Not surprising.
For 6-7 years, Microsoft's own AV has been possibly the worst product of its kind available. AntiVir is a mediocre security product. Running two AV programs concurrently tends to make both of them ineffective.
Malwarebytes anti-exploit tool is designed to stop threats introduced via browser exploits. EMET is another program that protects against browser exploits. I'm not sure those should be running concurrently either. However, I am sure they were not intended to protect the user against infected software he deliberately installs.
Windows own firewall programs are also crap. There are better ones that would be more effective, assuming you turned off Windows built-in firewall before running them.
For a few years now Spybot has fared poorly in testing. It is no longer effective. Sad but true.
Congratulations for successfully designing an experiment to produce the desired result, complete and utter failure. Dishonesty at its finest.
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https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/
https://www.emsisoft.com/en/
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Last edited by usually_quiet; 6th Mar 2016 at 10:32.
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VMs are great - I use VMware Workstation for other purposes, and it is certainly handy for poking about in the less savory parts of the web. Surf, revert, repeat. The only place I routinely find nasties are within posts of popular textbooks, and they're usually rather obvious.
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Pull! Bang! Darn!
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I used to have KIS on my machine. I also tried ClamWin, AVG, Avira, Avast. But I had to learn that free tools are more likely to report false positives.
Right now I'm going with sandboxing software, Sandboxie in my case. Good stuff. My system hasn't been infected ever since.Das Leben ist eine Nebelwand voller Rasierklingen. (C. Bukowski) -
herdProtect is an interesting concept, and free. But it does come up with lots of false alerts so watch out.
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ZoneAlarm used to be a good firewall, then it was bad. Now it's better again and I'm back to using it along with its bundled free antivirus.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2456175,00.asp
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I have been using Norton Internet Security for quite a few years. The guy who I take my computer to insisted I switch to NOD 32. So far so good with NOD 32.
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I use 360 Total Security, as it has 3 AV engines that it scans with (Avira, BitDefender, QVMII). It does not hog resources and it is free. I also have malwarebytes. I also image my drives.
Have not had an outright infection in many years, but sometimes if I even think there is a chance something bad might be hiding on the computer, I just restore an image.
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I am trying 360 Total Security, seems unobtrusive.
The others? Well, among other things, whats the deal with 'luke filewalker'??? Some sort of joke?
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