which app was your first proactive antimalware?

Same here: only AVG Free (in the past). But I am resistant becoming paranoid... yet

 

My first PC came with a Norton product pre-installed but the first set-up I remember choosing was trend mico AV, Tiny PFW and Ad-Aware. Would have been towards the end of the 90's.

Looks hopelessly vulnerable now but at the time I was well pleased!

Cheers

 

tea timer

 

NIS or NAV, became interrested in security when it would catch stuff and tell me to manually remove it, after that went with McAfee, then F-Secure and finally Avira

 

A friend installed me a copy of McAfee after I got infected by a Virus.

 

post edited..sorry

 

It was either TDS-3, SBS&D or Ad-Aware Plus. Don't recall which one was actually first.


snowbound

 

Spybot with TeaTimer

 

Mine? WinCleaner AS Free, which is still the only app I use alongside AntiVir. WinCleaner Free can be customized to protect any registry keys you choose to protect. Beats SSM and the others I've met. I think one can still d/l it from www[dot]wincleaneras[dot]com, which is a very old link that may now be inactive. Dunno.

Dave

 

ROFL
I got scared about doubleclick and stumbled across Wilders.org. in my search for answers.
I started downloading everything free that had more than a couple stars!
But the first thing I installed was DiamondCS RegProtect.

 

wincleaner is still alive but now is payware

 

My first antimalware - together to the " normal " av naturally, was A-Squared.

 

cool, i tried this one,it is a beast

 

It's again the sw that I use for a second on-demand scan.

 

i tested this one yestarday againts a rogue spyware that prevx didnt catch asquare nail it on the head

 

Webroot's SpySweeper on Windows 98SE

 

i remenber this one was a heavy duty againts malware but they say not anymore never tried it it is what people say,this one was pcmag fave

 

I remember when that one was actually pretty good

 

IBM Antivirus (PCDOS) v0.0.9 - circa 1988

 

man this one is older than rocky balboa

 

Process Guard paid...

 

InnoculateIT...rather fine AV

 

avast!

 

Webroot's SpySweeper also

 

norton (the root cause of my dislike of norton)