Your favourite Antivirus?

[Si Veteran]

Please use this thread as a reference for this topic, as time goes on and availabilty changes, the poll will be updated.

[GhostShell]

My favourite Antivirus at the moment is NOD32.

[Kovalchuk]

PC-cillin Internet Security 2005

[macstorm]

Sophos SBE :yes:

[Orien]

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i

[Takhisis]

Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition.

Installed it on nearly 500 Machines and it works great.

Only niggle is that you sometimes have to reboot a machine after it has been installed, but not always.

[kafur.tan]

kaspersky before, but now i like nod32

[+Ryster Subscriber²]

unless of course you uninstall avg, install something like avast/nod32/symantec corp and see how many viruses avg missed.

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Indeed this was the case for me too. AVG is an inferior product and I learned the hard way. My PC started to behave oddly, so I thought I would try scanning with an alternate product (McAfee) and doing some spyware scans... McAfee found a virus on my system that AVG had not protected me from. From that point on, I vowed never to use AVG again and warn others against it.

[+Ryster Subscriber²]

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i

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We use this at work (JCB) and we have found it to be one of the buggiest releases of VirusScan Enterprise McAfee have ever released. Error messages on shutdown, interferrance (machine Blue Screen of Death) with Client Services for Unix drive mappings as well as slowing the machine down more than 7.1 did.

Apologies for the double post, I was going to combine the posts but couldn't see how to delete my second post.

[xpgeek]

Anyone use an app called AntiVir ?

http://www.free-av.com/

Its been reccomended to me over Avast. Opinions ?

[davieslim]

Well, using NOD32, previously using Norton....really free up the system resources. Very good program and hasn't fail me! NOD32 rox!

[xpgeek]

I uninstalled AVG, made sure its program directorys were actually deleted, did a registry scan, and tried AntiVir for a while. Then just for the heck of it after a couple hours uninstalled that and tried Avast to see what it was like.

I am veryyy impressed with Avast. It is a bit large, as it installs instant messenger scanner, P2P scanner, email client and web-mail scanner, web and network traffic scanner, but that is some incredible level of protection and seems almost impossible to get a virus with it all running.

Was 5 times the protection I actually need, so I custom installed it and toned it down to system active scanner only, and it is very light on resources and runs great.

Not knocking AntiVir, they are both great, but Avast is just wow impressive. All the people I know running AVG I getting them to make the switch to Avast today. For the novice pc user that level of protection, the full install all protections running, is amazing.

[djesteban]

NOD32 antivirus here... low on ressource and not expensive... even if an antivirus should be free :pinch:

anyway, I think it's the best :)

[theyarecomingforyou]

Not knocking AntiVir, they are both great, but Avast is just wow impressive. All the people I know running AVG I getting them to make the switch to Avast today. For the novice pc user that level of protection, the full install all protections running, is amazing.

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I tried Avast but found it deeply lacking and it let viruses through (it let one through not long after a clean install, then detected it but couldn't get rid of it). :no:

The folks over at Virus Bulletin regularly test the ability of the major AV products to detect currently circulating viruses - their "100 Top Viruses in the Wild." They award their VB100 rating to AV products that detect all 100 in any given month.

Over a period of time it's possible to tabulate how often individual AV products receive the VB100 award. Here are the results for some major AV products from 2003 onwards:

Nod32  10/10  100%

Norton  9/9  100%

F-Secure  9/9  100%

Trend  8/8  100%

Kaspersky  9/11  82%

McAfee  8/10  80%

AVG  6/8  75%

Norman  7/10  70%

F-Prot  6/9  67%

Avast  6/9  67%

Free vs. Paid Anti-virus

[xGo]

McAfee 9 Pro before, Kaspersky now...

Did the complete scan of machine before uninstalling McAfee

Installed Kaspersky Personal Pro 5 and ran complete scan and found 1 virus in 2 archives...

[Valerus]

I use Norton... :blush:

[estranged]

i use symantec

[Burned]

NOD32 then NAV corporate.

[raider360]

i am using nav2005. pretty happy with it :happy:

[sdb815]

Common sense. :cool:

[Scorbing]

Trendmicro Internet Security 2005 - Don't under estimate this product. It gets updated every 3 hours and won't slow your sistem down like Norton, Panda and McAfee. So far, it has caught everything that has tried to enter my PC. Great piece of software. I tried them all and this is the best so far.

[2Berk]

Trendmicro Internet Security 2005 is great. I agree with Scorbing.

in our network we also use, mcafee enterprise and kerio products.

[+vlsi0n Subscriber¹]

I like Norton/Symantec the best, although Nod32 is good, i like norton better.

[Peter Griffin]

Avast Pro for me, I like this nifty program. Lots of nice features yet not bloated.

[+Warwagon MVC]

i am using nav2005. pretty happy with it  :happy:

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it doesn't rape your system?

[digitalsoft]

i use norton 2002.. doesnt drink your computers resources like the 2k5 version..