Author Topic: Which Anti-Virus? (Read 1346 times)

JB66 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 08, 2005, 09:04:02 PM »

Where I work...when we see a system with McAfee...we refer to it as the Mcafee virus...it must be removed!!

I swore by Panda...but AVG free is a great product, with daily updates and it allows you to schedule scan and update times.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #31 on:** July 09, 2005, 02:58:03 AM »

The antivir suites that have the option 'scan on open' enabled by default are worse than viruses in most cases. Some of them won't even let you disable the functionality.

What it does is scan every single file in a given folder the moment you open the folder. This means a minute of waiting to access your USB1 pen disk or up to 3 minutes of waiting to access your digital video folder with gigabytes of stuff. That's right, 3 minutes of waiting before clicking a single file to open it.

Those antivirs are therefore more of a nuisance than most viruses - I always advice people to steer away from them. Unfortunately one of the worst softwares here in the above sense is also by far the most common due to smart marketing practises - it's a standard installation in many OEM's etc.

Greebo · « **Reply #32 on:** July 09, 2005, 03:09:38 AM »

I switched from Norton to NOD32 six months ago and am very happy with the decision. It gets top marks in most virus detection group tests and is much less resource hungry than Norton.

SkyChimp · « **Reply #33 on:** July 09, 2005, 03:32:22 AM »

I have cox.

I scared to look:p

Takes 5 hours to scan this beast:D

Skuzzy · « **Reply #34 on:** July 09, 2005, 07:29:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Halo
How?

Well, fortunately I have the knowledge on how to setup and configure a hardened firewall which also handles trapping and tossing this stuff out before it ever gets to any computer.
The end result is, no spyware, no malware, no viruses and none of the usual suspect programs adjoined to those maladies stealing resources from my computer.

One day, I will have to write a book.

Halo · « **Reply #35 on:** July 09, 2005, 07:42:55 AM »

Better yet, how about a software program we can download off the Internet for a reasonable price? You might make a fortune and help restore the Internet to the faster, more freedomish place it used to be before all the virus and spy assaults.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #36 on:** July 09, 2005, 09:35:40 AM »

In order to do it properly, you have to have a dedicated computer which handles all your traffic to/from your LAN. And it cannot be Windows based.

The above requirements would simply be too much for most people to handle.

Of course, ISP's could implement it, but the arrogance of most ISP network geeks is astonishing.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #37 on:** July 09, 2005, 11:45:31 AM »

i still use Fix-it utilities (trend micro av) $30.00 us, coupled with ad aware , and hijack this .

For a pre XP os this combo works great .

and since firefox came out i havent had anything try to jump on my pc .

this is what works on all of my pc's .

SarinGas · « **Reply #38 on:** July 15, 2005, 12:27:37 PM »

I definately reccomend this as well. Ive been using their product for the last 3 years and have had way less problems with it than any of the other brands. I work for Dell and we get customers calling in every day who use Norton, McAfee, Panda, and AVG and they are always complaining of getting virus's. We were using norton but after we got hit with 4 virus in one year we also switched to Trend Micro PC Cillin and havent gotten a single virus since. I've never had a customer with PC Cillin call in with a virus related problem. I also run adaware plus and spybot at least twice a week just to make sure my system is clean.

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Originally posted by FOGOLD
Trend Micro Pc-Cillin 2005. Never a problem so far. Low overhead, easy to shut down completely if struggling to get LAN connections. Plays AH fine even with firewall on stealth.

Shields up reports it as complete stealth (Although I have read some dissenting opinions about Shieldsup methodology:rolleyes: )

FOGOLD · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2005, 04:28:17 AM »

The only thing I find hard is configuring the firewall to get LAN games to play. Sometimes I just turn off the firewalls and pull the phone plug out! That way no one can go online accidentally while no firewall:eek:

stantond · « **Reply #40 on:** July 16, 2005, 08:23:34 AM »

In the 20+ years using MS products I have gotten two viruses/backdoor programs. One was from a Wolfenstein 3D disk I got from a buddy which didn't do much harm to a Win3.1 system and a backdoor program I got from downloading a dodgy screen saver in Win98. Not going to dodgy sites (such as Warez) and downloading/using suspect software helps alot. If you are loading software to help you cheat, steal passwords, hack a system, or otherwise do something malicous, expect a virus. That seems to be the way it works.

Spyware, on the other hand is a real nuissance. I abandoned Internet Explorer because of all the holes and exploits that allowed spyware. I now use Firefox and MS anit-spyware (beta) which seems to have solved all those problems. Currently I used Norton Anti-Virus, which is very intrusive and has never found anything other than a suspect program through email (that I would never have opened anyway).

For me, I am going to go with AVG anti-virus free edition because its free and can be configured for minimal intrusion. I *have* had Win98 systems corrupted because of Norton system works! Right now, two of my windows PC's are running "unprotected" and I don't expect any problems.

While I keep messing with Windows XP, I really gotta go with Debian or FreeBSD in the future. It would be cool to see something like OSX come out for PC's too. Anyway, AVG is what I plan to use in the future.

Regards,

Malta

Kazaa · « **Reply #41 on:** July 17, 2005, 03:05:37 PM »

Man most AV's are poo, I got this free program off the net called Ad Aware & its fantastic, Its got a great review on download.com & picked up 100's of stuff that norton did not, I know its not an anti virus program but it can do your PC the world of good.