how good is ur antivirus

[atifsh]

remember this thread..... microsoft done wonders to its program....

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=78902

now for newest list and see what ur antivirus does on test....

http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02

funny the best one is using avast engine and doing better then avast ...

[locoeng]

Nice article, I guess for the freebies I'll be sticking with Avira still.

[gonwk]

Hi atifsh,

Coming thru yet again ... THANKS for the Article my man!

G!

[Chewy]

what's interesting is the combining of 2 scan engines

[atifsh]

yes and we already knew that using 2 programs is a way to go, but combining 2 to make one killer app is excellent.

[atifsh]

Nice article, I guess for the freebies I'll be sticking with Avira still.

(4) the free (personal) edition does not include ad- and spyware detection, so the results would be --

that is <85%
now u need good ad and spyware scanner and ull be fine...

[Chewy]

I see too many bad infection getting thru resident AV protection and then the computer is damn near useless and almost impossible to clean as the malware and AV fight to the death

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

atifsh & Chewy ... post your Favorite A/V combo here so we can play with them and decide ...

You know kinda like

atifsh: Avira + Comodo + SAS

Chewy: ....

Or something like that.

Thanks,

G!

[ed klein]

Still, I wonder about the accuracy and honesty of AV-Test.org.

How many kick-backs and out to lunch meals did AV-Test.org receive from the various products representatives.

[atifsh]

Still, I wonder about the accuracy and honesty of AV-Test.org.

How many kick-backs and out to lunch meals did AV-Test.org receive from the various products representatives.

you are always welcome to do one urself
remember all of those above 95% are good programs and above that the user has to be smart enough to actually use them or the pc in regards. otherwise no matter what u have u will get into trouble.

@ Gonwk..... i use avast + spybot with teatimer. and it saved me couple of times even though i really take care of my system, few times it stoped and promped that something is written to the registry that i will never would have known.

[blutach]

The main thing I find these days is the number of false positives. The real viruses tend not to get through but problems are with legit files.

Regards

[soup]

XP32 = System Suite 8 (without the Net Defense 2way firewall, because Windows update knocked that out) & Comodo. XP64 = Clamwin & Comodo.

[ed klein]

@Soup

Where are you getting your TSSTcorp (toshiba/samsung) firmware updates from?
The SB04 looks like a Samsung firmware update only?

Sorry, not meaning to hi-jack this thread

[soup]

@Soup

Where are you getting your TSSTcorp (toshiba/samsung) firmware updates from?
The SB04 looks like a Samsung firmware update only?

Sorry, not meaning to hi-jack this thread

I got that one from a link at another Forum, extracted the file using WinRAR, then patched using the Samsung Patch Utility. Tried it for a while, then went back to SB01 on this system & SB03 on the other one. If you need any, I can WinRAR them & post them, I have SB01, SB02, SB03 & SB04 stock saved. You can also read about them here.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f105/

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f105/patch-utility-samsung-mtk-based-dvd-writers-v3-4-1-new-242508/

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f105/mini-faq-samsung-dvd-writers-220607/

Just to keep on track, I scan with Malwarebytes occasionally.

[ed klein]

@Soup

Thanks Soup, that one web-site was a great help for the TS-H653F firmware associated with TSSTcorp.