Saturday, 1 November 2008

Computer Security - Virus free

Many people have come to me over the years and asked all those common questions:

"What's the best AntiVirus?"
"What's the best Anti-Spyware?"
"What's the best Firewall?"

I try to answer those carefully, because many know that there's no 100% secure and fail-proof solution. However, there is a website that has been saving computer lives for some years now and I feel I owe its creators something so I thought I should write something about it.
The website is www.virustotal.com and its a webscanning interface. Not only it checks your files under 20mb (megabytes) with 36 DIFFERENT Anti-Viruses, but it also gives you wise information on api importing and kernel usage!

Here's a mini tutorial about it:

Step Click Browse and choose the file you want to scan on the popped up window:



After that, Hit Submit:



Wait until the file is submitted:



If your file is queued just wait until your first in line:



After waitting paciently, You'll have your wanted report:



As you can see only some Anti-Viruses appear on the screenshot, but if you scroll down there are the 36.

As for offline scanning and Internet Security, I highly recommend:

Anti-Virus: Avast or Kaspersky

Firewall: Comodo Personal Firewall, Zone Alarm Firewall or Kaspersky Suite Firewall

Anti-Spyware: Lavasoft Ad-ware, Spybot Search & Destroy and Kaspersky Suite Anti-Spyware.

Greetings,
Young Geek

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