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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
      161

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betamaxman

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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.

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Peat Moss

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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 .

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jafoman

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mando

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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:

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

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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:

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