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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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337209 2005-03-23 10:27:00 I have read several forums and there is a wide range of opinions several years ago I read that NAV is not good now I hear that it is the best (yet I want more opinions).

Well I would like to know what you guys think (please tell me both free and non-free programs) also I would like to know what can take away ad-ware and spy-ware.


Also several years ago I was told that some one had several Antivirus in there pc and it messed it up. is this still true?

thank you
Phoenix-Wolf (7452)
337210 2005-03-23 10:33:00 Well theres a lot of AV's NAV/Avast/AVG to name a few

Spybot and Adaware for spyware / adware.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
337211 2005-03-23 10:36:00 Thats a bit like saying which car is the best,without futher criteria its meaningless.

Imo AVG is the best free suite,others will claim otherwise.

Nod32 is widely regarded as the best commercial product.

Norton has the advantage of being readily available off the shelf with nicely dressed salesmen telling you its the best in the world, I persoanlly would rank it as worse then a virus.
Metla (12)
337212 2005-03-23 10:51:00 Thats a bit like saying which car is the best,without futher criteria its meaningless.

Imo AVG is the best free suite,others will claim otherwise.

Nod32 is widely regarded as the best commercial product.

Norton has the advantage of being readily available off the shelf with nicely dressed salesmen telling you its the best in the world, I persoanlly would rank it as worse then a virus.
No doubt about it Met,you should be on stage and I dont mean the next one out of town. :)
Cicero (40)
337213 2005-03-23 10:57:00 No doubt about it Met,you should be on stage

:)

Taking the lead role in that wellknown epic "The Merchant of Wanganui"
TonyF (246)
337214 2005-03-23 11:14:00 Taking the lead role in that wellknown epic "The Merchant of Wanganui"

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
Safari (3993)
337215 2005-03-23 11:26:00 I use Nod32, I have used NAV (2 versions), PCcillin (2 versions), AVG and trialled Avast. For home or small business use I rank them as:

1) Nod32
2) PCcillin
3) AVG,
Avast has a good rep but we (my PC and I) and Avast didn't hit it off, your mileage may vary,
NAV would never get another look at any machine of mine. To my utter shame, it took two forays into the world of Symantic software for me to take the hint.
Murray P (44)
337216 2005-03-23 11:30:00 I like AVG for ease of use and the big thing, it's free. Usually install on PC's where mostly I know they are just going to surf the net, and hopefully not be doing anything too nefarious.

Tried Nortens for a little while, but the constant reminders of "you've got 21 etc days before you renew" got on my wick and the $80 odd bucks to do so just isn't worth it to what AVG can offer.
Bam_Bam (7437)
337217 2005-03-23 11:33:00 Ok perhaps I should have said which ones are not that good (of course there probably are millions) but I am talking about the common ones like NAV MAV ect.

Now here is another question for you.

Out of these are they good, bad or users opinion.

Panda Antivirus Titanium

Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2005
Phoenix-Wolf (7452)
337218 2005-03-23 11:37:00 As Metla said Nod32 is widely regarded as the best commercial product. and there is no doubt about that. AVG is a very good free one; even better since it hit 7.0. Personaly I would not have a resource hungry Nortons product on any PC I have anything to do with.
Since striking the Ad-Aware help site I lost all faith in them(arrogant barstards) and have more faith in Spybot
mikebartnz (21)
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