Self Protection Needed?

[duke1959]

Since programs like Comodo Firewall, KAV, AOL Active Virus Shield, and Spyware Terminator have Self Protection, and Avast and Antivir are working on having it. I was just wondering how important it really is to have? AVG ISS doesn't have it, which has a Firewall, AV, and AS Component. I posted here in the Antivirus section, thinking the AV would be the most important one to have Self Protection if needed.

[C.S.J]

AVG ISS has real time protection

[MalwareDie]

C.S.J. i think he means if the programs can protect themselves from termination not if they have real time protection. I am unsure. Im a newb

[duke1959]

Yes, sorry I did mean for software's to protect themselves from termination like the ones I mentioned.

[MalwareDie]

I am not sure how important is for a prgram to be able to protect themselves from termination. I would guess important to some degree because i believe some malware will attempt to terminate your antivirus.

[Randy_Bell]

{QUOTE-> programs like Comodo Firewall, KAV, AOL Active Virus Shield, and Spyware Terminator have Self Protection, and Avast and Antivir are working on having it. ... <-QUOTE}
Also Norton products have had it for few years now. That used to be a point of criticism of Norton, that it was easy to terminate, but not anymore {I think, 2005 version and higher, have self-protection}. Self-protection, or termination resistance, is most important for AV and firewall, as that is the target of most malware, to terminate the AV/firewall as soon as the malware becomes active. If the AV/firewall can stop the malware before the malware becomes active, self-protection is moot, but if not, then self-protection is a last line of defense. HTH .. :) ;)

[dah145]

Also protects against modification of the registry keys owned by the software, and from dll injection.

[duke1959]

So an AV like Antivir with it's highly rated Detection and Heuristics may not need Self Protection?

[dah145]

{QUOTE-> So an AV like Antivir with it's highly rated Detection and Heuristics may not need Self Protection? <-QUOTE}

Of course it needs!!! or it can be easily disabled with a simple command. :ouch:

Every major AV like KAV, NOD32, Norton and a few others... have it.

[the Tester]

I agree with Randy Bell.
Self-protection is most important for a FW and AV.

As far as whether it is really needed or not,I'd much rather have it.;)

[Meriadoc]

Very important. A malware could inject its code into all running processes to gain control. A self protection in avs such as Norton, Kaspersky etc will stop the attempt to do this into the av.

[lodore]

{QUOTE-> Also Norton products have had it for few years now. That used to be a point of criticism of Norton, that it was easy to terminate, but not anymore {I think, 2005 version and higher, have self-protection}. Self-protection, or termination resistance, is most important for AV and firewall, as that is the target of most malware, to terminate the AV/firewall as soon as the malware becomes active. If the AV/firewall can stop the malware before the malware becomes active, self-protection is moot, but if not, then self-protection is a last line of defense. HTH .. :) ;) <-QUOTE}

if i remember correctly norton had it since the 2003 version which was the last verson i used.
it was a new feature for that version
lodore

[ashishtx]

I would definately say Yes. A must feature for every pc security product. Are there any reasons why many security software doesn't have it? Any ideas? ???

[C.S.J]

{QUOTE-> I would definately say Yes. A must feature for every pc security product. Are there any reasons why many security software doesn't have it? Any ideas? ??? <-QUOTE}
i think its because the 'many' that dont have it, have other ways of just blocking the malware trying to do it, i think.

[proactivelover]

nod32 does not have this ability
i checked it

[lodore]

{QUOTE-> nod32 does not have this ability
i checked it <-QUOTE}

i thought that it didnt have self protection but it came back if its stopped?
lodore