using avast! alone,or with its brothers

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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hi brothers i just want to know the percentage of the users who trust in running one anti malware system like avast! :wink:

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I use Avast together with WinPatrol Free Edition, I´ve never encountered any problem in my computer, no viruses, no malware.

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I use avast! 5 with free Rising antivirus with only the HIPS portion of Rising installed. Seems to operate very smoothly with avast! and it seems to have a good strong HIPS with everything set to maximum. I wasn’t very happy with the antivirus portion though. It cannot be updated from a limited user account and detection does not seem as strong as avast!.

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Avast Pro + MBAM + Yoggie Pico Pro Firewall

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I use avast! 5 with free Rising antivirus with only the HIPS portion of Rising installed
new info thanks
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I use avast! 5 free + online armor free firewall (www.tallemu.com). Running two antivirus resident shields is known to cause conflicts. Using avast! 5 + HIPS (such as outpost pro/free, online armor paid/free, comodo firewall (not antivirus), PCTools free firewall OR threatfire free (without firewall)) is a reasonable combination. Running two resident shields is redundant, cumbersome and unnecessary.

By the way, are you running all of those security programs in your signature simultaneously? (SAS, MBAM, Hitman, Spybot, Adaware, Avira, Avast, etc) Or are you just using avast and keeping the others for on-demand only?

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Hi superhacker,

I use avast in the following resident formula - avast + ZA + ThreatFire + ImmunetProtect + RUBotted + Secunia PSI + SAS on XP SP3

polonus

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Do you feel that the benefit:drawback ratio of these security programs favors running all 7 of them simultaneously? What about consolidating them into signatured-based anti-virus resident shield, HIPS/behavior shield, Firewall (3). It seems to me that either of these 3:

  1. avast! 5 IS + threatfire free alone would cover everything and add process virtualization (sandboxing).
  2. Or, avast! 5 free + comodo firewall (or online armor free or outpost firewall free) +/- sandboxie
  3. Or, avast! 5 free + threatfire free + ZA free (OR online armor free with HIPS deactivated) +/- sandboxie

would solve all of these problems, use fewer system resources, and would probably be somewhat more secure as it adds process virtualization (I don’t know what immune protect is/does, so if this is a sandbox, I apologize).

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I think that is overkill to be honest and unsure if it really does a good.

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Hi, I’m using avast 5 free,kerio 2.1.5 fw, eq secure hips, sandboxie. :slight_smile: win xp

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By the way, are you running all of those security programs in your signature simultaneously? (SAS, MBAM, Hitman, Spybot, Adaware, Avira, Avast, etc) Or are you just using avast and keeping the others for on-demand only?
no,but i name programs and say my opinion about it now i run avast 5 free+spyware blaster+threat fire+clam win av+sas
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I use Avast! alone. I personally do not need more security software … more important is - in my opinion - an everytime up-to-date system and the usage of a not so widespread internet browser (e. g Opera, Iron).

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more important is - in my opinion - an everytime up-to-date system and the usage of a not so widespread internet browser (e. g Opera, Iron).
that will protect you from experience black hat hackers ;D
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Just Avast 5.0, and Spyware Blaster. But note that Spyware Blaster is NOT a scanner or an anti-virus remover. It is a shield blocker to protect malware from getting in your system. It is also a non-memory resident application, which is good. I usually do a deep scan with Avast once a month and than update Spyware Blaster.

I also use Firefox, and only use IE as a last resort browser.

Jack

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But note that Spyware Blaster is NOT a scanner or an anti-virus remover. It is a shield blocker to protect malware from getting in your system. It is also a non-memory resident application, which is good. I usually do a deep scan with Avast once a month and than update Spyware Blaster.
i know that thanks ;)
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In my signature.
I try to cover each layer with an appropriate tool, and also make regular backups to an external drive.
Avast is the mainstay tool, but it’s part of a bunch.
No slowdown worth worrying about, either.

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Hi folks,

The overkill, well I can live with it, processes that are somewhat consuming are agent.exe 11.792 kB, vsmon.exe 21.528 kB and ashServ.exe 17.452 kB, well what does not consumes much is SAS 740 kB, iptray 532 kB, ashMaiSv.exe 288 kB, Mem usage with streaming radio on 72% CPU usage 19%, no conflicts. The only thing to complain about is when ThreatFire is updating that is consuming a lot of resources, a real resource-hog updater, to the contrary ImmunetProtect, an in the cloud av and ThreatFire addition, is very light on resources, PSI is only active at changes of third party software,
but I might test out other configurations to cover the same security window,

polonus

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I have avast! 5.0 Free, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot Search and Destroy (no TeaTimer running) (manual scan), SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition (manual scan), Windows Defender.

Have had no problems at all running avast and Windows Defender - the others are only run on demand.