pmw
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:07 PM |
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Best antivirus ???
Can anyone recommend any anti-virus software? Preferably something which actually works, and dosn't use 250Mbytes of RAM in the background.
Have been using Norton, but managed to get infected from a spam email - despite constant definition updates. And the thing uses tons of memory anyway.
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mookaloid
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:11 PM |
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Kaspersky is supposed to be about the best but it does slow things down a bit!
Cheers
Mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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flak monkey
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:13 PM |
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AVG works just fine for me
Norton is a pile of shite if ever there was one
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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vinny1275
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:16 PM |
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AVG is pretty good (and free!)
http://free.grisoft.com
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coozer
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:16 PM |
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The Techs at my ISP recommended AVG, best thing is its free and doesn't slow me 'puter down.
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Catpuss
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:27 PM |
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Yep, I've tried
Macafee - Nightmare to remove at times
Norton - Feels like bloatware
AVG - Good and free
CA Antivirus (Rebundled Zone alarm and a few others), good and cheap (free for a year with Vista)
NTL Netguard - Free with NTL, had viruses get past it though on friends' PCs.
AVG is good enough up to now.
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ady8077
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:30 PM |
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Hi
I use Avast, its free and was recomended on the gadget show
http://www.avast.com/index.html
Adrian
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ricklawn
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 05:57 PM |
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i have been recomended avg and just installed it and done system scan and it has found a trojen. what pisses me off is that for the last couple of
year i had been using norton, and still getting viruses
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coozer
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 06:11 PM |
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I was having a problem with my ISP and the tech guy asked;
"what antivirus are you using?"
Usual reply
"Norton"
"Boosh! take it off he said."
"What should I use then?"
"Anything, anything is better than Norton" was his reply!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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donut
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 06:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
AVG works just fine for me
Norton is a pile of shite if ever there was one
Same here!!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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viatron
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 06:32 PM |
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i use avg free and the network version for clients, highly recommend ti, dont touch norton with a barge pole, its useless.
Mac
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chrsgrain
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 posted on 15/2/07 at 06:41 PM |
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A Mac
Chris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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flak monkey
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 06:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrsgrain
A Mac
Chris
Just you wait until macs become popular, then you will be just as screwed You arent immune, just a sitting target.
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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britishtrident
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 07:21 PM |
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Avira AntiVir -- very low resources uses very effective, unobtrusive in use, unlike AVG has a pleasant looking interface and dosen't give lots
of false posatives.
http://www.avira.com
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cerbera
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 07:26 PM |
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NOD 32
Best there is, or so I'm led to believe 
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 07:27 PM |
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Mac - popular... that would be like scientology getting a mass following..... Hmmm
Chris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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RichardK
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 07:44 PM |
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AVG Free for a home box, Nod32 for a client server network.
Norton not good in my opinion
Regards
Rich
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 08:19 PM |
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AVG 
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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BenB
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 08:26 PM |
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Combination of AVG / Spyware search + destroy / Adaware
(after all try and seperate a virus, adware, spyware etc nowadays)...
with a quick Online Panda every few weeks.... works for me!!!!!
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RazMan
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 08:58 PM |
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There is a school of thought suggesting that many of the viruses are created by the software manufacturers to 'justify' their own
program's existence ......... or am I a cynic?  I used to use a few different progs - Norton, Panda & Sophos. I havent had anything
'protecting' me for the last two years and I'm still here
Seriously though, a lot of harmless programs & files are often flagged up as being trojans etc simply because their code has been written
badly.
[Edited on 15-2-07 by RazMan]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 09:06 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by cerbera
NOD 32
Best there is, or so I'm led to believe
Ding ding, give the man a prize NOD32 is the dog's danglies, it's been consistently at the top in tests for detection rates for years,
it's small and friendly and doesn't take longer to scan a document than it takes you to read it, unlike some other products that may have
already been mentioned. It's also not hugely popular, so hasn't been a target in itself for viruses much, unlike norton/sophos etc. It
won't f*ck up your internet/email/everything like NIS tends to either.
Come to think about it, I think NOD32 is about the only software i've paid for in the last couple of years
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pajsh
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 09:27 PM |
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Avast for me recommended by local techie.
Having said that I went for years without anything at home and never had a problem.
Not a major issue either for me at home as it gives me a good excuse to do a clean install and tidy things up.
At work is a different matter though.
[Edited on 15/2/07 by pajsh]
I used to be apathetic but now I just don't care.
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jlparsons
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 09:40 PM |
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Researched this a while ago, read an article somewhere by someoneorother on the interweb who seemed well informed who'd actually tested the
various AV packages with large numbers of known infected files and saw what would infect and what wouldn't. Can't remember where, was a
year or two ago. It concluded McAfee was marginally the best, norton behind that, AVG was worst but the margin was so small that is was unlikely to
be statistically significant. Importantly ALL of them let a small percentage of viruses go undetected.
I've stuck with AVG, never gone wrong yet. Spyware has got past it a couple of times, but then it also got past norton when i used that. I use
Spybot Search and Destroy (also free) and that does away with the spyware.
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ChrisGamlin
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 10:40 PM |
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Ive administered both Norton AV Corporate and CA eTrust AV at work and IMHO both are a pile of sh1te. As an example with eTrust I can drop an infected
file onto a server protected by its realtime scanner and despite the scanner being told to monitor all incoming and outgoing traffic, it doesn't
detect the infected file until the overnight scan of the entire hard drive! It will still detect if the file is executed in Windows but in some
circumstances that isn't going to stop an infection occuring.
Out of the two free products (AVG and Avast) both are pretty good but I would recommend Avast. It has far more functionality than AVG Free including
POP3 / SMTP E-Mail scanners and peer 2 peer scanning for Bittorrent etc. It also uses very little resources and I find the definition update facility
to be far more configurable and reliable than AVG, which if the machine is not switched on very often or only switched on for a short amount of time,
can persistently fail to update itself.
Chris
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DarrenW
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| posted on 15/2/07 at 11:09 PM |
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Ive just installed AVG on wifes laptop tonight. It seems to be taking and age to scan for virusses. 30 mins to scan 60K files and still going. Is this
normal.
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