Threatfire Incremental Detection

i have a little question,

i wonder why people moan about ram usage/cpu usage and processes in use, yet still add threatfire to there antivirus, and still complain (mention) about those issues.


lol

 

Obviously you have a low-risk environment, because you apparently haven't seen how embarrasingly and disastrously AV software fail against new malware on an hourly basis, and your opinion on how well AV software seems to come from third-party tests.

Since that's the case, I'd say no, you probably don't need TF.

 

ThreatFire adds very little to ram usage (about 7mb total here) and even less to cpu usage (0%) here... So I don't see any problem adding it as a supplement to any existing AV solution...

 

Hope im not hijacking the thread ,but ive just installed it after reading some posts here and find that 3 proccesses seem to require internet.(using sygate pro)
1.TF service.exe
2.TFUD.exe
3.TFtray.exe
I can possibly understand the first two requiring access but why would the third?
tia
ellison

 

ThreatFire compares applications installed with a community database of trusted apps. and will also investigate what you have allowed as trusted whenever it flags something for suspicious activity. (as well as checking for updates.)

 

Are you saying that if others using Threatfire allow bad things, that those things could become part of the 'trusted' list?

 

No, they are investigated before releasing it to the community. It is similar to the method used by PrevX. The trusted list cuts down on a lot of the false-positives. As with PrevX, no personal identifiers are submitted.

 

After considering a variety of other enhancements to the standard security precautions of a signature based AV plus two way firewall, what makes Threatfire unusual is that it requires very little, if any, user intervention.

 

Definitely a set-it-and-forget-it app. "Smart-HIPS" is the label I've heard it given.

 

For me, that is one major selling point...

 

I have been suing Threatfire on one of my two remaining Windows boxes and it has worked flawlessly with Avast!, this is an old clunker we keep around for emails etc., I have to say with only 384mb of Ram and a Athlon 1100 it brings no noticeable impact to the machine and serves its purpose well(quietly). Great addition to any Windows computer.