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

[cjb1118]

I use Norton until the subscription runs out..

Then AVG will do..

[Neoranga]

Quite alot of people on Neowin use it apparently. The interface is clean and uncluttered. It scans incredibly fast, Norton takes sometimes upwards of 20-25 mins to do a complete scan on my system (when I bother to use it) NOD32 takes maybe, 7 minutes.

It catches everything, in fact I just did a quick test myself. I installed Norton 2004, Mcafee 2004, AVG and Avast.

All 4 of them missed a virus embedded in an email I just received, NOD32 nuked it.

NOD32 BEST THING EVAR

Oh yeah, it uses very little resources, and does only what it's meant to do. It does not currently have email protection (I used NOD to scan my email folder itself, not an incoming email)

I hope you didnt install all those AV's at the same time. Having more than one AV on your system does NOT help, infact they will very often conflict with each other, and can even give false positives. If you are going to test multiple AV's, best thing to do is always use a clean install of it and always have only one AV installed on your box at a time.

As for alot of Neowin users using NOD32.....seems almost 8 times as many users use NAV according to the poll. =p

[Damien_Old]

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1 - Works good, scans in memory, updates frequently, and they have good support.

VirusScan 7.5 will be even nicer. Adding firewall and buffer overflow protection to the app. Good stuff. :yes:

[Rek]

It was AVG but now its Avast!

[Varsity]

AVAST AVAST AVAST!

You're the second major DA player I've seen on these forums. Perhaps the two sites should team up. ;)

the best antivirus is a good firewall & experienced user, i've NEVER had a virus in the last 3-4 years. not even a single one, and i do check using online scan each couple of months.

Same for me. I've not caught a single virus, although my brother did pick one up in his mail ("Well I didn't know not to open it-OW!"), but once I managed to get Norton running on his protected files it cleared it out with no problems. Scan once a month along with defrag and the rest of it, and there's never been a single problem.

Bugger it, I managed to vote for AVG. :pinch:

[BryanChung]

Why no one mention F-Secure?

[Oblivion]

NOD32 & Avast detected Sasser worm easily? or they're late on detecting latest viruses around?

[CatsHighfiveMe]

Why no one mention F-Secure?

I did... Read page 24 and 25.

k0zy

[duhk]

norton sucks, symantec is best.

[LOC Veteran]

Symantec is Norton.....if you mean corp over normal Norton, yes.

[ciel]

tried f-secure, uninstalled it because it eats my resources like hell (so many processes =_=; )

using avg now, runs pretty quickly ^^ and doesnt use much resources tho it irks me that it doesnt do auto updating everytime it has a new definition, instead it just check the server every morning. not a huge problem but it just annoy me 4 some reason >.<

[Neoranga]

norton sucks, symantec is best.

lol? :rolleyes:

[duhk]

symantec is not norton, it's made by the same company but still symantec is not norton.

[a_witko]

I just downloaded the Panda Antivirus 2004 Trial. It looks fantastic, found 3 viruses Norton could not and doesn't take too much memory with it's automatic protection. Great options too! I'm going to buy it - replace the memory eating Norton once and for all!

[BryanChung]

Say BYe to norton :D

[shifts]

Glad i found this thread.

Is this just based on Workstation or Server antivirus. Just playing with win2k3 and exchange 2k3 and completly lost as to what antivirus software to install. any suggestions please?

[duhk]

Use Symantec Antivirus Corporate edition, It's great. Only uses 1,600 k of memory.

[trigger_my_passion]

I just downloaded the Panda Antivirus 2004 Trial. It looks fantastic, found 3 viruses Norton could not and doesn't take too much memory with it's automatic protection. Great options too! I'm going to buy it - replace the memory eating Norton once and for all!

You may want to look @ this: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=167779

[duhk]

I just downloaded the Panda Antivirus 2004 Trial. It looks fantastic, found 3 viruses Norton could not and doesn't take too much memory with it's automatic protection. Great options too! I'm going to buy it - replace the memory eating Norton once and for all!

How much is not too much memory?

[lanxunkj]

Mcafee&Kaspersky! :shifty:

[B1uesummers]

Norton

[Siriuss[FN]]

Glad i found this thread.

Is this just based on Workstation or Server antivirus. Just playing with win2k3 and exchange 2k3 and completly lost as to what antivirus software to install. any suggestions please?

F-prot does the magic on w2k3 using it for long time

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

[michael222]

Nav 2004

[[david]]

trend micro officescan enterprise edition. it ain't pretty, but it works.

[PukiMan]

I just don't understand why Norton so popular :no:

Kaspersky for me :yes: (Y)