have been using Arovax, works well as a resident scanner, has no on demand
scanner, I use several of the free scanners such as A2 and Adaware SE for
this, but have found so far no problems, even after doing a search for
cracks and hacks and opening many of those pages to see what happened on a
test sacrificial computer (using Firefox) hav'nt tried it with IE yet
Using Firefox, I found it's practically impossible to find web sites
that will cause any harm regardless of what you use for realtime
protection. I tested using a goat PC and some lists of allegedly
malicious sites using wideband, and trolling sites and their links
for many hours/day over a couple of days. I had javascript enabled
but don't have Java installed. I did this on a Win 2K machine with
admin rights and no form of realtime protection. No "driveby" malware
was found at all. Of course, I'm not talking here about doing
something stupid like purposely downloading files and running them ...
just driveby malware which might exploit critical unpatched
vulnerabilities.
So I'd be surprised if any realtime scanner alerted you to a problem
site while using Firefox (or Opera). If you know of any such sites,
I'd appreciate learning which ones. The only way I could find
malicious sites was to try IE on Medium or lower security. Even then
I only found two out of hundreds of alleged malicious sites I tried.
BTW, I don't expect the current situation to last forever. Sooner
or later the bad guys will catch up and users will start taking hits
while using FF or Opera. They will find previously unknown
vulnerabilities and exploit them before the white hats and the
developers can find and fix them.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg