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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 841830">I actually do what Umbra says - either you trust VS, or you don&#039;t. So I run a highly private, very basic AV (no cloud, no uploads, disabled logging, good sigs) along with VoodooShield 5.03b on AlwaysOn/Aggressive and call it a day.Now that VS will be implementing WhitelistCloud into it (which it has in the version I am running), and allegedly Dan has removed VT from it and replaced it with WLC, false positives are rare, and it will also stop outbound connectivity on malicious/suspect applications. I&#039;d be pretty confident running VS 5.03+ (WLC integrated) as the sole security solution these days. But I still like to have some alternate sig based AV on my boxes. (for now, doubtful I will renew)I&#039;d look at Emsisoft again someday if they nixed Bit Defender sigs and either went with their own, or preferably Ikarus or something. Also I am hesitant to buy suites that don&#039;t at least have their own good quality firewall for people I install suites for. So I usually grab BD, Panda Advanced or Norton (whichever has the best deal at time of renewal) for family and friends as I like those third party firewalls I can tweak up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 841830"] I actually do what Umbra says - either you trust VS, or you don't. So I run a highly private, very basic AV (no cloud, no uploads, disabled logging, good sigs) along with VoodooShield 5.03b on AlwaysOn/Aggressive and call it a day. Now that VS will be implementing WhitelistCloud into it (which it has in the version I am running), and allegedly Dan has removed VT from it and replaced it with WLC, false positives are rare, and it will also stop outbound connectivity on malicious/suspect applications. I'd be pretty confident running VS 5.03+ (WLC integrated) as the sole security solution these days. But I still like to have some alternate sig based AV on my boxes. (for now, doubtful I will renew) I'd look at Emsisoft again someday if they nixed Bit Defender sigs and either went with their own, or preferably Ikarus or something. Also I am hesitant to buy suites that don't at least have their own good quality firewall for people I install suites for. So I usually grab BD, Panda Advanced or Norton (whichever has the best deal at time of renewal) for family and friends as I like those third party firewalls I can tweak up. [/QUOTE]

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