![]() ![]() Look around you: we built washing machines because we got tired of hauling our laundry and the washboard to the river and back. Fraudsters and their toys are a force to be reckoned with, and AV alone isn’t up to the fight. This is not to discredit AV it does what it was designed to do, but it just isn’t enough by itself. People buy a lot of AV, so it must be the best protection available, right? Wrong. People buy AV products because they don’t know any better. My point: we just don’t protect ourselves against Zero Day attacks.Ģ. We can expect that about as much as we can expect the criminal to go to the police and say “hey, I’m going to commit a crime”, and the police to prevent the crime. In an ideal, if not idiotic, world, virii authors would be kind enough to submit their malware to AV vendors, wait for them to create signatures and update their AV users, and then release their malware to the public so that we could catch zero day attacks. the mug shot) has not been created yet hence, no protection. In PCland, AV can never be used as protection against Zero Day attacks because the virus signature (a.k.a. These products essentially create a signature for the malware, which functions much like a mug shot does for a criminal, but only after the crime has been committed. ![]() Our primary protection is the use of software products called AV (antivirus). The world does not protect itself against Zero Day attacks. We want things done, but we don’t want to lift a finger. People are lazy, myself leading that pack. Security checks have been bumped up since 9/11 – enough said.ģ. The majority thinks it does, but reality begs to differ.Ģ. I’d like to start with some facts about the state of software security for PCs.ġ. Okay, let’s not degenerate this in the first fifty words. Is AV dead? Is HIPS the ultimate solution? Are we going to need to have chips surgically implanted in our…” I got reasons for Comodo and here they are, not necessaraly meaning that I will use Comodo but that maybe we should all think about this a little. I placed the same question, Avast or Comodo on their forum, realizing full well that Comodo people will recommend Comodo and Avast will recommend Avast but I wanted reasons. Hello all of you, thanks for all the posts in response, I want to post something that I recieved on the Comodo forum.
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