ThreatFire, Do you use it to protect your computer?

[froggyboy604]

http://www.threatfire.com/
ThreatFire by PC Tools is a behavior based antivirus which can work with your Antivirus software to prevent malware which been out for less then a day by using malicious behavior detection and blocking. Threat fire blocks programs which by capture your keystrokes or data theft by detecting it.

It also protects your computer from known and unknown spyware, adware, keyloggers, viruses, worms, Trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, and other malware software.

I been using it for a day, and it works well. It only uses about 3MBs of RAM and very little CPU cycles according to Windows 7 Task Manager. I can barely tell it is running. The scans for rootkits are pretty fast even on full scan mode.

 

[netsavy006]

I don't use it. I find it slows my internet and computer.

 

[froggyboy604]

I been using it for a few days, and I notice after a few updates, it slowly causes more problems then not having it installed.

It blocks Avant Web Browser from Accessing the internet until I uninstalled it.

It also made my Windows startup and shutwown a lot slower after a few days of having it installed.

I won't be using Threatfire till it does not interfere with other known good programs or slow down windows shutdown and starts.

I rather use Sandboxie or Comodo Firewall which both have sandbox program for protecting Windows if I was paranoid of getting infected by a virus.

 

[Nebulous]

Well Ive been using AVG and it protects better than Avast did. Is this one better than those two?

 

[froggyboy604]

Nope, it just makes your computer slow in my experience, but the website said it can work with AVG, or Avast to improve the detection rate for viruses.

Avast 5 did not run well on my computer either. It slowed down my internet download speed. Avira's Free Antivir seems to be the best on my computer.

Threatfire can be good if you have a computer with 2GB or more of RAM and is very fast since running so many security programs can really slow down a older PC in my experience.

 

[Null-11]

Naw, I just use Norton, nothin else. And before any of you haters say Noron sucks, it's kept my laptop clean for 4.5 years now. 😛

 

[froggyboy604]

I'm starting to think getting infected by viruses and malware has more to do with the user then the antivirus software.

For example, some user who use Google chrome to "only" uses his computer for watching Youtube, Gmail, etc are less likely to get infected since Google is pretty good at keeping their websites virus free.

However, someone who use Internet Explorer 5-6 to download illegal or perverted files from piracy websites and sexually extreme porno websites are more likely to get infected with viruses.