spyware blaster & spyware guard

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[Ganda]

Actually, firewall and antivirus is only 'must have', tho it's good to have others, like Spybot, since it blocks lots of malware, this preventing it from ever being installed. Also scans for around 70,000 malwares, updates 1-3 times a week.
I also like TeaTimer, which protects your startup, BHO's, ActiveX etc. against changing.

Else there's Lavasoft Ad-Aware(http://www.lavasoft.de).
Click 'Ad-Aware' in the menu and then 'Ad-Aware Free Edition'.
The only thing Free edition lacks is real-time protection, but you'll surivve without it.


Ragwing

then i guess my security setting with CAVS,CFP, & CBO + superantispyware is enough. am i right?

[Ragwing]

then i guess my security setting with CAVS,CFP, & CBO + superantispyware is enough. am i right?

Yes, it's good enough.
And of course it won't hurt to use Windows Update once a month.
Heard CAVS doesn't got such a great virus database, but it's pretty new, and its HIPS will cover that part.


Ragwing

[LeoniAquila]

Sounds like a good setup, ganda. I've heard that asquared is a good antispyware program too. No real time protection in the free version, but you can make deep scans.

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

/LA

[Japo]

For free on-demand antispyware I hear that AVG AS Free, A-Squared and Superantispyware are thorough. Freebies with real time protection that I know, besides the already mentioned ones (SpywareBlaster and S&D's TeaTimer), are Spyware Terminator (I use it and includes an optional HIPS) which is reportedly good, and Microsoft's Windows Defender which is reportedly a so-so defence. WD is included in Vista I think. Also most times you can have as many of these programs at the same time, even the resident ones without conflict, and of course as many on-demanders as you like or feel paranoid enough to have. It's always good to have more than one antispyware scanners since their individual detection rates are lower than the antiviruses'.

EDIT: +1 but yes, your current resident protection is well enough, especially if you keep some on-demand antispyware handy (I recon you do) for the occasional scan or in case you detect trouble.

[Ganda]

It's always good to have more than one antispyware scanners since their individual detection rates are lower than the antiviruses'.

i have CBO & superantispyware.i've tried spywareterminator once, but i don't like to have double HIPS and double AV. (yes, i can disable ST's HIPS & clam AV,but that makes me uncomfortable seeing the yellow warning).

EDIT: +1 but yes, your current resident protection is well enough, especially if you keep some on-demand antispyware handy (I recon you do) for the occasional scan or in case you detect trouble.

i scan my computer daily with my CAV & superAS,check for update daily, do safe surf, i guess my computer's safer & more secured than me
thx for your opinions guys.
 
Ganda


 

[Japo]

i've tried spywareterminator once, but i don't like to have double HIPS and double AV. (yes, i can disable ST's HIPS & clam AV,but that makes me uncomfortable seeing the yellow warning).

I have ClamAV disabled since I use Avira. You only get serious warnings if you haven't scanned (at least fast scan) for too long; if you have the whole resident protection down (you can have some of it down like the HIPS or in my case the IE shields); or if the program is out of date (the update is automatic anyway).

Still your current setup is enough and grants you good protection I reckon.

[Ganda]

I have ClamAV disabled since I use Avira. You only get serious warnings if you haven't scanned (at least fast scan) for too long; if you have the whole resident protection down (you can have some of it down like the HIPS or in my case the IE shields); or if the program is out of date (the update is automatic anyway).

as far as i can remember, if we disable ST's HIPS, the box in ST window colored yellow and tell 10 of 11 (or 9 of 10) protection enabled (it's annoying). and i don't like to know that there's an uncheck option (to integrate Clam AV). i feel like i'm wasting the food given to me.

Still your current setup is enough and grants you good protection I reckon.

i guess so,
i've used symantec Firewall & AV before and spyware doctor (with realtime shield off), the firewall sometimes warn me when it blocks an attack (mostly by trojan, BLA TROJAN HORSE something), but when i did SD ondemand scan,it still detects some nasties.
i'd bought a new computer about 2 months ago, and used COMODOWARE,so far i've never found any malware and CFP never shows any hi-severity event.
am i just lucky? or my comodoware has done the job flawlessly?sometimes i really wanna see my CFP shows high severity warning.that way, i know that it's working.

thx JAPO.


Ganda

[Japo]

Still no need to install additional programs since you're pretty safe. But just for the record and since ST has a new version since very recently, this is its main page:

There are two informative warnings but still it's telling me that 3 out of 3 critical systems are running.

[Ganda]

is that your hand writing
that's exactly what i mean. yellow "disable" and shields : 8 of 10 enabled.
but nevermind, it's more a mind problem rather than security problem.
thx

Ganda

[Japo]

is that your hand writing

No it's my MOUSE writing. Guess I haven't eaten enough cheese lately.

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