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.

[dj6ross]

Other - NONE

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you rebel :p

[Andy07]

which one uses the least resources and doesn't annoy you unless you actually have a virus?

[Nashy]

Norton Corporate

[Zxian]

which one uses the least resources and doesn't annoy you unless you actually have a virus?

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You can configure NOD32 to automatically delete any virus it finds on your computer and then disable the GUI. That way it won't annoy you even if you did have a virus... it does its job in the background completely silently. :)

[wineo]

Kaspersky is the best :yes:. Avast, Nod32 are quite good too. ;-)

Please stay away from Avg, Norton.

[HoochieMamma]

Though I do believe you can turn it off now.  KAV2006 seems to be vastly faster in any case.  I can barely tell the difference between having only NOD32 or KAV2006 on, and both on (with certain modules disabled mind you, or it's going to be conflict city).

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I know I can't wait for 2006. If you want to help, beta test for em here:

http://forum.kaspersky.com/

[s0nic69]

Norton Corporate 10.0.359 :D

[boombip]

NOD32. I use to use Norton before but I switched to NOD32 because I got tired of how slow Norton was. NOD32 is much better, imo. (Y)

[Raven]

NOD32. Because it works and they sold me a two year subscription for only $30. Take that Symantec!

[Rahul]

Nod32 rulz my man

[Dark Reaper]

Norton Antivirus 2002

Seems to be the best Norton of the series.

[Mug3n]

I've voted for Avast! because it's the best free antivirus solution out there. It's a small, light, fast and effective solution.

If I had to choose a paid one I would go for Kaspersky (probably the best A/V) or McAfee.

But besides the antivirus, precautions must start within us. People must know what kind of stuff they do with their computers, what kind of things they download, install and from where. :)

P.S. - Sorry for my poor english. :s

[smctainsh]

Kaspersky is the best :yes:. Avast, Nod32 are quite good too. ;-)

Please stay away from Avg, Norton.

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As a matter of fact, I voted for AVG Free. In my opinion, it is the best antivirus. Previously I had tried Avast!, and found it to be quite annoying.

Smctainsh

[aggrophobik]

Recently switched to NOD32 from AVG Free. Quite happy so far.

[mipra]

I have this message in another thread https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...#entry586714405. So, I thought that I just copy down here:

Hmm..people needs to know that comparing Norton Antivirus and Symantec Antivirus Corporate is like comparing apple and orange. Both are fruit for sure but they taste so differently.

I have experience of a virus that crippled my AV (at that time it was NOD32). So, everytime I do Local Scanning, NOD32 will tell me that it has CRC check error. Thus, NOD32 is crippled.

So far, I have SAV 10 (again...it's not NORTON ANTIVIRUS) in my comp. the 10 version is advertised to have a feature called "Tamper Protection". Thus if a virus wants to write itself to any antivirus program that it's programmed to acknowledge, then SAV can protect itself from any modifications.

[chroniX]

As suggested, I made the switch to Nod32 from Kaspersky, mainly because of my laptop needing as much resources free as it can get.

I'm liking NOD32 so far, it's uses very little resources that it makes me wonder if its working at all lol.

I downloaded some viruses on purpose and it caught them all.

Another vote for NOD32 ;)

[unimatrixzer0]

Any guides for people who've known nothing but Norton System Works adapt to using nod32?

[Navjot Singh]

I like McAfee very much - i don't know why but I love it. Waiting for the day when Symantec will realize tha they should make Norton lighter.

[gaurav]

As suggested, I made the switch to Nod32 from Kaspersky, mainly because of my laptop needing as much resources free as it can get.

I'm liking NOD32 so far, it's uses very little resources that it makes me wonder if its working at all lol.

I downloaded some viruses on purpose and it caught them all.

Another vote for NOD32 ;)

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can u tell me a site that lets u download virii to check if you AV works?

[rudedoggx]

NOD32 Here!

[TheTerminator]

So is NOD32 free, or is there a decent free version?

[Tommy2k4]

I don't use any antivirus :)

[chroniX]

can u tell me a site that lets u download virii to check if you AV works?

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PM sent.

[mr_demilord]

I don't use any antivirus :)

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Me too :yes:

[Skanks]

Switched to NOD32 from AVG Free. It's great (need to persuade work to change..... most of the machine's are mac's so persuading my boss to put a decent AV on the window's machines is hard, he doesn't see the need)