Real time anti-virus that works on r3dfox?

[MrHankey]

Hi,

I'm using r3dfox 147.0.4 64 bit on Win 7 64 bit.

I am using the Avast free anti-virus.

The Avast Web Guard / real time anti-virus does real time virus scanning for web browsing and works fine on Firefox 115.32 ESR. (If I use Firefox to access the anti-malware test page at eicar.org designed for testing anti-virus software, Avast flags it, blocks it, and passes the test.)


However, Avast does not flag or block it if I access the same anti-malware test page on r3dfox 147.0.4 Whereas if I download the ant-malware test as a file and save it to the computer and do a manual scan of just that file, Avast will still flag it as a virus. But it won't do the real time Web scanning on r3dfox. Avast has been updated to the latest version for Win 7. R3dfox is the installed version, not the portable version.

So is there any way to get Avast's real time Web Guard to work with r3dfox like it does in Firefox? Or are there other anti-viruses with real-time web scanning that will work in r3dfox like Avast does with Firefox?

Thanks.

 

[michael diemer]

I'm assuming you know about Microsoft Security Essentials. If not, it uses the same definitions as Microsoft Defender on Windows 10 and 11 (although not as complete a security suite). It does provide real-time protection. You may need to install a fix to get it to self-update, or you can just do it manually. But it works and is a good AV app, especially when coupled with safe browsing habits (which is of course 90% of online safety).

There are plenty of threads on the forum about it, where to download, the fix, etc. So this is an option, and a pretty good one. You can still use the free Avast with it, and together that's probably enough.