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Antivirus of Choice?
- Thread starter LutaWicasa
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- Nov 13, 2004
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- Brookline, MA
I used to use Norton; AVGFree now 
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- Dec 14, 2004
- Location
- Laguna Niguel
AVG. why u may ask. CUZ ITS FREE
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- Mar 17, 2004
Norton CE (from University) AND AVG...
To those of you who say that you are careful what you download and such... hop onto a nice and dirty university network. Granted we have a T3 in my room, but I was fixing a friends computer (she didnt have antivirus)... I formatted, reinstalled XP and had the machine on the internet for about 15 minutes getting critical updates and the University AV. In those 15 minutes we contracted 650 virii...
I have had norton stop 5,000 intrusions (they were all Sassers) in 15 minutes on my laptop when I was on University network... This place is horrible.
My linux machine I dont worry about, but my XP macine has Windows Firewall, Zonealarm, Norton, AVG, Spybot, Adaware, and spyware blaster.
So far, so good.
To those of you who say that you are careful what you download and such... hop onto a nice and dirty university network. Granted we have a T3 in my room, but I was fixing a friends computer (she didnt have antivirus)... I formatted, reinstalled XP and had the machine on the internet for about 15 minutes getting critical updates and the University AV. In those 15 minutes we contracted 650 virii...
I have had norton stop 5,000 intrusions (they were all Sassers) in 15 minutes on my laptop when I was on University network... This place is horrible.
My linux machine I dont worry about, but my XP macine has Windows Firewall, Zonealarm, Norton, AVG, Spybot, Adaware, and spyware blaster.
So far, so good.
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- Nov 29, 2004
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- T3h Intr@tub3z!
i was a norton guy since the early 90's, with a powermac 68k. i didn't make the switch to avg until about 2002. I have been very happy with it though, as it is MUCH less of a resource hog than anything symantec ever put out.
Intelligent use prevents 99.9% of -virus/trojan/name your poison - infections. However, just because I am intelligent about it doesn't mean my 2 younger bros, my parents, or my friends, who bring thier compy's over for a LAN party just about every friday/saturday are as intelligent. I couldn't tell you HOW many times i've been glad to have an anti-viral program up, running, and updated, just because of the TRASH that's been brought onto my home network.
But, that's life. I don't like firewalls myself. Never have trusted them to work the way they are designed. But, the way I see it, if someone so badly wants into my system, then let them. I do my utmost best to never store anything on my system that is personal, and never even save my passwords to anything, INCLUDING ocforums.com. all they are gonna get is real bored real fast, with what is on my system ::woohoo... ANOTHER DragonballZ episode? man, this guy is pathetic!::
Intelligent use prevents 99.9% of -virus/trojan/name your poison - infections. However, just because I am intelligent about it doesn't mean my 2 younger bros, my parents, or my friends, who bring thier compy's over for a LAN party just about every friday/saturday are as intelligent. I couldn't tell you HOW many times i've been glad to have an anti-viral program up, running, and updated, just because of the TRASH that's been brought onto my home network.
But, that's life. I don't like firewalls myself. Never have trusted them to work the way they are designed. But, the way I see it, if someone so badly wants into my system, then let them. I do my utmost best to never store anything on my system that is personal, and never even save my passwords to anything, INCLUDING ocforums.com. all they are gonna get is real bored real fast, with what is on my system ::woohoo... ANOTHER DragonballZ episode? man, this guy is pathetic!::
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- Apr 27, 2004
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- southeast north carolina
panda for me
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- Jul 29, 2002
- Location
- Calgary,Alberta
Pc-Cillin 2002, because it is not as heavy on CPU usage as Norton. It does not have the annoying "Norton Protected recycle bin". I find that Norton lags my comp down too much.
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- Dec 3, 2001
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
I use NOD32 on all my rigs now. Used to use NAV but it was just a massive recourse hog.
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- Oct 12, 2001
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- Folding in Barbados
Here is an interesting page to look at :
http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Collateral.asp?CID=40387
Several virus cleaning tools .
http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Collateral.asp?CID=40387
Several virus cleaning tools .
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- Oct 30, 2004
- Location
- Detroit
Panda Platinum 7
I've used Norton, the detection rate is atrocious.
McAfee, not really a fan of that one either.
Not a fan of Computer Associates, although I'd take it over Norton or McAfee anyday.
I do like Kaspersky, however, It's rather demanding on system resources, creating a slow boot.
All in all I'd say Panda is my favorite. The detection rate is good, they update the signitures daily, and if you use Platinum 7, it's pretty good with system resources. I've tried the new version they have out, the Internet Suite, its a bloated swine eating resources, slowing the os down to a crawl.
I've used Norton, the detection rate is atrocious.
McAfee, not really a fan of that one either.
Not a fan of Computer Associates, although I'd take it over Norton or McAfee anyday.
I do like Kaspersky, however, It's rather demanding on system resources, creating a slow boot.
All in all I'd say Panda is my favorite. The detection rate is good, they update the signitures daily, and if you use Platinum 7, it's pretty good with system resources. I've tried the new version they have out, the Internet Suite, its a bloated swine eating resources, slowing the os down to a crawl.
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- Oct 5, 2004
macafee has NEVER given me any problems what so ever and so has NIS 2004 pro (dont know if it was legit but it came installed on the pc )
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- Apr 19, 2002
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- Burnsville, Minnesota
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- Aug 21, 2001
- Location
- Candia, NH
AVG. Norton refuses to pick up certain things because they want to sell you something else. McAffee just sucks like a hoover. Or electrolux. Whichever flavor you prefer.
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- Sep 16, 2001
- Location
- Boulder CO
Nod32
(also TDS-3 & Process Guard)
(also TDS-3 & Process Guard)
Kaspersky AV here, going strong with 99.09% detection rate.
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=67&mnu=67
Tried Norton, McAfee, Nod32, Panda, AVG, and a few others. I like Kaspersky the best, not to mention it consistenly ranks as the top AVs in all the roundups I've seen.
Oh, I should also add that they have virus updates roughly every three hours, and at least one every day.
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=67&mnu=67
Tried Norton, McAfee, Nod32, Panda, AVG, and a few others. I like Kaspersky the best, not to mention it consistenly ranks as the top AVs in all the roundups I've seen.
Oh, I should also add that they have virus updates roughly every three hours, and at least one every day.
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- Jan 15, 2004
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Norton here. It was free after rebates and works well.
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- Apr 4, 2003
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- Glastonbury, CT
SnP2k said:
Sure, but how do you know the updates contain anything different save for the version number? I seriously doubt they are catching and decyphering a virus every 3 hrs/24hrs a day.
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