Comments on: Security Choices, Part 2: Anti-Virus Software

By: Pavel Goryakin

Pavel Goryakin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:01:36 +0000

Many thanks to everyone for the comments! First of all, just to make things clear: Security Teacher is not equal to Agnitum blog, so we wouldn’t like to give any recommendations concerning our products here. However, we’ve always expressed the idea that all-in-one security solutions are much more convenient and, from our point of view, optimal for the majority of users.

To Jonathan and Vacis: yes, we agree completely. Using a security suite rather than a bundle of products from manifold vendors means more stability, no incompatibility issues and requires less user involvement.

By: vacis

vacis — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:28:30 +0000

i used a lot of antivirus programs and firewalls before but i often had a lot of security problems. now i started to use agnitum security suite and my computer became stable like it never was before.
thanks to agnitum

By: Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:08:37 +0000

I found this and the preceding article very helpful, but I’m still not sure whether the optimum security arrangement is firewall plus anti-virus. I assume that the Agnitum Security Suite provides this overall protection, whereas Outpost itself needs additional anti-virus? (the Agnitum site isn’t as clear as it could be on the differences between the packages, and who should use which one). And presumably using an integrated solution like Security Suite should elminate all conflicts and go-slows? – if so this is a major advantage.

By: Antonio Santerini

Antonio Santerini — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:42:46 +0000

I besides the antivirus use Prevx 2.0 that it notices a lot of malware before serves them scansionare as the antivirus, I hold him/it a software to recommend to all together with the antivirus and naturally to Outpost Firewall Pro

By: Pavel Goryakin

Pavel Goryakin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:11:07 +0000

Aron, we’ve already had an article on keyloggers. Please find it here:
http://www.agnitum.com/news/securityinsight/issues/march2007

By: Aron

Aron — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:23:09 +0000

Thanks for the info, but i liked to have more info on keyloggers. i am 16 years old using Outpost Security Suit Pro version 6.0. well…. thats my comment…

By: Paul J. Hopkins

Paul J. Hopkins — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:00:16 +0000

Hi!
I have used Agnitum Firewall for God know how many years and found it to be excellent, but when it come to anti-virus software I used to use Norton but found it slowed my PC dwon considerably on bootup and on using the Internet, so I did away with it and got the Free version of AVG.
However today, I bought the full Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro and I was wondering if I can get rid of the AVG now. (I.e. – does the security Suite Pro act as anti-virus software?)
Answers in an email please!

By: Pavel Goryakin

Pavel Goryakin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:32:16 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the comments!

To amauripatagonia: the Part 1 (Firewall software) is in Security Teacher as well: http://www.securityteacher.com/2008/01/16/security-choices-part-1-the-software-firewall/

To John: We’ve worked a lot on compatibility issues. As for AVG antispyware: you turned off Outpost’s antispyware / antimalware plugin, didn’t you?

By: John Hoerner

John Hoerner — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:47:28 +0000

One way to support good development is to make your program compatible with good other programs. I like outpost but it causes me lots of problems. Am using Kaspersky anti-virus and AVG anti-spyware – seems to be lots of conflicts.

John

By: gopichandlalwani

gopichandlalwani — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:57:16 +0000

thanks for your help