Hi, I just want to know some information about Threatfire, I know this topic has been discussed before, but I was thinking of installing this program and just want to know from other users that can Threatfire be used together with Avast, cos I know having 2 real time antivirus scanners can conflict with one another and make it unstable.
So the question is can Threatfire be used together with Avast.
Are there any conflicts having the 2 programs together running at the same time.
Is it worth having Threatfire together with Avast to make my PC more secure.
PS. I had Avast for about 1 year now and it has done a excellent job in protecting my PC. I only had 1 virus so far and that was the virut virus that Avast did a good job in quarantine and deleting it.
I also had bitdefender 10 free on demand scanner installed to see if Avast had miss any viruses and it didn’t miss any so I was thinking of uninstall bitdefender and replace it with Threatfire.
So I love to hear anyone opinion about this decision I am making.
Remember to dont got 2 anti virus. You should uninstall BitDefender 10 Free right now and Threatfire shouldnt conflict with Avast!. I did hear some user of Avast! use Avast! with ThreatFire if im not wrong
Threatfire does not conflict with avast. It’s a behavior scanner.
I think you won’t need it on avast 5.
BitDefender free won’t conflict either, as it is only on-demand, not resident.
ThreatFire, as I’ve said before.
SpywareTerminator: I think it’s not needed even on avast 4.
SpywareBlaster: it’s an immunization tool. avast 5 won’t do its job.
Vista Firewall Control: if you use avast 5 suite, you’ll have a firewall (not free).
Trend Micro RUBotted: don’t know how it works.
Not shareware, the Suite version of avast will be a paid option. There no doubt will be a similar trial period as there currently is with the avast Pro version after which you would have to pay for the license.
The stand alone avast Home version will not have the avast firewall.
Essentially no, but avast Home version 5.0 will have additional features mentioned in other areas of the forum, behaviour function. So in some ways you could be better protected whilst still using the free version of avast.
The Suite will have the firewall and a couple of other functions I believe, anti-spam for one, but that will obviously be a paid for option.
Like you say David its make me feel more secure. And i hope this Avast! 5 will be a great products. Because i did see the Alpha like you and its look so amazing. I can know that a anti virus cant detect all virus for sure. But what Avast! will do im sure its will help
From what I’ve seen, yes it is effective. I must surf in the paddling pool a bit, though, because I’ve never seen it actually put to the test. It has popped behaviour warnings when starting or installing little known-of applications, which is what you expect in a behaviour blocker. Usually what seems to do the most in keeping me malware free (possibly apart from the firewall and being ruthlessly up to date) is the Avast webshield and network shield. And maybe the hosts file/spywareblaster.
The webshield pops a warning from time to time. Naturally the site doesn’t then get loaded.
I don’t test known malware locations to see if TF will catch the nasty.
Yes, Threatfire will kill bad stuff. But it has also killed stuff that was not malware on my computer. The problem I had with Threatfire was that it also killed my FDM download manager that was running at the time the suspect file was killed. Not only did it kill Free Download Manager it made me install it in a different directory as it locked the original FDM installation. This crap happened a few times with other innocent programs that were also running at the time, including Firefox and Thunderbird and I said enough is enough. I got Zemana Antilogger instead - better protection, less resource use and no problems.
This can be an issue, and although it has never happened to me, I have seen much discussion on the TF forums concerning avilable options when a process is flagged. The main beef is that there is no option to “ignore”.
However, for threats that are “non malicious”, that is, the process isn’t actually on a blacklist, just unknown, the options I have available are “prompt me”.
I don’t know if that is the default option or not. But you do want to be prompted. The other options are “allow” and “quarantine”. I would suggest “quarantine” would be an option that, if selected, could have the result described above.
Hi guys, and Tech thanks for replying to my post about threatfire, well I installed it and it did clash with spyware terminator shield and avast at the beginning where it though spyware termin shield and avast ash was malware and it actually quarintine the avast files automatically which i then restored and then it deleted one of the avast mail scanner, so then i had to repair the avast antivirus and got back the mail scanner file that was missing and so far Im testing it and it has gone well so far as to see how it goes farther down the track.
Imo the best way to prevent malware, spyware is to try and prevent it from installing into the computer in the first place as I had some resdient scanners to prevent those nasties from coming into my hard drive and I had on demand scanner like malwarebytes, superantispyware, a-squared which I scan about 1 a week and it find no spyware (only tracking cookies) at all.
So here my security arsenal if people want to follow it to try and be malware free.
Spyware blaster, comodo fw, avast av, spyware terminator (installed Shield only from the program) winpatrol, threatfire, firefox (with no script), and here are my on demand scanner just incase it has got through my security, malware bytes, superantispyware, a-squared, bit defender 10 free edition.
And I just uninstalled spybots and imo ad-aware and spybots are out of date software that were good about 8-10 years ago but not now.
And DavidR I saw ur sig and u have mail washer pro, do u know if the free version scans for hotmail, yahoo, and gmail. as I would like to secure my emails and check to see if they are safe before from opening them.
Description
POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape and other services. Send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. POP Peeper allows you to view messages using HTML or you can choose to safely view all messages in rich or plain text. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). POP Peeper can be run from a portable device and can be password protected. Many notification options are availble to indicate when new mail has arrived, such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, skinnable popup notifier, customized screensaver and more.
It used to be OK on Hotmail when I used it, but that was some years ago when it was MS WebDev that did the conversion from web mail to download with an email client like OE, mailwasher just imports the account settings from your email client to use. I have no idea if this still works as MS are changing to DeltaSync to do the conversion.
I have never used Yahoo (if a pop3 account it should) or Gmail so I don’t know if that would work or not.
Spyware blaster, comodo fw, avast av, spyware terminator (installed Shield only from the program) winpatrol, threatfire, firefox (with no script), and here are my on demand scanner just incase it has got through my security, malware bytes, superantispyware, a-squared, bit defender 10 free edition.
Well, IMO that's way too heavy. You have too many overlaps from programs offering similar areas of protection.
But, if it works for you problem free, go for it.
FWIW, from that list I’d do away with ST, Winpatrol, and Firefox, and just used the D+ in Comodo.
