Frank_Ryan_jr wrote:
Un installed it, installed AGV,
updated AGV shut down and ran a full scan - 5 infections found!
(2 were keystroke loggers : angry: )
I do data security for a living and I have yet to see a personal scanner which beats AVG. I use nothing else. In a corporate world mcafee seems hard to beat but this doesn't carry over into the home edition IMO. Combined with a good firewall and AVG nothing should get through. Touch wood, I havent had a single infection in the 5 years I've been running AVG. I would normally recommend Zone ALarm as a good personal firewall but in truth it has become such bloatware of late I can really recommend it anymore.
Just as an aside. Does anyone know what the vulnerability which has been causing the infections here is? I run a number of joomla based sites and to date they are all ok. I'd like to keep it that way. PMs welcome. I don't use extaplorer, I always lock down the config files once I'm done editing and always install the latest security updates. Updating is a PITA when you have done mods, so I keep mods to a bare minimum. Also you never know when you make a mod, if it will compromise your site. I also use a rolling password regime. There is a component which allows you to block IP addresses. I combine this with another component which logs all 404s and the source IP. With this info I just ban any ips which have caused a 404 by trying stuff like SQL injection or testing for suspect components. Maybe some poor unfortunate with a virus gets banned now and then but sod 'em.
  