Thanks,
TH ;)
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View originalYes, I rely solely on WSA and apart a few issues which stem from my unsupported OS language all is fine ;)@ wrote:
And if WSA runs good on Vista, then you know it is a great program! :p@ wrote:I strongly believe it's a full security suite as I am using it alone with Vista firewall (with tight rules) :D
And if WSA runs good on Vista, then you know it is a great program! :p@ wrote:I strongly believe it's a full security suite as I am using it alone with Vista firewall (with tight rules) :D
I strongly believe it's a full security suite as I am using it alone with Vista firewall (with tight rules) 😃@ wrote:
Is Webroot SecureAnywhere a Full Anti-Malware or just an AV?
Correct. Any program that is shown as "Monitored" is not known to be 100% safe by Webroot yet, so the program is watching it and whatever changes it makes. At the same time, it is journaling any changes that the process is making. When Webroot determines that the process is safe, it will move to Active by itself. IF Webroot determined that it was malware, it would move to Clocked and the journaling would rollback any changes that it had made.@ wrote:
Thanks. All of my Active Processes are marked "Allow" with the exception of one, which is marked "Monitor." That one is nvsvc32.exe. I assume these are default settings.
I am just going to copy from the user guide as they do a better job of explaining it than I ever could:@ wrote:
Cohbraz, I do not know whether any of the items that MBAM and SAS have picked up were showing in the Control Active Processes listed on WSA. I’m not even sure I would know how to go about ascertaining that since I am not familiar with what you describe as “Control Active Processes.”
RWM, I am curious. Do you know if any of the items that MBAM picked up were showing up in the Control Active Processes list on WSA? And if they were, were they being monitored? Or were these files in a location where WSA does not scan during it's normal scan?@ wrote:
Good question, TH.
It is my belief that WSA is really only an anti-virus, not an anti-malware, program (regardless of what the company's official position is on this). I base this on the following.
I have used both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) and Super Anti-Spyware (SAS) freeware, which programs are exclusively anti-malware. Each of them has caught bugs that WSA has missed. I have now settled on MBAM, which I purchased and use in conjunction with WSA. I have the MBAM full version, which costs only about $20.00 for a lifetime license for one machine. The full version of SAS is more expensive and is a one year renewable license for two machines.
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