evilneko Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 All vendors will do out-of-cycle updates when there's a serious threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferryt Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 This is true, at least for the commercial ones, evilneko. It may not necessarily be true for any given free program. I mentioned this with regard to Microsoft Security Essentials because their instant update feature applies to ALL changes in the definition lists and not just the "important" ones. What is important to one person may be unimportant to another. I guarantee, that if you've had your system infected even by a simple, annoying-but-not-fatal virus then it's "important" to you, even if the manufacturers choose to wait a week to release its definition in their standard update bundle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilneko Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I don't think any of the vendors do weekly updates anymore, even for free products. They've all gone daily. (some, like Kaspersky, have always been daily, or even hourly in Kaspersky's case) Most use the same update infrastructure for both versions of their product so both get the same defs at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 You should only have one antivirus program actually running all of the time. The others should be set for a scan on demand - so when you think you may have picked something up you can run the other antiviruses. If you have more than one set to be running all the time, they may fight each other and slow your computer down. If you are computer savvy enough, you can set most antivirus scanners to ignore certain programs you are sure don't have viruses. This can speed up the scan quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mashiki Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 A simple thing to add, malwarebytes while good does miss things. One programs I'd suggest for 'omg wtf' type of scanning are SUPERAntiSpyware(and yes it's worth the money to buy). The other thing of importance, scans should always be done in safe mode where there is by default limited system access to RING's 1/2 by other software. Meaning, if you have malware you think you haven't and can't find(because it hides itself), it might, maybe, possibely be detectable in safemode. That doesn't stop rootkits sadly, and that's just another ball of wax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Here is a good source on how to get rid of those fake antivirus and fake computer scan viruses.http://www.howtogeek...ivirus-malware/ And, there is a free version of SuperAntiSpywareAvailable here: http://majorgeeks.com/SUPERAntiSpyware_d5116.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XJDHDR Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 My simple prevention measure that I use to help prevent infections is to run a copy of Lubuntu in a virtual machine then do my web browsing and email through that. I've never been infected through any Nexus site though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkInMKUK Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Now THAT was spooky <cue Twilight Zone music>. As I clicked for the second page, I got a site error. To test the connection, I typed another web address - got a typo, and IT didn't load. Thought I was infected for a moment! All OK now Regarding MS Security Essentials - it MAY slow down your Oblivion (and other games) since by default it scans all processes and all files you open. There's a work-around, but it DOES reduce the security in narrowly defined ways. I have a PDF I picked up with a walkthrough if someone wants a copy to vet it before I post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolfkai Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Now THAT was spooky <cue Twilight Zone music>. As I clicked for the second page, I got a site error. To test the connection, I typed another web address - got a typo, and IT didn't load. Thought I was infected for a moment! All OK now Regarding MS Security Essentials - it MAY slow down your Oblivion (and other games) since by default it scans all processes and all files you open. There's a work-around, but it DOES reduce the security in narrowly defined ways. I have a PDF I picked up with a walkthrough if someone wants a copy to vet it before I post it.I'll take a looksee of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coin409 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I was on Know Your Meme and I got one, and I closed it IMMEDIATELY! But it opened up, and then I closed it. It stay like that. I got on my Virus scanner and it found some incomplete components of the Virus. Just for safe measures, I deleted them. By the way, Norton isn't a good Virus Scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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