Can viruses and malware be detected before they get into your pc?

What internet security programs stop viruses and malware at the front door? before they just walk in and have to hunted down and destroyed. I know nothing is 100% but there must be something pretty close.|||NOD32 for the antivirus,





Ad-Aware %26amp; Spybot Search %26amp; Destroy for anti-malware.





Between them, they are pretty much bombproof.|||Simple...


Install CCleaner, SUPERAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes, Spybot S%26amp;D, and Kaspersky Internet Security 2011. None of them conflict with each other. Also, if something does happen to get through one of them will most likely detect it and destroy it. Kaspersky and Spybot are good real-time stoppers while the other three are good scanners/removers.|||There are several anti viruses programs out there. If your looking for good free ones then check out Avast and Avira. You can use both at the same time and won't cause any trouble with each other.|||Like you noted, nothing is 100%, and the best defense is usually the user him/herself. No amount of anti-virus can save the day if the user chooses to open unknown and malicious exe files.





That said, many anti-virus programs do try to stop viruses/malware before they get in. For instance, one way they do this is by scanning all incoming email before allowing you to open them. They usually also have some kind of protect/anti-tampering mechanism to prevent viruses and malware from doing nasty stuff to your operating system.





Nothing is 100% but I'd guess that we also aren't "pretty close to 100%" either. The best thing you can do is to keep your system updated. For instance, Microsoft releases patches on Tuesday every month, and keeping Windows updated is a significant portion of being secure.|||yes every antivirus does that ..|||Norton internet security , Or ESET NOD32, or ARTAV Antivirus ...|||Here's the problem: Windows OS's arrive in a loosely configured state, so users can get "that rich Internet experience" without having to make a lot of modifications.


That's especially true of the on-board browser, Internet Explorer, with it's liberal use of, and access to, other parts of the entire operating system. This is especially true of 'scripted' assets arriving from a web resource, that have the ability to do many 'commands' within the OS.


The bad guys know this, which makes it easy to design and deploy malware that takes advantage of these serious security oversights.


(A vast majority of the Security Updates are designed to close down this liberal configuration.)


The better approach is to start with a constrained system (especially the browser), and loosen it up as required for individual sites, to attain whatever interaction/display is needed...something very hard to do with Internet Explorer.





Firefox, with amplified security through add-on's, can be configured to do a fairly decent job, without the resource hungry 'anti-virus' engines needed to deflect the 2.8 million malicious codes now rampant across the Internet landscape.


Your first choice should be "NoScript": easily the #1 defense against automatic Internet vectored instructions to Windows.


Other add-on's, for both browser constraints, and Internet security can be reviewed here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox鈥?/a>


Make no mistake: there is no single, one-click-fixes-everything solution to Windows security... using Windows on the Internet requires constant babysitting, threat landscape awareness, and constant diligence. In short, you must become a security expert.