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like yogi i don't care for antviruses and the like. i just use beyond logic's trust-no-exe to run executables only from where they are allowed to http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/trust-no-exe/trust-no-exe.htm
and an old machine(dual p3 800mhz) as a network firewall with freebsd which is unbreakable
https://neon1.net/misc/firewall.html
http://www.lugbe.ch/lostfound/contrib/freebsd_router/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls.html
you can use any of the bsd family, like net or openbsd and you don't really need to install the desktop..you can use any lite release, even as old as freebsd 3.5, just as powerful. if it's just for home, you can install it on something as ancient as pentium2 just make sure it's a reliable solid machine... you don't need something fast, it won't make much difference but bullet-proof hardware is a must. you will need to be somewhat familiar with unix shell
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I'm curious about who is using what. Currently my interactive choices are OutPost Firewall 2009 (free), Avast 6.0.1125, MalwareBytesPro 1.50.1.1100. Standalone I have HitmanPro 3.5, Pavark AntiRootkit 1.0.8, Rootkit Revealer, Spybot S&D, SysClean & TDSS Rootkit.
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ndebord
I'm curious about who is using what. Currently my interactive choices are OutPost Firewall 2009 (free), Avast 6.0.1125, MalwareBytesPro 1.50.1.1100. Standalone I have HitmanPro 3.5, Pavark AntiRootkit 1.0.8, Rootkit Revealer, Spybot S&D, SysClean & TDSS Rootkit.
2 machines. Older w/XP & a few Linux Distros. Laptop w/Win7. On both all I use is the standard Windows firewall blocking inbound. That's it. Gave up on AV apps etc... about a year ago or so I guess. Just came to the realization that the only "viruses" all the different AV apps were finding all these years were annoying false positives. Just wasn't worth the performance hit they were causing. And I surf w/full JS enabled on all browsers, download & install several apps per week to try them out, visit a couple p*rn sites, download torrent files. You name it. All the things that supposedly put me at risk and I've never been infected all these years. Only security besides Windows firewall would be displaying email as text initially and scanning any suspect file I download w/ClamWin. Not sure it does much, but just an extra precaution to put my mind at ease if I have any doubts. On occasion I use CCleaner just for tidiness sake and I also monitor active tasks w/the task manager regularly. More-so for memory/cpu checking than anything else.
Having said that, my family & loved ones have been infected with much tamer surfing habits and w/AV apps installed. I think the major culprits are html/attachment emails and unintentionally clicking popup malware while surfing. So perhaps flashblock and adblock can be considered security apps, both of which I use primarily for cleaner page viewing. Or maybe I've just been lucky so far. But it's going to take a major infection for me to start using full-fledged AV apps again. Doubt that'll happen since it's never happened to me in over 15 years.
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I just got my first virus yesterday after a 29 year clean record (hmmm are there any 1982 Atari 800 viruses? . I too live a "high risk" life. Common sense helps a lot of course. I'm not actually sure where it got in. I installed mudlet on both Win computers but only one got infected. The other one got infected via the network but was 1 cycle behind so I think the software install was coincidence. My best guess is that the unpatched reinstalled win95 (lazy of me) running Opera 9.64 with dialup (images off) was the fault. I may have clicked something I should not have. Oh yeah my router for both machines has a firewall that blocks inbound connects except for the P2P hole I made. No AV software on either W9x machine. I've reinstalled a old F-PROT virus scanner now with a date change workaround to force it to work.
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MXB,
What? You got F-Prot to work again? How?
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MXB,
What? You got F-Prot to work again? How?
<g>
FP.BAT
DATE 2-2-2008
C:\DOS\F-PROT\F-PROT %1
DATE
<VBG>
Provided useful info on the old worm I caught, although I manually found all the infected and generated files without it. (I hope)
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MXB
F-prot 3.16f. I almost deleted it myself after it started not running due to expiry date.
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MXB
F-prot 3.16f. I almost deleted it myself after it started not running due to expiry date.
mxb,
Hmmm... and you can still get virus definition files?
FYI, this is my old FP command line.
c:\fprot\f-prot c:\*.* /AI /nofloppy /dumb /list /archive /packed /report=fp.log
list fp.log
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MXB
F-prot 3.16f. I almost deleted it myself after it started not running due to expiry date.
mxb,
Hmmm... and you can still get virus definition files?
FYI, this is my old FP command line.
c:\fprot\f-prot c:\*.* /AI /nofloppy /dumb /list /archive /packed /report=fp.log
list fp.log
No, the latest def files were from Feb. 1, 2008.