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Threatfire Adds to Your Virus Defences
By John F | June 8, 2008
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I have recently downloaded and installed another anti-virus program to my computer. So now I have two anti-virus programs running side by side. Threatfire [from PC Tools - who make Spyware Doctor] works slightly differently from other anti-virus programs.
Blurb from the Threatfire website: “ThreatFire is dramatically different to traditional antivirus software. Normal antivirus products usually need to have first identified and seen a threat before they can provide adequate protection against it. The protection is then provided via a signature or fingerprint update, which must first be written by an antivirus researcher. This creates a large window of time where threats are undetected and can therefore infect your PC even when you have antivirus software installed.”
In the two days since I installed it Threatfire has detected 6 suspicious activities and blocked 2 Malware threats. Not spectacular, but all the same, something that Avast [which have also installed] didn’t detect.
It also does not hog much computer resources, it just sits there in the background monitoring what it supposed to and just gets on with it.
As I have only used it for 2 days, I’m not going to suggest you download it straight away as I’m going to give it a week before I totally recommend it. However, if you do want to investigate Threatfire and download it, the link is here.
Topics: Computer Security Usefulness |
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