What's the Best Anti-virus?

Right Colin, stealthed Ports means your PC won't be visible to port sniffers and most drive-by attacks.

Golden said:

ShieldsUp and routers have nothing to do with the effectiveness of anti-malware products, nor is it an indication of how good they might, or might not, be.

Regards,
Golden

Correct!!

Golden said:

ShieldsUp and routers have nothing to do with the effectiveness of anti-malware products, nor is it an indication of how good they might, or might not, be.

Regards,
Golden

Golden? How did you come to that conclusion? Seeing how a Good firewall (Software/Hardware), and common sense says an ounce of prevention. (Prevention - GOOD Security package, Knowing not to go to site that can cause problems to a computer).

You can get winged just by clicking on links in search results even where WOT or other protections don't flag a bad site or one that waits until you arrive to slip something on.

Filters like Web Of Trust as well as having an effective not just firewall preferably one that includes web filtering will do more to steer you away.

Common Sense falls into a different catagory as far as acquiring that!

Night Hawk said:

You can get winged just by clicking on links in search results even where WOT or other protections don't flag a bad site or one that waits until you arrive to slip something on.

Filters like Web Of Trust as well as having an effective not just firewall preferably one that includes web filtering will do more to steer you away.

Common Sense falls into a different catagory as far as acquiring that!

Hum NH your last comment has always been a beef of mine - I think some think that because they have a security suite on it means they can do carte blanche whatever they like - doesn't happen in the real world eh?

Must get that WOT back on too and I am liking that Do Not Track Plus - nice little side kick

The WOT is a great little addon for IE or FireFox as it will tag select sites in any search results when there is any privacy concerns mainly. But that is limited to just that alone just like any other program also sees it's own limitations regardless of how well it is rated.

The facts of how you browse in general will reveal themselves sooner or later. If you browse carelessly you end up tracking mud all over! The idea of having a good IE security program is mostly for not falling into the hidden snares that are out there being cleverly concealed.

Hum I think I used it a long time ago and just forgot to get it on the new build after I did that.

My Kaspersky -when it's in the mood will tag sites in a Google with coloured "flags" but thats when it feels like it!

Yep agree that there are plenty of little potholes one can fall into the annoying ones are the add on Ask bar etc stuff that one hardly ever notices on downloads and the AVG security search one that is so hard to get rid of - must look at getting a block on it somehow

Well I don't think "shootouts" prove anything really myself except that we all have our own personal favourite apps for different reasons. However I do like to hear others opinions, thoughts, and suggestions on the subject.

For my money I still prefer to pay for than have free other than to try something out and as NH says (and myself) so much depends on ones use of the net no security is 100% and even if it were I bet there would be always be the reckless few who then whinge when they get "wared".

The cost is not a factor to me either as my own personal one costs me $0.13 a day and that is the one year licence and my lot are always having "specials", and currently I am on $0.07 a day for two years x two machines!

I think we should just be grateful to have those apps around - can you imagine the chaos if they weren't?