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.

[user name 2]

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.

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No it doesn't, not the enterprise one anyway. But v8 has some port filtering thing built in that you can disable. And also application blocking too so stuff doesn't execute from the temp folders, but again that can be disabled if desired.

HTH. :D

[2Berk]

NOD32 v2.5 the fastest and the best!!!

[gnuman]

Man its scary too see how many people use Norton. Norton is in fact the worst antivirus product in all the tests I have done of the top three products.

If interested in the review take a look here

[elONEam]

Man its scary too see how many people use Norton. Norton is in fact the worst antivirus product in all the tests I have done of the top three products.

If interested in the review take a look here

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I totally agree with you. I just finished a year subscription to it (i didnt buy it). I hated it. The worst part is how slow it is. It drove me :crazy:

[gnuman]

I totally agree with you.  I just finished a year subscription to it (i didnt buy it).  I hated it.  The worst part is how slow it is.  It drove me :crazy:

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It is sad that such a big company makes such lousy products.

Maybe I should post this as a topic so people can look at a proper inspection at antivirus product rundown.

[CoolCatBad]

Just started a few days ago with the 1-year free demo of the eTrust EZ Antivirus available from the Microsoft website.

Very smooth and lightweight, impressive.

[Lee]

Definitely Nod32. :yes:

[vrif]

Went to Nod32. After using Symantec Antivirus Corporate.

[webeagle12]

Today is the day, 12:30am, I finally moved from Norton Anticrap to NOD32 :) :D :D :D

[MuddyMuDmaN]

I recently switched to H+BEDV AntiVir Personal Classic. Its free and, recently, its detection rates surpassed AVG and Avast's. On top of that, its resource usage is in between the two of 'em, so its definitely no Norton. You can check my blog link for the details of where I got my info, the sources are getting a bit dated, but it ranked almost as high as NOD32.

I'm definitely not saying AntiVir is as good as NOD32, I'm just saying if you are looking for a free antivirus, it looks as though there may be a third name in the running. I'll be interested to see if they can continue to improve or if they slip again. :)

[cold14]

ive tired lots of free antispyware AVG, Avast, Bit Defender, Antivir.

they are all pretty good but all have problems

i would have to say that AVG is my favourite out of all of them, but it doesnt have an active moniter come to think of it none of them do. bit defender is the nicest looking with antiVir bieng completly downright ugly.

But im now using NOD32 and i love it, its excellent.

its got a moniter for everything u can moniter, great detection rates and i dont see all the fuss about it not being easy to use, it was as easy as pie

GO NOD32!!! ... but it is pretty ugly

they should make an anti-spyware poll and i vote for spyware doctor, i reccomended it to my friend who has a real mashed up pc and guess how much spyware it found.... 480 :rofl:

[Jaqueh]

is norton better than macafee

i like mcaffee more

[kenotz]

Symantec AV 10 + Zonealarm Firewall, works for me!

[cfish828]

Kaspersky,Because it can autoupdate~ nice~ :)

[santiagof4]

NOD32 can autoupdate too..... daily

[jago_lfn]

AVG

[The_Holy_ONE]

eTrust antivirus is very good alternative too.

[tlogank]

Kaspersky,Because it can autoupdate~ nice~ :)

I assumed most every antivirus does this nowadays.

[SpectoR]

:whistle: :whistle: Kaspersky 5.0 Professional

Smaller than others

Stronger than others

[xVISHUx]

I'm using NOD32 at the moment. I haven't had any problems with it as of yet.

[Angel Blue01]

How about price but not free?

Norton and McAfee are too expensive.

[xVISHUx]

NOD32 is $39.99 and good for one year of updates, a renewal $27.30.

It's well worth the money.

[LK.]

my personal favorite :)

[RootWind]

NOD32 can autoupdate too..... daily

Anything below daily is unacceptable.

[KAV updates hourly]

[Stunna]

I"m currently using norton anti virus 2003

it does updates and all but i'm wondering am i not as safe as the people wiht norton anti virus 2005/2006

or is it the same thing?

and how much resources would i be saving if i switched to another virus program?

when they say bloat wear do they mean too many non needed extra features?

and is cookies that save what sites you look at to help companies generate personal ads considered spyware?

and if i use winpatrol is there really a need to have an anti virus protector running full time?

and when they say real time protection does it only scan files as they come in

or does it mean its constantly scanning stuff?

thanks