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Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by Forsaken Knight, 2009/11/11.

  1. 2009/11/11
    Forsaken Knight

    Forsaken Knight Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi, I would like to get advice on software, which my family member has. I would like to know if it is any good, and whether or not my recommendation is better than what she has.

    The family member of mine that I am talking about has Panda Security. Specifically, "Panda Endpoint Protection and Panda Endpoint Agentâ€.

    My recommendations for my family member are to get Zone Alarm and Avast Anti-Virus.

    I would like to know if Panda products my family member has, is any good in today’s current world. How does Panda compare to the specific two programs I have suggested to my family member. In addition, which should my family member go with?

    The family member of mine that I am talking about got Panda from a friend. Therefore, if anything happens, the original information used to activate Panda is not with in immediate reach.

    This is the sole reason why I recommended the two programs above for my family member. I use them on my pc myself, so I trust their dependability.

    Please provide clear feedback upon this matter.

    Thank you all in advance for providing positive insight into this subject of mine.

    Sincerely,

    FK
     
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    Forsaken Knight

    Forsaken Knight Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Oh, and one other thing that makes me wary towards Panda is the fact that it does not show up in the programs tab of the start menu from the desktop. You can only tell that it is on when the icon is displayed on the taskbar, or when you look in the add or remove programs from the control panel.
     
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    geothom31

    geothom31 Inactive

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    I tried the Cloud from Panda, and immediatele removed it.
    Kept saying that MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware were trojans.
     
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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst

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    First of all, I think, this:
    is rather illegal.
    As for ZoneAlarm, I'd skip it.
    Avast, Avira, Comodo are very good and free.
     
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    Forsaken Knight

    Forsaken Knight Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    What is avira? I never heard of it.
     
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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst

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    - Avira free antivirus: http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html
    - Avast! free antivirus: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

    - free Comodo Internet Security (firewall + AV): http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
    NOTE. During installation, Comodo will also allow you to install AV only, or firewall only, if you prefer to combine one Comodo product with some other product.

    If you decide to install Avast, or Avira, make sure, Windows firewall is turned on, or use Comodo firewall..
    If you decide to install Comodo Internet Security, or just Comodo firewall, make sure, Windows firewall is turned off.

    IMPORTANT! Make sure, you use only ONE antivirus, and ONE firewall.
     
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    geothom31

    geothom31 Inactive

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    Avira, Avast, and AVG consistently compose the 3 best FREE anti-virus programs going.
    I personally have been using Avira for some time now and am completely satisfied with it.
     
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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst

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    I have to disagree on AVG.
    I'm not sure about ver. 9.0, since it's pretty young (so far it seems to be getting good opinions), but ver. 8.0 and 8.5 were just disastrous.
     
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    sp3851

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    I use Norton 360 - it has it all. Anti-Spam , Virus Protection , Fire Wall and Transaction Security.
    Also Optimizes your Hard Drive, Do back-ups with it.
     
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  11. 2009/11/14
    TonyT

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    Unless the friend is no longer using his copy of Panda.

    I've found Panda to be quite good at detecting and preventing viruses and malware, however it is a big system resource user and will slow performance down big time in anything less that 2 ghz dual cores.
     
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  12. 2009/11/21
    JCinvan

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    I was thinking, did anyone ever do a survey on this forum about the best protection?

    I tried panda online scan and got 1 false positive.

    I kinda favor AVG with it's toolbar installed, checks any given site before I visit and warns me if it finds suspicious code. Taking advantage of free 9.0 30 day trial...

    I tried to use Avira's boot time scan using a flash drive, but it didn't boot.

    will be trying Comodo in 29 days...
     
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