WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM?

NORTON: is ok...I guess....but some virusses have messed my stuff with that
McAFFEE: this IS a virus....I hate that crap, I lost my pc TWICE due to McAfee (virus definitios were up to date), it detected viruses but they were allowed to dance all over my pc
AVAST!: same as McAffee but just one time,+, a friend had the same problem

I use AVAST, its a native 64bit kernal and thats baller for my xp x64!

i used mcaffe internet security suite for a long time and in my opinion avast is way better.

i do agree Norton misses alot, and mcaffee does a great job of finding the viruses but not cleaning them. i found my self manually deleting alot of stuff thx to mcaffee. avast has been great so far. takes care of those pesky active x controls also.

I have never heard of that NOD32 before...i think i will give it a try..im getting sick of norton.

DITTO I have the x64 edition for true 64 bit anitvirus glory.

I did a lot of research on this topic some time ago because most AVS programs take up a lot of system resources and slow your system down big time.

I ended up selecting NOD32 becasuse it kept your system running fast, it was hardly noticable. There were actual benchies for each program but I've long since lost that research.

But I'm pretty happy with NOD32 and have tried a few others. The latest version of NOD32 actually has a nice interface and looks very professional. It's very customizable for advanced users as well. You can really throttle the program to scan, update and filter just to your needs to further increase overall system performance.

But god help us all stay away from anything NORTON. What a POS company and software. Blech, it's like installing viruses on your own computer! But then soem people like self-torture.

well i use Sophos Anti-virus and never had any problems , i even tried to get a virus by going throw lots of dodgy sites, it picked them up and spat them out..!! great for surfing. 8O

I have a hard time trusting a resource like that though. They very well could be tipping the scales in favor of a certain product. That's not rock-science marketing to do that.

The comparrison also doesn't take into account overall system performance which for hard core gamers and computer nuts like us is pretty important. I'd like to see Toms or another reputable review site do a comparrison from a performance/feature perspective.

I debate even having virus software at times. I know what not to click on and how a person gets viruses. But I guess some viruses are getting tricker so it's better to be safe than sorry.

Norton is absolute crap and bloatware, and never finds anything -- not because it does a good job of keeping garbage out, no way, it is simply useless! :x

like someone else said, McAffee finds more than Norton (but then, so could anything else ), but is useless for deleting anything.

AVG is what I use, it's definitely better than that Norton and McAffee crap.

Thats a start, but facts are preferred. depends on the clients habits as to what they need if any at all, so I vote for whats needed, anything from free AVG to Panda Titanium. Oh, and servers are another story!

So far AVG has not failed me. However, Norton recently failed not on me, but on one of my friends, allowing his pc to be so overloaded with trojans in one go, that now the pc, even when reformatted, is so unreliable it can be classed as an artform.

Clamav + clamwin + AVG + spybot S&D + adaware + *BSD + Linux + Unix ++

Second here.

Norton is crap, and it even gets worst if you try to uninstall it since the d@mn thing is too intrusive with Windows files. I had a horrible experience trying to uninstall Norton 2004 from a friends comp and believe me, it was one hell of a experience since the damn thing corrupted the windows registry and some other important stuff in the windows kernel. I ended up formatting the whole HD which took my work even longer.

As I said before, F-Secure is really a good antivirus program. Just give it a try here:
http://esd.element5.com/demoreg.html?productid=300042689&languageid=1

I really don't know how reliable that source is, but definately F-Secure works for me.
The fact is, that uber-trojans straight from the programmer's desktop will get by any anti-virus for a fair amount of time unless publicly released. Virus writers also have what's known as packers/binders that will change the tiny pieces of data in a file that virus programs read, which essentially turns any old virus into an undetectable. an anti-virus is only as good as the definitions, and kaspersky by far has the best...

OK, I got it.

Well, to my previous experience, F-Secure does have good file definitions and they upload them 2 or 4 times in a day (depends on new threats).

Some time ago I used AVG 6.0 and I really liked it because it's not a system resource hog, but once it finds viruses "on the fly" (while you're using internet) it can't delete them. That was something really weird since you know your AV is working but it can't delete, heal or rename those viruses once it finds them; also, virus definitions in AVG are not that good and that was the final reason why a change this AV program :?

This is exacly the problem. We all have experience with maybe 2-3 AVS systems and that's it. So our level of recommendation clout is minimal.

TOMS: Fire up a test of the top 10 AVS programs and then run some benchies for us. Compare: performance, speed, advanced setup, cost, up-to-date definitions etc.

I bet there's a CLEAR winner in this category. And loser (oh yea, we already know Norton wins that one)

Hi everyone:

Well, I'm new to this forum but I'd like to share my previous experiences with antivirus software:

We all know Norton is a bad performer and it consumes alot of system resources. AVG is a good performing antivirus and it's free, no other antivirus software would beat that but it has a strange behaviour once it finds viruses, specially if you P2P a lot it does find them but "sometimes" it doesn't delete them the way you'd like.

That's all I wanted to say.

I've had way to much free time on many cleans and tried various products, and like most other programs you have to know how to work each program to get what it is capable of, and yes some are still lacking. Up until around 2003 Norton was Ok, then they really fell behind and I couldn't recomend them anymore. But for those of you still using it, before you run a scan go into what is excluded and remove everything, because most of the problems write themselves into the exclude's. Similar rules for most of the other products. And most cannot clean a proccess if it is running, so safemode then scan etc....

theres loads of reviews like this and they all come up with different answers. depends when it was done and how it was tested the last one i read it was Norton at the top lol.

i use avg very good and doesnt bloat the system. i would use norton corporate edition since thats reported to be much better than plain norton.
It is..it comes with my IBM school image. TAKES NO RESOURCES AT ALL WHO WOULD BELIEVE THAT

Hm, that ranking site of AV's put ALL AV'S AT 5/5 FOR EFFECTIVENESS OMFGWTFBBQ

my fav one? ... my brain. I dont run virus software.

I find it much easier to watch where I go online, keep windows updated, dont click on stuff "just to make it go away", and use a router between the net and my PCs.

much cheaper too. Dont have to deal with updates, installing the stuff, uninstalling the stuff when it doesnt work.. etc.

i did this for bout 4 years, and never had a problem i still dont have a problem but after chipping out 1300 quid on a pc i feel safer having a AV.

huh okay.. something to be said for peace of mind though.

I was kind of fearful to open that site, but after thinking it HARD , I did it.

My antivirus (BitDefender) stopped all of them (3 in total) immediately and I'm not using a firewall. Once I downloaded one of those files, the antivirus asked me what I wanted to do so I clicked "delete file" which it did whit no fuss.

What a nice exercise sexbomb. Some might say it's a stupid idea, but now I see the benefits of having a good antivirus solution.

I'm currently using F-Secure antivirus 2006 which it found 2 potential viruses even before downloading the files. After downloading a file, I chose to "delete" and it did it with no problems at all.

Let's see what the AVG guys have to say about that.

I hqd so,e proble,s with ,y keyboqrd, but I think it's solved noz,


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