Your Arsenal

pokeplayer984 · **on:** March 20, 2009, 11:01:08 AM

These days it's just common sense to have an arsenal of some kind to battle against Viruses, Malware, Spyware and all that crap you can get from just about anywhere on the net. (Yes, it's actually that serious now.)

So go ahead and list your arsenal.

Here's mine:

Hijack This - Scans hidden files, very rarely used

Sophos Anti-Rootkit - Anti-Rootkit, used weekly

Malawarebytes' Anti-Malware - Kills viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware, and malware, used weekly

SuperAntiSpyware - Kills Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats, used weekly

Spybot Search & Destroy - Anti-Spyware, used weekly

AVG Anti-Virus - Anti-Virus, used monthly

Well, that's my arsenal, and I say that I'm well protected.

What's yours?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2009, 11:58:40 AM

Well for protection all I really need is AVG and Spybot, but I've got tons of tools for attack including viruses and worms I've made myself. I also intentionally download infected torrents searching for the worst viruses I can find so I can capture and release them on any cracker that tries to penetrate my system. In addition to little things like that and my protection, I also have my expert abilities which allow me to manually remove just about anything from my computer. I also have a portable version of Windows XP that runs from either a USB drive or a CD that doesn't even have to touch your hard drive to run. Using that I can manually remove ANYTHING because the malicious program or cracker has no idea I'm even using my computer because the hard drive is never even used......until I remove the threat.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2009, 12:42:43 PM

For the XP computer, this is what I use Panda Global Protection, Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware SE Professional, HijackThis, Web of Trust, Threatfire, Sophos Antirootkit, and Peer Guardian 2.

For the Vista computer, I use Panda Antivirus 2008, Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition (Free version), HijackThis, Web of Trust, Peer Guardian 2, and Threatfire.

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2009, 01:12:20 PM

Quote from: DarkHououmon,Mar 20 2009 on 10:42 AM

For the XP computer, this is what I use Panda Global Protection, Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware SE Professional, HijackThis, Web of Trust, Threatfire, Sophos Antirootkit, and Peer Guardian 2.

For the Vista computer, I use Panda Antivirus 2008, Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition (Free version), HijackThis, Web of Trust, Peer Guardian 2, and Threatfire.

Nice Arsenal!

I needed to look up Web of Trust, Peer Guardian 2 and Threatfire to completely understand what you have, and I'm impressed.

Looking at it all, I'd say you're well protected yourself. Perhaps even better than I am.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:17:07 PM

I'm hoping to try GesWall sometime. GesWall is an intrusion prevention system (there's others out there like Defense Wall). What GesWall does is it treats anything connecting to the internet as an untrusted application. So let's say you download a malicious file from FireFox, like some kind of terrible trojan that modifies important system files. GesWall will immediately block it from doing anything, and even stop it from sending out confidential data.

I heard that intrusion prevention is the "way of the future" when it comes to antimalware. I wonder if antivirus programs like AVG, Panda, and Kaspersky will start to introduce intrusion prevention into their programming.

raga · **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2009, 05:50:40 PM

I don't really have much to tell the truth, I just use AVG and windows defender.

Sableye · **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2009, 08:33:31 PM

I rarely get any viruses, so I don't need all of that stuff. Right now I just use AVG, and I haven't run into problems yet. When I do get viruses, I use Spybot S&D and Malawarebytes,

DarkHououmon · **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:39:23 PM

I don't get infections that much, but that doesn't stop me from having all those programs. Better safe than sorry.

Serris · **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:50:55 PM

I have a relatively small arsenal.

McAfee Enterprise (used weekly)

SuperAntiSpyware (used weekly)

Spybot Search and Destroy (latest addition to my arsenal!) Will be used with SuperAntiSpyware

AdAware (obsolete)

Windows Defender

Norton Ghost in case things really hit the fan (used daily - backup utility)

Still trying to find an anti-rootkit munition.

Petrie. · **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2009, 04:53:24 PM

Kaspersky Internet Suite.

I need nothing else because it blocks a ton of things. All the freeware spyware things were coming up clean scan after scan so I simply uninstalled them.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:12:29 PM

Quote from: Petrie,Mar 23 2009 on 04:53 PM

Kaspersky Internet Suite.

I need nothing else because it blocks a ton of things. All the freeware spyware things were coming up clean scan after scan so I simply uninstalled them.

I would be nervous to rely on just one antimalware program, no matter how good it was. For me, one antimalware program is never enough to keep a computer as secure as possible, regardless of its reputation.

Serris · **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2009, 10:16:54 PM

I agree, there's always errors with any software, which is why I rely on 2 antispyware munitions.

(Yes, I am a hoplophile. And I couldn't resist calling these programs "munitions" because of the title.)

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:05:53 PM

Quote from: Serris,Mar 20 2009 on 07:50 PM

Still trying to find an anti-rootkit munition.

Go to the following website:

http://www.antirootkit.com/software/index.htm

Good luck choosing.

Lillefot · **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2009, 02:57:39 PM

I use the folowing three:

Panda AntiVirus
Spybot S&D
SuperAntiSpyware

I use the later one for special ocassions though.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2009, 11:26:41 PM

Update: I am now running GesWall on both computers. So that's added to my list of arsenal.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #15 on:** December 02, 2009, 01:30:43 PM

Another update: I am no longer using Windows XP (as of early November) ; I've switched to Windows 7. Here is my current arsenal-

Antivirus+Antispyware-Vipre
Antimalware/Antispyware-Malwarebytes and Superantispyware
Firewall-My router's firewall, Comodo Firewall and Windows 7 Firewall
Additional security-Peerblock, Web of Trust add-on, and Adblock Plus add-on

DarkHououmon · **Reply #16 on:** February 19, 2010, 10:34:54 AM

I have a new program added to my arsenal. KeyScrambler Premium. It's an anti-keylogger program that encrypts everything you type in certain areas (Microsoft Word, Firefox, Windows Logon, TurboTax, Thunderbird, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Notepad, Steam, and World of Warcraft just to name a couple). By encrypting what you type, all a keylogger will be able to see are random keystrokes.

Mumbling · **Reply #17 on:** February 19, 2010, 11:12:41 AM

That sounds like a nice program Kacie, does it take up a lot of ram to use?

DarkHououmon · **Reply #18 on:** February 19, 2010, 11:32:27 AM

Nope, not from what I've experienced so far. I haven't noticed any significant slowdowns.

jedi472 · **Reply #19 on:** February 19, 2010, 05:01:11 PM

Just AVG for me.