Saturday, November 21, 2009

Creating free security suite

Active Virus Shield (use to powered by kaspersky) use to provide an excellent free protection, but after Kaspersky re-draw their service from free to become EXPENSIVE, we need to found our a self another free security suited solution.
Base on an assumption that a single antivirus program cannot protect our computer, we need to find other element to built the security suite we need. From the information that I have, It's need to contain 5 major element :
  1. Anti-virus
  2. Anti-spyware
  3. Email Security
  4. Browser choice
  5. Firewall
After some trials, errors & reading reviews from so many source, I found my favorite Free security Suite combination as followed :
  1. Avast Free Antivirus
  2. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM)
  3. For Firewall I'll say choose between this two Online Armor Free or Agnitum Outpost Firewall Free ,both are good
For the web Browser, I think Mozilla Firefox or Opera would be a better choice than the standard outdated IE. For Email security, thanks to Avast! It has Internet mail protection in it.

Other Free combination that I could also recomended here are:
  1. Avira AntiVir Personal as an alternative anti-virus option. Compared to Avast, the free Avira doesn't provide Email scanning protection and other online protection like Avast did, but it has a slightly better virus detection rate.
    AVG Free would be the next alternative, it's provide a complete protection as Avast did, but AVG takes LOT of computer resource & compared to Avast & Avira, AVG has the lowest detection for virus & rootkit protection.
  2. For Firewall PC Tools Firewall Plus would be a good alternative, or the other more familiar firewall choice for most people, ZoneAlarm Firewall Free
  3. For Anti-Spyware/Malware, I found non that can beat Malwarebite' Anti-Malware(MBAM) but so many review suggest SuperAntiSpyware, as an aditional security layer a long side MBAM, they are both free & not like anti-virus software, using more than one anti-Spyware application wouldn't hurt your computer.
I would like to give my highest appreciation for two of the following software (note; I have no affiliation with neither one of them) :
  1. Malwarebite' Anti-Malware, when you buy Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware you get a lifetime license for $24.95, which I think 'very' reasonable for lifetime protection, is it not? On the otherhand, the commercial version runs in the background and prevents infections, the one that I experience my self was the IP blocking module, It automatictly block those bad content from the bad un-secure website that I visited (I do lots 0f unsafe internet site, I'm sure you know what I mean ^_^)
  2. Avast with their motto "all antivirus software should be free for non-commercial use" and not just free it's also a very good software

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, very good review

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  2. Thanks for that offline installer link for avast, hate it when I have to go online when instaling program on fresh install PC

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