![]() Ridiculous, right? But that’s how it is! Some of us employ Firewalls too, but that’s also a form of detection, with a little prevention thrown in, if it’s a decent Firewall that doesn’t leak. With AV, our PC “house” has a burglar alarm but no door. I’m not saying AV is crap I’m just pointing out its weaknesses, so calm down. This, my friends, is the infamous Zero Day attack, which our AV allows to happen. A new burglar, however, has a free pass, and no alarm goes off. We use AV as our main source of defense, but is AV prevention? No, it’s detection, the veritable burglar alarm for a PC, but it must have the malware signature – the burglar’s mug shot – or it won’t sound the alarm. The layered approach can be just as easily applied to our PCs. I thought you were going to tell us how to secure our PCs, not our homes, Melih! Stacking up these layers, in order, to protect the PCs in our homes, we have: Thus, insurance is the cure, the third layer in our layered approach. ![]() This is why we have insurance, to recover the value of stolen items. He walks away with not only your computer, but your priceless stamp collection, too. Let’s say he cuts your electric wires or manages to turn off the burglar alarm in another way (They make it look so easy on TV, don’t they?). If he can get in, at least we can detect him – prevention plus detection, two layers. The door to the house isn’t enough, so we install a burglar alarm. This is why we should never rely on just one layer of security. Yes, they can, so continuing to get stronger doors isn’t much of a solution. If you don’t have a door, a burglar can walk in and steal your PC thus, the door prevents the burglar from entering. Our houses have doors, burglar alarms and insurance. We can clap our hands and turn on a lamp, so we should be able to “plug and protect” our PCs just as easily. We want the same from our internet security. From cars to nappies, humans demand easy-to-use, painless solutions that give us more time for ourselves and deliver the desired outcome with minimal effort. We built dishwashers so husbands wouldn’t have to wash dishes (and spot on, I say!). Look around you: we built washing machines because we got tired of hauling our laundry and the washboard to the river and back. Fraudsters and their toys are a force to be reckoned with, and AV alone isn’t up to the fight. This is not to discredit AV it does what it was designed to do, but it just isn’t enough by itself. People buy a lot of AV, so it must be the best protection available, right? Wrong. People buy AV products because they don’t know any better. My point: we just don’t protect ourselves against Zero Day attacks.Ģ. We can expect that about as much as we can expect the criminal to go to the police and say “hey, I’m going to commit a crime”, and the police to prevent the crime. In an ideal, if not idiotic, world, virii authors would be kind enough to submit their malware to AV vendors, wait for them to create signatures and update their AV users, and then release their malware to the public so that we could catch zero day attacks. the mug shot) has not been created yet hence, no protection. In PCland, AV can never be used as protection against Zero Day attacks because the virus signature (a.k.a. These products essentially create a signature for the malware, which functions much like a mug shot does for a criminal, but only after the crime has been committed. Our primary protection is the use of software products called AV (antivirus). ![]() The world does not protect itself against Zero Day attacks. We want things done, but we don’t want to lift a finger. People are lazy, myself leading that pack. Security checks have been bumped up since 9/11 – enough said.ģ. The majority thinks it does, but reality begs to differ.Ģ. I’d like to start with some facts about the state of software security for PCs.ġ. Okay, let’s not degenerate this in the first fifty words. Is AV dead? Is HIPS the ultimate solution? Are we going to need to have chips surgically implanted in our…” I got reasons for Comodo and here they are, not necessaraly meaning that I will use Comodo but that maybe we should all think about this a little. I placed the same question, Avast or Comodo on their forum, realizing full well that Comodo people will recommend Comodo and Avast will recommend Avast but I wanted reasons. Hello all of you, thanks for all the posts in response, I want to post something that I recieved on the Comodo forum. ![]()
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