"When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here.
Any thoughts?
I know avast! is strictly an av program, is my current line of defense against these “advanced” spyware and rootkits would be enough?
What would yousay if you were to enter aggressively into the anti-malware theater? Exactly the same thing. Put a little fear into the average user to make them go for your product.
Now the facts, if you have multi-layered defenses like a combination of a good resident anti-virus product, good resident software firewall, the three main anti-spyware programs like spybot s&d, spywareblaster & ad-aware, an anti trojan solution like ewido or a-squared, and a system monitoring program like the Russian SSM, together with in-browser security add-ons (DrWeb pre-link scanner, siteadvisor, NoScript, etc) together with surfing with normal user rights, there is not much that can happen to you, not even with hidden trojans, drive by installs, and even rootkits. You are safe, and what will it cost you 0,00$,
not one single rupiah my friend, just the download time.
IMHO, Since the new virus, rootkit and/or mahlware always comes befor the fix,
your own browsing habits are the only real defense.
;D ;D “He who plays with fire, is sure to get burned” ;D ;D
It’s so sad though that you have to install 500 programs just to make your system safe. I think it is time that governments began to cut down on spyware. Once corporations are not allowed to use spyware without fully notifying the user, I think you will see a huge decrease in spyware development.
Not really. I can live just fine with decent antivirus and the most basic inbound firewall (WinXP SP2 one). Browser is of course not IE6, though i use IE7 Beta2 for certain stuff.
Don’t even remember when i was infected last time…
Look, Microsoft is just a bunch of B/S if most apps were not written for Windows I would not use it. It is amazing how Microsoft never fails to create a bug in product. You can’t even have Microsoft Works without them coming out with updates to protect you, yes Microsoft Works, kinda sorry isn’t it? Oh I would like to know when the last time Microsoft made an original product not of something other people made. Windows was based off of Mac, Word was based off of WordPerfect, Money off of Quicken, and Office off of the WordPerfect office program (forgot what that was called :-[) So my question to you forum users is. When was the last time Microsoft really created something original? something that was based off of Microsoft not some other company!
Staind, I feel the same. Although I try not to put all 500 programs for security and try to take some of the resources for my own work and pleasure, I think that when somebody starts to fight spam and spyware like they deserve, things will gona be different…
Anyway, I do a lot of online banking (paying bills, shopping, etc). Very convenient that is, but I’m also worry. Just like Bob says, malwares do come before the fix and in seconds my financial details could be in someone’s hands.
I would say that you have more multi-layer defense than most have. As long as you keep those up-to-date and use them once a week, you should have very few problems.
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