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Which is the best Antivirus program
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6. May 2005 @ 22:55 |
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I like AntiVir XP http://free-av.com/ simple, easy to use, updates are very frequent, detection rate is good
The downsides are probably the GUI and the inability to scan selected areas...
I used to be a fan of AVG, but doesn't detect trojans very good...
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gordy11
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14. May 2005 @ 01:39 |
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JUST A FEW LINES I HAVE TRIED MANY ANTIVIRUS PROGRAMS OVER THE YEARS
BUT THE BEST IN MY OPINION IS ESET NOD32 CHECK IT OUT FOR A MONTH
FREE TRIAL AND THERES A TUTORIAL ON WEB HOW TO SET IT UP JUST TYPE
IN BROWSER NOD32 TUTORIAL.
ITS NOT FREE BUT I THINK ITS THE BEST OUT THERE
AVAST IS FREE BUT SLOWS DOWN COMPUTER ALOT.
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14. May 2005 @ 02:11 |
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DMW
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14. May 2005 @ 02:54 |
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Yeah I agree with gordy on NOD32, its small fast and has the best record of 100% VB Bulletin awards since release.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml (under ESET)
That link will also let you check out your AV and see how they do.
I have NOD32 running on my machine and AVG free on my server, also Antivir on my media PC. Antivir is good for free protection, but doesnt scan e-mails, which I do like to have done for added peace of mind.
I won't use norton for various reasons, but I understand that if something works for you, then why change.
Cheers guys.
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tito76
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14. May 2005 @ 03:08 |
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I've tried Avast anti-virus Program, home user edition and it's the best anbti-virus program I've used in years. It's free from Avast.com
you get a 14 month renewable license free. In my opinion it does a better job than Norton's Anti-virus.
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pc_theokr
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22. May 2005 @ 10:05 |
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Well I have to say, I am currently using Norton System Works 2005 on my PC and I love the non-antivirus features that come with it and the internet worm protection and antivirus works fine but systemworks uses up sooo much system resources. My PC used to work really fast and when I put NSW on it takes forever just boot completely.
I use AVG free on my laptop and other PC's and laptop around the house and it is great. Fast and automatic/requested, has protected them all, has great MS-DOS support and instructions.
I have installed McAfee on a virtual PC and it appears to be okay. I also have some experience with Panda. It appears to work fine.
I've heard that BitDefender is quite good too so I'm going to try it but until then, AVG Free is good.
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stnerb
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15. June 2005 @ 12:42 |
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This discussion of A.V.G.vs N.A.V is quite interesting:
NAV is about 60 percent there for you. The onlything I find helpful is The Security suite that compliments it. (firewall, email, spamblocker)Those are ok. The Antivirus program? A.V.G Burys it. I will never trust Norton after Peter Norton went to the Bahamas, and Symantec took over and marketed his holy name. (Sometime around 1999)
Macafee is like always 6-2 years behind in definitions.
Here's my two cents:
I Use 5 Programs to remove virus' of machines. I do this for a living, and am in the buiz since the dawn of the virus. I have come to rely on these programs for the years of 2004-5. The Percents are posted as how often these tools are used from machine to machine with 100% cleanup.
#1 AVG Free (With Healing Capability)For 90% of all
#2 Ad-Aware Pro for manual scans and Registry locker. (40%)
#3 Ewido for the inbetween marketing scam software, Trojans
and deletion of rare spawns.(30%)
#4 Registry Mechanic (90%)/ Registry Healer (80%)for link and reference cleanup.
#5 Micro$oft Anti$pyware for most (80%) of the spawns
This has never failed me.... yet. I revamp my virus scanners every 6-8 months. Companies Just CANT GET CONSISTENT! The market is fluxing too much
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usrhlp
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1. July 2005 @ 01:53 |
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i dont want to have to overrule you all but i feel i have to.
Gordy is right. The best antivirus out there is infact NOD32. It is the only antivirus to not fail a single in the wild virus test for 7 years. It is one of only 3 companies to get 100% on 5 different vendor platforms in the last run of platform tests.
I have been testing and analysing antivirus systems since the 90s and i used to swear by norton buying the newest version every year. Then i wised up. I realised that norton was in fact a piece of corporate shit that didn't do what it said on the tin.
I moved to Sophos and immediately removed 50 viruses off my machine. I stuck with sophos, it had the major downfall of not automatically updating so i did it by hand each month. no biggy and was great when a new release was available. I then decided to move to mcafee (owned by the same people as norton, in fact im not sure if it is developed by the same team or two teams that work in the same building) i realised that mcafee has the same issues as norton. It's crap. I moved to avast and removed a small amount of viruses from my machine. i have now been using NOD32 for about 6 months and i have to say that so far i have had no infections or anything on either the laptop nor the desktop machines, nod detects them coming down in the HTTP streams.
It has the fastest scanning engine in the world and the best database and heuristic detection. The only problems with the software are the user interaction designs. They really need to sit down and redesign the HCI.
Anyone with any intelligence would ditch Norton and Mcafee NOW and move to NOD or something else. Do not use AVG either, i have to spend too much time removing viruses from AVG and Panda "protected" machines to ever tell people to use it.
To summarise.
NOD32 is the best antivirus out there bar none.
Avast is Second place (as it is free).
Sophos is third thanks to its new auto update feature.
The rest are in roughly this order.
F-secure
Kaspersky
norman
Bit defender
F-Protect
Mcafee
Etrust
ahnlab
VET
Panda
AVG
Norton
Anyone who disagrees with the top three is, in short, wrong.
However the listing of the lower tier, except for the bottom three, can be rearranged as each one has its pros and cons.
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Alien13
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1. July 2005 @ 01:58 |
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yeah i agree i have kaspersky and hav never had ne truble with it :)
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3. July 2005 @ 15:20 |
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yeah, i've got to agree with nephilim on this, i also use AVG and had no problems, but i used bullguard about 1 1/2 years ago and that was good, but i need to say that NASA and IBM use mozilla's bugzilla.
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aabbccdd
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4. July 2005 @ 01:38 |
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ive used the Trend Mirco PC-cillin Internet secrity 2005 for awhile now and have had very good luck with it.
So usrhlp where you you place Trend Mirco in your list?
and yes norton is the worst program i HAVE ever used hands down ,it crashed on me three time in like 3 months, i put it in the trash and never looked back.
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m1gx
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13. July 2005 @ 07:42 |
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What makes a perfect anti-virus program:
1. engine effectiveness with power and speed.
2. better removal not quarantine or deletion.
(what makes the diff. if you detect a virus but can't use your important files anymore. same as disease detection without cure)
3. low memory or cpu consumption.
(i have a very good anti virus but keeps hanging my games even my whole system. you didn't bought your pc just to run an antivirus. LOL)
4. support firewall, email scan & other features.
5. easy to use gui.
6. price value.
7. easy update ( unable to update! error updating, can't connect to update server. what do you want us to do update manually everytime. get a job!)
even one of these statement fails to comply it is not a good anti-virus.
anyway its just an opinion to each his own.
Power is nothing without control.
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13. July 2005 @ 10:31 |
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I recently visited Windows Catalog and user ratings for AVG 7 is 4 1/2 stars. Nod32 uses alot of resources and if you burn or encode video it will slow the process down I must say I have heard alot about it and tried it once but Avg has been protecting me for over 4yrs without flaw or impact on my systems performance. It also fits the above criteria with auto updates and daily scanning email integration who could ask for more from a free program and it now has been updated for spanish speaking users.
I recently purchased a UK magazine in Canada called PCtools and they recommend AVG as well.
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aabbccdd
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13. July 2005 @ 10:43 |
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Yes AVG is alot better than norton and its free if you arent doing heavy surfing.downloading etc. AVG works fine
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13. July 2005 @ 16:55 |
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Fix-It Utilities v5 w/Antivirus by Trend Micro
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Alien13
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13. July 2005 @ 17:44 |
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Right now i have AVG and Kaspersky, ive had em for more than a year and i have to say AVG is #1 for free antivirus in my books, and Kaspersky is also good. :)
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helenyork
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14. July 2005 @ 06:34 |
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Hi..
I bought a dell system a few months ago and Mcafee was installed on there for free. 2 days ago i got a message to say Mcafee had expired (no warning to say it was ABOUT to expire!) i tried looking round on the net for other virus software but everytime i typed the word 'virus' into the search explorer closed down. i finally managed to do a free virus scan and 2 viruses were found (GEDZA) and they were both found in dell. so i went out and bought a new scanner and the old version of Mcafee wouldn't uninstall- kept directing me to upgrade online. i took advice from this page and i'm currently running 'antivir' and so far 17000 files have been scanned and 2200 traces of the gedza worm have been found. i think Mcafee and dell must have something to do with it so you have to buy mcafee. what do people suggest i do? once the scans finished should i try and load up the new mcafee or go with someone else? also does 2000 (and counting) traces sound serious?? thanks in advance everyone :o)
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14. July 2005 @ 09:24 |
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McAfee has to be the worst antivirus on the planet. Listen read this forum it has been discussed over and over. To help you decide first thing do you use Outlook or Outlook Express as your mail client if so then uninstall all antivrus programs on your system and install AVG 7 free edition if you don't use Outlook or OE then just keep Antivir installed it will do the trick it's scanner is slow and has to be run manually as well as updates but is a good product. If you want more automatic updates, scanning and email integdation use AVG.
That's it partner you don't need to go and buy anything. If you read this entire thread you'll find that McAfee and Norton are system resource abusers and that they don't do as good a job as some of these free programs.
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14. July 2005 @ 09:41 |
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has anyone used nod32?
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ddp
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14. July 2005 @ 11:06 |
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stnerb
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14. July 2005 @ 12:23 |
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Well to respond to your reviews of my findings... I have taken a machine with over 200 DIFFERENT Kinds of spam related, about 95 virus' and IBIS related hijackers.... and tested them without "Fixing" them.
I found that AVG got about 90 virus'... as I stated before. For being Free- Its the ticket so far... (Full Version had same results) But Wouldn't find half of the newest Trojan Downloaders which is classified like half Spam and Half IBIS hijacker related.. so Its really not Its job to do that... (i Guess) (Smart spam bastards) I however am seeing that the heuristics are getting much smarter with AVG, now if only they could heal the Heruistics, cuz they just allow me to "show file" but the Heal button is removed. hmmm... Maybe a little more automation in their removal would help.
I tried Kaspery 2006 Beta... (antivirus/spam/
I was pretty impressed... it got 85 virus's and found 23 more spam than E-wido did and resulted about 184 chunks. I Was impressed.... but will the stuff come back? well, Maybe... I didn't notice that it removed the registry entries, but I could be wrong. I will retest...
This by the way is REALLY BETA.. but DAMN good. If off the gate, its getting almost everything AVG + Ewido rare Spam, MS AntiSpyware should take care of everything else. So for now... I give it a 7/10 out of the gate. Good jobby Kaspery
I used Sophos for a while, until I realized it used so much background tasking to chase the last program opened, or to second guess the next program or download you were going to access.. It made me a bit nerved to see that "YES" it worked very well, but Slowly. I don't like slowly and I don't like what MS XP does to a machine now a days.. so XP + Slow Tasking = Shitty AV Optimizing. Hopefully they won't piggyback their patches forever on the same program base like they did with NAV. NAV's program base is still the same as it was in 98 and 99.
(Thats NOT a goot thing)
I want to retry NOD32, but I hear its pretty unfriendly with the user, and might chunk out resources and efficency of Machine. but to comment, I wouln't doubt it is the TOP of the POP3.(heh)
The reason I think AVG is better overall, is because it takes jack schmidt for resources on the SLOWEST of machines. I would Imagine to run it WELL< you would need a freiken powerserver to compensate for your loss of CPU time. I Believe in Practical Soultions.. So Before I put my foot in my mouth, I will Retry them this month on a Dinosaur with a chunk of schmidt, and I can really tell how it performs.
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14. July 2005 @ 21:35 |
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I'm not going to take any side in here because I know for sure that there's always flaws from all of those programs we used period. Additionally, I'm pretty sure that everyone has at least one or two spyware, adware or virus/trojan inside their computer, but if you know what you're doing and can rid of it manually then you should be contented to what you have. Just make sure to update its definitions regularly, defrag your computer weekly, and scan your computer on a daily basis then you should be fine.
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helenyork
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14. July 2005 @ 23:24 |
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Hi..
The free virus scan finished and I had over 3000 signatures of the worm Gedza.3. There are loads of .zip files it couldn't delete though. The zip files, and .VBS files according to AVG are infected with VBS/GEDZA.A. I still can't uninstall Mcafee. comes up with an explorer script message- the error is 'invalid procedure call or argument'. I do a lot of downloading so will prob go with pc-cillin. will Mcafee still being on my system do people think it will conflict with this? also, for the zip and vbs files the free editions can't delete, can I run a search for the files and delete them that way? any help people could give me would be much appreciated. especially how to get rid of mcafee! they charge £1 a minute for technical advice! thanks in advance :o)
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aabbccdd
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15. July 2005 @ 00:05 |
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have you tried deleteing the program from you C drive (folders etc.)?
try doing a web search on finding a removal tool for the program ,thats probably your best bet in getting rid of it.
or even call dell there tech. support is free ,they may be able to help you.
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15. July 2005 @ 01:02 |
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@svar91
i currently use nod32 and find it VERY complete, it has found a lot of viruses that my mcafee (in the past, now no longer) did not find~
i actually run nod32 iN UNISON (together) w/ AVG...they don't seem to have any conflicts with each other thus far and i have not noticed ANY system slowdown whatsoever. i am pretty satisfied with my level of protection now. i have used practically EVERY other antivirus out there in the past, some programs for only a few weeks to "test" while others for months on end before i realized the downfalls of them.
my opinion would be AVG or Nod32 for antivirus; OR, you can go out on a limb like me and use them both together as a combo to fight your system of threats/viruses :) just my opinion of things...to each their own~
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