What do you have for an internet security program?

[Soundguy]

curious what problems you had under kaspersky? So far i havn't been able to id a single issue in a few years. Wanna know what i'm missing.

 

[deerseeker001]

love my Kaspersky no problems for many years.

 

[nc redneck]

Look at Web Root . 10 years of usage .

 

[rekees4300]

Been a couple years since I had Kaspersky. Don't recall the problem details but there were many. They may have improved it since then?

 

[/pine]

IMO only...and I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers etc...but (again IMO)...AV software is nothing but a tax for the unaware (for lack of a more tactful word) user...

IMO...(1.) a solid (leak proof) firewall, (2.) a browser (like Firefox) with script blocking plugins and (3.)an awareness of URI's and message headers is all that is required for keeping a system free of malicious infections...

In 20+ years of browsing etc...the only virus I've ever had to deal with came from a game disk that was brought home from a high school...

For the most part a majority of malicious software (viruses, trojans, spy/mal-ware) are contracted via spam e-mail messages...The key to avoiding said messages/viruses etc...is to not be tricked into opening said messages...let alone clicking on links (regardless of how intriguing they may be) within said messages...

As for browsing...some of the worst sites for malicious, intrusive scripts are the social networking sites...

For instance...if a user has an open e-mail client and they log on to a site like facebook...one of the first thing a (facebook) script does is examines the associated address book and looks for email addresses that are already in their (facebook's) database...
Preventing scripts from executing through a browser is paramount to safe/secure browsing...

As a PHP/SQL programmer and backend developer for close to 20 years I learned a long time ago how powerful just the use of "cookies" can be...and how that power can be used for malicious purposes...
...folks that use browsers (regardless of flavor) right out of the box (lax security settings and no script blockers etc.) are just asking for trouble and for those users their only hope is AV software and that is OK as long as you don't mind the strangling effects that AV software imposes on most systems...

Again this is all just my opinion and experience not meant to rile AV software users...

Personally I recommend:

FireFox web browser with 'No script' and maybe 'Ghostery' as ad-ons/plugins

Comodo firewall

And learning to be knowledgeable/aware of bogus/spam e-mail message headers/attachments...

 

[japody]

"As a PHP/SQL programmer and backend developer for close to 20 years I learned a long time ago how powerful just the use of "cookies" can be...and how that power can be used for malicious purposes..."

Can't hardly argue with someone with your credentials!

 

[/pine]

Can't hardly argue with someone with your credentials!

I'm no (Internet) security expert by any stretch...I only mentioned my related experience because I used to write a lot of "cookie" scripts and know what they can be capable of...

IMO...only first party and session cookies should be allowed and ONLY on trusted sites...

If you want to get a glimpse of exactly how many different (hidden to unaware users) scripts are running on any particular site....Install Firefox browser and the "no script" add-on...then visit a site like facebook etc....it is unbelievable how many ( many of them intrusive) scripts are running on like sites...

When I say "scripts" in these instances I'm talking about programs that have no interface and run in the background when browsing a web page/site...

 

[Soundguy]

I can break your so called tax on us stupid people with 1 line.

I for one, access certain govt websites ( among others ) that INSIST on explorer.. thus no firefox.

Blaming the end user / victom of a virus/ trojan / hacking is akin to blaming a woman for getting raped.

Lets be real here. bad people set at home all day and figure out ways to hurt others.

This will continue until law enforcement escalates the criminality of this sort to something like terrorism... and that is what it is really. If a black helicopter landed outside a hackers house and carried him away int he night with a sack over his head and then confiscatred all his belonging and then took him to another country and waterboarded and torchered him for as long as it took to find out every other hacker contact he had, and then executed him, ( maybee post a youtube vid... i hear that is popular) and then went after the other ones.. eventually.. this BS would stop. We have the capability to do this.. just takes some collective 'NADS" to get it done.

IMO only...and I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers etc...but (again IMO)...AV software is nothing but a tax for the unaware (for lack of a more tactful word) user...

IMO...(1.) a solid (leak proof) firewall, (2.) a browser (like Firefox) with script blocking plugins and (3.)an awareness of URI's and message headers is all that is required for keeping a system free of malicious infections...

In 20+ years of browsing etc...the only virus I've ever had to deal with came from a game disk that was brought home from a high school...

For the most part a majority of malicious software (viruses, trojans, spy/mal-ware) are contracted via spam e-mail messages...The key to avoiding said messages/viruses etc...is to not be tricked into opening said messages...let alone clicking on links (regardless of how intriguing they may be) within said messages...

As for browsing...some of the worst sites for malicious, intrusive scripts are the social networking sites...

For instance...if a user has an open e-mail client and they log on to a site like facebook...one of the first thing a (facebook) script does is examines the associated address book and looks for email addresses that are already in their (facebook's) database...
Preventing scripts from executing through a browser is paramount to safe/secure browsing...

As a PHP/SQL programmer and backend developer for close to 20 years I learned a long time ago how powerful just the use of "cookies" can be...and how that power can be used for malicious purposes...
...folks that use browsers (regardless of flavor) right out of the box (lax security settings and no script blockers etc.) are just asking for trouble and for those users their only hope is AV software and that is OK as long as you don't mind the strangling effects that AV software imposes on most systems...

Again this is all just my opinion and experience not meant to rile AV software users...

Personally I recommend:

FireFox web browser with 'No script' and maybe 'Ghostery' as ad-ons/plugins

Comodo firewall

And learning to be knowledgeable/aware of bogus/spam e-mail message headers/attachments...

 

[/pine]

I can break your so called tax on us stupid people with 1 line.

ugh...I should have known better...There is an ocean of difference between "stupid" (your word) and ignorance (not a derogatory term IMO)...

I fully understand about some (gov. etc) sites with proprietary (I.E. only) interfaces and IMO they do not come under the term of casual browsing etc...generally they can be "trusted"...
...It's been a while but IIRC I.E. can be set up to only parse text...

Again...I was not calling or implying that ANYONE using AV software was "stupid" or "stupid" for using it...what I posted was nothing more than my opinion and experience...I'm sorry I bothered...!

 

[/pine]

This will continue until law enforcement escalates the criminality of this sort to something like terrorism...

Unfortunately...like many other types of (global) terrorism...a large majority of malicious code is developed and implemented outside of US jurisdiction...

IMO the real place that anti-malicious/AV software should be deployed is at the server level not the client...it is unreal how easy it can be to crack HTTP server creds and install malicious code on sites with out the administrators knowledge...