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The Definitive "BEST ANTIVIRUS" thread


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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when i got the nimda virus a couple months ago, mcafee f*cked over my computer. then after reformatting and installing winxp again, i happened to aquire another copy of the nimda virus again, so that time i chose to use norton antivirus 2002, which DID work.

so i vote NAV. the tribe has spoken.:D :p ;)

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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.

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.

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).

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Originally posted by username

everyone knows what not to do to get a virus

LMFAO... AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....

God... if you only knew what virii/trojan programmers were capable of. They can get it past you if you have every Anti-Virus/Firewall running...

don't be to sure of yourself.

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Originally posted by nemo

LMFAO... AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....

God... if you only knew what virii/trojan programmers were capable of. They can get it past you if you have every Anti-Virus/Firewall running...

don't be to sure of yourself.

Well I have had one virus in over 5 years and it was about 5 years ago from sharing floppies on a school computer

I really don't see what is so funny about it though, I dont waist CPU cycles and RAM and pay money either running a virus scan

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Originally posted by username

Well I have had one virus in over 5 years and it was about 5 years ago from sharing floppies on a school computer

I really don't see what is so funny about it though, I dont waist CPU cycles and RAM and pay money either running a virus scan

lol "waste cpu cycles and ram"

.. what are you on ?! a 120mhz machine with 16 meg ram ?!

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