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Your favourite Antivirus?


  

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  1. 1. Your favourite Antivirus?

    • Avast!
      193
    • AVG
      306
    • BitDefender
      42
    • Kaspersky
      261
    • McAfee
      154
    • NOD32
      633
    • Norton/Symantec
      435
    • Panda
      29
    • Trend Micro
      81
    • Other
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I've been wondering about F-Prot for a while now. My parents have a fairly old laptop with only 128MB of RAM (can't upgrade) and I've heard that F-Prot only uses about 5MB of RAM, which is fairly appealing.

How well does it stand up to the more "full bodied" AV programs?

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I can recomment eTrust EZ AntiVirus too for such systems, F-Prot might not be user friendly enough...

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I prefer NOD32, and I hate Norton...

NOD32 is clean, fast installation, easy configuration, fast in-depth scanning of computer which done within 25 minutes...

Norton is bulky, extremely slow installation, simple configuration that is useless, in-depth scanning takes me an hour, but there is only 2GB of data...

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i'm a recent convert to Kaspersky. Before i used Bit Defender 8 (Pro); but lately its been buggy and for some reason clashing with other programs.

one thing i had to do with Kaspersky though was turn off the real time network scan since it wasnt allowing me access to the internet (i connect through a router which is hooked to 3 other computers and the cable modem)

annoying, but meh - i love Kaspersky now.

:D

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It's all about NOD32, with maybe the exception being SAV, tested the lot for work.

Came out with a hatred for Norton though, had a scripting error recently? It's a joke, after 2 hours on the phone to them they admitted they had a problem with it, didn't know what caused it and would get back to me, that and needing 512meg to run at a half decent speed.

But then they make SAV too, which tbh is probably the best of the lot, small, clean and fast, just what AV should be, and it does catch the lot.

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I personally use McAffe 8.0i Enterprise Edition. It is what my school uses, and what I install on all of my clients machines. Thing is, there is alot of variety in the preferences among the different posters here. I knew that I would see that but, when does the time come for a more unfied solution for a very common issue. While many can't even figure out how to protect our machines, new software for creating/modifing malware gets released, and updated faster.

Case in point.

About a year ago in another IRC channel that I frequent on of the channel operators was bragging for about 8 lines about how AMAZING his company's shiny new f-Secure antivirus software package. I asked him if he would care to scan a file for me, and he obliged. It was go time.

I quickly went online and googled for the oldest version of everyone's favorite, Back Oriface. Some quick work with a hex editor, UPX packer, few NOP bytes here and there, and some Aphex for a little 'encryption' on the exe and off the baby went, launched away into a cruel world via DCC.

The scanning result? Clean.

Why? No behavior-based sandbox-type solution. Not that McAffe has this either, but when it is important to know for sure a Virtual Machine with a nice OS/filesystem monitoring toolbox is the ticket.

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avg is free. that's all i care about. someof the ones out there have tooo amny features that the average user doesn't need.

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Yes, like a lot better detection rates, advanced heuristics, better integration into the OS, ThreatSense.Net system, increadibly fast scanning speed...should i continue?

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I tryed many many antivirus programs. Long ago I used McAfee than Norton and than wanted to try something else. I downloaded demos of almost all from the pool and...

I looked for something with simple, clear interface and settings but still with good protection and regular updates. After trying all the demos I decided to stick with Avast! Free. It has everything I need. Although I found out that for scanning e.g. AVI files it takes a lot longer than some other programs, because avast! actually scans them, although it might not be needed to, I still like it.

However, it is hard for me to say how efficient it is, because I have not got any virus in this millennium. Just some scripts on websites which avast! successfully blocked.

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