is running Malwarebytes with viper anti-virus overkill

Did you see Marcin's response in the comments section of his blog I'm referring to? I did post it in another thread, but if you missed it, let me know.

 

Okay, if you have it handy, I don't.
Much appreciated.

 

This is the post where I linked to his blog page where he answers a question in the comments section. His reply is to John near the end of the page.

 

Thanks, TonyW.
Kinda' hard to believe...

Really?
No other protection?
He doesn't mention any of the things members here use, even when they forgo 3rd party apps.
He must use some protection besides MBAM.

 

Marcin probably means he doesn't use a traditional AV in addition to MBAM. He notes his parents use Avast along with MBAM, but he doesn't. Since he's dealing with malware regularly, I wonder if he has some form of rollback/sandboxing/virtualisation techniques to revert changes. Either that or he's totally confident in his own product, but like you, I suspect other measures must be in place.

 

Maybe we can get him to elaborate.

 

I doubt that he even uses MBAM realtime

 

Nope, nothing else. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Google Chrome, and a whole lot of common sense. Part of the reason I do this is so if I find malware, I can submit it to our research team right away and not have it intercepted. Luckily our Website Blocking module lets me do this easily -- by just writing down the address.

 

Hey Marcin
Thanks for stopping in.
So the Website Blocking means you're running in real-time.
What about a firewall?
Windows?
Any imaging/backup software?

 

There has to be some sort of recovery if you come across malware that you then report to your research team. By recovery I mean either by restoring from a clean image or your browsing session is sandboxed so any malware is contained then terminated.

We are only curious as to how you maintain a clean system when all you are protected by is your own very excellent product. Time and again we hear people say a layered approach is key to good computer security; since you are in the computer security industry, we just wondered how you deal with malware on a day-to-day basis.

 

Respectfully, are you referring to the Google Chrome Operating System or the Google Chrome Browser?

If you are referring to the Google Chrome Browser are you suggesting, inferring, that the Google Chrome Browser is
allowing all of this Malware through and that Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is detecting what the Google Chrome Browser
is allowing through? If so, I can not believe that statement or in that practice of finding Malware.

Please elaborate.....

Also, how do you; just writing down the address? or do you mean; just type in the address?

Please elaborate.....


Contrariously, I do believe that Malwarebytes Anti-Malware plus Google Chrome Browser plus Vipre Antivirus yields:
one Ironcald setup without overkill.


EDIT: completeness


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I think he means the Chrome browser; in another thread he said:

 

mbam doesn't work in google os....so he meant google browser......he also use nothing else which means win firewall is on.......think he is using win 7 so backup and restore is also on........

 

Yup, Google Chrome. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware catches everything I ever come in contact with with heuristics. I then unquarantine and send to the research team. I make sure I unquarantine carefully because if you unquarantine and reboot then the autorun entries re-execute.

Periodically I check with HijackThis to make sure nothing new has shown up.

 

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