good Av for high risk surfers ?

High risk surfing? The only answer I can think of would be virtual Linux (booting from the CD) and Firefox to be truly safe.

 

avast! is fine, why do you thinks its not ? I also said I like AntiVir but I'm more loyal to avast! (long time user) and I like the siren when bugs are caught .

When I go to dangerous sites I rely on FF, avast, sandboixe, firewall (forgot this) and my brain. Sandboxie has a simple tool called "clear sandbox", visit the site and clear the sanbox, start fresh for the next one.

BTW, I don't do this in everyday life, more so in testing things. I do this on my dangerous surfing PC, the OS is expendable and has no info worth stealing.

 

High risk surfing is a crap shoot, regardless the protection, in my opinion.

 

If thats true I'll bet on my loaded dice untill I get caught

 

get a suite, yes .. any suite, whatever you like.

use a router with firewall,

and get acronis true image, you shouldnt need nothing more.

 

I didn't say avast is no good.I simply meant that if i were to do some high risk surfing I would go for nod/kav... ( forgot to mention f-secure) which are the best in catching stuff, or so I seem to read (av-comparatives).I trialed them and surfed plenty and they all did very well.I would feel safer.If you like avast and feel safe visiting the darkest side of the net just go for it

Sandboxie is sure a good idea.

Thanks

 

sandboxie you fools!

 

Acronis True image ? I have it ,I have it lol.I wouldnt be without it.If I stuff up, a few clicks ,a few mins waiting and I am good to go lol

 

Out of curiosity, have you tried Avast Home for high risk surfing? It might be better than most think. Why not give it a try, and educate the rest of us??

Best,
Jerry

 

Jerry,

Nope,Fastgame is already doing that.Ask him ? lol

 

Hi,folks: High risk surfers? no need to look too far. High school or college/university students are among them, hope this is a fair assessment. And guess what has been deployed in these institutions, DeepFreeze, which is probably the most popular one. You can do anything, nothing will casuse damages to your real drive. Of course, you still need good AV for backup and most importantly a reliable outbound control firewall, so that malware has no chance to communicate w/ outsideworld. Upon reboot, everything is back to the way it was. Think about it.

 

WinAntivirus Pro

That way, you don't have to worry about getting infected because you 'Already Are'!.

 

Sandbox software running in a limited user account is much safer than running any AV in an administrator account.

 

IMHO Firefox + Noscript + Adblock run through Sandboxie will give the best possible protection.
Ghost Images and a clone on an unhooked slave as the perfect setup here

 

While I had avast, i never had a virus slip through, I've migrated to Kaspersky and the same thing has happened, none gets through.

 

Problem with this is that any zero day attack will more than likely get through whereas running your browser through Sandboxie should provide a much safer first line of defense against such.

We can http://www.aximsite.com/boards/images/smilies/argue.gif all day about this but that's my opinion.

 

DeepFreeze is indeed one of the possible rollback solutions, supported by security softwares that stop the installation or execution of malwares (Anti-Executable for instance), while your firewall can be used to stop outgoing traffic.
The most important thing is to get a clean computer back after reboot.

Image backup softwares, like Acronis True Image, allow you to restore a CLEAN image file, that was created during an OFF-LINE installation from scratch.

 

Avira and a good firewall do. I use ghostwall for inbound protection.

I relied on Avira's scanning capabilities to detect possible programs that may leak infos out of your PC.

And once in a while I scan my PC using Spybot S&D. Although Spybot may not be the best anti-spyware, I like its Immunize featuire as well as it is a relatively lightweight program.

BUT if you like to scan HTTP traffic to protect you from malicious websites, try Kaspersky. It can warn you even before you download a malicious file.

 

A good av for high risk surfing?
KAV,Avira,Nod.

I would think that you need more though.
A bi-directional firewall for one.
Spyware Blaster would be a good idea.
An alternative browser(Operta,FF,K-Meleon)would help.

 

I agree with you. Even if you try to use the Immunize function of Spybot or install a very good AV, still IE is a favorite target for hackers...

I use Firefox and it is good although it can slow down your PC a bit. Opera is fast and lightweight and very standard base.

 

ohhh, dont use spybot, its poo-poo.

if your looking for something free, there is just sooo much better out there, spyware terminator just to name one.

 

how poor spybot is?

I haven't experimented with antispywares because I always rely on antivirus. I only use it for cleaning remnants of spywares...