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Avast vs new Ransomware
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<blockquote data-quote="Evjl&#039;s Rain" data-source="post: 706047" data-attributes="member: 51905"><p>1/ I think avast (tweaked) + OSA is strong enough against almost all kinds of threat (home users)</p><p>2/ Both are fine. CF would yield more FPs and obviously more powerful than OSA. Moreover, by default, avast is conflicting with CF because both use hardware virtualization. It can be fixed by unchecking "Enable hardware-assisted virtualization" in avast's settings -> troubleshooting. CF offers the best free firewall so it can be helpful. CF can also be tweaked to block those weaknesses of avast I mentioned</p><p>3/ OSA weakness:</p><p>- it's not a true AV or true BB/SRP. It's hybrid according to NVT himself so it can't block all threats but to supplement to our AVs. It doesn't do well against .exe malwares because of its nature and design. Avast's HM can easily deal with .exe malwares</p><p></p><p>CF weakness:</p><p>- No noticeable weakness. Cruelsister approved this app</p><p>- FPs can be irritating. May require some time to get used to</p><p>- maybe sometimes, comodo analysts mark a few malwares as Trusted (mistakes) -> they can bypass all layers of comodo. It can be solved by disabling Cloud lookup -> much much more FPs but almost never gets bypassed</p><p>- some chinese vendors or non-latin-text vendors in their trusted vendor list -> questionable?</p><p>4/ yes. OSA can't protect against phishing, obviously because it's a SRP+BB, not web filter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evjl's Rain, post: 706047, member: 51905"] 1/ I think avast (tweaked) + OSA is strong enough against almost all kinds of threat (home users) 2/ Both are fine. CF would yield more FPs and obviously more powerful than OSA. Moreover, by default, avast is conflicting with CF because both use hardware virtualization. It can be fixed by unchecking "Enable hardware-assisted virtualization" in avast's settings -> troubleshooting. CF offers the best free firewall so it can be helpful. CF can also be tweaked to block those weaknesses of avast I mentioned 3/ OSA weakness: - it's not a true AV or true BB/SRP. It's hybrid according to NVT himself so it can't block all threats but to supplement to our AVs. It doesn't do well against .exe malwares because of its nature and design. Avast's HM can easily deal with .exe malwares CF weakness: - No noticeable weakness. Cruelsister approved this app - FPs can be irritating. May require some time to get used to - maybe sometimes, comodo analysts mark a few malwares as Trusted (mistakes) -> they can bypass all layers of comodo. It can be solved by disabling Cloud lookup -> much much more FPs but almost never gets bypassed - some chinese vendors or non-latin-text vendors in their trusted vendor list -> questionable? 4/ yes. OSA can't protect against phishing, obviously because it's a SRP+BB, not web filter [/QUOTE]
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