win7 My recent obsession with security

[JustGeorge]

Open Task Manager and select to view all processes and tell me if those numbers are still correct. I used to think MSE didn't use much RAM till I showed all processes and discovered a third MSE service consuming 50Mb of RAM.

Do you want to explain why WSA is so bad? Maybe is better SpyBot? Or maybe Emsisoft? Or even better MSE? lol.

@sanctified.

Try Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus. This is WSA installed on 4 gb of ram:

Mar-Apr/2012 AV-Test results:

http://www.av-test.o...testreports_pi1[report_no]=121361

[sanctified Veteran]

Not overkill at all, personally I don't need all the stuff from the 'Complete' version. PM me - I can send you a link with 50% off - only $39.95 for WSA Complete instead of $79.95.

Awesome. PM sent.

[sanctified Veteran]

Now it is a link from Softpedia, not sure if that's a terrible thing.

http://download1us.s...hrome-win32.zip

I would like a more trusted site.

Softpedia sometimes carry questionable apps. I would like a developer page that keep pushing builds and give direct support.

[yxz]

Wanna share a link please? :)

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/index.html

edit:

http://dev.chromium....ost-of-the-time

[sanctified Veteran]

http://commondatasto...uous/index.html

Thanks a lot. Will try it.

[Marshall Veteran]

I'm not familiar with nor do I have any experience with Webroot, but, I've been using Eset Nod32 for years and it has never failed me. It is also one of the few AV's that is light on resources.

[sanctified Veteran]

http://commondatasto...uous/index.html

Just downloaded the latest mini installer. Will try it for the rest of the week. It imported my srw iron profile on the fly. So good so far.

[Copernic Reporter]

Open Task Manager and select to view all processes and tell me if those numbers are still correct. I used to think MSE didn't use much RAM till I showed all processes and discovered a third MSE service consuming 50Mb of RAM.

No task manager noob here, WSA Antivirus has only 2 processes:

[sanctified Veteran]

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After reading several reviews and a private pm I caved and bought the complete suite. Thanks a lot for that recommendation.

[sanctified Veteran]

Gotta say. You dont even notice Webroot is running in the background. Very light on resources and the computer scan was amazingly fast (Also, detected extra malware hiding in the appdata folder).

[Copernic Reporter]

In terms of resource usage there's nothing that can beat WSA, and according to the AV Test, Virus Bulletin etc..WSA rules. Glad you like it.

[sanctified Veteran]

Now a summary:

Replaced MSE with Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete

Followed all the advises found in J_R_G's amazing guide here: http://bulletproof-w...ws.blogspot.mx/

Installed precompiled Chromium that I will test for a week.

This along all the points I described in the first point (Forgot to say that Im using Windows 7 64bits)

Can I say now that my system is above average secure?

[sanctified Veteran]

I forgot to mention that Im doing this in part because my profession. As a teacher I constantly swap usb thumbs with my students. It's unavoidable.

[thejohnnyq]

First off if you care about security, you would look at SRWare Iron. Second, the amount of memory used by your protection package is only part of the picture. As a security person the only thing that i trust on my personal machines is VIPRE. I have been using it for years, and in CEH class, we eacg tried our own software to scan a directory (read only) with thousands of samples of known and some zero day virus and a few we created. VIPRE out did ever one tested. Even the instructor changed his person use between classes.

VIPRE is was one of the first to be the lowest in resource usage and also the leader in multi-core technology.

This CEH v7 only uses VIPRE personally and recommends it to everyone.

[Copernic Reporter]

I forgot to mention that Im doing this in part because my profession. As a teacher I constantly swap usb thumbs with my students. It's unavoidable.

http://www.pandasecu...ads/usbvaccine/

VIPRE is GREAT but is NOT the lowest in resource usage.

My last week installs (XP Pro SP3, 2 GB of ram)

- Panda Cloud AV 6/10

- ESET AV 7/10

- Unthreat AV 3/10

- VIPRE 6/10

- Symantec AV 7/10

score: Ram usage - lower is better.

[thejohnnyq]

http://www.pandasecu...ads/usbvaccine/

VIPRE is GREAT but is NOT the lowest in resource usage.

My last week installs (XP Pro SP3, 2 GB of ram)

- Panda Cloud AV 6/10

- ESET AV 7/10

- Unthreat AV 3/10

- VIPRE 6/10

- Symantec AV 7/10

score: Ram usage - lower is better.

If that is all you care about, and don't have a real full understanding of what is involved with security products then using a single matrix is fine, it's your system.

[sanctified Veteran]

If that is all you care about, and don't have a real full understanding of what is involved with security products then using a single matrix is fine, it's your system.

First of all, thanks for the suggestion.

It's not that all we care is performance. However some of us use heavy software and every cycle or ram amount we can save counts.

[Copernic Reporter]

If that is all you care about, and don't have a real full understanding of what is involved with security products then using a single matrix is fine, it's your system.

Let's get GData Antivirus - it offeres 10/10 protection in every single test I've seen. My question for you: have you ever tried to install GData ? If not do it on a system with 2 gb of ram and please post here the results. I care more of my security but I can't have installed Malware Defender, Kaspersky AV, Emsisoft Mamutu, No Script andf MalwareBytes running in background all the time like I see everyday in some security boards just to watch stupid YouTube videos or to buy a pair of discounted shoes from time to time. That's insane and I'm not NASA or FBI. And let's get real, if someone want to penetrate your (or mine) ''great'' $39.99 security softwares it can do it anytime, even if your PC is full with security suites, hips protection, antikeyloggers and so on....It happened to NASA, Amazon, FBI, Symantec, Microsoft and others. Spending hundreds of dollars on security software and dreaming to the perfect ''security combo'' is just stupid.

[Growled Member]

I forgot to mention that Im doing this in part because my profession. As a teacher I constantly swap usb thumbs with my students. It's unavoidable.

I hate to tell you this but I doubt if anything will help you permanently if you have to do that. Other than swab in Linux.

[Hum]

I forgot to mention that Im doing this in part because my profession. As a teacher I constantly swap usb thumbs with my students. It's unavoidable.

Wouldn't it be better to have a separate laptop for looking at strange USBs?

Wouldn't it be a good idea to change your card number too ?

[JustGeorge]

I've been told (Never said I believed mind you) that creating a folder called "autorun.inf" and placing it on your thumb drive will stop any attempt by an autorun virus to infect your flash drive. Supposedly, they can't overwrite the folder with a real autorun.inf. My personal belief is that its B.S.

[Knife Party]

wow, this is paranoia to the max yo. Good luck

[sanctified Veteran]

Wouldn't it be better to have a separate laptop for looking at strange USBs?

Wouldnt be better to have more money? :p

[Detection]

1. How did you become infected, that's the main thing you need to sort out to be safer.

2. Use Paypal + 2 step mobile verification to pay for things so you are never entering your credit card number anywhere

[sanctified Veteran]

1. How did you become infected, that's the main thing you need to sort out to be safer.

Wish I knew :/