what are you doing to keep your machine safe?

that's one method.

 

common sense gets you pretty safe.... and dont surf porn...

 

Keep everything updated. Running your preferred antivirus/firewall.

Last but probably most important, use common sense and be alert of what you install.

In most cases virus/malware is self inflected by clicking - OK, install, etc.. opening a link or an email, downloading warez and cracks, surfing porn and installing things from porn sites.

 

i use 1 antivirus and 1 antimalware thats it

 

nod 32 keeps my computer clean of viruses and the site here spy. es

 

Filter all ads analytics and tracking domains with TMG 2010 at the edge of my network.
Scan downloads first with TMG as they enter the network and second with Eset (Endpoint or File Security)
Lock down computers and servers with group policy
Use vlans to segregate trusted and untrusted networks
Use Eset Endpoint Security on all clients & Eset File Security for windows server/core

 

Don't you just love the ones who have virus/malware problems, and
then you find a veritable mountain of security software installed.

And all of it conflicting, out-of-date, and/or disabled.

 

Ah, sorry, but for some reason I couldn't edit my previous post....

I was going to say that personally I use Windows Defender and Malware-Bytes.

Spy-bot and C-Cleaner also put in an appearance when/if required.

Before I started playing with Win 8, I used Avira for many years.

 

Linux System, no antivirus, properly configured firewall, use trusted software. Easy to trust open source as you know what is in it.

Windows system
No Real time protection
Disabled Action Center
Windows Firewall on
Windows Updates current
MRT Scan every month (never found anything)
MSE / Windows Defender (in w8) every 6 months (never found anything)
Know what I install and install only what I need.

Since I use Windows just for Visual Studio and Office and a couple of old games, I don't get infected.

 

same with TS,
clean with CCleaner every after internet session

 

As for viruses from the web for firefox I use NoScript will avoid websites into ur machine and as we know we are being watched 24/7 by google analyst scripts analyzing what we do and compiling into a database which is nuts and only Panda Cloud Free for anti virus since it puts the load on the cloud which is run by like 1,000 quad x6 xenon rigs (12 threads each with hyperthreading) So that's 48 threads per rig running at say 3Ghz per thread putting out like 144,000Ghz of powerhouse performance so I can enjoy all the performance of my 4.2Ghz core i7 rig since all others and I mean ALL others put all the load on the cpu/ hard drives/ memory so they rob you of computing power. =)