Ive just bought a new laptop, and about to buy a new desktop as well. Ive been hit a couple of time by viruses on my current desktop, and want to try and protect myself as best possible from now on. I believe the viruses mayve come from either a dodgy free games site my child has clicked on, or maybe one of the sites Daddy mayve visited (cough) Is it just a case of not going to these sites, or clicking on attachments in emails, or can viruses find their way thru anyway ? Im prepared to pay £20 or so for something like Kasperzky, but in reality is that no better than the free ones like Avast or AVG ? Avast picked up the fact I had a virus, but it didnt seem to stop it trashing my pc. Thanks for any advice
hate to say this but basically you will get viruses.doesnt matter if you buy the best paid real time protection.I use free virus scanners and pick up stuff all the time.the only real thing you can do is run scans daily.
But doesnt running the scanners just get rid of the virus after its done the damage already ? Thanks.
thats the reason people back up there systems.you can also use restore points to restore the system to before the virus.ive had heaps of viruses and none of them has done any real damage but i have seen computers that badly infected they had to be reformatted. p.s.linux doesnt get virus's.
p.s.linux doesnt get virus's. it does.. but they are usually completely harmless and so easy to fix .. plus no two systems will ever be configured the same.. a savvy user moves things to different paths.. it's hard to write (but not impossible) malware for linux for this reason.. there is no simple attach vector for say system32>overwrite file.. because .. my java for instance isn't in user/java.. it's in user/local/live/java .. all I have to do to keep it working is change the path for anything which calls it.. and user/local belongs to admin.. user belongs to user.. different level of security. user click can't modify anything in user/local without system admin rights. security by design rather than by obfustication and secrecy.. a different ballgame.
Well I used AVG for a while, and it was okay - the odd virus still go thru . Avast didnt seem to cope at all. Going to give Kaspersky a go for 12 months - and be careful about the sites I hit !
