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

[caerma]

So very true.

I've never had a virus on my systems (that I didn't put there to discet) and I like to think that's because I'm careful.

i am carefull too, but for example i was attacked by the Welchia Worm /MSBLAST_D Virus i didn't notice, i didn't download nothing, I just be attacked; then i was using panda, big mistake... :p

[PseudoRandomDragon]

...and that is why a Anti-virus and firewall combo makes the best effect.

[Al Mehairi]

norton ;)

[morganpugh84]

McAfee Enterprise 7.1 is awsome :)

It does not cause any decrease in system performance even though it is slowly scanning every file in the background all the time :) It works great with Outlook 2003 also and has a very nice (simple) UI. I know it is not available to home users (I am using it as part of my work's license for employees to use it on their home systems). I am very impressed with it so far :yes:

[Raum]

I've been using Norton System Works 2003.

It's caught tons of things when doing stuff such as downloading questionable files of sources like Kazaa, where you'd expect to find viruses.

On two seperate occasions it detected a virus it could not remove, but gave me a link which took me to a site giving me detailed instructions on how I could manually remove it. Worked flawlessly botht imes.

So it has a 100% track record on my system.

Also comes with a good Defrag program.

[Mostly Corporial]

AVG for me, Symantec products are too bloated for my taste.

[preducer]

nav 2003

[+Fulcrum Subscriber¹]

I use None, i'm in the market of getting a new one. Im aware NAV does not detect Alternate File Stream viruses. That's what I was using until my recent reinstall. Windows loads sooo much faster with it off, i'm afraid to slow my bootup down.

Here's another site which pits Antivirus amongst each other.

However, as we all know, MOST tests are biased in some way, so by no means.. blah blah blah.

These guys are German, is that why the best AV according to their tests is a German Software :shifty:

http://www.av-test.org/

And Thanks to whomever responded with http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/tests.xml?200311 . Good link for some reference, appreciate it :D

[snippet1]

I use None, i'm in the market of getting a new one. Im aware NAV does not detect Alternate File Stream viruses. That's what I was using until my recent reinstall. Windows loads sooo much faster with it off, i'm afraid to slow my bootup down.

GET ONE! QUICKLY!!!! I'm sick and tired of getting heaps of swen and similar viruses in my email! And it's people like you that they come from!

[trenzterra]

NAV

[kongit]

me have VirusScan Enterprise by McAfee. me have no virus. me got from school for free. me happy

[DsnBehind]

me have VirusScan Enterprise by McAfee. me have no virus. me got from school for free. me happy

You live in cave?

[wtaag]

You live in cave?

From the looks of signature and avatar, shouldn?t we be asking you that question?

[LordHatrus]

lol wtaag

Anyway AntiVir Gaurd isn't bad.... it's free :)

[blik]

AVG, it works, its free !!

[Christoffer]

From the looks of signature and avatar, shouldn?t we be asking you that question?

stfu, no insults just because he was joking with him, he actually wrote like a caveman would talk,

but he didnt insult him in any way, heh, so, dont pick on him for anything, sigs, avatar, your own probs with

homofobia or whatever people pick on about dnsbehind..:blush:h:

(sorry for bad bad bad english):no:o:

[wtaag]

stfu, no insults just because he was joking with him, he actually wrote like a caveman would talk,

but he didnt insult him in any way, heh, so, dont pick on him for anything, sigs, avatar, your own probs with

homofobia or whatever people pick on about dnsbehind.. :blush:

(sorry for bad bad bad english) :no:

Riiiiight. :rolleyes: I was just pointing out the irony in his comment. :rolleyes:

[Fuzzbling]

I'd have to say Norton AV is the best on the market.

[Buzz99]

I once was usinf NAV, but since I use AVG, it's less ressouces consuming, I didn't realize it until I uninstalled NAV. Should try it.

[Inertia]

Personaly I prefer NAV, it undoubtedly does the best job, but at a price, it does hog resources a little more than its competitors, but if you have a good enough PC, this isnt very noticable.

Also you can scale it down a bit, disabling scanning of compressed files frees a lot of resources and stops lag.

[lanxunkj_1]

I use AVP$McAfee! :D

[ecotrojan]

NOD32

[Scorbing]

Norton AV Corporate 8.1. You don't even know its there!

[Oblivion]

NAV 2003 (Y)

[Riz360]

Kaspersky has been voted best by a website