Obviously, the best security tool is common sense. Although it's entirely possible that a system can become infected through a newly discovered vulnerability in a program without any help from the user, most of the time it happens when the user clicks "ok" or "accept" without reading or understanding what they're agreeing to.
But connecting your system to the internet without a decent antivirus and firewall program is like driving around without a seat belt. If you're a good driver, 99.9% it won't matter, but that .1% is bad enough. Especially if you have any type of sensitive information on your computer.
For having multiply antiviruses installed, its just a matter of setting up exceptions so they don't scan each other's quarantine folders, and making sure background and start up scans are disabled on all but one.
Lyskar
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Yeah, pretty much. The antivirus I have is mostly to catch something really random or weird. Otherwise my common sense alone basically pre-empts infections, and sometimes can destroy them without any help from an Antivirus.
Haha. I think the Windows partition on one of my computers managed to get Conficker.
Since I boot Windows maybe once every two months or so, I'm always way behind on automatic updates. I must've caught it during that.
It's not like Conficker can do anything while I'm not running the right OS, so it's more amusing than scary for me. Besides, I was looking for an excuse to ghost that machine anyway.
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I don't see how you could get it, really. As long as you keep up with Windows patches on all your computers on the network and avoid connecting USB thumbdrives from outside sources, you really shouldn't catch it, unlike Blaster which bruteforced random IPs and spread that way.
No...and it'd be tough to say really at this point...
They said initially that it opened upwards of a certain number of domains every 4 days up to 50,000 from the start of this virus? That's been what...seven rounds now?
