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<blockquote data-quote="RoboMan" data-source="post: 967103" data-attributes="member: 53544"><p>First off, let's set priorities friend.</p><p></p><p>You say you're a stock trader, meaning you use your electronic devices for moving money, which makes you an interesting target for cybercriminals (for fraud, hacking, phishing, attacks).</p><p></p><p>Having said this, your main focus shouldn't be on a product that detects a good bunch of malware, but instead some kind of lockdown protection, because you wouldn't want malware to even sit in your system for any second. So what you're looking isn't good "detection", but some kind of anti-execution or reputation based protection.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, you should focus on products that deny execution of everything, but what's already pre-considered to be safe, a.k.a. whitelisting software, anti-executables, Application Control like software. This works as "denying execution of any file, unless it's been included previously on a whitelist". This whitelist usually comes built-in in your software, and has "Trusted Vendors" which your antivirus considers harmless, and will allow files signed by these vendors to run, but nothing else.</p><p></p><p>Products such as this, include <strong>Kaspersky </strong>Internet Security (has Application Control, you need to correctly configure it first). <strong>Comodo </strong>(has auto-containment/virtualization of unknown files). <strong>VoodooShield </strong>(it's literally an anti-executable program you can configure within your needs).</p><p></p><p>Once you've defined your first line of defense, which is the anti-execution part of your protection, any signature-based antivirus will work just fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoboMan, post: 967103, member: 53544"] First off, let's set priorities friend. You say you're a stock trader, meaning you use your electronic devices for moving money, which makes you an interesting target for cybercriminals (for fraud, hacking, phishing, attacks). Having said this, your main focus shouldn't be on a product that detects a good bunch of malware, but instead some kind of lockdown protection, because you wouldn't want malware to even sit in your system for any second. So what you're looking isn't good "detection", but some kind of anti-execution or reputation based protection. Therefore, you should focus on products that deny execution of everything, but what's already pre-considered to be safe, a.k.a. whitelisting software, anti-executables, Application Control like software. This works as "denying execution of any file, unless it's been included previously on a whitelist". This whitelist usually comes built-in in your software, and has "Trusted Vendors" which your antivirus considers harmless, and will allow files signed by these vendors to run, but nothing else. Products such as this, include [B]Kaspersky [/B]Internet Security (has Application Control, you need to correctly configure it first). [B]Comodo [/B](has auto-containment/virtualization of unknown files). [B]VoodooShield [/B](it's literally an anti-executable program you can configure within your needs). Once you've defined your first line of defense, which is the anti-execution part of your protection, any signature-based antivirus will work just fine. [/QUOTE]
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