threatfire seems like a good program or you can try superantispyware. I didn’t like superantispyware though because it seemed to slow down my computer.
You could use superantispyware as a on demand scanner and run it weekly without installing it then it would not use your resources.In fact a lot of people use superantispyware and malwarebytes as on demand scanners.
Could it be possible to have Avast (real-time) + DrWeb-CureIt (on demand) + Spywareterminator (real-time) + SpywareBlaster (prevention) + VistaFirewallControl (real-time) + ThreatFire (background analysis) + Superantispyware (on demand) simultaneously?
Are there any known conflicts between ThreatFire and KeyScrambler?
George,try Sandboxie,ideal for surfing,opening email attatchments etc.Basically everything is done on a sandbox,nothing touches the real system.So if you open a dodgy email,or surf a dodgy site,and you get infected simply empty the box,virus gone.
I think the paid version is well worth every penny.With this you can have multiple boxes,force programs to open sandboxed,create rules for each box,allow only certain programs to be able to access the net from the box,( for example,if firefox.exe,is allowed access,and a virus is downloaded which has named itself firefox.exe,access is denied.) You can set boxes to auto delete on closing browser/email.Also if there is any thing in the box you wish to recover,it will be recovered to the same location outside the box.
ALL activity in the box/boxes is clearly visible to Avast,and you can easily scan files in the box, by opening C:/ and right clicking on sanbox,and choose scan.
Sandboxie now has a built in Dropmyrights feature,where things inside the box have on limited user rights.
Check out the free version.
micky77
I’m not so active in web-surfing and usually get emails from people I know well. Besides, I prefer to find FOSS-decisions (Free and Open Source Software).
But non-resident scanners do not.
I have avast resident together with secunia PSI. RUBotted and ComodoBoClean run resident, and the rest of my scanners are on demand ClamWin, MBAM, SAS & a-squared free (which I keep updated and do a scan with every fortnight and a full scan every month or when needed), SpywareBlaster protection in the background…
Inside Firefox browser my security depends on NoScript, Perspectives and RequestPolicy, CSP, finjan and WOT, and to qualify webbugs etc. I have FoxBeacon & KarmaBlocker, CookieEditor and that is all installed and for privacy ABP & TMN, firekeeper as Browser Intrusion Detector,
Malwarebytes isn’t free. Please, have a look at my signature: “May the FOSS be with you!” Except preinstalled Vista and MSO 2007, everything in my computer is FOSS (free and open source software). If I were younger and there were no compatibility issues, I would use a Linux instead of Windows and would use OpenOffice.org without MSO. I believe that in the modern world, where computers are not articles of luxury, main software should be FOSS.
