Best anti virus ATM?


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geesh, what a day.

I had about 5 or 6 hours worth of homework I needed to get done today, and absolutly none of it saw any of my time.

I decided to put a new motherboard and hard drive into my computer today. Just a little upgrade on the RAM side of things and a little better HD.

When I went to connect to the internet first thing after a fresh install, it would not connect. I soon found out that because of the new network card (onboard on this MB), that I had a new physical address. But even after registering that, I could still only stay connected for about 1 minute tops.

Long story short, I spend over 4 and a half hours on the phone with my ISP, another hour just holding for them, and a couple more hours trying different hardware options to see if I could get something.

Soon to find out, if I uninstalled then reinstalled my network card, it would give me a good solid 10 minutes of uptime before it went down again. This was enough time after each reboot to install ALL windows updates, install norton, update norton and scan.

And you are not going to believe it, it found the welchia worm!!!! Fresh install of XP on newly formatted HD that hadn't ever been connected to the internet already infected! Makes me sick.

So anyway, I was able to download the symantec welchia worm fix tool and that is still scanning ATM. I know when I had the worm before, this tool took care of it nice and fast.

My question is, with all this crap going around, what do you guys find to be the best virus scanner?

AVG - I had it, but didn't really like it. It couldn't really fix anything and just seemed cheap to me. Am I wrong?

Norton 2002 - This is the one I have had the best experience with, although it is a huge resource hog and there is a definite slowdown right after install.

Norton 2003 - This is what I have installed ATM. 2 things I don't like, are the startup boot menu, asking me at boot which drive I would like to boot from. Since I already set that in my BIOS, this is just plain annoying and a waste of my time on boot. Also, the little popup for emails is just annoying.

McAfee- I had this right after XP came out almost 2 years ago, and it slowed the computer down so much after install, I quickly removed and returned it for norton. Has this changed?

If there are any others out there that are outstanding, I would really like to know! Please help and let me know what you currently use and what you prefer.

Thank you.

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Yeah Kaspersky probably catches the most stuff out there, and NOD32 rocks as well. They are both great AV products.

But Welchia is a varition of the blaster worm and thus, if you get on the internet with any XP not patched for the RPC exploit you can get it. Your best bet when you reinstall windows XP from now on, is to reinstall it while disconnected from the internet. Immediately after XP is running enable XP's built in internet connection firewall, or install some other kind of firewall that you have on disk. Then connect back to the network and get all the updates.

Alternatively you could just download the RPC exploit fix from microsoft onto a disk and install that before connecting to the internet as well.

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Just for future knowledge, if you get the thing again, when you get the shutdown warning, goto start menu, run and type in shutdown -a and this will stop the shutdown sequence for that instance to enable you to have the time to install the RPC fix and also get a antivirus and a removal tool.

Kasperky is good also

PC-Cillin 2003 is my choice

Nod32 v2

The above mentioned are good paid antivirus software solutions. I most likely missed a couple or a few but this headcold i have has made my head more cloudy then usual. :s

Anyhoos, back to pill popping paracetamol fun.

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Just for future knowledge, if you get the thing again, when you get the shutdown warning, goto start menu, run and type in shutdown -a and this will stop the shutdown sequence for that instance to enable you to have the time to install the RPC fix and also get a antivirus and a removal tool.

Kasperky is good also

PC-Cillin 2003 is my choice

Nod32 v2

The above mentioned are good paid antivirus software solutions. I most likely missed a couple or a few but this headcold i have has made my head more cloudy then usual. :s

Anyhoos, back to pill popping paracetamol fun.

it never tried to shutdown on me. It simply caused my internet connection to stop working after a short period of time. Very strage, but all is well and good now. :blush:

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I will go Also with...

NOD32

KAV

PC-Cillian

but i prefer NOD32 from the 3..cuz it much lite on the system and at the same time very powerfull in catching viruses and worms (Y)

but i am using PC-cillin untill i can buy NOD32.And it working very good with me toooo

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NOD32 is very good, but the best I've now found is....

SYMANTEC ANTIVIRUS CORPORATE 8!!!

Uses 4 MB of RAM, compare that to others, and it has top of the line antivirus protection (Caught stuff NOD32 didn't).

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I had one of our users have the same problem. I am not sure why, but I think it may be because it uses all of your bandwidth scanning and sending out the virus (just a guess). As soon as I got the virus cleaned, no more internet problems.

If you are using High speed internet, I would recommend getting a firewall, and MAKE SURE it gets configured properly.

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F-Prot Anti-Virus

The software doesn't slow down your computer, it provides free updates every 7 days via email.

F-Prot also has these features that you can install which are optional:

- Shell Integration

- Realtime Scanner

- AutoScan and AutoUpdate

Website: http://www.f-prot.com

This software has been around for years and is very reliable.

Highly recomended.

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I highly recommend NOD32. There is pretty much almost no system performance degredation. Daily updates (M-F at least)

If this aids in your decision: Microsoft uses NOD32 as its AV software.

Anyways, you could probably check up the Virus Bulletin and see which software package passes its tests.

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NOD32 is very good, but the best I've now found is....

SYMANTEC ANTIVIRUS CORPORATE 8!!!

Uses 4 MB of RAM, compare that to others, and it has top of the line antivirus protection (Caught stuff NOD32 didn't).

um, llike what?

imo, nod32 is still the best.

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its a matter of opinion and preference, ive always used norton anti virus

not anti virus u need system works. it is everything all in one. personall it is the best thing i have ever seen.

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All the people that say NOD32 is the best apparently haven't tried Symantec Antivirus Corporate. I have used them both and Symantec is by far the best, uses less resources (2488K currently) and has the best protection. Not to mention free updates forever.

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All the people that say NOD32 is the best apparently haven't tried Symantec Antivirus Corporate. I have used them both and Symantec is by far the best, uses less resources (2488K currently) and has the best protection. Not to mention free updates forever.

And the highest price for a home user.

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