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[agumon]

what are your views on Real-Time monitoring and blocking... is it better to have it??

[rridgely]

agumon, on May 25 2005, 01:57 PM, said:

what are your views on Real-Time monitoring and blocking... is it better to have it??

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What program are you talking about? Antivirus or Antispyware?

[Tarun]

agumon, on May 25 2005, 01:57 PM, said:

what are your views on Real-Time monitoring and blocking... is it better to have it??

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It depends on your pc knowledge, etc.

rridgely, on May 25 2005, 02:54 PM, said:

What program are you talking about? Antivirus or Antispyware?

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Let's say it applies to both in this case.

I actually never run an active real time monitoring virus scanner or anti-spyware utility. I scan more for spyware than I do viruses. I scan files I download from untrustworthy sources (P2P, etc). Aside from that, I never have them actively running. Virus scan is maybe monthly.

[rridgely]

Tarun, on May 25 2005, 04:26 PM, said:

It depends on your pc knowledge, etc.
Let's say it applies to both in this case. 

I actually never run an active real time monitoring virus scanner or anti-spyware utility.  I scan more for spyware than I do viruses.  I scan files I download from untrustworthy sources (P2P, etc).  Aside from that, I never have them actively running.  Virus scan is maybe monthly.

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I dont run an active scanner for spyware anymore (with Firefox not really any reason too), but antivirus I still do. I think you should because if your AV is running all the time and you become infected the Antivirus should just prompt you to reboot and it will remove it(thats what happened to me). If you only scan once a month and you become infected, you might not notice it untill the virus spreads and you might loose some of your files or even worse.

[DjLizard]

I always run an antivirus because I have a fiancee and a pre-teen using my computer occasionally.

[agumon]

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What program are you talking about? Antivirus or Antispyware?

apply to both... apologies for not making it clear... just want some opinions...

[rridgely]

Recently I have stopped using MSAS and decided to let Java cools Spyware Guard do my antispyware scanning.

[Andavari]

I only have real-time spyware monitoring/blocking via SpywareGuard when I have no choice but to use Internet Explorer to access a website that won't work with Opera, or Mozilla.

I always have real-time virus monitoring/blocking enabled, however I must say when I was formally able to use Sygate Personal Firewall before it started acting up all virus, trojan, worm attacks never made it past the firewall - they instead were detected by the firewall and were stuck in the log, the only problem was the log file was considered infected when doing a virus scan and had to be manually deleted. I just hope ZoneAlarm is capable of this.

[Eldmannen]

Well, it is your decision.

Maybe RTM (Real-Time Monitoring) slows down the computer a little (not sure), but on the other hand it prevents you from getting spyware and almost provides another layer of security.

So you can either think performance or you can think "better safe than sorry".