The Definitive "BEST ANTIVIRUS" thread

[MxxCon]

i'm so sick of these threads poping up every single week. so here's the one and only thread you should need untill the end of your life. moderator can modify poll entries to update.

BEST ANTIVIRUS

[iwod]

I haven't have the exact figure of other AV software . But i have tested PCCllin 2003 and at first the memory usuage seems so low that i can not believe it. At a closer inspection. PC Cillin uses 17 Mb of Ram in Total ( according to WinXP )

That 17 Mb is spread over 4 .exe files.

I am interested in how Macfee and Norton mem usuage. I have Norton 2003 @ home so i will test it later.

[redFX]

Whats the best antivirus software out there? I'm looking for something industrial strenght, but light on resources. I installed Nortan AV 2004 and its a system hog. Everything runs slower now.

Anyone have any recommendations?

[Spyder Veteran]

merged. poll modified to add more options and reset (due to the fact that norton/mcafee/other were the only choices and there were 50 votes for other. )

[Leo Natan]

I use SAV 8.1.1 - find it very efficient and fast.

[Wildies]

Sure NOD32

ITs very lite and very Effective....

[midway40]

AVG 7.0 here. Used NAV once but it seems like it slowed my system down. I hardly know AVG is running.

[-CrAzY-]

Which versoin of NAV do you guys use? Im using 2003 cause i tried 2004 and somehow felt my computer come to a stand still.. even with my GB ram.. strange.

[NeoMasamune]

NAV2003 all the way! 2004 version sucks, don't use it! :no:

[LargeLarry]

I've used Kaspersky AVP 3.5 for several years now. It's stopped nearly everything, has daily updates (sometimes twice a day), and is light on resources. A friend has NAV on his computer and told me it was acting weird. I checked it out and his virus definitions were up to date, but a full scan revealed nothing. I installed AVP and did a scan. It picked up 3 viruses and removed them. Norton and McCafee are resource hogs (Im running a 2Ghz Athlon XP), and they aren't update often enough. I have had such bad experiences with both, that no matter how good the reviews are, I will never use either of them. I prefer the swiss edition of avp 3.5 from http://www.avp.ch

[-=SD=-]

I use AntiVir.

[Iguanadon]

Used NAV for years then recently I read about Panda and now that is what I use. It usually updates definitions several times a day adding between 5 and 15 new definitions each time.

[Samoa]

NAV all the way...(Y)

[dewy]

Norton/Symantec - NAV 2003

did use PC-clinnin it was kewl might even go backone day :D

[SSRules]

F-secure for 24/7 scanning ..antir, nod for manual scanning

[CoolCatBad]

F-Prot DOS version, you can't get any lighter.(Its freeware... and updates,too)

If you can hack DOS, that is.

[CoolCatBad]

http://www.geocities.com/uzipaz/eng/f-prot.html

BTW I just found a page with instructions for adding right-click Send To function to this, so scan-on-demand is possible with DOS anti-virus!

[WigglesTheFish]

ever since i sat there and watched mcafee get eaten by a virus i have used nothing but avg/norton depending on system... both are great and have caught everything before it became a problem..

[+LogicalApex MVC]

I voted for Nrton as it has been my favorite VS since '98 when i switched over from the mac. Though NAV 2004 is a true resource hog and has forced me back to 2003 (lets hope Symantec fixes this in 2005) as it "pauses" programs while it scans for viruses, This isnt an issue on 2KB files as u probably wouldnt notice but manipulate some large files (like copy a cd image from your backup server for instance) and you can be waiting a few minutes with an unresponsive application (and no warning till its started). What baffles me about that is 2003 catches viruses perfectly in every file i touched (if not a blast to Symantec cured that), yet didnt "Pause" programs or gauge as many resources to achieve auto scanning.

Norton pre-2004 runs seemlessly for me so i never have to disable autoscanning ;) , maybe my apps dont do enough Disk operations to warrent this...

[omega]

I use the McAfee virus scan version 7, and it is a resource hog, not to mention it is slow. So, I decided to try the subscription version of the virus scan online, and surprising, i find this one to be pretty fast. Not to mention that since it's a subscription version, it always get updates for both the program version and dat files.

So, i'm happy with my McAfee VirusScan Online version.

[Veedems Veteran]

so which do you guys recommend for effective but light on resources. Right now I am using the latest mcafee. A little cumbersome on the system.

[Ritalin]

look, i use avg7 and i have no problems whatsoever.

[Veedems Veteran]

yeah I think I might go back to avg.

[uniacidz]

so which do you guys recommend for effective but light on resources. Right now I am using the latest mcafee. A little cumbersome on the system.

Nod32 2.0 and Pc Cillin 2003.

Best i found for light on resources and actually work well.

[macf13nd]

norton 2004 sucks doesnt it...? it just brings the heftiest of computers to a standstill! (3.2 GHz, 2GB RAM)

so yeah, back to 2003, which does rock, esp. if you use p2p programs that effectively bring down all defenses! :)

[midway40]

so which do you guys recommend for effective but light on resources. Right now I am using the latest mcafee. A little cumbersome on the system.

I am running an old P3 800mhz and I found AVG 7 to be the best on it. NAV '03 caused the computer to be kind of sluggish plus it took 45 mins to scan the drive. It is a lot more responsive with AVG 7 plus it only takes 22 mins to scan my hard drive.