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Your preferred Anti-Virus Software?

Discussion in 'Software Apps' started by eddy05, May 6, 2003.

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Which is your preferred Anti-Virus Software?

Norton's Anti-Virus 24 vote(s) 61.5%
McAfee's Anti-Virus 3 vote(s) 7.7%
Trend's PC-cillin 1 vote(s) 2.6%
Others (State why in your post?) 11 vote(s) 28.2%
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  1. eddy05 Newcomer, in training Posts: 223

    My NAV detected some viruses from some of the downloads from kazaa. A recent one is the W32.Supernova (Something like that). Still I find it safer to have an AV active than without, though it takes up some of my RAM.
    eddy05, May 7, 2003
    #21

  2. SNGX1275 TS Special Forces Posts: 11,893   +117

    How are you guys getting virii from kazaa? You downloading .zips and .exe and such? If so well then you should almost expect that.
    Are videos carring this crap now? I have never gotten a virus from kazaa, but all I'll dl from there is videos and mp3s.
    SNGX1275, May 7, 2003
    #22

  3. poertner_1274 secroF laicepS topShceT Posts: 4,745

    Yes StormBringer I am just saying be careful what you download. Don't just go getting everything you want and run it right away. I know that most viruses are semi-small in size. If you are looking to download something that is 50meg and you see one that is only 2meg, obviously don't get that one. That is all I am saying, keep an eye out for things that don't look right.
    poertner_1274, May 7, 2003
    #23

  4. Nic TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,926

    I once downloaded a copy of Frontier Elite from what seemed to be a popular and respectable website dedicated to the Elite games. After running the game's '.exe' nothing happened and the game didn't start. On the next reboot I was unable to load windows 98 and instead got a scrolling Star Wars style message, in Spanish - I had been infected by a virus that had overwritten a vital windows '.com' file and I ended up formatting my drive to get rid of the virus, which McAfee had not detected. Luckily the virus was not a destructive one (so I did manage to backup my personal files first), but things could have been far worse, so don't surf without that virus scanner and firewall.

    Something to bear in mind is that the best way to distribute trojans is through 'free' software, as the user will surely run the 'install' or executable, so infecting their PC, while they are blissfully unaware of what has happened.
    Nic, May 7, 2003
    #24

  5. videobruce Newcomer, in training Posts: 129

    It's uninvasive?????????????

    You got to be kidding!

    It is the biggest, bloated POS on the planet. Only ***** Exploiter is worse!

    It comes up more than any problem in anybody's troubleshooting section that causes problems especially at time of installing other programs! It puts itself in the root of C and hogs your system to death!

    Just look at Task Manager at the I/O bytes readings!

    Give me System Suite from vCom and TrendMicro's AV anytime. Besides, the updates are free!
    videobruce, May 24, 2003
    #25

  6. videobruce Newcomer, in training Posts: 129

    Yea, don't go on the internet!

    That's almost as bad as saying I don't wear seatbelts!:confused:
    videobruce, May 24, 2003
    #26
     

  7. Mictlantecuhtli TS Special Forces Posts: 4,916   +9

    I don't use any virus scanners either - because BeOS doesn't have virii. For others, I recommend F-Secure's F-Prot for DOS, although it doesn't work with NTFS very well. No automated background scanning for lazy people though :p
    Mictlantecuhtli, May 24, 2003
    #27

  8. SharkFiNbowL Newcomer, in training Posts: 46

    What is the difference between Norton Personal Firewall and Norton Internet Security? Besides.. those programs are useless. NAV and NSW are useful :)
    SharkFiNbowL, May 24, 2003
    #28

  9. Nodsu Newcomer, in training Posts: 9,431

    I think F-Prot is a product by Frisk Software.
    F-Secure offers a product called F-Secure Anti-Virus.

    Both are great and recommended by me :p
    Nodsu, May 25, 2003
    #29

  10. Phantasm66 Newcomer, in training Posts: 6,504

    install linux and then you will never have a virus, because the people creating virii make them in linux.
    Phantasm66, May 25, 2003
    #30

  11. negroplasty TechSpot Maniac Posts: 513   +6

    LOL Phant. Is that true?

    Also, I don't see anything wrong with Norton products, even though a Trojan got passed me once before. I mean, their constant updates must accomplish something!?! Is McAfee any better? Or should I just stick to my intentions to change to F-Secure next format as advised by Nodsu in the IRC channel?
    negroplasty, May 25, 2003
    #31

  12. SharkFiNbowL Newcomer, in training Posts: 46

    I got a virus yesterday, took me 2 hours to fix it. The virus lagged my computer soooooo much! Thanks to Norton (50%), and my brain (50%) for getting rid of the virus :)
    SharkFiNbowL, May 25, 2003
    #32

  13. LNCPapa TS Special Forces Posts: 3,950   +120

    I prefer not to use an antivirus program due to performance overhead that will be there - reguardless of which AV software you choose. I do, however, use McAfee on two of my machines - and any files that come in from the internet are passed through one of these machines before they are executed on any of my other machines. One of these machines also scans all the files on my other machines (can't scan registry of course, but I'm just really careful with my other machines) when I'm not using them. I've never had the best luck with anything from Symantec except Ghost - but I think it's just bad luck on my part because I know several techies who love symantec.

    LNCPapa
    LNCPapa, May 25, 2003
    #33

  14. JSR Banned Posts: 730

    AVG is free

    and has an automatic updater.............never any issues like with mcafee or norton
    JSR, May 25, 2003
    #34

  15. alphnumeric Newcomer, in training Posts: 209

    If you never scan for viruses how do you know you haven't been infected?
    alphnumeric, Jun 11, 2003
    #35

  16. alphnumeric Newcomer, in training Posts: 209

    I use Grisoft AVG 6.0, the price is right.:)
    alphnumeric, Jun 11, 2003
    #36

  17. cromrell Newcomer, in training Posts: 52

    In our office I have deployed the following AV protection:

    29 win98 PCs w/ internet access, but not email:
    McAffee VirusScan

    1 winXP laptop w/ internat and pop3 email
    Norton Internet Security w/ NAV and personal firewall

    9 win2000 PCs w/ internet access & pop3 email (Outlook Express & Outlook)
    Norton Systemworks 2003 w/ NAV 2003

    2 win2000/NT servers internet access, no email
    Symantec Small Business 8.0 Corporate Edition (for Servers & PCs).

    I've had some problems with email viruses not detected using Mcafee, so I switched all email users to NAV (Systemworks). Most of our internet users are browsers, so our infections were mostly Melissa style emails, and the ocassional virus hoax alert. Since switching to NAV (past year) we haven't had any problems, and Systemworks has other perks (Ghost, Disk utils, Reg clean, etc).

    We probablly encounter 1-2 virus infected emails each week. NAV catches the emails before the user is able to open the infected attachements, etc...

    I recently deployed Symantec AV on our servers (this week), and plan to eventually migrate all of my win98 PCs to Symantec as well (to take advantage of virus definition deployment and alert methods.

    Firewall:
    We haven't yet been hacked, but are using Linksys Router with IP forwarding (only pcAnywhere and Terminal Server currently fwd), but I will start to worry more with up-coming deployment of Exchange Server and remote access of email.
    I'd also like to find a cheap copy of Symantec Antivirus with Exchange filtering if possible.
    cromrell, Jul 10, 2003
    #37

  18. JackieChanIsGOD Newcomer, in training Posts: 83

    I have Norton Professional and it works fine...
    I've never had a virus that i've had to hunt down.
    I do however have a reoccuring explorer.exe in my C: drive that's pissing me off....
    JackieChanIsGOD, Jul 10, 2003
    #38

  19. XtR-X Newcomer, in training Posts: 1,040

    The great taste that won't fill you up but never let you down. :) Make it a Norton.

    (I stole that from a beer comercial).
    XtR-X, Jul 10, 2003
    #39

  20. young&wild TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 1,268

    There are other ways to tell if your computer is infected by virus.
    I) Your pc has been acting mysteriously slower than usual
    II) You have trouble running some programs or receive some weird messages while attempting to run one


    Honestly speaking, both my pcs don't have any AV software installed. I have been using P2P software for ages and never had problems with virus infections.
    young&wild, Jul 11, 2003
    #40
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