Re: Virus/adware/spyware -- is there all-in-one protection in one prog

From: madmax (maxpro4u_at_nomail.afraid.org)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:09:47 GMT

george wrote:
> "John Blaustein" wrote:
>
>> Having had to deal with a virus that my AV program didn't find, I am
>> curious if anyone has found an "all-in-one" program to prevent
>> viruses, adware, spyware, etc.?
>>
>> I have been using AVG Free Edition and today discovered a virus on
>> one of my computers. The first symptoms were that my AV program
>> didn't load at startup (and I couldn't run it at all), and I was not
>> able to access some sites on the Internet. I discovered that my
>> hosts file had been overwritten. In addition, AdAware discovered
>> two registry entries that were causing the AV program not to load.
>>
>> I used System Restore to roll back to a restore point a few days
>> ago, and that seems to have worked. I deleted the bogus hosts file.
>>
>> At the suggestion of Bruce Chambers -- see my thread "Task Mgr &
>> Registry locked! AV won't load!: -- I ran several online scanners
>> and the McAfee scanner found "New Malware.b" in a "bogus" file
>> called iexlore.exe. It's now deleted and my system seems to be OK
>> again.
>>
>> So, here's my question: Is there one security program out there
>> that will do the equivalent of scanning (and real-time protection)
>> for viruses AND also protect from the things that AdAware looks for?
>> It seems that AVG, NAV, etc. look for viruses, and AdAware looks for
>> other items. Is there a program to do it all?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> John
A multi-layered defence is best.What is missed by one is caught by
another.Programs such as Spybot Search+Destroy and SpywareGuard have a
"resident" that scans for any changes that are made and will ask if they
should be allowed or blocked.
I have links and info for these and more on my site.
-max 

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