How paranoid are you about security?

It's fairly trivial to make a virus that doesn't show up on virus scan and doesn't care one bit if you have a firewall on.

 

Uh, since when?

 

Koshin, please post your email address so I know not to open anything from you
I am getting more paranoid by the minute, in fact that is why I will not participate in this thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/security-anti-virus-software/579628-post-your-security-setup.html

Just an aside, why would anyone put their email address in your User CP?

 

Since someone figured out how Anti-Virus and Firewalls worked.

Which means about 5 minutes after the first AV and Firewall hit the market.

 

that is a non ending game

people find a way to bypass AV and firewall -> AV and firewall get patched ->some one else find an other way to do it -> av and firewall get patched again -> and so on and so on

the best protection a computer can have is the user sitting behind the keyboard

 

Gonna have to say your wrong, sorry. It took a good 10 years before we saw mutating viruses that tried to hide themselves. And antiviruses quickly adapted. Tunneling/ tricking/ exploiting a firewall is not typical in any malware.

 

Well I'm pretty much done with this thread but I'm going to say:
1) learn how AV signatures work. Realize that AV will NEVER preemptively catch malware, and it's fairly trivial to mutate and keep ahead of AV.
2) learn how firewalls work. You do not need to tunnel/trick/exploit a firewall to get around it.

 

Never heard of heuristics I see.

and no

it really isn't

 

im not worried at all about viruses and such. last time i got a virus i had fun ripping it to shreds in linux and see exactly what it was. my windows partitions have never seen a virus. be smart and youll never have a problem IMHO.

 

not too worried. Its all come back to knowing what you do. Like never click any suspicious exe files from your co-worker and such

 

You don't have to click on exe files to get infected . Our stations computers got infected from going to a well known weather site to get weather info cause they had an infected banner ad.

 

Wow, ^^^^ That is what scares me, infected ads, like banner ads...Not cool. Or linked images that have bad stuff in them in people's signatures. Ran into that once or twice on other boards. I am about a 6 on the scale I suppose, I use Chrome now and have Mc Afee Internet security on 3 PCs and my new laptop I am getting today will have Comodo's firewall and MSE along with Chrome. I hope that does the trick, I am not the type to go to sites or other questionable sites so I feel that these measure should do the trick for me.

Great thread, read it from start to finish and then added to it!

 

Running Comodo Firewall and Defense+ with MSE and Chrome? =p Not a lot to worry about.

 

Paranoid no, alert and aware YES.
Up to date windows updates, Kaspersky 2011 internet suite, Open DNS, Spoofed email addresses, Firefox and Chrome, anti-malware bytes, CCleaner, Wirelessdefence tips, complete monthly image backups,and I run this Gibson periodically. I know there is a few more things but these for starters.

 

^this

Not paranoid, but just aware of sites I'm going to and what I'm clicking on.

 

Just saying you don't have to click on anything to get screwed. Just upset your neighbor and this is what you might be getting: WIFI FRAUD
Also, Google "wireless fraud" and see how many stories pop up.

 

Same as this. Never paranoid, I've used the internet long enough know to try and keep alert and know what to look for. I never get complacent though, the next threat is just round the corner