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The Definitive "BEST ANTIVIRUS" thread

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Best Antivirus  

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  1. 1. Best Antivirus

    • Norton/Symantec
      665
    • McAfee
      115
    • AVG
      201
    • NOD32
      131
    • PC-Cilin
      52
    • Panda
      33
    • Kaspersky
      103
    • Other
      107
    • F-Prot
      7

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l0g0ut

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I'm on SAV CE 8.1 at the moment, but now that 9.x is out I might use my Gold maintenance to upgrade for free.

Any obvious benefits like better interface etc etc??

nope... same exact interface since 7.5.

this NOD32 made me curious. installed it in my laptop. love it so much that i formatted my desktop to use it there too. minimal resource and very fast. scanned my entire 80GB hard drive in 5 minutes (but it could be that i told it to ignore all the AVIs :))

one more cool thing about NOD32: it scanned any email that comes in and out of any email client. tried it with opera's M2 and thunderbird. it does this by scanning user-defined port for incoming and outgoing mails.

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uniacidz

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Nah i havent actually.

Yeh i have the cd, but havent installed as happy with my current.

CA does eTrust which is what you get with the CD, uses Innoculate and VET sig files if im correct.

I used to have Innoculate a while back and was quite good. Also heard VET was pretty damn good also, so yeh should be ok having the two sig files combined into one.

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Zatoichi

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McCaffe detect almost every virus but his real time monitoring can really slow down any PC no matter how fast it is.<br />

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NAV doesn't slow my PC and his operation is practically transparent BUT it can't detect every virus and sending it to Symantec doesn't help as I discovered when I sended a new virus patter a month ago and today NAV still can't identify it.<br />

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Innoculate-It PE was a very good and free alternative (and it detected this virus NAV can't) but sadly it was descontinued by Computer Associates, now only a comercial and more advanced version of Innoculate-It it's available, EZ-Antivirus and also doesn't slow my PC, a very good performer (and less expensive than the previous ones).

The reason McAfee is so slow on your PC is you don't know how to configure it...if you configure On-Access scan to only scan files copied to your HD and not read, it actually has a smaller footprint than NAV Pro...

DUH!

McAfee will catch 90% more virii than NAV Pro, which hasn't met a trojan it didn't like! LMAO

Of course, I'm not using that home user crap, I'm using McAfee Enterprise with unlimited updates...

Not exactly something you can buy off the shelf!

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