Vexcalibur wrote:
Symantec's security tools are pieces of software that reside in memory and slow your system down in order to try to protect you from malicious apps that would reside in your memory and slow your computer down. But it doesn't always work, in fact I don't remember it actually stopping a virus. I installed it on my parents' computer and they ended up with 4 different spywares...
A Virus Scanner won't find Spyware... you need a Spyware Checker for that .... seriously... I'm not kidding.
I don't understand why there aren't products which offer One-Stop Defense.
- Firewall
- Anti-Virus
- Anti-Spyware
- Data Protection/Encryption
- System Security Checks/Sniffing etc
- Anti-Malware / Anti-Trojan
- Browser Protection
- Update Screening/Protection/Advisory
- Best Practices Advice
- Answering Hoax Questions
- Anti-Spam
- Mail Scanning
- Phishing Scanning
- Computer Health Checks (HDD Defects etc)
- CPU and Memory Optimization
- Net Nanny style voluntary web protection/censorship
- Startup Management (stopping things from Running in Startup).
The whole lot.
In the DOS days, the Norton Utilities used to do "everything" that was missing from DOS but nowadays, each applet does only one specialist thing (and it still hogs all the memory to do it).