hi !
Corrine: i understand where you got it...
well, "my security"-list is now accurate again, at least until i find out about KIS & FW´s,
although for the moment MSE´s realtime protection is off, as i want too see if i notice any difference in performance.
With a licensed version of a2, you have real-time protection included there as well. It really shouldn't be necessary, and generally not advisable, to run two real-time protection programs so you may want to experiment between the two, a2 and MSE. In addition, between UAC and WinPatrol anything that gets past real-time + A/V should be caught there.
If you want a really good on demand/behavioral cloud scanner that uses multiple scanner engines in the cloud and something with the best removal ability I have ever seen check out Hitman Pro I highly recommend it.
When I go to disinfect a clients machine I go in with Hitman first and in just a couple of minutes it will find and remove all of the worst stuff including rootkits and if it encounters an infected file that can not be cleaned it will prompt you to insert your OS disc and it will remove the uncleanable file and replace it with one from the disc this program is a must have tool.
I am aware he is going with Kaspersky and I applaud that, I think Kaspersky overall has the best security suite their is but I just wanted to mention Hitman as an extra tool to have because security should be layered and an extra on demand scanner with multiple scanning engines especially one with the removal ability of Hitman would make a great addition to an already superb program like Kaspersky.
Based on hackerman's "my security", he is probably more than covered. (@hackerman, remember that both MSE and Avira area antivirus programs. You do not/should not have both active.)
my security: a normal "USER-account", MSE, Avira-free, a2-full, MBAM-free, Comodo´s FW & D+, WinPatrol, a HOSTS-file, UAC at max, a working "main CPU" & "2 optical input units"
Just making a recommendation as he is making a change what ever he does I would for sure not be using 3 real time scanners at once as mentioned.
Just don't turn a blind eye to Hitman I would not recommend it if it was not an awesome program!
Sorry, computersplus. I've never heard of Hitman and we don't use it in the security forums cleaning malware. When I tried a search for Hitman (both Bing & Google), I am finding search results for a movie, a game series and assassination services.
Here you go it's Hitman Pro as mentioned in my post
Hitman Pro 3 - SurfRight
here is a video review done by Matt at removemalware.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmPQOjra244
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