RE: Protection From Malware (Windows Users)
April 26, 2013 at 4:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2013 at 4:55 pm by Love.)
(April 26, 2013 at 4:37 pm)Tonus Wrote: We use Vipre Enterprise on our systems, having switched from Symantec Endpoint Protection a year or two ago.
Interesting. Well as a home user, I am strongly considering discarding local AV/Internet security software completely. AVG is good, but the amount of obvious malware that goes undetected by it (even if it is completely up to date) is unacceptable. This is why I execute all dodgy Windows applications and websites in the Linux VM; it is vastly more secure.
(April 26, 2013 at 4:37 pm)Tonus Wrote: Malwarebytes and TDSSKiller are still my go-to tools when a machine is infected.
Aside from the method that I use, how would you go about "preventing" a Windows machine from being infected in the first place (assuming that the malware is undetectable on most commercial AV packages? Would you simply allow your machine to become infected and then endeavour to remove the virus(es) using Malwarebytes and TDSSKiller? I just do longer have a great deal of confidence in virus removal programs.
