papithegun Posted July 17, 2015 Member ID: 20800 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 130 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 394 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 323 Achievement Points: 3820 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/14/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 19, 2022 Birthday: 01/13/1950 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Anyone familiar with the Spybot antivirus ? It is in Europe and I was just wondering if it works better than some of the normal ones like McAffee and Norton. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted July 17, 2015 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted July 17, 2015 Most common Pc tools are Ccleaner,malwarebytes,AVG free version I have used these for years and have never had any problems Some others will use resources that will affect your game like norton for sure hxtr and Merlin007 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted July 17, 2015 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1076 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8446 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7330 Achievement Points: 75073 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted July 17, 2015 I use ccleaner, malwarebytes, and mse. No issues. Norton and McAfee in my opinion are resource hogs. Haven't really used spybot so I don't have any first hand comments for that one. djMot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
24oz Posted July 18, 2015 Member ID: 22459 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1153 Content Per Day: 0.34 Reputation: 1208 Achievement Points: 8354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 03/16/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/18/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted July 18, 2015 I use Eset nod32, Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware. HellKid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Logan Posted July 18, 2015 Member ID: 582 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 20 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 361 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 389 Achievement Points: 3272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 1, 2020 Birthday: 11/22/1956 Share Posted July 18, 2015 (edited) I really like ccleaner but it is not recommended for SSD's, so I use it on my hard drive and use Kaspersky on everything else. No complaints so far. Edited July 18, 2015 by Logan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
24oz Posted July 18, 2015 Member ID: 22459 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1153 Content Per Day: 0.34 Reputation: 1208 Achievement Points: 8354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 03/16/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/18/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted July 18, 2015 Just got ccleaner will give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Mossticles Posted July 18, 2015 Member ID: 21410 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 88 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 77 Achievement Points: 613 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/07/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 18, 2023 Birthday: 04/14/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted July 18, 2015 (edited) I deal with infected PC's almost on a daily basis. I can tell you that any anti virus software is pretty much useless. 99% of all infected computers do in fact run an up to date anti virus program ... Many even detect 99.99% of all viruses, but not all and most of all not the viruses which are currently around. If you want to feel saver than with no anti virus, then I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials or just the built in Defender in Windows 8 or higher. Those are free. If you want to spend some money, get nod32. Takes very little recources, other than that, not better than the others. Norton and McAfee are the worst. CCleaner is good, but no anti virus software afaik. Best security is to be careful. Edited July 18, 2015 by M0stlyHarmless djMot, 24oz, Cylon and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
papithegun Posted July 18, 2015 Member ID: 20800 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 130 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 394 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 323 Achievement Points: 3820 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/14/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 19, 2022 Birthday: 01/13/1950 Author Share Posted July 18, 2015 I really appreciate all your suggestions. Thanks a lot for all the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted July 18, 2015 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted July 18, 2015 (edited) Just a side note here ..... Run Ccleaner often as these hijackers and malware/adware hides in your cookies and and internet history files and do so before you run everything else Edited July 18, 2015 by loaderXI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Damage_inc- Posted July 19, 2015 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.36 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted July 19, 2015 RUN MSE, MALEWAREBYTES , SUPERANTISPYWARE CCLEANER EVERY DAY ALL FREE PROGRAMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blaze Posted July 19, 2015 Member ID: 2702 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1057 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 918 Achievement Points: 8385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/27/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 11/26/1978 Device: Android Share Posted July 19, 2015 Yeah, I always used eith AVG or Avast, but they were a bit fat and they had annoying pop ups that kept bugging you about stuff. Microsoft Security Essentials is the way forward. Malwarebytes Super AntiSpyware CC Cleaner and for anything troublesome programs.... Revo uninstaller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
J3st3r Posted July 19, 2015 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5096 Content Per Day: 1.05 Reputation: 5012 Achievement Points: 44711 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 04:27 PM Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted July 19, 2015 Best security is to be careful. Damn straight. Most buggs are installed by Email attachments,Pics,Movies,Music downloads AND Ad ware when installing shit. I use Ad Block+ to block 99% of all popups and I do NOT download Email Attachments.Facebook,twitter ect ect ect is FULL of virus infected crap Just don't download anything PPL have links to. I do not use Any virus removal software.99% of all nasty Virus's will seek out your virus program and infect IT.Every file up to 128mb I download off of the internet gets scanned VIA an online scanner https://www.virustotal.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blaze Posted July 19, 2015 Member ID: 2702 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1057 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 918 Achievement Points: 8385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/27/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 11/26/1978 Device: Android Share Posted July 19, 2015 I use adblock plus too. Also flashblocker for firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Mossticles Posted July 19, 2015 Member ID: 21410 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 88 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 77 Achievement Points: 613 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/07/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 18, 2023 Birthday: 04/14/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted July 19, 2015 Yeah AdBlockPlus is highly recommended. Works best with FireFox imo. Really good for YouTube - no commercials! (Bad for free content on the internet though, service providers can't provide their services for free without showing you ads.) I do not use Any virus removal software.99% of all nasty Virus's will seek out your virus program and infect IT.Every file up to 128mb I download off of the internet gets scanned VIA an online scanner https://www.virustotal.com/ Exactly. I don't use AV live scan. Cos I hate how it slows down things often. I only check suspicious files manually. But the online check you suggested might even be better than having an AV program on the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted July 21, 2015 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted July 21, 2015 I keep on saying it and shall continue to do so... If you wish to make an informed decision on your anti-virus cover, refer to comparative test results such as those at Virus Bulletin, here: https://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/latest_comparative/index (You'll see that Microsoft's offering is not as good as described above, for example...) Spybot, as far as I am aware, provides no realtime protection. If you use Microsoft Office and don't need the macro language add-ons, disable them. I concur with the advice about attachments, even if they appear to come from people or entities known to you. Importantly, ditch Java ! At the very least disable it in your browser. Keep Flash updated (several vulnerabilities found in that lately). (See above) Update your operating system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted July 21, 2015 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted July 21, 2015 I deal with infected PC's almost on a daily basis. I can tell you that any anti virus software is pretty much useless. 99% of all infected computers do in fact run an up to date anti virus program ... Many even detect 99.99% of all viruses, but not all and most of all not the viruses which are currently around. If you want to feel saver than with no anti virus, then I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials or just the built in Defender in Windows 8 or higher. Those are free. If you want to spend some money, get nod32. Takes very little recources, other than that, not better than the others. Norton and McAfee are the worst. CCleaner is good, but no anti virus software afaik. Best security is to be careful. I agree antivirus software is worthless and why I don't run Antivirus software. I just have malwarebytes running... and I run CCleaner when I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djMot Posted July 21, 2015 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 94 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5234 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 11106 Achievement Points: 48754 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) I deal with infected PC's almost on a daily basis. I can tell you that any anti virus software is pretty much useless. 99% of all infected computers do in fact run an up to date anti virus program ... Many even detect 99.99% of all viruses, but not all and most of all not the viruses which are currently around. If you want to feel saver than with no anti virus, then I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials or just the built in Defender in Windows 8 or higher. Those are free. If you want to spend some money, get nod32. Takes very little recources, other than that, not better than the others. Norton and McAfee are the worst. CCleaner is good, but no anti virus software afaik. Best security is to be careful. This post is SPOT ON. Read it. Heed it. Stop paying for AV "solutions" that don't solve anything but too much cash in your wallet. Who better to protect Windows than the people who wrote it? So that means Microsoft Security Essentials for Win7 and the built in Defender for everything above. It's the user who typically shots themselves in the foot opening something they shouldn't. Edited July 21, 2015 by djMot Merlin007, JohnnyDos and Mazdarati 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
7Toes Posted July 21, 2015 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 57 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27249 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Share Posted July 21, 2015 here is my best protections from virus djMot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
djMot Posted July 21, 2015 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 94 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5234 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 11106 Achievement Points: 48754 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted July 21, 2015 here is my best protections from virus No wonder your ping is so high! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Unchileno Posted July 22, 2015 Member ID: 101 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.51 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted July 22, 2015 Thats right ..Microsoft essentials here too..If infected. Ccleaner, Malware bites,ComBoFix.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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