Originally posted by: jloor
I use to be a huge Panda fan but it only works well if you have tons of system resources to burn. Eset Nod32 is the only AV I found that works well with any machine, even an old win98 box that some of my older clients refuse to upgrade. Although I have not tried Kapersky or Clamwin I can now not claim Eset Nod32 is the very best. But I did have a great article about AV software somewhere in general and even the very best engines only catch about 85+% of wild virus and malicious code. So bottom line, just because you have an AV software it doesn't give you the license to check in common sense at the door. Nothing in the world is free, so are all those "free mp3s and Xvids and especially APPS!" really worth a fresh install every 3 months? Maybe for you but not your less technically inclined friends. You get what you pay for.
My favorite is the customer who comes in with a machine riddled with infection from Kazza, Morpheus, Bear Share, etc. and when I say it's infected beyond repair they always look at me with a straight face and say the same thing
"But I have my Nortons on there?!?! You must be lying."
When I explain to them the copy of Norton they bought in 2001 and haven't updated since is useless, and further explain that with the best, most up to date anti virus apps possible put on the machine it's still no gaurentee of no infection. Lastly I always tell my customer that if the machine leaves repaired and protected and they d/l "free music and movies" they WILL get infected, gaurenteed no matter what. That keeps em from coming back 6 month later and saying it's my fault the pc is infected again, which, as hard as it is to believe, they will do.