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.

[LordLink]

I think Avast! is the best

[Oblivion]

Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition works best at work while NOD32 at home.

[Scribbller]

Switched to AVG now and will probably continue to use it untill I can upgrade my RAM to accomodate a more powerfull antivirus.

[rosswashere]

Nod32 the best :woot:

[laz]

Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition works best at work while NOD32 at home.

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I'm running the Corporate Edition here, and it runs very smoothly in the background (no lagging).

[betamaxman]

Used NOD32 for the last 2 years and has'nt failed me ever.

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Funny; when PC Magazine tested a host of antivirus apps (free as welll) it found Nod 32 to be lacking and placed it near the bottom. Panda and Symantic were tops.

[amrinders87]

Nod32 now!

[wak1zashi]

NOD32

[Peat Moss]

I'm running the Corporate Edition here, and it runs very smoothly in the background (no lagging).

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Yes me too, 1.0.0.0 .359 even scans on startup too and very fast . Why I wish these polls would split the Norton & Symantec corp . brands .

[jafoman]

Funny; when PC Magazine tested a host of antivirus apps (free as welll) it found Nod 32 to be lacking and placed it near the bottom. Panda and Symantic were tops.

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Funny how most people on this website (an informed bunch for the most part) prefer NOD32... Including me. I used Symantec for many years but switched last year because it started getting ridiculous.

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

Kaspersky works best for me, with it's detection ability over other antivirus applications I have tested.  The next best option would be NOD32

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I'll agree on the choices here. I prefer NOD32 on my laptop because I can run things much faster.

Kaspersky really slowed it down. I will admit that I have been infected with crap 2 times since I started using NOD, which was 2 months ago. This was after I switched to it from Kaspersky Workstation 5.0.200. The first was a MIRC Trojan Dropper that Kaspersky detected as I uploaded the file, but NOD32 would not detect it. I was not impressed, seeing as it was a 4-year old risk.

The second was the Bagle variant that has been infecting people recently. Most AV companies knew about it like a month ago, but NOD never updated their definitions to detect this because their advanced heuristics engine caught the originals without them having to provide a true definition update.

I proved it to their virus labs, along with other NOD32 users out there in various locations. I actually like configuring mine as BlackSpear published his guide. Very nice checklist to work through, if you will.

I resell both and am very familiar with the products sold from both companies as I actively implement them at sites everywhere. I still like NOD32, as on both occasions I submitted the requests, the virus definitions came out to take care of those risks in under 1 day.

The second request (for Bagle) was actually eerie. I was emailing the support guy back and forth and all of a sudden I get new updates that detected the new Bagle variant. I had a Friday set of definitions and it was Monday. I manually tried doing the updates but repeatedly got the message telling me everything was up-to-date. The support guy said Friday was the latest anyway so I wasn't second-guessing myself.

I'm sure I wasn't the one who caused the update to take place but I just contributed anyway. NOD32 gets about 5,000 requests per day in the virus labs. The number is high, but remember - it's also from people who have their products misconfigured, which are probably (unfortunately) high. :o

I would still recommend either or, depending on the configuration being used, but I'll really only recommend those 2. I've tried others and resold many - customer support makes a big difference to me. Many companies have failed in that category.

[Mando]

Avast on lower end pcs but SAV corp 10 on my main machine at home (im regged licencee for my work for SAV therefore I am legally entitled to use SAV10 at home on 1 machine :D)

IMHO

Top AVAST

2nd SAV

3rd Kaperspy

4th NAV (on its own not with Int Security)

5th AVG Free (better than nothing)

6th Sophos (used to use it at work but old style manual updating did my nut in)

Havnt tried NoD32 tbh ill give it a go tonight on my laptop.

Ive found Avast seems to be pretty dammed good at catching trojans and web based threats and even found a few old trojans lurking on some pcs that had recently updated to NAV 2k5. The startup scan of Avast is top notch :yes:

Edited September 22, 2005 by Mando

[Apollo]

i was using NOD32 but now i changed to kaspersky 5 as now it isn't as heavy on the system as when version 5 came out.

[Jfkf]

Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security 12, no doubts

[tf76]

AVG 4 FREE PLEASES ME

Used with SPYWARE BLASTER

[HDW-mobile]

NOD32 is still the best in all tests....... 1ste antivirus application of the world....

[xxdesmus]

SAV Corp 10...been using SAV Corp since it was v8

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I have just moved to AVG Free after years of Norton.

I am VERY happy with it.

[TazB]

NOD32 for the win

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

OTHER: Linux :p

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

AVG 4 FREE PLEASES ME

Used with  SPYWARE BLASTER

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holy moly! Please adjust your font size......I thought you were yelling VERY loudly....or where you? :yikes:

[PsrPimp]

NOD32 all the way!

[Lindkvist]

Nod32 or Symantec Antivirus. (Not Norton)

[SolidSapphire]

i voted for Mcafee a while back which i still think is good but i have to say Nod32 rocks.

[+Seetheworldsecond Subscriber¹]

Norton Anti Virus is Good to me and always has since 2002 verison, But I been hearing alot of great things bout this nod32.