Guest broavoiliom Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Shame. My information continues to be stolen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realitycheck Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 (edited) Malwarebytes.com, though there are possibly a few other free ones that might be better. I'm seeing Mcafee as the most popular these days for a price. Edited September 4, 2011 by Realitycheck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Malwarebytes definitely. I also use Ad Aware and C Cleaner. Anti virus is AVG free and AFAIK I have not had any sort of infection in years. I get alerts and the horrible bit of code dies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Microsoft Security Essentials is free and fairly fast and effective. Stolen information is more likely these days to be a result of dodgy websites, I suspect. One must be careful not to be tricked by phishing scams and dodgy websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaled Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Lava AD-AWARE is the top-rated anti-spyware by CNET group ... download: LAVE:AD-AWARE good luck, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfa99 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 consider also a virus scanner There are several for free like bit defender and avira to name just a few. Thanks Charles www.cfalabs.com Lava AD-AWARE is the top-rated anti-spyware by CNET group ... download: LAVE:AD-AWARE good luck, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Malwarebytes.com, though there are possibly a few other free ones that might be better. I'm seeing Mcafee as the most popular these days for a price. Malwarebytes.org, not .com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaled Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 If you are going to pay for security, I won't suggest Mcafee because it sandbox your system and it has big update blocks, I wouldn't suggest Norton, because it's system is too complex that it makes your system lag, and its updates take too long if you use low-speed internet. I'd suggest Kaspersky, as you'd know that it's the most pirated AV in the world, because it's light-weight with light weekly updates, and a smart system that asks you for any event that occur in your system, instead of sandboxing your whole system ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobson Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 The latest version on Norton is not that heavy, and you can customize it to become lighter... If you have north of 4 Gigs of memory it should be OK... Kaspersky is also a very good option... McFee....mixed feelings..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 (edited) Avast, Antivir, MS Security Essentials are all fine as real-time AV's...it's a case of choose the one that suits. As for routine on-demand scanners having Superantispyware and Malwarebytes are in my armoury. For protection of online transactions and password protection (which is used by quite a few UK banks) I use Rapport. I just use the free versions. In the event of positively identifying malware on my system I reimage my system with a saved backup made by Macrium Reflect Free which I update regularly with new images. I never save my data or images on the system partition...these are kept on a separate one. I don't bother trying to get rid of malware by using the above utilities, they are for detection purposes only, as malware invariably trashes the registry, and repair is never satisfactory imo and is time consuming; a reimage takes me 20 minutes. Edited October 2, 2011 by StringJunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rktpro Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 MS Security Essentials is the best -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scepticmale1985 Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 MS Security Essential is not better than Malwarebytes in my opinion, MSE cannot remove many spyware programs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 (edited) MS Security Essential is not better than Malwarebytes in my opinion, MSE cannot remove many spyware programs... MSE's forte is as a real-time antimalware solution. No single solution is best. A good solution is to use one real-time (always on) AV and a couple of on-demand scanners like Superantispyware and Malwarebytes on a routine basis as backup. The best way to recover from an attack is to re-image your PC, not try to remove the malware. I think antimalware should be seen as detection utilities and not removal ones. Edited October 10, 2011 by StringJunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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