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General Software Discussion / Re: AntiVirus with decent anti-spyware (realtime) detection
« Last post by Darwin on September 05, 2008, 10:23 AM »Well... after a weird situation last night wherein Maxthon froze and I could not terminate the process because my system had apparently locked it, I disabled my wireless receiver, rebooted and ran a Deep scan with Webroot overnight - I have no idea how long it took, but typically these scans take about 2 hours (I run them once a week over dinner). It found one trojan in a very old e-mail attachment (from 2000! It was a file that allowed me to run Combat Flight Simulator without the CD in the drive) and I let it quarantine it (in the past I'd just directed my AV to ignore it). Because I was paranoid, I then installed VIPRE and set up my preferences for it and rebooted. I let VIPRE update its definitions and then disabled Webroot while I set VIPRE to deep scan my system. After an hour and a half of watching it trawl through my C drive (hadn't even gotten to My Documents, which are on E:) I killed it and looked at the one issue it had found. It had identified Check&Get.exe as a keylogger. I investigated, and also scanned the file with Webroot, and as far as I can tell, it's clean. Anyway, I was disappointed with the speed of VIPRE and with the false positive. My assumption is that it gets quicker with each run (this was my experience with Win2k, before that machine gave up the ghost). For my needs, Webroot is rock solid. If you are happy with VIPRE and you've been runing it for a while you're probably beyond that break in period and it's probably very quick. I'd stick with it. The price is significantly cheaper than Webroot at the moment and I WAS impressed with how responsive my computer was even when running the deep scan. Webroot is more resource intensive during scanning, but it is quick. EDIT: Also, I followed up the aborted deep scan with VIPRE with a Quick Scan with VIPRE and it took about 10 minutes or so - not bad! It also didn't turn up the keylogger false-positive, which I thought rather odd...
NB my wife is running VIPRE Enterprise on my work provided notebook and it is amazingly quick and non-intrusive on that machine (WinXP Pro Sp-3, 2GB RAM). If I didn't have just under two years remaining on my Webroot licence I'd probably stick with VIPRE to get a better idea of how it would perform on this machine in the long run.
Bottom line: I think Webroot is great, but many disagree. Carol, for example, has had negative experiences with it WRT resource utilization. VIPRE is impressive considering it's still only about two months old. I am sure that it will get better. If you are determined to give something else a shot before you commit, do give Webroot a try. Otherwise, I'd take advantage of the great price on VIPRE...
[Darwin returns to gazing at his navel while sitting on the fence!]
EDITED: for clarity.
NB my wife is running VIPRE Enterprise on my work provided notebook and it is amazingly quick and non-intrusive on that machine (WinXP Pro Sp-3, 2GB RAM). If I didn't have just under two years remaining on my Webroot licence I'd probably stick with VIPRE to get a better idea of how it would perform on this machine in the long run.
Bottom line: I think Webroot is great, but many disagree. Carol, for example, has had negative experiences with it WRT resource utilization. VIPRE is impressive considering it's still only about two months old. I am sure that it will get better. If you are determined to give something else a shot before you commit, do give Webroot a try. Otherwise, I'd take advantage of the great price on VIPRE...
[Darwin returns to gazing at his navel while sitting on the fence!]
EDITED: for clarity.
I have it set to display my messages organized by folders...
It was meant as an aside (and I should have labelled it as such).
) so I have all of my "category" rules set to run before my E-mail account specific rules. Thus, I might get an e-mail to my Yahoo! account that relates to UltraEdit and another that is from a friend. The "UltraEdit" rule moves the Ultraedit mail to my Ultraedit folder (which is a subfolder of my "Software" folder) but leaves the e-mail from my friend. Outlook goes through the rest of the rules and when it gets to "Yahoo" moves my friend's e-mail into my Yahoo folder.
