what antivirus do you use?

[wisedude]

I was wondering what's a good antivirus program. I use avast, except i'm always looking for something better.

[high5]

imho nod32.

[ExtraPickles]

Another vote for Nod32.

-pickles

[cooter]

I dont put one on my comptuer as most of them have gotten so heavy I would rather deal with the virus's.

I use either Kapernsky or Trendmicro's online scanners, they do a great job.

Check out this for a good read on virus software:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles1260/

[QuikSilver]

AVG free edition has never let me down, works great.

[Kelldor]

I like Avast. Planning on trying out Kapersky soon though. Have used AVG in the past, and some online scanners. Sometimes theyd find a virus, but weren't able to get rid of it. I'm not a big Norton or McAfee fan myself.

[haPpydUde]

Nortonsystemworks 2k5 on a single machine I can scan the rest of my pc's in my house from this point. Panada is also quite good I recommend checking it out also. http://www.pandasoftware.com/

[sinister1st]

Norton 2003 or Antivir.:toast: with an iso of norton system works to mount in the background.

[eBoy0]

Bitdefender.:)

[Dissolved]

Do not use Kaspersky.

its junk.

i installed a file from a bad website that infected over 200 windows files. kaspersky deleted only 90% of the infection, and i thought my system was clean. when in fact the 10% that didnt clean was spamming my isp with emails and such. i was contacted by my isp 3 times for the viruses and i kept running kaspershy and finding 1 virus every time i scanned. after the 3rd warning from my isp (basically i had 2 days to clean before they blocked my system) i went to Norton corp v10 and guess what? i found around 20 infections that kaspersky did not find or clean. i even ran kaspershy after norton and it said my system was clean.

So that software cleans viruses, but doesnt clean them all. Norton does bog your system down a bit while it runs, but a dual core system will run perfect.

So if you care about 5% or less of your systems resources, then i would run norton. i have not tryed any other AV since. but i now have no more viruses and my isp likes me again.

[eBoy0]

Do not use Kaspersky.

its junk.

i installed a file from a bad website that infected over 200 windows files. kaspersky deleted only 90% of the infection, and i thought my system was clean. when in fact the 10% that didnt clean was spamming my isp with emails and such. i was contacted by my isp 3 times for the viruses and i kept running kaspershy and finding 1 virus every time i scanned. after the 3rd warning from my isp (basically i had 2 days to clean before they blocked my system) i went to Norton corp v10 and guess what? i found around 20 infections that kaspersky did not find or clean. i even ran kaspershy after norton and it said my system was clean.

So that software cleans viruses, but doesnt clean them all. Norton does bog your system down a bit while it runs, but a dual core system will run perfect.

So if you care about 5% or less of your systems resources, then i would run norton. i have not tryed any other AV since. but i now have no more viruses and my isp likes me again.


Kaspersky loves to hog the memory alot while running realtime- enabled... i used kaspersky when i had single core and i just couldn't stand the delays it put on the system.

[k0nsl]

I mainly used Kaspersky, but it ran deactivated and I only used it on demand - to scan specific files or test various creations. Norton is too easy to bypass, a joke, and most virus and trojan writers knows that.
I also heard good stuff about AVG, Norman and occasionally Mcafee.

-k0nsl

[AJF]

Norton 2002 (had it from an old computer).

[Tatewaki]

AVG free edition. Works great and saved my pc a few times

[high5]

I dont put one on my comptuer as most of them have gotten so heavy I would rather deal with the virus's.
actually thats exactly why i use nod32. its very 'light', doesn't slow down your system. give it a shot.

[Daveb2012]

Ewido is also good. trend micro as well,

[uOpt]

FreeBSD :D

[Major_A]

Avast!. I used to use Norton until I ran Avast! and it found 10+ signatures that Norton overlooked. Like most AV/spyware programs 1 isn't enough so sometimes I visit Panda's Activescan and Trendmicro's Housecall sites and run a scan.

[trakslacker]

I personally use McAfee. Never had any issues with it. It's caught and completely removed quite a few different trojans before they were ever installed. so the real-time scanning works very well at least.

I've also recently become a big fan of Trend Micro's PC-Cillin AV. it hides in the background very well, even with real-time scanning enabled. I still use McAfee, but I've installed PC-Cillin ina couple of fridns computers, and it works very well for them.

EDIt: just wanted to note that I've never trusted free antivirus software. I've played with AVG and Avast a bit, and they jsut didnt seem real thorough. I generally don't pay for the use of the software I have, but I am willing to shell out for a good virus scan.

[freak22]

another vote for Trendmicro's online scanner. has not failed me yet

[nn_step]

FreeBSD :D
OpenBSD :D :cool:

[Magnj]

McAfee virusscan profesional 9.1...has never let me down. However its a bit of a resource hog sometimes.

[ZeluR]

:cool:
I'm using NOD32 & Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. They works well for me.

Cheers

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[cx323]

i use avg pro. it's never let me down

btw zelur symantec bought out sygate so i would suggest changing firewalls

[Daveb2012]

by the way guys, use them all if you have a serious infection. at my work we do "operating system services" when people have viruses, and all that consist of is running 10 scans in safe mode until nothing is left, or manually removing whats left.

[`SippY]

avast!

[JoeBar]

Kaspersky Personal Pro. I've been using it for 6 moths flawlessly. :up:

[Kabouter]

AVG free edition has never let me down, works great.

Hell yeah :)