Norton user looking for a new Antivirus program

He's nothing more than an ***** then I suppose. Running no AV at all is not only ignorant, but also a dumb thing to do.

i would advise your friend to do one or two online scans, thats if he doesn't want to use an AV prog. he can expect to find dialers and adware for sure, unless he never downloads. maybe more!

I will let him know... he needs something.

Funny thing is he has never had to redo him computer and he is an avid downloader of music etc....

Blows my mind.

Next chance I get I will post a HJT Log.

Thanks

I've had Nortan AV and Firewall that I updated everyday and I installed AVG that was 6 mouths out dated and picked up 4 viruses :S Dodgey ****
Than I found Nod32 and Zonelabs thay works great I've had no problems at all I install bit defender taht is ment to be the overall best AV it finds nothing so I'm happy with Nod32 I would recomend it to evreyone and anyone

Hiya, I just logged on here and noticed my post was stickied.

Heres an updated status report:

I'm still using the Kaspersky/Zone Alarm combo, and while I can't rave enough about Kaspersky, the ZA gets to me sometimes. I'm going to change to Kaspersky Internet Security around May when my stuff expires.

Heh, I like how I can have Kaspersky check for updates every hour. Really gives you that secure feeling I guess lol.

over this past year i have been running PC-CILLIN by trend micro. i never thought of it as being much of a good programme, then a friend told me about it and said, "it's improved loads". so i did try it, and now i have changed my mind about it. the 2006 security suite is very good, it is also user friendly.
try it!!

OK, got a few questions while reading this thread:

- Is there some chance that when some of you who've uninstalled one av and installed another run a scan and find viruses, what you're actually finding are viruses the prior av caught and put in quarantine (and didn't fully uninstall)?

- I understand much of the discussion's been on which av scans find the most malware. But that's a slightly different question than mine: Who's av do you think does the best job of fully blocking viruses, worms and spyware? (Really, these two questions are not the same nor should they be.)

- Any thoughts on why some of the larger av companies mentioned at the top of the list aren't (allegedly, per early posts in this thread) finding viruses as well as some of the stuff from the smaller players? I mean, it's not like the big guys don't have the resources.

kaspersky is really good, i used to use norton and avast, but they don't detect vb script viruses...and many other viruses... so i switched to kaspersky and now i don't even need spyware remover b'coz kaspersky detects all kinds of malwares...like viruses,worms,trojans,spyware and even hidden installers... and it has a very good virus definition database and virus definition for newly created viruses are released faster than any other antivirus

If you're able to use some shrewd marketing to sell a shoddy product to unsuspecting consumers so easily, would you be willing to spend money to improve upon it, given that the aforementioned consumers aren't exactly experts when it comes to identifying bad software? Methinks not...

Hi

I used Mcafee AVP for a year and found it very intrusive. Norton Internet Security 2005 was much better and you wouldnt even know existed.....however when I installed the latest 2006 it has really slowed my PC down. Something called LUCOM~1.exe in the task manager seems to suck up all the RAM and if its not thats its svchost.exe........who knows whats going on ??

Found the list of AV programs in the above link useful !


Dean

I find that most of times the Windows Automatic Updates are the culprit of high CPU usage and the appearance of the SVCHOST.EXE on the Task Manager.

I think the LUCOM~1.exe may be related to the Live Update process in Norton Antivirus. I'm using Norton Antivirus 2006 and I see high CPU usage in the Task Manager when a Live Update is taking place. Those updates should not take that long though; the Windows Automatic Updates take usually much longer.

Here are a couple of links I hope will help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056/en-us

http://entkb.symantec.com/security/output/n2004070609092148.html

nod 32 is definately the best

According to a conducted test of AV's from Consumer Report the number one AV, was called BitDefender. I've never used it myself but the technical report was very impressive. They created 5000 new viruses and tested several brands of AV to determine which ones would pickup the new viruses.

av choice, tricky

i have a good experience with Panda, only problem is with the uninstalling.
Avast! is another good one. this is my preference and in this order:
panda
avg
avast

havent tried kaspersky though

Norton

I have used Bitdefender for a year now and I like it. About 38 MB in size. We use it on a couple of our workstations and so far so good. We run V10. I currently have Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.2 on my ThinkPad and its only about 28 MB in size. Not cumbersome and loads fast. I have also tried Trend Micro 2007 and I gave back after 1st install. Have a good weekend.

tired of norton av.

I use Defender Pro its great. You can get it at Wal Mart for about twenty bucks.

Has nobody tried F-Secure Internet Security? Does it all wihout fuss and palaver. Like all the others, it takes time to load but once there does not grab all the resources. No - I don't work for them.

Well You cant have more than one anti-virus software on your computer or it will screw-up your computer.
my recemmandation would be AVG Anti-Virus Free
Becuz, well, its free and it works.(i think:|... i never found one virus on my computer bcuzz i have tight security!!)

I used AVG Free for a long time and had no trouble with it. However, these days I use Avast Pro and it is brilliant. Doesn't use anywhere near as much system resource as Norton and has many added features which are excellent!

Definitely time to dump the Norton. They have really swelled up and became quite the resource pig these days.

I've been using AVG Internet Security Home Edition

1. Includes Anti-Virus, Firewall, Anti-Spware in an integrated sofware package
2. You can download a 30day free trial if you want to try it all out.
3. If you just want the anti-virus portion, you can download and use it FREE. Period
4. For the 3 program Internet Security Suite - they offer different special pricing packages to license 2 or 3 computer for 2 or 3 years. I bought a 2-year license to cover 3 computuers for about $90 - or $15/computer/year which includes anti-virus, firewall and anti-spyware.. I thougth was a very good price and i like the product
5. Only downside is there are things they can do to improve user interface as well as their documentation. Someone w/limited computer experience may find it more challenging to get everything done when seeing certain error msgs from/their UI. The more experienced would have more an intuitive feel for what to do even tho it may not be clearly spelled out.