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Do I need another anti-virus/malware program or am I paranoid?

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iphigenie:
I always want to laugh when I read any line that says "x million people can't be wrong"

I can list a long list of stupid/wrong things that x million people think is true  :-\

Of course this is not to say that avast is a bad product, it is a fine virus scanner. I don't think it is the best of the free ones, but I have installed it at my mothers and a few other places because it can be setup at the right level that it does not stress people unduly.

That is until it times out and then demand they re-register themselves and they have no idea how to do this, something which just happened to my mother and I am not going there until christmas, so thats 2 months of her being made to panic every day by avast saying her license has expired and windows saying her computer is at risk. I bet she wont dare use the net now :(

For more technical people I usually choose avira personal when I can, as it has a history of being better at detection. Now that there is a bit defender free I need to test it to see how it compares. 

wauiler:
reply to iphigenie's comments....instead of waiting until Christmas to fix mothers pc why not install 'crossloop' and fix it from home it's free for both business and personal use.

BinderDundat:
There is a new Comodo firewall in the pipeline - v3.0.10.238 beta 4 and likely to be a release candidate by early next year.  In addition to one of the best firewalls, it has a component that monitors processes that attempt to start and prevents unrecognized processes from running without your permission.  The program learns your software and the normal processes in a short time (well a week or two), but you have to clear a list of "questionable" processes - most of which result from your using unrecognized software.  You can assign it to the Safe list, quarantine it or just remove it from the list.  I have found that it picks up a fairly large number of temporary files that I never knew were being created before.  You can also grant or deny permissions to individual programs (to connect to the internet, write to the HD, alter other processes, control the keyboard or monitor etc.)  It is a really powerful and customizable program for the advanced user and it has automatic modes that would suit less savvy users.  It is fairly light in resource use but it is known to be incompatible with Spyware Doctor, and possibly other process monitoring AV type programs.  As a free offering, it is a real treat.

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