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Thread ID: 55953	2005-03-23 10:27:00	Antivirus which is the best?	Phoenix-Wolf (7452)	Press F1

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337219	2005-03-23 11:38:00	Use pc cillin 2005 on my comp since it is cheap has low overheads and good dectection rates though the user interface is not that intuitive, install avast on majority of others. AVG is also excellent. I find avast a little less resource hungry on older comps but avg has better user interface. Norton bites, works well enough but way too invasive and resource hungry. Never tried Nod but many swear by it and seems to come top of the pack in detection rates in many tests over the years.	the highlander (245)
337220	2005-03-23 11:46:00	I have read several forums and there is a wide range of opinions And as you will have seen from the replies, there still is. Whichever one you pick, be sure to keep the definitions up-to-date - this matters most. Cheers TonyF	TonyF (246)
337221	2005-03-23 12:46:00	the trouble is that every version of a brand can be different and the software is upgraded evry week so its never the same. my humble :2cents: panda.........crap....crashed out constantly. test site rate it poorly for detection. not recommended pccillian.... have seen it miss a fair few virus's even when fully upto date. also the werid way of it informing you the subscription had expired means it gets thrown in the bin. not recommended nortons.... has been rated constant as one of the top antivirus programs for detecting virus's. however its very bloated, slow GUI, has a large tendancy to die at least once a year. also its poor updateing setup means its often not fully upto date while the user thinks it is. no longer recommended as its just seems to get slower and more problemmatic every year. mcaffee..... touchy. works ok but i've had problems with it not letting some aplications run (eg uninstall mcaffee and the software now works). older versions where very crash happy. not recommended nod32....only tried it briefly. worked well, no noticable problems. bitdefender.....only tried it briefly. has been rated very highly lately. works well, quiet quick and not performance robbing. AVG.......so far has stood the test of time. a few glitchs but nothing to serious. worse problem to date is the odd problem with email scanning. often very esy to fix. detects virus very well but dosn't always remove them. free ver highly recomend. paid ver is very good considering the cost (cheaper than nortons subscrption) and that its a 2 year licence. there are heaps of others around but i havn't bothered to try them even tho a lot come with good recommendations. only thing that annoys me with a lot of antivirus progs....the updates are often split into program updates and definition updates. what often happens is the definition updates get done but not the program updates. this can lead to a case of the program is up to date but fails to work or fails to update further due to it needing program updates. nortons is well known for this problem but others also have this. i like AVG's way of updateing, it checks and updates everything.	tweak'e (69)
337222	2005-05-15 03:33:00	[QUOTE=tweak'e]the trouble is that every version of a brand can be different and the software is upgraded evry week so its never the same. my humble :2cents: panda.........crap....crashed out constantly. test site rate it poorly for detection. not recommended As a repair shop we run panda on our systems we are constantly scanning infected pc's which are running upto date anti virus engines and still picking out the virus's on them avg, nortons,nod 32 e.tc Kaspersky is a very good anti virus but not very user freindly	kcs (331)
337223	2005-05-15 04:26:00	[QUOTE=tweak'e]the trouble is that every version of a brand can be different and the software is upgraded evry week so its never the same. my humble :2cents: panda.........crap....crashed out constantly. test site rate it poorly for detection. not recommended As a repair shop we run panda on our systems we are constantly scanning infected pc's which are running upto date anti virus engines and still picking out the virus's on them avg, nortons,nod 32 e.tc Kaspersky is a very good anti virus but not very user freindly i veiw all reports of how well a product works with a grain of salt. exspecially when it comes from someone selling it. every time i see someone saying one antivirus picks up a certain virus that none others find, they never seem to say what they pick up. you could be simply finding false postives or leftovers of a virus/malware (which is comman). well at least you managed to get panda to work, i've never been able to get it to run without crashing.	tweak'e (69)
337224	2005-05-15 06:47:00	i veiw all reports of how well a product works with a grain of salt. exspecially when it comes from someone selling it. every time i see someone saying one antivirus picks up a certain virus that none others find, they never seem to say what they pick up. you could be simply finding false postives or leftovers of a virus/malware (which is comman). well at least you managed to get panda to work, i've never been able to get it to run without crashing. I agree with most of what you say i've had people try to sell me their anti-virus programs and yea they say the same thing's i also know panda's faults + it's positives i used to run NAV but after scanning with kaspersky i found 300 infected files on my pc (this was quite a while ago) so got rid of NAV and then started a hunt for an anti-virus trying and testing what i could find. the virus's i pick up from customers machines have usually disabled the anti virus program or the definitions are out of date but there have been a few instances where the anti- virus is upto date with it's definitions To people who don't want to fork out any money i recommend AVG as it now also updates daily combined with zone alarm as a firewall I also have reason's for disliking these same to products but that might just be personal preference	kcs (331)
337225	2005-05-15 06:59:00	use what works :) btw the single biggest problem i find is people not doing the PROGRAM updates. this causes the AV to be less effective against some virus's. i try to avoid products where the def and program updates are seperate and the auto update only downloads the defs.	tweak'e (69)
337226	2005-05-15 07:34:00	No one here will know exactly what is best for you, they can highlight product specifics e.g. price, functions/features but they may only cover what they highlight as to document it all may take a lot of effort. If it were to be everything chances are it would be too much for one person to bother to read in itself let alone for all the products. You may notice some offer trials or test, they may induce a sense of what to expect for speed, features or so forth, although just another option the 'cognitive understanding and retention' may be greater.	CreightonBrown (5692)
337227	2005-05-15 07:53:00	Trojan remover isnt that bad . Altho it isnt really a full AV program, it detects 14775 trojans, worms, and spyware/adware, atm . And its the only program I know of atm, that can change its filename/main exe file, at random, to avoid being hit by worms/trojans that can terminate other anti virus programs . And it resets the home page, the hosts file, windowsupdate policies, the LSP registry entries, and the windows explorer policies .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
337228	2005-05-15 08:34:00	In thread 50760 godfather said The best is, and will always be, the one that has the most recent definitions released by the maker, and applied by the user. Everything else is relative to these basic principles. Misty :)	Misty (368)
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