How often do you run Anti-Virus software?

How often do you scan you computer with Anti-Virus software.

  • Daily

    Votes: 4 12.5%

  • Weekly

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • Monthly

    Votes: 8 25.0%

  • Active Protection (Constant Monitoring)

    Votes: 14 43.8%
  • Total voters
    32
Doom_Machine said:
aw, no option for never on the poll
i dont like having them installed, just something else to bog down my gaming rig
only things installed on mine besides games is gamejackal and nvidias hardware firewall thing
cant complain never no problems
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Never no problem until something gets onto the system and things don't run too well afterwards. With AVG totally disabled from autostarting along with Windows it suddenly popped up a flashing alert when a trojan downloader was copied onto the system upon reaching a new site. When the trojan tried to execute a certain code AVG caught that immediately.

AdAware and Ewido combined detect and remove "data miners" that are used by various sites to track your internet browing habits. The best defense as it seems often proves to be the best offense against adwares, spywares, viruses, and other forms of malwares. Cleaning a system after an infection of one or another can often mean a total wipe of the one or more hard drives.
 
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I do it daily.I use kaspersky v6.It has on demand scan.So active protection is always on. BUt a full scan for me is mon,thurs and sunday.
 
PC eye said:
Never no problem until something gets onto the system and things don't run too well afterwards. With AVG totally disabled from autostarting along with Windows it suddenly popped up a flashing alert when a trojan downloader was copied onto the system upon reaching a new site. When the trojan tried to execute a certain code AVG caught that immediately.

AdAware and Ewido combined detect and remove "data miners" that are used by various sites to track your internet browing habits. The best defense as it seems often proves to be the best offense against adwares, spywares, viruses, and other forms of malwares. Cleaning a system after an infection of one or another can often mean a total wipe of the one or more hard drives.
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thats why i use deepfreeze
 
I don't run an antivirus on any of my Windows machines and haven't for years.

I run under a non-administrator account in Windows for daily usage which goes a long way to limit my exposure. I run Firefox with NoScript to whitelist sites to use JavaScript and Java (a VM isn't installed anyway). All of my machines are behind a NAT router with a hardware firewall.

If I need to download and test something, I'll do it in a virtual machine so it's completely isolated from my regular OS.

Occasionally I'll use AutoRuns or msconfig to check my start-up locations for anything I should be concerned about, and I often use Process Explorer to browse what processes I have running. Sometimes I even break out RootkitRevealer.

In computer security, prevention is better than cure. Your antivirus' real time protection might pop up and say it blocked a trojan or dialler. Things should never get that far. The old saying goes something like, "if an attacker can get his code running on your computer, it's not your computer anymore."

Never had a problem in all these years.
 
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