Your anti-virus and anti-spyware of choice?

This seriously made me lol, also with regards to the forum, I don't use any. Granted I barely touch my XP box, I use Archlinux,nuff said.

its not so much wine but having the windows api ready and waiting for something to screw it up, like something always seems to. and its sudo rm -rf /

Actually, I assumed you were stupid enough to run as root from your statements. Wine is pretty nice and it can only interface with "Z:\" which is just ~/.wine/drive_c generally. Unless you modify it to intentionally use other parts of your hard drive and/or the program was still designed to attack a Linux run system, you still won't effect you in a way that a restart of your window manager couldn't fix. Any corruption after killing it would be much the same as kill -9'ing any other process that was running natively. Plus, it's not "the" Windows API. "Rather than acting as a full emulator, Wine implements a compatibility layer, providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call, and processes to substitute for the Windows NT kernel." Alternates. You can implement real DLLs from a Windows OS, but you don't need to, and it's not too easy too.

I was also implying that your operating system != the amount of viruses. The reason Linux has less perceived viruses is because the user isn't running with enough privileges to fuck their system up and because normally people who use it need a bit more common sense to get it up and running. Those kind of people who are intelligent enough not to run/download any old crap.

Although there was an attempt to create a problem in the Linux kernel by changing a != to = when checking for root in a certain core element, making a root shell whenever the function is called. It looked like a simple C fuckup, but it was an intentional break. You see, you are not protected if something as simple as that slipped through the cracks [a dev picked it up].

Read up before making unfounded statements.

Virus Scanner: Avira (only because family is using this machine too)

why Avira? because it's free and so much better than Avast or AVG (AVG has become crap with V8 too much of a system hogger now)
for paid version I would say Kaspersky

Firewall: my router with everything closed. It has like 8 ports open continuously the rest all temporary

Browser: FF 3 + adblock plus and noscript (basically removed explorer entirely try to use explorer for a website and it hops too FF :) )

DeepFreeze + NOD32 + Opera Explorer = No Virus, Block All S2pid Pop-Ups &
F*****g Cookies Are Not Allowed...

DeepFreeze - Actually It's Not A AntiVirus, Just Freeze Your Files...
But Don't Forget To Disable It When You Download Something... Cause When You Shutdown Your Computer W/o Disabling It... The File That You Download Just Vanish...

NOD32 - Ah!!! A Tiny Super Mega Shining Shimering AntiVirus!!!
It Doesn't Harm Your Computer... Just Updated It For Updated Viruses...

Opera Explorer - Has A Built In Anti Spyware, Block All Unwanted Pop-Ups

You Can Download It Somewhere In The Net For Free!!!

- [color=red]PussyLover[/color]

i used plenty of anti-virus softwares in the past now i only use one its symantec anti-virus and works as great as of any software available for and its not licensed!

antivir free personal guard

I use NOD32, it works pretty well.

nod32

Malwarebytes Anti-malware(google it :D )

Norman Portable from Softarchive XD

No need for this stuff. I have iTunes on my Windows partition and the bare presence of Apple software of any kind makes all the viruzez go weeee. But occasionally, when I'm feeling especially paranoid, I wrap my computer case in garlic, just in case. On a more serious note, just the basic IP and Port control - and Spybot for browser immunization. Intelligence is the best form of security.

Like only a few people above, I use Avira AntiVir.
Its free and except for the annoying updates, seems to work.

I actually use absolutely no security. No virii protection, no spyware/adware protection, no firewall, aside from my routers hardware firewall. However I VERY rarely get anything malicious on my system. I use Opera, and I torrent out the ass, but still manage to stay safe. I think it's pretty easy to stay secure without any security as long as you play it smart.

Making that information public isn't exactly the smartest of ideas.

Lol why? You should know the internet isn't full of crazy hackers who are out to get you, the few who know what they're doing rarely bother with anyone, and I find the best security is common sense, and the ability to monitor your own network.

Paranoid people sheesh.

i use avira and mcafee :shock:

Good man.

Mmm, people who know anything about breaking into systems already do it for a living with security auditing. The other ones are generally skiddies who wouldn't be able to do much anyway, unless you were dumb enough to install some random software.

I find that you're right. Common sense and advanced computer knowledge will save you 8/10 times. User error can be the other one and the last will be external/physical malicious activity.

I can salvage my system when it's hit by some pesky BHOs. Can you?