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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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chrisgeleven

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For those of you on Comcast, they offer McAfee Viruscan 10 free of charge. Just for kicks I just downloaded it tonight to try it out and so far so good (no noticable slowness issues, no errors). I have been hearing good things about their enterprise products for a long time, so I guess it is time to see if that applies for their home products.

At worst it is a learning experience, at best I can recommend this to clients on Comcast who do not want to pay for Antivirus.

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Randolph

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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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KAV is not bloated. I don't know where you got that idea, but it only uses 2 resources. I don't know how many NOD32 uses to compare.

For those of you on Comcast, they offer McAfee Viruscan 10 free of charge. Just for kicks I just downloaded it tonight to try it out and so far so good (no noticable slowness issues, no errors). I have been hearing good things about their enterprise products for a long time, so I guess it is time to see if that applies for their home products.

At worst it is a learning experience, at best I can recommend this to clients on Comcast who do not want to pay for Antivirus.

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What a steal! McAfee is excellent in my opinion just they need to cut the processes down a bit. Otherwise they make some good applications.

The latest KAV is excellent...or was; until I found out it slowed down my system with the default settings. I am not sure if this is a bug or what, but previous versions never did this. Norton is bloated as hell and slows down systems; its a known fact. I tried Trend Micro back in the day (2004) and it was ok but there were better alternatives out. In todays modern age I tried the online scanner its fasttttt! I might give Trend Micro PC-Cillin 2006 another whirl to see whats up because it looks promising to me. NOD32 I haven't tried yet and I might soon. AVG I didn't like because it doesn't catch as much viruses as other alternatives do. If I had to use a Anti-Virus right at this moment, my choice would goto KAV. Only has 2 processes running and has updated virus definitions everday. I am just not to 'keen' on the scanning engine though as I said before it slows my system down a bit.

*KAV - Kaspersky Anti-Virus

*Information in this post about KAV is based on version 5.0.388.

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Randolph

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^^KAV & KIS 2006 will have massive increases in performance.

And it not only updates every day, more like every hour.

www.virustotal.com is great for people who find a suspicious file.

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Well yeah thats what I sort've mean't. When will 2006 be out?

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chroniX

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KAV is not bloated. I don't know where you got that idea, but it only uses 2 resources. I don't know how many NOD32 uses to compare.

I never said KAV was bloated, I don't know where you read that... :huh:

I like KAV a lot and have it on three machines at home, I just said I like NOD32 because it seems to use less resources. (e.g. my startup time on laptop was nearly cut in half w/NOD32)

Now, for average desktops out there, I'd definitely recommend either KAV or NOD32...but the average laptop out there will not be as fast as desktop so my recommendation is NOD32. :p

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raymondkorn

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i used to have all the computers in our house maintained by NAV 2002, because all the more current versions I feel is completly bloatware,

but with all these new viruses varients around i had to wonder if NAV 02 was still protecting as well as any of the more current versions.

when i saw how much better NOD32 was and i was instantly hooked. NOD32 hasn't failed me yet.

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HoochieMamma

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i used avg free but uinstalled it after i saw the horrible test results, the ntried nod32 but didn't quite understand the hype about it. back to antivirxp for me.

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You should give Kaspersky a whirl. Just look how often it updates ;)

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