You can only have 4 Anti-Malware apps: What would you run?

I know, just stating I would always be testing OA AV+ beta's

 

Nod32 (trial)
Online Armor
BoClean
Filseclab

 

Hello,

Here are my four choices:

1) Ghost Security Suite 1.110 (Yes, i'm cheating a bit here!)
2) Avast Pro 4.7 (But looking at NOD32 as a possible future alternative)
3) Ewido 4.0
4) CounterSpy 1.5

Richie

 

v7

looknstop
nod32
online armor
regrun security suite gold

 

- nod32
- system safety monitor (like crc control of all process executed, program launch who, protect access to registers, someone know it? it is a good software, I like it) http://www.syssafety.com/
- ewido

do you think I need some other software?
I an searching a firewall small simple efficient (little cpu usage, little ram usate, no blue screen) (i know that now blue screen is not agree with no ittle cpu usage)

 

Kerio 2.1.5, LooknStop, CHX-I, and Jetico all have very small footprints and don't use much CPU at all. Ewido on your list does use a lot of cpu, you might want to set ewido to on-demand scanning only and replace it with bo-clean which is much lighter.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

 

My suggestion for a firewall would be Look N Stop. Its small, very light on resources and hard as nails for security. Just use the enhanced rulesset provided. They have a forum right here at Wilders...

 

These would have to be my choices:
nod32
Ad-Aware
reg defend
Outpost Firewall Pro

 

A few posts have been removed as they were O/T and of a personal nature.

Please stay on topic

Thanks in advance

 

My 2nd thought,

NOD
ZAP
OA
SpySweeper

 

Jetico or ZA Pro
Kav
RegDefend
Online Armor

 

sygate firewall
avg anti-virus
process explorer (www.sysinternals.com to monitor what's running)
active ports (listed on snapfiles, a port monitor)

Familiarity with what ports are used and what services are running has helped me more than once. I caught the last trojan ( a smitfraud variant) in process explorer. The last two programs require me to monitor what's going on. I find it helps me to learn about ho the sytem works (and fails).

--G

 

1. Kaspersky Internet Security 6
2. Ad aware pro
3. Hijack This!
4. Spyware Blaster

That is more than enough.

 

v8

Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Look 'n' Stop
Prevx1
True Image

 

Currently i'd say:

Firewall - Zone Alarm Free
Antivirus - KAV 6
AntiTrojan - Boclean
Security Suite - Regrun Platinum(includes UnHackme rootkit detection)

muf

 

v9

NOD32
Look 'n' Stop
Prevx1
True Image

 

NOD32
Outpost
Ewido
Spywareblaster

 

I said to myself, oh well, why not post my four active.

1. F-Secure 2006 Antivirus
2. Prevx1 ABC
3. Look'n'Stop
4. Spyware Terminator (will be changed for Online Armor Standard)

dja2k

 

KAV
KAH
F-Secure BlackLight
Windows Defender

 

First off, thanks to everyone who posted in this thread. It's been very helpful, enabled me to find out about many different security applications I didn't know about, allowed me to try these applications, and learn a lot about security.

My goal with the original question was to find out what works, what is efficient (i.e., memory use and more importantly system impact), and is reasonably priced or better yet free. I figured since I orignally started this thread, I should post my picks. So if I had to pick only 4 anti-malware apps, I would choose:

Free: Avira AntiVir, Ewido, Kerio 4.x, and System Safety Monitor.​

Paid: Ewido, Look 'n' Stop, NOD32, and System Safety Monitor.​

Once again, thanks to everyone who contributed.

 

why did you replace kerio for the paid setup? is kerio 4 only good in free mode?

 

I think Kerio is good both free or paid but if I'm going to buy a firewall, I like Look 'n' Stop better (it runs more efficiently on my computers than Kerio and the other paid software takes care of all the important security areas).

 

Here are the top 21 results (110 applications - 655 votes):

Product - Votes
NOD32 - 59
Ewido - 50
ProcessGuard - 48
KAV - 38
Outpost Pro - 31
RegDefend - 28
Spysweeper - 21
Online Armor - 20
Zonealarm - 20
Boclean - 19
Look 'n' Stop - 19
Ad-Aware - 17
SpywareBlaster - 17
Windows Defender - 17
Spybot S&D - 13
Avast - 10
AVG - 9
Zonealarm Pro - 9
Counterspy - 8
ShadowUser - 8
System Safety Monitor - 8

I combined free with paid to determine top 21.

This is the last time I'll update the numbers. There have been enough new products introduced and updated that if this thread started again the list would probably change some.

 

Here is my new FREE configuration:

Jetico 1 with Stem settings
ActiveVirusShield (KAV)
SpywareBlaster
IE-Spyad

 

I would call it the state of the art of security:

ShadowUser - Nod32 - ProcessGuard - Look'n'Stop