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And yet, looking around for confirmation of this long-held belief quickly turns up an alternate universe, full of experts who insist that everyone should be paying for antivirus software. This advice comes not just from the companies that sell antivirus suites, but from reputable sites that perform antivirus software reviews (PCWorld included).

The security of your devices is also at risk, especially when shopping online or using cloud-based services. Cybercriminals are on the lookout for personal data, trying to steal passwords, bank details, or even hijack your computer access to use your devices for attacks against others. Keyloggers, rootkits, spyware, Trojans, and worms are just some of the malware types that can attack your system. To keep your system secure and protect your privacy, you need to install an antivirus software, designed to detect and remove malware. With regular virus scans, you can protect your computer against a wide range of threats.

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Side Note: I am a Junior Software Developer so I have good knowledge when it come to computers etc. so Im not the type to click something that has free money for example, but Im more scared of any malware that I do not know about. Also, in the near future I will start exploring Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking. I am going to start and am only going to stay in my private network, but would such require an antivirus to make sure I stay safe?

Installing third-party antivirus software that does not include its own firewall will not disable Windows' built-in firewall. In this case you can (and should) continue using the Windows firewall.

You might be asking this question because the Windows firewall is now called the Windows Defender firewall. However, it's not actually an integral part of the Windows Defender antivirus/anti-malware software. The Windows firewall existed long before Windows defender...it actually hails all the way back from the days of Windows XP.

When free Antivirus for windows finds what it thinks can be a virus, it immediately puts the possible virus in a quarantine state where it can't do any damage. It's extra protection from the trickier viruses.

I think the real argument for having AV on windows servers is Worms or other viruses that can spread without the need for a incompetent (or unlucky) admin. It has been a long time since I have seen a good worm that exploited a MS bug and could freely move from computer to computer. This requires no user or admin intervention to spread. Servers are especially dangerous as they are usually on 24x7 and many of them don't get logged onto on a regular basis (i.e. you may not see the problem(s) right away.

My policy is that ALL windows boxes get AV installed on them (linux is different story). Tweaked to offer protection with minimal performance impact. Also boxes that run functions such as email will need AV that is specifically tailored to that environment. Nothing is worse than AV trying to dig into mail databases and grab viruses...

Antivirus is necessary only if "dumb" clients have execution/administrator rights on computers.So if your server admin is "dumb" then you DO need antivirus.If you have a REAL server admin - then he will never run any file on the server that does not come from trusted source. Admin can always scan a file on his own machine.

If a server is set up correctly - then it can NOT be affected by virus, even if there is a virus on it's fileshare.So for me it does not make any sense having antivirus on the server. For exchange - executable files should be forbiden. Have not seen virus in my email for last 6 years.

Awhile back (around two weeks) I took out an old USB drive I had and sifted through some of my old files aiming to clean out some of them to free up some space. After opening an old animation file and closing it Windows Action Center told me that Symantec Endpoint Protection was out of date and my computer was unprotected, which was weird as I had ran several Active scans earlier that day and Symantec itself was still reporting no problems. I immediately yanked the USB and tried to run another active scan. The scan completed instantly and scanned 0 files. I then did a system restore to the previous day. Then Symantec finally reported something was wrong as it was missing virus definitions and it automatically ran Liveupdate in the background and fixed itself after 20-30 minutes. A full scan at this point turned up nothing and a run of Kapersky's rootkit utility also showed nothing. The next Day I went through and ran Window's Disk Cleanup to make sure I got rid of any temporary files and immediately after I tried to run an Active scan through Symantec, The scan started, ended immediately after scanning 0 files, and windows gave me the little po-up from the toolbar that my antivirus was out of date and my computer was unprotected. I did system restore again and after giving Symantec 20-30 minutes for live update to run it was fixed. I thought that was the end of it, till yesterday when searching around the internet a link a website I was unfamiliar with. I got a "display device driver has stopped working and has recovered" message. I exited the site quickly, deleted my temporary internet files and proceeded to run an acitve scan. Which stopped after 0 files and the Window's Action Center once again immediately said my antivirus definitions were out of date and my computer was unprotected. Live update did not pick up any new virus definitions to dowload at this point and the virus definitions were current up to the day before, Symantec itself was still giving the all green though the active scan still stopped after 0 files. I restarted hoping that would give Symantec the reboot to notice any missing virus definitions and reupdate them accordingly. Except after the computer started back up everything was working again, the active scan once again worked fine. A few hours later I was running another active scan before shutting down and the active scan stopped after 0 files and that same pop-up from the toolbar appeared. I restarted, and once again everything was back in order. At this point I ran Liveupdate and it picked up and downloaded two updates and it seems to be fine now. I am somewhat concerned over this issue, it just seems to jump up occasionaly when I start a scan and just restarting my computer seems to get everything working again. Is this an issue with the updates not installing correctly or do I have some sort of wierd bug that targets only my antivirus? Next time this happens I plan on reinstalling Symantec but I'm hoping someone else knows what happening before I try that. All other parts of the computer are running fine, its just the antivirus that seems to be acting up occasionaly.

I am using 12.1.4, and it is unmanaged. After some additional thought I suspect the problem is along the lines of the client having an update error, because the issue never show up until I run a scan. When I try to run an Active Scan it reads the failed updated definitions as out-of-date/corrupted, the scan finishs at 0 file scanned, and then windows points it out. When I run liveupdate at this point it shows no new updates but after a restart and manually activating liveupdate it finds and loads the new updated definitions correctly and I seem to have no problems afterwards. Or at least till later on. It doesn't happen every time I run a scan.

By the event view I assume you mean the system and threat logs. The only non-normal thing they show is a failed attempt to send Symantec information on c:/windows/system32/mshtml.dll The failed attempts don't line up with the times I had errors, and that file itself hasn't shown up on any scans. It is marked as having been modified closer the beginning of this month but it was not the time i started having issues but was the same time my computer had an update from microsoft. So i feel relatively safe on that. Before I try to check the dcom permissions i want to ask if Symhelp would have turned up any issues on it. For the most part I have not had any recurring issues since the last pair, so I'm starting to wonder if its just another quirk of Windows 8.

Edit: Under further thought I relize that the first two instances of trouble I mentioned seem to remind of an issue i had on my previous computer several years ago. That flash drive I mentioned in my first post was in use at the time and I seem to remember just doing a system restore and being fine afterwards, I do believe the first two points of trouble occured immediadely upon closing the suspect animation file and wiping the temporary files clean respectively. The "c:/windows/system32/mshtml.dll" file was updated via windows update just several days before the time where I started active scan and then Symantec was reported as out of date. If thats the case, and considering every scan I run shows nothing more than one or two tracking cookies (which are promptly disposed of without incident), it seems to me it just might be an instance of windows 8 kinda messing around. The update that one mentioned file was from contained a series of security updates and the times that Symantec tried to send information on that file decreased to almost none after that set of updates to windows. Does this line of reasoning seem sound? (non-tech professional here with little faith in his own judgement)

When you get the message, does it tie in with an update to Sophos? If you look under: C:\windows\temp\ you should see an install log (or event a pair) each time an update takes place. I believe the last 8 of each type of update remain.

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