It may well be MBAM which is slowing it down. However, I believe that a resident MBAM represents a critical component of a layered approach to PC security. Therefore, I would be loathe to cease using the resident function.
It really is a crying shame, as I quite like PCTools’ products. Their firewall PCTools Firewall Plus has proven a lightweight, easy to use and reliable programme. Moreover, the reviews, both professional and user, of ThreatFire were overwhelmingly positive.
I would choose only one, resident MBAM or avast!
Running both might actually reduce your protection due to one resident service blocking detection by the other.
My computer: 2 Gb of RAM, Intel Duo T2370 with 1.73 GHz, Win Vista Home Basic SP2.
My resident protection (the latest versions): Avast, SpywareTerminator, TrendMicro RUBotted, Windows Defender, Windows 7 (former Vista) Firewall Control, and ThreatFire.
I think that ThreatFire has better detection than MBAM, because TF not scan like traditional AV and fucuses in behavior. Also, can detect any type of threat that MBAM don’t detect. So it not will slowdown installation processes and executions like other produccs. Also, I have WD disable.
ThreatFire is able to stop never- before-seen “zero-day” threats solely by detecting their malicious activity.
MBAM, SAS, and other tools, is for cleaning purposes. And they are for use in already infected computer. This is my opinion. These are TOOLS, and detection rate is lower than avast! and others AV. They focus in nasty, difficult and severe threats.
Lets not start making sweeping statements and then prefix or suffix it with “This is my opinion.”
Any resident anti-spyware/malware is capable of proactive protection (in their area of expertise/specialisation). If they are capable of cleaning an infected system, then as a resident solution, it is equally capable of stopping it infecting the system in the first place. That would be akin to saying avast can clean infected systems but it can’t prevent the infection.
You can’t compare detection rates of anti-spyware against an antivirus application as they are different.
The reference to the avast topic by essexboy doesn’t change that fact, simply that he uses it for cleaning already infected systems.
This is primarily because the same tool as you are calling them weren’t installed as a resident AS/AM to prevent the infection in the first place, which avast didn’t either detect or couldn’t remove.
