Can anyone recomend some good Anti Virus software?

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Well, you need to watch and I recommend all three. Today I looked into a virus that was sent out on my friends Facebook. It as a trojan and it also redirected any links on her Facebook page to a porn site. Needless to say she did not want to send links to porn sites. At any rate, I clicked the link and ESET AV caught the virus and Windows Defender also recognized the threat. Malewarebytes did not but I did use Malewarebytes to remove the offender. I recommend all three for good protection. As a side note, my Norton AV on my daughters computer caught the virus and shut it out. Avast on my Vista machine caught the virus and shut it out. Avast is free and is not intrusive at all. It updates at sign in and sits quietly until needed.

Knowledge is your BEST protection. Yes have an antivirus if you must but what the hell its doesn't really matter, knowledge is the key here, safe browsing, no porn sites no social sites unless you know what your doing in social sites stay away from it! A hackers paradise is a social site lol.

Some viruses can never be detected.

I read this on Tomshardware forum a awhile back:

There is an exploit out that once triggered it will take your passwords that are stored in your browser, Messenger and attempt to send them out to the internet where your passwords will be used for a hackers benefit. This could mean that all your accounts such as Paypal, Forums, File hosts Social sites, Credit Cards and anything else of value could become compromised and you may lose them or money. Virtually NO Anti Viruses will detect an infection as they are continuing changing, firewalls will allow it out so it can send information back to the hackers pc, Zonealarm one of the best cannot detect it. This can come in trogan form, from a link, an jpg, exe, txt file anything.

Stays dormant on your machine does not slow down your pc or anything thats seems suspicous to the user will jump from drive to drive to become more hard to detect dont even think reformat windows will get rid of it if multiple forms is on your other drives. Microsoft dont even want to know about it this is one update they can't invent.

One way you can avoid it working is never let your browser/chat software save your passwords. Copy all your passwords down into a txt file save it to your desktop (providing you trust others who use your pc) and copy paste pw's to use when logging in.