Windows defender vs webroot spy sweeper

Which is better? Webroot Spy Sweeper. Posted February 23, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Recommended Posts. Ghostdraconi Posted February 23, Out of the two only Webroot detected SpyFalcon on my system. So there my vote goes. Michael Posted February 23, I think WD beta 2 is 2 steps backwards for them. Viruses, spyware, and such are being written by the thousands each day. A little tid bit most don't know - a virus use to be called a Janitor.

The original intent was a program that would clean up after you, when the computer was idle. Someone took that idea and twisted it to evil. What's my source? I went to college. History of computers is some of what they teach.

Don't intend to prove anything to anyone, just some advice. Take it, or leave it. I don't know if you have a history of nuttiness on usenet, but at the risk of myself being fitted with a tinfoil hat by agreeing - I agree, partly.

Quite a lot of thinking has gone into protecting information enroute, but the whole thing will still be only as secure as the endpoints allow. If you are the kind of person that knows enough about computers, you can be relatively secure at your end. In fact many will recommend making a good disk image of the cleanly installed OS and follow that with periodic images to include service packs installed since the last image. Don't worry about 'getting everything' - just get some of them and be grateful you can at least do that.

Back to malware - what about the malware "hosting" that you do between one fresh install and the next? Virus, doesn't mean the same thing as it used to. Fred Cohen has revised his definition to include the infection property, so there is disparity between worm and virus.

College students can be as misinformed from their professors as from any other source. I wasn't refering to a worm. Or a virus. Before worms or viruses it was just a program in memory. The concept of a program in memory is not new. It's just someone back before worms or viruses existed, twisted an idea for good clean up to bad destruction.

It's history of computers. It's what they teach. They could be wrong. We could all be wrong. But there has to be a trusted source. I have a friend that would spell a word wrong. When shown how to spell it, by looking it up in the Webster dictionary, he would claim the dictionary was wrong. In regards to making an image of your hdd for a back-up, I agree percent.

I use Acronis. I install what I want in my OS and then create an image. Later, when needed, I just restore it. Great suggestion! It's either a virus or it isn't. In that case it was also a distributed computing application. The access that you use techarena has apparently hacked-up the quoting somewhat. I have both on my laptop. The webroot just expired Do I need webroot since I already have the windows defender? This thread is locked.

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