How Many Anti Virus Programs Do You Have Running On Your Comp?

[urandom]

What are those links proving exactly? That someone can hack a system? All those links are either Safari before version 6 or iPhone vulnerabilities.

These links are proving that exploits are common, that your machine is far from being 100% safe. First link is Safari related, second is OSX related.

What I am asking you is, with Java disabled, how will you get a virus into a Mac? HOW? What you're showing me are vulnerabilities in SAFARI that a hacker can take advantage of. You're not talking about viruses in the wild that people get browsing the internet.

Click code execution. Safari and OSX.

If Safari has issues, then use another browser. Nothing to do with OSX. These are all Safari issues you're linking, not OSX issues.

Again, check both links. OSX has been, probably is and will be vulnerable. Also you're saying your system is 100% safe but it's not safe and you can use something else. cool.

I am talking about people browsing, checking their facebook, working on their documents, listening to music. Not pirating stuff or looking at porno. Just regular people using the computer everyday. If you disable Java for any browser in OSX, or disable it from the Java preferences, none of the Viruses out there for Mac would be able to infect your computer.

Coretext, quicktime exploits, you'll find them all... You're just deluded and living in your own world.

Edited October 11, 2012 by urandom

[thaicruze]

I am talking about people browsing, checking their facebook, working on their documents, listening to music. Not pirating stuff or looking at porno. Just regular people using the computer everyday. If you disable Java for any browser in OSX, or disable it from the Java preferences, none of the Viruses out there for Mac would be able to infect your computer.

Coretext, quicktime exploits, you'll find them all... You're just deluded and living in your own world.

The first 3 points are idiotic.

The Coretext point is still in YOUR own hacker world describing what some hacker COULD do. Still, you haven't given 1 real life example as to how I'm going to get infected by this vulnerabilities with the current software I have here. ALl you're saying is, here is a list of all the vulnerabilities that have been found. You go and search. Have fun.

Ridiculous. You tell me the last time your computer was attacked by a Coretext quicktime vulnerability and I'll give you everything I have in the bank.

You seem to forget, I am running 10.8.2. This is not the year 2007.

No. I live in the real world and in the real world I'm not getting infected with anything. Not even when I was using Windows. Security Essentials never popped up. Before that I had AVAST. Never popped up either. I have never had a virus in any of my laptops. Ever.

I have a co-worker here. He has had Macs for the last 8 years. He just bought a new Macbook. He has never ever had an antivirus installed in there. His computers work fine and dandy. He's up there now with a PowerBook working away and he downloads torrents and does much more than me on the net.

Right now. I'm watching YouTube, reading all this boloney you guys are posting, reading another forum, finishing up some Photoshop. Working on some spreadsheets for work. Later on I'll check facebook. How in the world am I getting infected?

Edited October 11, 2012 by thaicruze

[thaicruze]

These are all the update fixes that have been included in OSX, including your precious Quicktime Coretext vulnerability, which does NOT affect Mountain Lion.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501

Enjoy.

Edited October 11, 2012 by thaicruze

[mahtin]

https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php

Do Not Track Plus, like Ghostery not an antivirus, but good for privacy.

Never did like people reading over my shoulder.

[urandom]

The first 3 points are idiotic.

That was funny, thanks

The Coretext point is still in YOUR own hacker world describing what some hacker COULD do. Still, you haven't given 1 real life example as to how I'm going to get infected by this vulnerabilities with the current software I have here. ALl you're saying is, here is a list of all the vulnerabilities that have been found. You go and search. Have fun.

Indeed, I have no intention to paste the 790 vulnerabilities (only for OSX) that proved you 790 times you were not 100% safe. Also, quite big news I know but 100% of the attacks in the computer world are because hackers could do them

You seem to forget, I am running 10.8.2. This is not the year 2007.

These are known, past vulnerabilities; good to hear they have been fixed. I wonder if it took them 3 months again to release the patches... Anyway, if they have been fixed in 2007, does it mean there won't be anymore in the future? Why do we have OSX CVEs in 2012 still?

Right now. I'm watching YouTube, reading all this boloney you guys are posting, reading another forum, finishing up some Photoshop. Working on some spreadsheets for work. Later on I'll check facebook. How in the world am I getting infected?

I haven't been hit by a car yesterday. Oh my god oh my god, I'm car accident proof

[Chicog]

You could do a lot worse than download the Hiren Boot CD - it has a large collection of cleanup tools.

Personally I think the king of crap is McAfee, what a pile of shit they make these days.

Ask Aramco.

[cbrer]

One.

Avast!

Windows Defender Enabled.

CCleaner, EUsing Reg cleaner and Spybot used at the end of each session.

Only programs are:

Photoscape

Gom Player for watching DVD's/music etc.

Youtube Downloader

Sopcast for watching live Premier League.

utorrents on my work computer so download everything on that.

All media is kept on Ext. HDD's.

Perfect.

[thaicruze]

I haven't been hit by a car yesterday. Oh my god oh my god, I'm car accident proof

Troll. Never answers direct questions.

again, not 1 example of how im going to get infected.

[urandom]

Troll. Never answers direct questions.

again, not 1 example of how im going to get infected.

Apple fanboi, Doesn't understand anything about computers.

again, not able to read technical explanations of exploits.

easy huh?

[thaicruze]

These are known, past vulnerabilities; good to hear they have been fixed. I wonder if it took them 3 months again to release the patches... Anyway, if they have been fixed in 2007, does it mean there won't be anymore in the future? Why do we have OSX CVEs in 2012 still?

So now they are PAST vulnerabilities. Wonderful. Repeat what I just said.

It seems you don't actually HAVE a Mac and you're just googling crap. Java was updated a couple of months after the Windows version. It has nothing to do with OSX patches. Apple releases updates all the time. They just released a bunch soon after they came out with 10.8.2. I just updated this a week ago I think it was.

There will always be vulnerabilities to an OS. I said that many posts ago before you started this crap. and my Mac is 100% safe. Of course there will be vulnerabilities, and at the same time, the likelihood of me getting a virus, especially with Java disabled, is 0. I know this is hard for you to understand, just read it a few times. Maybe this time you'll get it.

[thaicruze]

Troll. Never answers direct questions.

again, not 1 example of how im going to get infected.

Apple fanboi, Doesn't understand anything about computers.

again, not able to read technical explanations of exploits.

easy huh?

When you get a Mac let me know. Stop googling lists of vulnerabilities and come to the real world.

Let's see the laundry list of Windows vulnerabilities. How many virus scanners and anti this and that did I have? 0. Just the one that installs with Windows. Security Essentials. Other than that, nothing. years later, not 1 virus.

Edited October 11, 2012 by thaicruze

[urandom]

OK you convinced me, OSX is 200% safe.

Oh and this is what you call crap:

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures or CVE system provides a reference-method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. MITRE Corporation maintains the system, with funding from the National Cyber Security Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security.[1] CVE is used by the Security Content Automation Protocol.

[metisdead]

Some inflammatory posts have been removed as well as a post in which the quoted post had been altered.

[thaicruze]

OK you convinced me, OSX is 200% safe.

Oh and this is what you call crap:

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures or CVE system provides a reference-method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. MITRE Corporation maintains the system, with funding from the National Cyber Security Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security.[1] CVE is used by the Security Content Automation Protocol.

Keep posting stuff from Google. Makes no difference. If you don't actually USE the platform, your opinion doesn't really count just because you can Google things. I've used both, windows and OSX. I feel much more secure with OSX because I can share thumb drives and not worry about it.

Edited October 11, 2012 by thaicruze

[balo]

Only installed 360 once, After it ran away with 600meg of ram i removed it and never used it again. Imo having nothing is better than 360:)

That must have been many years ago . Since 2009 , Norton has improved and is now one of the fastest AV programs on the market, if not the best .

I agree that Norton 7 years ago was making your computer very slow but not anymore,

Norton 360 has a free trial version for 30 days , without any limitations ! Just try it out yourself and be convinced.

Norton 360 free trial

[tinfoilhat]

whatever you do, do not install the norton trial. it takes forever to uninstall

[bendejo]

Did some traveling around Malaysia recently. Using Air Asia you have to print out your boarding pass to bring to the airport. I put the pdf on a thumbdrive then down to an internet place for the printout. Every time I've used my thumbdrive in a public computer I picked up some crud. EVERY TIME!

On my Win7 machine I run avast and MSE. Also scrapped Windows firewall in favor of comodo, much easier to modify things and check logs etc. Comodo has av and an execution guard called Defense+, neither of which I have active presently. Thing I don't like about MSE is sometimes a little window pops up for a few seconds saying something like "threat contained" with no details, I then have to go through it to figure out what they blocked/deleted etc, and is usually a false positive. I'm considering enabling comodo defense someday when I'm in the mood for playing with these things.

[thaicruze]

Did some traveling around Malaysia recently. Using Air Asia you have to print out your boarding pass to bring to the airport. I put the pdf on a thumbdrive then down to an internet place for the printout. Every time I've used my thumbdrive in a public computer I picked up some crud. EVERY TIME!

On my Win7 machine I run avast and MSE. Also scrapped Windows firewall in favor of comodo, much easier to modify things and check logs etc. Comodo has av and an execution guard called Defense+, neither of which I have active presently. Thing I don't like about MSE is sometimes a little window pops up for a few seconds saying something like "threat contained" with no details, I then have to go through it to figure out what they blocked/deleted etc, and is usually a false positive. I'm considering enabling comodo defense someday when I'm in the mood for playing with these things.

That's the only time I experienced any viruses. From thumb drives.

I don't worry about it anymore. I have a Mac. For your windows just get a thumb drive auto run killer or scanner.

[balo]

whatever you do, do not install the norton trial. it takes forever to uninstall

It took me less than 1 minute . Have u ever tried the latest version ?

[tinfoilhat]

bought a laptop and it came with the trial installed, it took about 45 minutes to uninstall.

[balo]

bought a laptop and it came with the trial installed, it took about 45 minutes to uninstall.

When was this, in 2004 ? Probably something wrong with your drive.

[Vale Tudo]

You only need one program that will take care of everything , firewall , viruses and spyware . And it will aslo clean register / temp files for you.

This program is Norton 360 . It also comes with an Online Backup for you files.

Yes its not free but it is the best you can get for money today.

It was Norton 360 that made me switch to Spyware Doctor with Antivirus!My laptop had a very bad virus and Norton could do nothing about it,one sweep with Spyware Doctor and it was history!

Edited October 11, 2012 by Vale Tudo

[balo]

And which year was this ?

Norton is number one in tests from 2012 together with McAfee.

[ianwuk]

You should only have one antivirus program and one anti-spyware program but most AV software is an all-in one now.

On my Macbook I use ClamAV.

[Kiggs]

Only installed 360 once, After it ran away with 600meg of ram i removed it and never used it again. Imo having nothing is better than 360:)

That must have been many years ago . Since 2009 , Norton has improved and is now one of the fastest AV programs on the market, if not the best .

I agree that Norton 7 years ago was making your computer very slow but not anymore,

Norton 360 has a free trial version for 30 days , without any limitations ! Just try it out yourself and be convinced.

Norton 360 free trial

Dont use win32/64 so cant. but its the old thing. Once bitten twice shy.

Im sure its loads better but Avast is free. If that fails Hijackthis has always sorted it. (old skool)

[thaicruze]

You should only have one antivirus program and one anti-spyware program but most AV software is an all-in one now.

On my Macbook I use ClamAV.

Has it ever detected an actual virus in your MAC?

[FritsSikkink]

I have no anti virus software.

Why?

I use a Mac.

Have fun with your anti virus programs guys, they really enhance your computers performance.

You are sure you are safe?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/widespread-computer-virus-indicates-mac-users-no-longer-safe/

[Chicog]

Did some traveling around Malaysia recently. Using Air Asia you have to print out your boarding pass to bring to the airport. I put the pdf on a thumbdrive then down to an internet place for the printout. Every time I've used my thumbdrive in a public computer I picked up some crud. EVERY TIME!

On my Win7 machine I run avast and MSE. Also scrapped Windows firewall in favor of comodo, much easier to modify things and check logs etc. Comodo has av and an execution guard called Defense+, neither of which I have active presently. Thing I don't like about MSE is sometimes a little window pops up for a few seconds saying something like "threat contained" with no details, I then have to go through it to figure out what they blocked/deleted etc, and is usually a false positive. I'm considering enabling comodo defense someday when I'm in the mood for playing with these things.

Google "Panda USB Vaccine".

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[David48]

If you consider computer security like layers of an Onion, use 1 Anti-virus, 1 Malware, 1 Spyware. Run anti-virus continuously, the malware and spyware can be run intermittently, especially if you have a weak computer. As long as they don't overlap too much, you're covered. Don't run more than 1 Anti-virus, just sucks up too much resources.

Those daily antivirus scans can suck up huge amounts of disk i/o, so schedule them when the computer is on, but you're not. Since prices are dropping rapidly, consider an SSD for your root drive.

use ...

1 Anti-virus ... AVG

1 Malware ... Malaware Bytes

1 Spyware ... suggestions, as I don't have one installed and happy with the two above.

... and what is a 'SSD for your root drive' ... ?

Thanks

SSD is Solid State Drive or Flash memory.There are no moving parts like a SATA drive so it's much faster at accessing information.

Suggestions for a good spyware please ...

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[MJCM]

Suggestions for a good spyware please ...

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In no particular order

HitmanPro

MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

SuperAntiSpyware