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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
That really is awfully impressive, given that companies like Kapersky with their 2.700 employees or Symantec with some 21.000+ don't always manage to catch everything.
Anyway, having no such überskillz I use the new version of Windows Defender with is incorporated in Windows 8.
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The one thing pretty much all malware/virus has in common is it has to start with the machine or it can't do anything if you know what services/executables should be there it's pretty easy to spot something that doesn't belong.
Anti-Virus isn't going to protect the first people hit anyway, until the virus is in the wild gets pretty common and antivirus companies have samples of it to make definitions from the antivirus won't do a thing. It's also pretty common for viruses to just disable the antivirus or even take it's place as soon as the machine gets hit.
Ironically the one time I did have a virus (w95spaces if I remember right really nasty piece of work that infected every single exe file on the system) my antivirus at the time Symantec told me it couldn't run because it may have been compromised by a virus.