Windows 7: Prevention is better than Cure

07 Dec 2009

Loads of people on this forum seem to be asking how to remove viruses, which anti-virus is best, which anti-spyware is best etc etc

An antivirus/spyware program uses a list of known threats and try's to identify suspicious behaviour which might indicate infection. In other words what it doesn’t know is a virus it just takes an educated guess at.

In the past week Avast users have found that this guessing at what’s a virus, has left there Operating System's unusable as its deleted key files and now means they have to reinstall the entire Operating System.

A much better approach to viruses/spyware/malware is to stop them getting on the pc in the first place by using a virtualization/sandbox technology. Below is a list of some of these programs:

DefenseWall
BufferZone
SandBoxie
GeSWall

Please note that these can only be used on 32bit Operating Systems.

Carbonyl · 07 Dec 2009

And we running x64 Windows 7 are left a little less secure, due to our inability to run such great software.

Thanks PatchGuard. Thanks a lot.

FuturDreamz · 07 Dec 2009

I'm skinnydipping in the Sea of Data

08 Dec 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Carbonyl

And we running x64 Windows 7 are left a little less secure, due to our inability to run such great software.

Thanks PatchGuard. Thanks a lot.

Yeah, Microsoft have messed up badly with the 64bit Operating System's.

Quote: Originally Posted by IceFire

I'm skinnydipping in the Sea of Data

Hope theres enough info there for you IceFire. If not then just ask a question here and il do my best to help

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