*POLL* Antivirus Software

[Fenuxx]

Just wanted to see what everyone thinks the most asskickingness Antivirus Software is out there. I personally use AVG Free 7.0.

Points to consider:


1.) Amount of Protection (i.e. "Shield" or "On Guard")
2.) System Resources Used
3.) Speed (i.e. How long it takes to scan)
4.) Virus Detection Accuracy
5.) Frequency of Updates
6.) Extra Features

 

[Schadenfroh]

What is the Best Antivirus? Thread

Review of 11 Antivirus Apps

Screenshots of TM with RAM usage for all apps. Detection rates of ANtivirus included. Screenshots of antivirus menus and speed benchmarks of scans, should answer everything you are looking for Geforcetony

if not check out AV comparisons .org

 

[Cawchy87]

Kaparsky is the only one for me. Seems to detect everything, and it DELETES stuff insted of just saying it can't do anything about it (norton and mcafee). Not bloated and doesn't pop up every 5 minutes.

 

[bamacre]

I've used everything from McAffee to Norton, AVG to Panda. So far Panda has seemed to be the best and least annoying to use. Although, other than McAffee, the others were not bad. In fact I recommend AVG for others.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
Kaparsky is the only one for me. Seems to detect everything, and it DELETES stuff insted of just saying it can't do anything about it (norton and mcafee). Not bloated and doesn't pop up every 5 minutes.

Kaspersky.

Yea I do notice that Symantec and McAfee have issues stopping a process to remove the file. CA's InoculteIT (now eTrust Antivirus) had the same problem.

I just had an issue with Symantec doing that with a real simple spybot variant, and I could go into task manager and end task it with no problems too. :roll:

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: bamacre
I've used everything from McAffee to Norton, AVG to Panda. So far Panda has seemed to be the best and least annoying to use.

If you can get it to install. When I tried testing Panda I had the WORST time getting it to install and run successfully. I tried it on 3 different machines, 2k pro, xp, and 2k server, and gave up. I think the company goes through some bad spells, probably rotating programmers out and getting some that fubar everything up temporarily. It's not good when your av is throwing up C++ Exception errors.

 

[Malak]

I like the GUI of AVG, but I'm always having problems with it on my machines. Can anyone recommend something with a decent GUI? I did not like the GUI of antivir at all.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: malak
I like the GUI of AVG, but I'm always having problems with it on my machines. Can anyone recommend something with a decent GUI? I did not like the GUI of antivir at all.

Do you want something free or something to pay for?

Also what version of AVG are you using right now?

 

[jimmy43]

I just go to Mcafee's housecall every other week. Seems to catch most things. I dont really need AV sw anyhow since I keep a close watch on all aspects of my system.

 

[BriGy86]

i recomend AVG to my friends when they need a free version, and if AVG doesn't catch something i tell them to scan with the panda scan virus cleaner or the house call one, right now im using norton antivirus pro 2004 and norton personal firewall: it seems to do very well but i think its too bloated and i haven't really figured out how to configure the fire wall proberly

i voted for PC-cillian on the poll (thats trend micro right?) i think for my computer im going to build im going to go with trend micro for A/V and zone alarm pro for my firewall (tell me is that a good choice?)

also, am i able to buy trend micro at any stores? i haven't seen it at best buy, but i could try micro center or compUSA

 

[BW86]

I have been using AVG for a long long time now and I love it

 

[BriGy86]

i used to have my friends use it (and i did for a while) when i think it was 6.0

i had problems updateing, but now with 7.0 it seems to have gotten a lot better

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: jimmy43
I just go to Mcafee's housecall every other week. Seems to catch most things. I dont really need AV sw anyhow since I keep a close watch on all aspects of my system.

If you are running Windows, you NEED antivirus software.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: bamacre
I've used everything from McAffee to Norton, AVG to Panda. So far Panda has seemed to be the best and least annoying to use.

If you can get it to install. When I tried testing Panda I had the WORST time getting it to install and run successfully. I tried it on 3 different machines, 2k pro, xp, and 2k server, and gave up. I think the company goes through some bad spells, probably rotating programmers out and getting some that fubar everything up temporarily. It's not good when your av is throwing up C++ Exception errors.

That's weird. Fortunately I only had to install it once, and it worked fine.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: jimmy43
I just go to Mcafee's housecall every other week. Seems to catch most things. I dont really need AV sw anyhow since I keep a close watch on all aspects of my system.

If you are running Windows, you NEED antivirus software.

That is wholly untrue. I've never had a virus in all the years I've owned a PC. I did get a virus on a portable HD when it connected to an infected network, but that quite the easy catch. I do scans about once a month, and have never picked anything up.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: malak
I like the GUI of AVG, but I'm always having problems with it on my machines. Can anyone recommend something with a decent GUI? I did not like the GUI of antivir at all.

Do you want something free or something to pay for?

Also what version of AVG are you using right now?

I was using whatever the latest version was, for the free home version.

I would prefer free. Something with an active shield like AVG had, but won't interfere with anything. I just hate to recommend AVG if I can't even get it to run on my machine properly.

 

[randumb]

Mcafee enterprise (way better than the consumer version - no annoying ads and very streamlined)

 

[pookguy88]

NOD32

 

[madthumbs]

Norton =bloat/ no trojan detection
McAfee =wouldt install any headache of theirs
AVG =Fine if you don't mind deleting viruses manually, not the best detection either
Panda =Too many complaints about damage to system stability
PC-Cillin =Not bad, but comes with other software and I prefer BitDefender for that
Kaspersky =Probably the most thorough, yet wouldn't complete a thorough scan on half the computer's I've tried it on. It has been updated since though.
Nod32 =Horrible GUI, the worse heuristics with the most false positives I've seen. Only redeeming qualiity is it's light footprint. Actual detection has declined (popularity going down).

What about F-Prot, Antvir?

 

[BriGy86]

whats the other software that PC-cillin come with?

and would i be able to buy it at a store?

 

[BriGy86]

im thinking of getting PC-cillin

what would you suggest?

just basic anti-virus: link
or
internet security: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...97582017160&skuId=6938585&type=product

edit: it looks like they're the same but internet security comes with a fire wall for 10 bucks more

anyone know how good that fire wall is?

i was thinking of getting zone alarm but if the int. security one can do the same or better i might as well go with that

 

[biostud]

I use AVG because it's free, but I think there's better solutions if you pay.

 

[cubby1223]

If we were still using FAT32 partitions I'd say F-Protect for DOS was the best scanner out there. Had a Win98 machine a couple weeks ago which had a couple of those virii that attach themselves to all .exe files. Reloaded Windows, but still wanted data copied from the old machine. NAV2005 took hours to complete & stalled out frequently in the middle of scans - I never did get a complete scan finished. F-Protect thoroughly cleaned the old drive off in about 10 minutes.

 

[Fenuxx]

*BUMP*

 

[murphy55d]

I use Kaspersky.