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.

[insanekiwi]

we'll see. the trial last 30 days ;)

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

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

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It's a great AV, just try it for a week.

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I know you're a KAV fan and I am as well, despite my last encounter. I will say that they really let me down with their latest "workstation" release.

As soon as I rebooted, it gives me:

stop: c0000021a {Fatal System Error} The Windows Logon Process System

terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000139 (0x00000000

0x00000000)

The system has been shut down

This is also the case on fresh installs of Windows XP. There was nothing I could do, minus revert back to an image and refresh my files after backing them up prior to the rollback. No system restore, no last good profile, no safe mode...nothing could be used to correct it.

I didn't want to spend all day troubleshooting the thing, so I just said forget it. Never have I been afraid to install an AV app because I thought it would kill my system. Well, KAV did kill it. Only way I could have taken care of it (possibly) would have been to do a Fix via booting to the XP CD and taking that path. Not cool at all.

It's a great AV when it works as "advertised". <grin>

[SteMan]

I've been using NOD32 for a year now and it's been excellent. You get updates at least 3 to 4 times a day, I won't be using anything else again.

[insanekiwi]

i figured kav is quite intense. back to lightweight antivir for me.

[TexasFlood]

For a free antivirus nothing beats AntiVir. I used AVG for ages but I found it missed a bunch of viruses.

[insanekiwi]

yea i just re-installed antivir and found out they finally changed the update function so it only downloads the needed files and not always a whole new installer package.

[magicfly]

NOD32 is the best for me, not heavy, fast to load, and works better than any other software ;)

[br0ck13]

i agree NOD32 is the best but i have switched back to F-Prot Anti-Virus 3.16c, professional anti-virus research, every day updates and take tiny system resources. im more in defense from spyware than virus's these days.

[insanekiwi]

i had nod32 aswell, but it did not find anything so i uninstalled it.

[ZombieFly]

i've been fidling round with AV recently, and firewalls. Until now i've found mcafee to be the best bet, but recently i've found that their AV and Firewall products have been behaving erratically. The firewall is especially bad with p2p software, causing the connection to drop many times, messenger signs out etc.

I've now switched to zone alarm (not sure if this is the best bet) and NOD32 for AV. From what i've read NOD32 seems to be the best out there in lab tests? is this correct?

[insanekiwi]

yea nod32 got very good reviews and test results.

i am not to sure about zone alarm but many people reported problems with it blocking images and p2p traffic.

[wicker_man]

i had nod32 aswell, but it did not find anything so i uninstalled it.

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That is a good reason to give up on a product. NOT. From what you have written above I should uninstall NOD32 on all our company's workstations because it doesn't find anything? :rofl:

[+audacioustrash Subscriber²]

I would say Norman. Check it out www.norman.com, my question what would happen if an unknown virus hit your computer, norton and others would have to wait for a definition, but not norman.

:cool:

[pantz]

NOD32 rocks.

Everyone else swallows..

[insanekiwi]

That is a good reason to give up on a product. NOT. From what you have written above I should uninstall NOD32 on all our company's workstations because it doesn't find anything?  :rofl:

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no i mean more like "why should me, as a private person, invest money in a antivirus tool when it does the same job as a freeware tool?" ;)

[StudentR]

Kaspersky - the best! Good support, good virus base, good method of finding virus signature

[temple_treefrog]

F-Prot...  NOTHING (Even the AVGFree lol) can stand up to F-prot's superior functionality...  and it's licnesing (which comes to $10 USD per license to start) can't be touched by anybody, Even AVG (not free).

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I have to agree that F-Prot is one of the best AV programs' out there because of its clean UI, very low memory-usage real-time scanner and functionality.

However recently I've installed Trend-Micro because I was given a free license from work. I haven't uninstalled F-Prot however my default AV is Trend-Micro and would recommend either one of them to anyone. I've used NOD32 before and even though it's good (in terms of functionality and reliabillity) I'd still prefer F-Prot or Trend Micro.

[+Troll Subscriber¹]

Nod32

Less Resources, Faster Scan

Used in conjunction with Windows OneCare Live Firewall

[mipra]

1st of all, OneCare Live is a piece of junk (sorry for my word...it messed up with my comp last time when I tried to uninstall).

Now, I need opinion for people who manage enterprise environment.

I am currently on my new project in a network environment for 25 computers. 10 of them will be sometimes remote and the rest will be stationary in the network. So, is there any better solution for this kind environment.

For sure, I will need a centralized Console (for server) to control many aspects of the clients' antivirus.

Now, I know that Symantec Antivirus Corporate will do the job. But, anything out there better in terms of corporate environment?

[shadowcaster]

Kaspersky for life! Trend micro is not bad either.

[NEVER85]

How would you rank F-Secure? I'm thinking of trying it out.

[Mister Lamar]

Norton 2005

[Ryan V]

Network Associates VirusScan Enterprise 8I

Lightweight, Barely Noticable, and a pretty clean UI. :D

[mipra]

Network Associates VirusScan Enterprise 8I

Lightweight, Barely Noticable, and a pretty clean UI. :D

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Does it include itself a firewall package? I want only Antivirus...nothing firewall packed inside. We have our own firewall built-in in the server, so another firewall in clients is just a pain. Many ports are blocked and a lot of headache having to define which port needs to be opened.

[Protoss]

I'd have to say, Panda Titanium 2.0 is a very nice Anti-Virus. It's not bloated, like the newer Panda software, yet it still updates on a daily basis. Thank you OEM software CD's :p