My protection.

[daniel64x]

I run a 60 day trial of Avast Pro, although Avast for home is good also. Then I have Avira Premium from The six month giveaway, but the free version is good also and you can run these together. Then I have the free version of Super Antispyware, A-squared Free, a trial of Ashampoo Anti- Spyware, along with the Zone Alarm Free. I missed the Free Giveaway of Zone Alarm. Then I keep my windows Fire alarm up high and my internet explorer settings up higher than default. Even with this protection which I considered fantastic, I still get some malware or Trojan Downloader. But if it scan the zipp file that I downloaded or a new program with the antivirus and A-Suared first, it will find it and I can shread the file before installing it or opening it. Works for me. But nothing works 100 percent, but this is the best I have found and I have tried plenty.

[xje4bv]

Could be false positives. Avira flags lots of false positives. Even a keygen or a packed file would be flagged as Trojan.packer or dropper.gen, or something similar. Try scanning at VirusTotal to be sure that those arent false positives

You seem to be running two AV's at once. Avira should suffice so I'd suggest dropping Avast. What I use, is Avira Free, and Windows Firewall, and I haven't encountered any viruses for the past five years or so.

Just download and browse safely and disable autorun via registry and you should not have any problems with viruses/spyware.

[Sai Charan]

That's Windows Firewall, not windows Fire alarm

[brayden]

ha ha windows fire alarm anyway you should never run two AVs at the same time. anyway some people don't use any anti-viruses and they never get viruses. use your common sense. if something don't look right then it isn't right.

[Sai Charan]

Daniel - Why you install tons of softwares ?

Remove everything (Super Antispyware, A-squared Free, Ashampoo Anti- Spyware, Avast etc) and install any Internet Security like Kaspersky or Norton. That's enough.

[daniel64x]

Kap is not good in my opion, does work well for me and to completcated, and as Norton once you get it in your system you have a hard time getting it out. Norton and Kap are memory hogs and suck my processor dry. It works fine for me, I have no problems really with mainline surfing. I think it works better than anything I have ever tried.

[xje4bv]

You're the only one then. The first line of yours is definitely gonna draw some flak from most members.

[laylow21]

he must work for the pentagon.

and bring home all his secrets .. christ fort knox aint overmanned as much as this guy..

its overkill m8 .. and the amount of system conflicts you must be having would drive me nuts..

one anti virus .. one antispyware .. and something to compliment both instead of competing with both .. maybe threatfire or some other proccess guard type software .. anything else is over-kill and a waste of rescources.

[brayden]

Norton ain't as bad as it used to be. The memory usage is really low. It has really turned around since the 2008 version.

As for KIS you call the 20MB it is taking up on my machine a memory hog? It isn't half bad. The firewall is great and keeps any hacker from messing with your computer. Anyway have you even tried both of these? I have and felt they are great. KIS although is better that NIS in my opinion.

[Rush]

I have to take my laptop into some rather hostile situations at times, most of the time quite on purpose, so it's like the NSA.
My main system survives with KIS, which does an outstanding job without putting it in concrete boots. One thing Im surprised isnt in more arsenals is Peer Guardian. At times it really is overkill, I guess, but I believe in overkill.