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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
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currently I'm running Avast! Home Ed. (free) and it's pretty good. Low on resources and also effective.

But if you're thinking on buying a paid one, I would suggest Kaspersky or McAfee. I've already used once Kaspersky and it was the best! :)

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NOD32 .......  rocks...  before you know the virus is already killed before it's in... :alien:

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:yes: (Y)

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i use Symantec antivirus. its like norton but minus all the crap, gets the job done for me

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Symantec makes Norton Anti Virus by the way! The version you are probably referring to is the corporate edition!

My choice of AV is McAfee.

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Symantec makes Norton Anti Virus by the way! The version you are probably referring to is the corporate edition!

My choice of AV is McAfee.

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Symantec AV 10 is by far the best I've used, and I've used all of them. NOD32 doesn't compare to SAV 10. Plus I don't pay for "renewals" with SAV 10. I have copies if someone would like one.

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I'm using Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition on our workstations and Trend ServerProtect on our servers. We have found these to be great solutions.

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I'm on a Linuxbox and don't have any antivirus software installed.

However, to answer the question, my favorite anti-virus scanner would be F-Prot (DOS) on a bootable-disk (Y)

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Trend products for me.

Using PC Cillin 2003, updated, and also tried Pc Cillin Internet Security which is great.

Tried KAV, Nod32 and couple others. Like Trend the best.

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The 'resetting your cmos' issue isn't all that bad. All I do is set the date and time correctly, and copy and paste the licence key I keep in a folder. It is slightly annoying that you have to do it, but I guess its better then paying for one, lol. Plus how often do you have to reset your cmos?

Yeap, Im still an Avast user. Effective and doesn't consume as many resources (or annoy me) as much as the my previous virus software, Norton.

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im running bitdefender and kaspersky presonal at the same time =/

is that okay?

oh, and i did a virus scan yesterday, took me 5-6 hours. :angry:

the thing is, it scanned an archive of adware se personal, and it was password protected to scan.

except i wasnt that at the time when the scan stopped and asked me to skip the archive.

but still, that wudda only saved 15 minutes.

shud it take that long to scan my computer? ( around 160gigs..)

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I used to be a huge Symantec/Norton fan until my system crashed back a couple years back from Symantec just taking over my computer resources and hard-drive space. Ever since then, I have been testing just about all the anti-virus programs..from Symantec/Norton (nothing has changed..Symantec blows), BitDefender, Kaspersky, ZoneAlarm Suite, and Panda. But just recently I was introduced to Eset's NOD32..which finally ended my search for a great antivirus program. Why you ask? ..well its easy enough for a novice user to use while it has options for more advanced users. My two favorite features in NOD32 have to be the 'profile' settings for each scan and the 'real-time' file and internet monitor. I'd also like to bring up again that Eset's NOD32 has earned virusbulletin's VB100% everytime. :D

Also, for those that are saying that NOD32 takes forever to scan..yes, it does a bit of time to scan your entire hard-drive if you have all the 'setup>scan' and 'setup>threat sense scanning options' options enabled..

- Scan>files; boot sectors; system memory; archives; self-extracting-archives; run-time packers; email files; alternative ntfs streams

- Threat sense scanning options> virus signatures; heuristics; advanced heuristics; adware/spyware/riskware; potentially dangerous application

..but even with all the 'setup' features enabled, which I have in my 'Deep-scan' profile, it only takes about 10 minutes for me to scan all the files on my 40gig. hard-drive :blink:

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Nod32, because it works, it's routinely updated, and most importantly, it leaves me alone and doesn't add any stupid sh*t that I don't want/need. No firewall/popupblocker/spam scanner/car washer or any crap like that. Just a nice, small virus scanner.

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Nod32, because it works, it's routinely updated, and most importantly, it leaves me alone and doesn't add any stupid sh*t that I don't want/need.  No firewall/popupblocker/spam scanner/car washer or any crap like that.  Just a nice, small virus scanner.

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Plus I like how NOD32 has a similar i-face to AIM..pretty neat. :D

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AntiVir (runtime scanning)

Light & stable, only real downside atm is a rather annoying non-automatic update system.

ClamAV (additional on-demand scanner)

No real downsides, performs its task as needed.

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Latest Version for NOD32 is 2.51.8

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That is "just" for 64-bit Windows, though it also works with 32-bit Windows. Nothing is different besides the inclusion of the 64-bit drivers.

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