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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 1034858" data-attributes="member: 7463">Mal- excellent question. Although WVSX was an excellent compliment to CF for those that liked a real time AV product, although it still has value, the lack of any further tweaking of the AI module does in no way guarantee that the formerly superb protection will continue as malware evolves.&nbsp;That being said, as long as CF is used properly (and by that I mean Containing those things that CF requests to be contained by default as well as blocking those things that CF requests to be blocked) having an adjunct AV thingy on board is of minor value. An example here would be the recent issue of E-File.com where the IRS website was breached and served up a valid digitally signed browser &quot;update&quot;. After a full week only Crowdstrike alerted to it with everyone else being oblivious. Needless to say with CF the zero day &quot;update was contained with a subsequent blocking of any outbound malicious connection.Finally, for those that just gotta have an AV, Kaspersky Free can be tried with CF (as long as one blows off the warning that CF is not compatible (I haven&#039;t doen a long term trial with this combo myself unlike the WV-CF combo, but it should be OK).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 1034858, member: 7463"] Mal- excellent question. Although WVSX was an excellent compliment to CF for those that liked a real time AV product, although it still has value, the lack of any further tweaking of the AI module does in no way guarantee that the formerly superb protection will continue as malware evolves. That being said, as long as CF is used properly (and by that I mean Containing those things that CF requests to be contained by default as well as blocking those things that CF requests to be blocked) having an adjunct AV thingy on board is of minor value. An example here would be the recent issue of E-File.com where the IRS website was breached and served up a valid digitally signed browser "update". After a full week only Crowdstrike alerted to it with everyone else being oblivious. Needless to say with CF the zero day "update was contained with a subsequent blocking of any outbound malicious connection. Finally, for those that just gotta have an AV, Kaspersky Free can be tried with CF (as long as one blows off the warning that CF is not compatible (I haven't doen a long term trial with this combo myself unlike the WV-CF combo, but it should be OK). [/QUOTE]

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