Anti-malware

Any recommendations for a laptop/ home computer?
Thx

 

I use bitdefender on my Gaming PC at home.

 

I have always used Norton for the past 10 years without issue. Have it on our Smartphones as well

 

Malwarebytes

 

I have consistently used Malwarebytes and Spybot 1.6.2 for a few years. I find the newer spybot a bit of a resource hog and packing several features in not interested in. Together, they have always done a very good job of keeping my pc's clean and are both free. Definitely a good idea to run an AV as well. I just found that AV alone didnt always catch the nasties.

 

omg no

norton is a virus

 

Never had any issues on any of my stuff

 

I think he just means it's considered bloat ware in a lot of circles, very heavy, gets into all sorts of areas it doesn't need to be in. As far as anti malware, malwarebytes is a great way to go.

 

Actually the best defense is to run OpenDNS and block porn other objectionable trash. Porn has the greatest chance of infecting your computer since those that create those sites are of questionable character anyway.

 

I'm an IT guy and I used to do a lot of side jobs for coworkers etc. One guy (and now a good friend) kept getting malware literally once a month. Typically he would call me, Hey something popped up on my computer and I clicked it and now..... he's not to savvy on tech but just uses the computer for Skype, yahoo chat, email and videos. After seeing his browsing habits first hand, I found that the "Video" sites were filipino based video sites with a ton of popups and other dubious content. I've used Spybot, Malwarebytes (Mostly for removal) and AVG, symantec/norton blah blah blah, I went to Frys and got him Kaspersky Antivirus and Antimalware and he has not had malware or viruses since 2010.
Malwarebytes and Spybot work well I use them all of the time for malware removal but my secret weapon: Kaspersky lab offline rescue disk. I can't speak about having MBam or SBot as a standalone AV, but kaspersky kicks ass!

 

X2 Kaspersky

 

Knayrb,

I'm an IT guy too, 20 years as the head at a semi-small business. I agree with the OpenDNS idea, but would anybody who would post this question have any idea what you're talking about OR how to implement? If you agree no, please elaborate so as to help the OP.

 

Thanks for all of the recommendations. I was looking at car rentals in Ireland and opened a site called Eurorentals when I was infected. I down loaded Malwarebytes and ran it twice, problem solved. Also horstuff is right, I needed a simple solution to my problem- I wasn't expecting free but I'll take it.
Thanks again to all, if ya"ll ever come through Sarasota, PM me and I'll have a beer waiting for ya.

 

r...rr...really??

ew

I've used Avira for a long time and have quite liked it. Minor nag when I first turn my desktop on but it's light weight and works as good as the other staple, free, antivirus out there. Nothing beats a good head and keeping your updates on point.

 

I use malwarebytes and run avast firewall with all the extra crap turned off (spam shield, Web shield...). The thing I find helps the most is blocking all the crap from getting in.
Use Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla has a lot of add-ons available to block things from entering in the first place. the add-ons I use are
1. Ghostery- this is a great add-on that blocks advertising and Analytics. just install go through the wizard / tutorial and select block all
2. Self-destructing cookies- cookies are bits of websites and pieces of information from websites used to load things quicker, but also but also used to track your web habits. what this add-on does is only keep cookies for a short time while you're on the site and then deletes once you leave.
3. Adblock Edge- this add-on blocks images and videos from loading from advertisers. better than Adblock or Ad block plus because it has no whitelist (a list of allowable sites that pay the developers for the privilege)
I also I also use a vpn. Check out ipvanish
Good luck with your porn!

 

Bwa ha ha

 

Firewall behind a firewall? \

cmon maaaaaa'n. Where's your networking standard?

 

Dual routers flashed with dd-wrt custom firmware. One bridged connected to a Lenovo 4tb Nas. Amplified signal on both. I believe in redundancy. Firewalls are a last line of defense. I mainly use it to block most of the windows 10 "analytics" ip addresses outgoing on my personal machine. Mind you I have no IT training whatsoever. Everything I do I had to self teach so if I'm missing something I'm always up for more info...
Edit
I see what your saying now. I use avast anti virus. It has a built in firewall. My mistake

 

That is a NAT hell and will break any form of "UPNP" (universal plug n play) a program uses. The majority of games hate it.

The thing is, most encryption software handshakes on a port like 443 or 22 then moves up to something higher after negotiation is completed, you're greatly impeding the performance of this by adding additional layers of translation before it makes it through. Unless you have a reason to actually control in/out traffic on a device (as you said: stopping Windows 10 analytics) using a firewall to stop those is a good idea, but, often times your average home router doesn't have the firmware that'll allow you that kind of access list.

I recall a time awhile back where I kept telling a friend having his windows firewall on is just silly as he's behind a hardware firewall/NAT at his home router. He was trying to get me to watch a stream of his over Steam and it kept not allowing us to connect. Finally I told him "Just turn your firewall off." viola. Worky worky.

Also: a firewall is a first line of defense.

 

Adding to "a firewall is a first line of defense"

Keep malware/undesirable traffic OUT of the network, don't control it once inside. Unless it's necessary/important for some reason. Say, for instance, an internet-facing server farm maybe hosting semi-external websites. Then a firewall between that "DMZ" network and your actual local area network.