Is One Program Enough?

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Anthony1

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I've never really used any antivirus programs and what not and've finally decided to start. I'm going to purchase Kaspersky after reading many good reviews about it, but is that enough?

Just wondering how many programs you guys have running in the background. Are there any absolute essential programs that I should have running at all times besides Kaspersky? I was thinking about downloading Ad Aware - heard that's' good, but not sure if it's compatible to run side by side with Kaspersky?

Anyway, just a question that I was really curious about and wanted an answer to. I've seen people with a long row of programs in their task bar and wasn't really sure what all that was about.
 
using a avg free edition antiviruse along with kaspersky will surely add your system some stars if you are not running out of ram,
on my system i use avira premium along with avg home, never had a problem with a viruse,
this configuration is on my system for past 7 months,
any way's kaspersky is a excellent av, you can go along with it and if you use vista i dont see any reason of installing a new firewall.
 
No need to clutter your pc with many program. Kaspersky alone is enough. If you are know how to use pc efficiently, use only kaspersky.
 
One good solid anti virus is enough. There really is no need to run multiple programs at one time. Sometimes they will even conflict with each other and cause even more issues.

I have used Symantec End Point protectin for years now and never had a single issue. I get it free from work so I can't complain.

Kaspersky is a great program and will protect you just fine:)
 
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If ur antivirus includes a virus scanner, anti malware, and a firewall, then u will never need anything else.
I use Avira premium, which includes everything.

As for the Kaspersky Internet Security, it also includes all of these. So u will need nothing more.
 
Cool! Thanks for all of the help, guys!

Now, if I could ask just a couple more questions:

1.) With Kaspersky, would it tell you if you're about to download a Virus? Say for instance I download a .rar file from Sendspace and inside of that .rar file there's some kind of spyware, virus, malware, whatever - will it tell me specifically, "Hey, there's 'this'" or "there's 'that'" inside of the .rar? Or will it just say something vague like, "This file seems suspicious?" Or is it possible that it does/mentions nothing while downloading or after having downloaded the file? Basically, how affective are these programs? Will they catch any virus anywhere it's located when downloading a file?

Also, would it let me know if:

1.) There's anyone downloading anything from my computer or any of my hard drives without my permission through an open port? And would it give me detailed information: Downloader information (IP address, etc), what they're downloading, the time, etc? If not, which programs do that?

2.) If there is anyone simply connected to my computer besides myself?

p.s. Please keep in mind that I know nothing about any of this stuff, so some of my questions may be "101", but again, it's all new to me and I ask because I really don't know what is and isn't possible when it comes to viruses and what hackers are capable of.
 
When a file is downloaded, it is first kept in temproray files. As soon any suspicious files is downloaded, a message will alert u about that xyz file inside the .rar is infected.

So what will happen to the file will solely depend on ur decision. U can then just delete the file.
So u can safely just assume that virtually nothing was ever downloaded into ur computer, if you choose to delete the file.

A firewall will keep a good control on ur computer traffic. When u install a firewall in ur pc, nothing will go outside or come into ur pc, without ur permission. Hence no website or program will be able to automatically download something to ur computer. And no files will go outside ur computer without ur knowledge.

So get an antivirus with a inbuilt firewall, like kaspersky or Avira Premium.
 
Actually I've found firewalls do very little because usually your router has one built-in and the WIndows Firewall (does that do anything TBH?). I'd just get the antivirus, even without a firewall I haven't contracted a virus in recent memory.

More than one AV/firewall will start to cause conflicts and issues. I remember when a friend had AVG and Avast! antivirus running in parallel, Gmail wouldn't work...
 
PabloTeK said:
Actually I've found firewalls do very little because usually your router has one built-in and the WIndows Firewall (does that do anything TBH?). I'd just get the antivirus, even without a firewall I haven't contracted a virus in recent memory.

More than one AV/firewall will start to cause conflicts and issues. I remember when a friend had AVG and Avast! antivirus running in parallel, Gmail wouldn't work...
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Well, whether u will contract a virus or not greatly depends on ur activities on the internet, i.e what u do on the internet, which type of websites u visit, and what u download. I usually mess around a lot in the internet domain, and occasionally I get a virus alert or a website trying to run a malicious script or something like that
 
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