Dial up

I went to see my dad this weekend. He has dial-up connection. He is 84 and i dont know if he surfs porn or not and i dont care either.
I set him up with avast free, malwarebytes pro and sandboxie. He is not infected so far. i did a full scan with Dr. web,malwarebyter,avast,super-antispyware etc. The problem is with mawarebytes real time his network connection is slow(without ip protection). Then with windows defender its the same thing.With malwarebytes the problem is that the computer feels heavy and sluggish although the the task manager shows less than 1 mb of ram uses. For firewall i use Vista home,s .I dont know which programs are connecting although i have disabled some in advanced conf. guys help me out for my notebook i have better software because i have a faster network. He is using acer aspire with 1.33 cpu, 3gb ddr3 ram,Thanks

 

Try panda Cloud Antivirus uses low ram,, and always update to date when connected to the internet.

 

Brocke, a cloud-based AV is an interesting suggestion. But doing things in the cloud means having to do more back and forth communication -- would that really be a good idea over dialup? Seems to me a setup that handles things locally as much as possible would be in order.

brainrb1, I've had good luck with Avast plus PC Tools' Threatfire, using Malwarebytes on-demand only. Or you could run his specs and habits through the Security Wizard at Gizmo's and see what you come up with:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/secwiz

Regards,
Steve

 

no not really becuause PCA only really does little bits of the software to check only ask much as 127k or less. i use it on a dial up computer with no issues at all.

 

Thanks guys.panda Cloud Antivirus looks nice but i dont know how good it is. I dont want anything that throws popups all the time, he wouldnt know what to do anyway.. MSE? is it lite on net connection.I think he has enough ram his net connection is slow thats all.

 

Brainb1,
It might be that avast is slowing him down. That web shield can suck the life out of a connection. To see what is causing the problem turn off the web shield and network shield first. Then disable the IP blocking on MBAM. See how that works. If it is better turn on one thing at a time. You should be able to tell what is causing the issue.

 

PCA does everything for the user, he wouldnt have to do a thing. its good and version 1.1 will ofter more when it comes.

 

Yeah I know. I'm just trying to help him with his current setup. That and he said that he didn't seem he wanted to try it.

 

if he does use it it will always be update to when online and does offer offline protection using cache for the online servers which are updated daily.

i would really push it.

 

Its not that i don't want to use PCA but there seems to be some problem with it as i was reading some threads:"Panda deleted 10 much needed files, offering no support" and i am not so sure about it.When its connected all the time in the cloud it's going to slow down connection i am confused

 

jus turn off avast webshield and mbam's ip protection ... your dad is still covered for as you said using sandboxie (provided that he is always using his browser sandboxed.)

 

This is not exactly accurate. With Panda Cloud Antivirus you can recover the files that have been deleted or disinfected. They will be either in the Recycle Bin or in the history report ("Can't find what you're looking for?" link within the Recycle Bin).

 

Thanks for clearing things up, now i am going to give Panda cloud a try today

 

im sure you will like it . and version 1.1 will really nice when it comes

 

On my folks old box with 56k. I only run 3 of Avasts shields. File system, web & network shields. I use GhostWall (with a rule for ports 0-1) as a no prompt FW on the XP box. It shows as stealth. MBAM & SSD are on demand only. Teatimer on SSD is disabled. Everything runs real smooth. I think other than Avast other resident programs on 56k are overkill.

 

With Panda cloud or avast should i use malwarebytes real time and a firewall like pctools(it's vista 32bit) or just panda with windows firewall is good enough??

 

use panda Cloud AV and win firewall, and use malwarebytes for weekly scans just to check. along with PCA run a scan with that also when connected to the internet.

 

Thanks dude.. you guys have been really helpful wilders rocks

 

@brainrb1:

"I went to see my dad this weekend. He has dial-up connection. He is 84 and i dont know if he surfs porn or not and i dont care either."


I mean I hope I WANT to at that age!!


Avast 5 with the file shield only, gets my vote.

rat