Best antivirus program?

[Anaconda]

??

 

[mpancha]

Norton Antivirus. Not that stupid Norton Utilities pos, but just plain antivirus. Especially if you're smart and run liveupdate every so often

 

[dave127]

i agree...norton antivirus is the best!!!!

 

[MasterHoss]

The Norton programs are all excellent...you just have to do a custom setup and also streamline all the startup applications all the Norton products enable.

I have plenty of hands on experience with Symantec's Norton Antivirus and McAfee. McAfee seems to take significantly less CPU utilization but it lacks in actually detecting viruses (especially unknown viruses).

I recommend running a search in the Hot deals forum...you can find OEM Norton SystemWorks 2001 Pro (newest version WITH GHOST) for $25 I believe it is.

 

[imustbecrazy]

A:>FORMAT C:/S /U
A:>FDISK /MBR

 

[konichiwa]

Norton

 

[MasterHoss]

<< A:>FORMAT C:/S /U >>



Funny as s@#%

 

[arod]

I like norton as well, the live update is the best around and it includes email protection...

 

[imustbecrazy]

Hey, I couldn't pass up that last post.....

Should have said &quot;What do you use your computer for?&quot;

If your only playing games, you don't need anti-virus software.

If you use it for work or personal finances, Adaptec CD Rom Burner software and
of course a CD ROM Burner/CDRW.

Norton, don't know. Anti-virus software has to be constantly updated and is not a sure thing. My PeeCees are for gaming. Formatting is painless. Restores lost disk space.
And speeds up my computer because I load less junk @ startup.

Also, what programs to you run. Or to put it another way, if you don't download from the Internet, if you only use named brand software, you probraby will never have a problem.

 

[pulpp]

i use command line AVP

 

[Pabster]

Norton? Heh, get real. Use AVP.

 

[RGN]

I like McAfee. I had norton and I STILL got jacked by the ripper virus. It was a classic virus and it was a few years ago, but it was Mcafee that cleaned it NOT norton.

 

[billyjak]

eTrust antivirus from the makers of Innoculation

 

[carolinaboy]

a little gasoline and a match should do the trick!

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I hear panda platinum is good.

 

[Shockwave]

In my experience, McAfee is as good at *finding* viruses as Norton. They both do an excellent job of finding. But cleaning? Jeez, McAfee cant clean its own a$$. Norton always cleaned the virus out, McAfee hardly ever did for me....

 

[sak]

I use InoculateIT... i think it is the best i have used because it uses so less memory but works great...and it free...i think...

 

[bluezebra1098]

sak,
Innoculate WAS free but you can continue to get dat file updates if you are currently registered for as long as you have IT on your hard drive.
At www1.e-trust.com you can get a demo version of Innoculate and it's only $19 for a year.
That's a lot cheaper than some of the others.

Had McAfee. Been there done that. Waste of money, HUGE file, conflicts with windows, software, etc. Nothing but trouble.

 

[bacillus]

<< I use InoculateIT >>


haven't they stopped offereing free software now to potential new users??

 

[TunaBoo]

I HIGHLY recomend agaisnt running a virus scan in the background unless you dont know how to not open suspicious files, or have stupid family members.

Either install a virus scanner, turn it off, and open it up once in a while and run a scan, or do what I do (Use a crappy free virus scan). It scans suspicious files for me, and if I need to know anything about th virus I go to nai.com and look under the virus library.


Free online virus scanner

It works okay, and I dont have to worry about dat files and such.

 

[StanFL]

Email worms are some of the most prevalent viruses out these days and NAV 2001 does a good job checking email's as they are being received. I dont know if other A/V proggies have implemented that or not yet but if not, that alone makes NAV 2001 worth the price of admission. It's already saved my butt a couple of times.

 

[murdock2525]

Norton &quot;anything&quot; is gameboy garbage.The Ginzu of software.
Ghost, utilities, AV...all bloated garbage.
Go look at Panda Platinum ...
Nortons' Dead Update updates about a week into the epidemic.
Yea.....like puttin' on a rubber 2 days later !!

 

[SUOrangeman]

Norton is fine. The automatic LiveUpdate is slow, but Norton puts out signature files twice a week. You just have to download them manually (most software sites list new sig file releases).

-SUO

 

[Bacchus]

Norton's is my personal fav. The biggest disappointment is that their email protection will NOT cover @msn email addresses. I know....I should simply ditch the MSN account. But I've had this one for nearly 6 years now. But I'm not about to pay the extra $40 just to have Norton cover my MSN email. Freakin' ridiculous...

 

[TunaBoo]

But as I said before, if you are smart you dont need an always on virus scanner.

If you get an email with a .vml or .exe type attachment, don't open it duh. Its not that hard folks.

Why do people worry so much about virus scanners? Blah blah 2 ounces of trolling are better than 1 ounce of prevention.