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        <title><![CDATA[I have had good luck..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[running Avast and Prevx concurrently - with no conflicts detected by the event viewer in Windows. Prevx is cloud based so apparently is less intrusive - however I never used it to remove the malware, as I ran on limited accounts, simply running CCleaner alway got rid of the file. I suspect that is where people go wrong, and this could possibly hose the system - I used it for the infection alerts - and ran other scanners to actually remove it, if CCleaner couldn't do it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:52:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[They all suck]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As I said in a previous discussion, they all suck, but my story is with Symantic, which seems to be the corporate standard around here.So a coworker and me stayed late to &quot;break in&quot; the new projector with a few games of worms armageddon.We played for about an hour then the game appeared to crash and Symantic said it detected that &quot;D:\data\wa.exe&quot; was a virus and had been blocked.So first off, it was so far off base that it thought a 15 year old video game on a CD was a virus.Second, if it was a virus, Symantic let it run freely for a full hour before it did anything about it.Pathetic...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:43:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[true]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[this is so right. Lately I've been plagued by one ramnit virus despite the presence of an antivirus. I'd rather settle for a free antivirus solution ensuring that I always have a backup of my data]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gileado@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:16:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks. Microsoft]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We see a lot of extortion-ware at my shop. The individuals around the country that don't know better pay hackers millions of $$ believing whatever pops up on their screens. Follow the money, find the crooks. But I don't hear of a lot of arrests on this front. I owe much of my income to the market dominance &amp; vulnerability of Windows and to the lack of computer wisdom by my customers. As a nation so dependent on this platform, we are not in the best of positions.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tvshub@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:54:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In todays world]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...there are very few protection suites that can boast 90% efficiency. I've dabbled in computer repair for 30 yrs and have seen a few AVs going down without owner knowledge until it's to late. That said I am beginning to feel that it's time to allow designers to build compatibility platforms so several AVs can be run on one machine without a hitch. I think that may help real time protections that are built in different forms to catch the problems before they hatch. Call it a group venture and co-operative effort by developers...hey why not ? Crackers ,Hackers and virus builders are doing it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chashew]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:27:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Finally an article...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that at least hints at the blended in-depth defense. That is what I call it. One of the biggest failures in my tests, are bloated suites. I've never had any luck with any of them except perhaps NIS 2010~*, My clients that need hand holding seem to do okay on it, as long as they don't get that mistaken feeling of invulnerability. For everyone else it is free standalone products. I'm not talking Enterprise here, just Joe &amp; Jill sixpack. Even my clients who run with limited rights get pwned because they refuse to do the least maintenance. Secunia PSI is one of the rivets in the armor of blended defense; at least the new version will either auto update the application or bug the clueless incessantly to manually update it.File Hippo Update Checker would usually come out with application update alerts at least a week before anyone else, but the alerts stopped working on limited accounts, so getting closer to zero day protection, just got more difficult - one could always use CNET's email alerts, but they are usually three days later.Sadly one of the best real time products made by Lavasoft has been abandoned by me, and my clients have suffered greatly - it had full real time malware protection even on the limited account, which almost none of the competitors truly had; but since it was bought out by shady concerns in January - I've just lost confidence in their reputation.(I never enabled their anti-virus module) There are many good anti-file manipulation anti-malware out there that are free also, but they haven't quite made up for AdAware yet. I keep hoping the field will continue to improve.If my clients could afford it, I would be putting ESET's suite products on the machine; and they build them more modular so they act like separate standalone. I think that has been their success, and avoidance of the typical bloated AV/AM solution.That's all I had to say - I just like it when security awareness is enhance for the public in any way shape or form - Thank you Patrick!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:19:22 -0700</pubDate>
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