Theminecraftaddict555 :
Pretty much pairing any AV paid or not with malwarebytes is more than enough for your protection unless your AV does not have real time protection/live scanning of viruses in which I don't know of any that doesn't have real time protection
Yes and no... It's a real complicated answer, and I don't expect most people to understand it...
Let's just say that pairing a quality AV (any that performs above the rest significantly) is going to give the end-user a quality experience. The reason I have such high standards for an AV is because most users genuinely aren't educated enough to use a lesser AV without experiencing problems. As I have reiterated a number of times, many users claim their computer is "fine" when I can clearly tell there is a major problem with it. Knowing how prevalent this is, even when I'm not checking out someone's computer for a repair, it's pretty disconcerting to see so many people gauging their AV protection on a simple virus scan. Not to mention, most of these people aren't doing much to make sure their computer is protected. I can't tell you how many bad habits I witness, even from those claiming "paranoid" or other "careful" types of browsing, and the amount of poor user habits just always piles on top... which leads to large numbers of people reporting bad cases of viruses, even when they have an AV installed. Make sense? And that's really just a fraction of the problem.
As far as the real time protection goes, it's definitely a bitter/sweet thing. Some computers really can't handle that, and some can. Sometimes the scanner misses things, and sometimes it just doesn't scan the right places. Real time protection is only as good as the programmers who made it; and the same goes for the virus definitions. Again, there is a reason my standards are as high as they are. Hopefully that makes sense?
Theminecraftaddict555 :
BTW BD's free is the least sketchiest free AV out there and detection is one of the best...According to Skylyne too :3
Also I saw your test of compressed zip files of contained viruses ( I know they are not actually viruses and are harmless, but lets call it that for now)...you said it scored 4/6 when it comes to detecting zip files..That's a good thing isn't it?
Hate to say you took things out of context, but I think there is some clarification needed here.
The basic virus test I performed was a slightly unorthodox method. What I did was used the basic EICAR files, but the ones that went undetected by Bitdefender's live scanner were compressed using 7z compression, which is different from regular zip compression. It is worth noting that a manual scan did catch the EICAR files contained in them (with the 2 layer 7z compression virus being detected through both layers, and no help on my part). Considering the circumstances, I consider that good real time protection.
Now, there's one thing I'm not entirely positive about... I don't know if BD uses a built-in heuristics engine, which learns as it goes. If so, future tests with my current computer might be slightly compromised, because I would like to redo a portion of that test. I would like to redo the original Virus Shield test, but attempt to open the infected files, and not manually scanning them. I'm 99.9999999999% positive that I wouldn't even be able to open anything, but I might have already compromised the test results,
if the heuristics engine does in fact learn as it goes.
Theminecraftaddict555 :
Also I want to test my AV out against those Harmless files that you tested with...Also if you are done with those harmless files to test with the AV, do you just simply delete them and call it a day?
You can repeat these tests yourself, if you like. The test files are readily available, after all. And yeah, I don't bother with keeping them around. I do have a flash drive I use for basic security tools, and I always keep the basic test files on there. Whenever I go to do some troubleshooting, I will know if the AV on a computer is doing its job, and it gives me a nice basic starting point for gauging how well things are going. The reactions that a few people have had to their AV going nuts over my flash drive is pretty entertaining, honestly
I also tend to wipe most of the files I delete, so they'll likely get the same treatment. I just hate having old data on my drive, since deleting files doesn't actually delete anything (contrary to popular belief). Better security practice to get into as well lol.
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