   | Account Disabled with 241 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: sioux city iowa Experience: Intermediate | | Solved: whats the best free virus protection and spywhere protection? i have windows vista and i have norton and i wont have it for long, i cant afford to buy virus protection but i need it. whats the best thats free and has NO trials |  | Moderator with 36,829 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vermont | | There is no "best". Avira, ESET, and AVG have very good, free AV's.
Free anti-malware: Dr. Freeware Boot CD Avast Scanner (also has partitioning tool, file recovery, drive cloner/imager) Dr. Web Cure-It Comodo Anti-Malware Threatfire Free Edition MalwareBytes trial A-Squared PrevX CSI Free Version Spybot S&D RunScanner Ad-Aware SuperAntiSpyware Spyware Eliminator Emco Malware Destroyer Spyware Doctor All-Seeing Eye (Monitors system - pretty annoying at first until all safe processes have been approved, but settings can be changed) Arovax Anti-spyware Trend-Micro Rootkit Buster F-Secure Blacklight Bootzilla (Bootable anti-malware CD with many other tools.)
"Instant" Anti-virus (No installation--just download and run the scanner): Dr. Web Cure-It McAfee Stinger Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (This one installs but offers to uninstall after the scan. A fresh download contains the most recent virus definitions.) PING with Clam (A bootable disk imaging CD with added anti-virus) List of freeware security software Guide to Free Security Software (ScanComplete Site)
Virtualization Solutions (Malware attacks become impossible because either the browser or the whole operating system are isolated from the real system): SandboxIE (Virtualizes IE, Firefox, or any other browser and works on most other programs, too) VMWare Browser Appliance (Runs in the free VMWare Player. The Player also will run any of 100's of preconfigured operating system and appliance images downloadable for free from VMWare, and you can even make your own VM's to run in it with the open-source VMmanager) Artificial Dynamics Safe Space (Similar to SandboxIE, safe browsing and protection from malware and hackers) Fortes Grand Virtual Sandbox Microsoft Web Sandbox (Open-Source) (In development but usable) Returnil Virtual System (The Premium version allows you to save all changes inside the virtual OS to the real system, but even the free version has a virtual drive where items can be saved outside the virtual container) Windows Steady State (Now supports Vista, too)
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Windows Shell/User | | | Account Disabled with 241 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: sioux city iowa Experience: Intermediate | | thank you sooooo much thats alot of info =) could you please try and look at the other post i started.....i really need help with it =) id really apreceate it =) |  | Member with 48 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Experience: Intermediate | | | | | | Member with 48 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Experience: Intermediate | | sorry its a thread not blog.. :P |  | Distinguished Member with 3,622 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Near Washington, D.C. Experience: Advanced in Networking | | I use and recommend Malwarebytes, and I also use McAfee virus/firewall. | | | Account Disabled with 241 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: sioux city iowa Experience: Intermediate | | yes i have malwarebites(not instuled but on my flashdrive as a just incase) and i works good....i first got it cuz of PAV....i hate that lol and im going to check out the thread in like 2 sec =) |  | Distinguished Member with 20,637 posts. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Eastern Pa Experience: Advanced | | What's the best free protection? That has an easy answer:
Sane surfing habits! |  | Distinguished Member with 4,606 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Experience: Getting it | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich-M  What's the best free protection? That has an easy answer:
Sane surfing habits! | If that is not feasible, Linux. |  | Administrator with 63,628 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada |
18-Jul-2009, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by RootbeaR If that is not feasible, Linux. | Or just unplug the computer and go watch TV.   | | | Moderator with 36,829 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vermont |
18-Jul-2009, 06:46 PM
#11 | Though using something like Returnil on this system would be ridiculous since I install and unistall 20 or more programs a day, it really is a boon for the other machines in the house. No anti-virus or anti-malware needed, so they are all very fast. And once a month or so, I turn off Returnil and do the updates.
It's great for toddlers and new users, too, because they can experiment to their heart's content and just reboot if it all goes south.
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18-Jul-2009, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Cookiegal Or just unplug the computer and go watch TV. | You have more than 4 channels
Tv rots the brain
turns you into a couch spud | | | Distinguished Member with 3,622 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Near Washington, D.C. Experience: Advanced in Networking |
18-Jul-2009, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by cookiegal or just unplug the computer and go watch tv. :d | lol.:d |  | Senior Member with 1,585 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: An Alien,a misfit on Earth Experience: Intermediate++ |
18-Jul-2009, 09:30 PM
#14 | Dear O.P,
You can try Avira or Avast! Avira's advantage is the pro-active defense function, that is "stop at the gate". The free versions of SAS and MBAM should be installed on your PC as they offer protection against spyware and trojans and malware. Good luck!  |  | Distinguished Member with 2,158 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.C Experience: Malware Fighter |
19-Jul-2009, 09:23 AM
#15 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich-M What's the best free protection? That has an easy answer:
Sane surfing habits! | Yep, that's it. Seriously! |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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