Question on AV software and usb virus blocking. As well as free firewall.

I currently have nortan and found out it doesn't support scanning USB drives before allowing them to connect. Viper even has this feature and viper sucks lol. What AV software supports blocking viruses from usb drives? I found this out the hard way because i assumed Nortan did this. A computer at my work that is a off network computer has the auto whatever virus and i knew it was there so i assumed Nortan had the same thing as cobra and when i plugged it in it didn't pop up a warning and i was like F no! So the dirty rotten dirt bag was on the computer so i had to spend the next hour getting rid of it lol. This way probably about a year or so ago. I just resubscribed to Nortan and just remembered this and I am pissed because now i got two years of it lol. What AV protection do you recommend that supports that feature. I don't trust my wife on not getting a virus through the USB drive and I don't trust others being smart enough either so what do i need to get?



Also i got basic nortan because i didn't know nortan actually had a firewall so what firewall do you recommend...free preferably. I tried zone alarm and it went all wacky and screwed up my R4. crashed it and was super glitchy so i am not touching that again. Used to be good from what i remembered years ago but it made PC act as if it had a virus hahaha. Note that was before i even installed nortan

EDIT: it might be cobra what i am thinking of with usb AV blocking


EDIT: Sweet I got a full refund after talking to customer support i guess you have 60 days to get a full refund! I am very happy now i cna wait for everyones opinions on this and buy one

 

bump any help on this?

 

I use Vipre and Trusport as AV both are light , work well . As firewall I use outpost pro , lots of good features , good logging , easy to set up rules or does it for you if you don't want to be bothered . Both av scan any usb , cd or dvd plugged in before they run

 

i hated the nurfed layout of Vipre and how nortan and trend micro are. Do you remember when trend micro was good lets say 5 years ago and you could actually shut down the AV and also do all sorts of power scans like on folders and change settings? Are there any good AV that give you good power settings that don't suck? Also what are your opinions on Vipre and Trusport? what are their pros and cons? Same with outpost? Also what did you pay for those?

 

Vipre i paid 59.00 for 2 years 10 pc lic , trusport 2 years 1 pc 26.00 . outpost lifetime family lic 4 years ago 5 pc 49.00 .I can right click and scan file with TP and Vipre and Outpost . Both are simple av , not bloat all in one , good enough power settings . So far my systems are clean .
Also use Spywareblaster on all computers .

 

read up some more and not every impressed with other issues. I feel Nortan and KIS are my best bet sadly. Not a real fan of Nortan...very slow and bloated plus it didn't block autorun.inf so that is a no go lol....how does it not block that?

 

Have you tried free Avast AV, perhaps paired with free Online Armor FW+HIPS?
Current Norton AV and suite shouldn't cause any drag on your system though. I find both programs to run very light, even on old low-specced XP PC's they run rather light.
Have you tried the Norton removal tool? Make sure to run it, reboot and then run it again. only then reinstall NAV/NIS and see if they still cause slowdowns.
Still, free security software can easily do the job.
Free Avast+Online Armor and perhaps MBAM for (bi-)weekly scans is enough when paired with common sense.

 

i'll read into them. Also does any AV support scanning multiply drives at once? I find it a horrible design that it scans one drive at a time. In todays age the drive is slower than the CPU. We are no longer in the P3/P4 area where an AV scan requires 100% CPU. I range from 2-6 drives on a computer and its totally backwards that it takes 6 times longer than necessary

 

^Nope, don't know of a free AV that does multiple drive scans at the same time but you can always set custom scan tasks yourself, just assign 5/6 scan tasks to all your drives, starting at the same time.
Not sure if this won't bog down your system anyway but you could try.
If I'm not mistaken paid ESET AV offers this feature though.

 

Norton i know doesn't offer this and what do you mean set 5/6 scan tasks? Also i could care less about free.. If its good i'll buy it. Also i know norton doesn't allow multiply tasks....i tried playing around a year ago and got no where with doing that

 

I'm using Comodo on Win 8, so far hasn't cause me any concerns. Seems to be working well. The newest version is said to be lighter on resources and faster. Don't know how true that is, since this is first time using it. But I've read great reviews for the firewall and the antivirus tests very well, right up there with Norton, Eset and Kaspersky.