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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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afaik, AVG, avast and symantec are the only  AV companies that offer support for windows 64 atm. but im sure more will come in the following 6-12 months until windows vista is released. think both mcafee and f-secure are soon to release support for 64 also.

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NOD32 has 64-Bit Support too.

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eh looks cool but im not paying for an antivirus because i have great service with AVG and it is 100% free

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dude, so is Avast! home...

difference? AVG is, dude, like KaZaA...

It works, but there are better apps out there.

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norton > eztrust > avast

changed antivirus software in a span of 2 days... i got a virus that crippled my computer... i was using norton -.-... so i decided to use something else...

eztrust is good... but you can't configure that much...

so i ran to avast! it offers so much more than any other solution i saw... i liked it so much that i switched to the pro version...

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I switched from norton system works 2005 which includes norton antivirus 2005 to Nod 32 and haven't looked back. I'm well protected with updates nearly daily and very little system resources used. Like it love it!

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Trend Micro, never had a problem with it and it doesn't seem to bog down the system like Norton does :happy: I do use Norton on the other two machines, but I plan to mirate all systems to Trend Micro in the next year or two.

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has anyone used Kaspersky 5 and NOD32 and prefer one over the other?

I always hear good things about NOD32, but I'm wondering if it is the total solution? checks outlook 2003 e-mails, websites, real-time monitoring, etc?

I find Kaspersky to be really good @ detecting viruses, malware sites, etc...

Is anyone using Kaspersky in conjunction w/NOD32?

Thanks! :p

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has anyone used Kaspersky 5 and NOD32 and prefer one over the other?

I always hear good things about NOD32, but I'm wondering if it is the total solution? checks outlook 2003 e-mails, websites, real-time monitoring, etc?

I find Kaspersky to be really good @ detecting viruses, malware sites, etc...

Is anyone using Kaspersky in conjunction w/NOD32?

Thanks!  :p

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I'm using both. NOD32's internet scanner, and Kaspersky AV 2006 Beta for real-time.

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has anyone used Kaspersky 5 and NOD32 and prefer one over the other?

I always hear good things about NOD32, but I'm wondering if it is the total solution? checks outlook 2003 e-mails, websites, real-time monitoring, etc?

I find Kaspersky to be really good @ detecting viruses, malware sites, etc...

Is anyone using Kaspersky in conjunction w/NOD32?

Thanks!  :p

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I picked NOD32 over Kaspersky for a few of reasons:

[1] NOD32 is faster and the detection rate is very impressive

[2] Kaspersky for whatever reason has problems with scanning my emails when the come in. This happens in Outlook and Thunderbird. It's just sporadic. Sometimes it works and other times it just doesn't.

[3] I'll stress this again...speed. Kaspersky has one of the slowest startup sequences I've ever seen. I know that they seem to have done more with 2006, but I cannot use it. I use VPN so much, and the workstation version seems to be the only one that is compatible with it.

Maybe I'll try Kaspersky's next version. My laptop has 2 GB of RAM, compared to my old one with only 512 MB of RAM. Hopefully that improved its load times.

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ok from now on im gonna use 2 scanner got hit by a virus it's sitting on my desktop for months! bitdefender free and ez antivirus for my realtime protection.

but bitdefender says it's expired n can' update. but it's freE? so any similar anti virus software? just the on demand scanner nothing more.

thanks!

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You're all wrong!

Frisk software F-Prot Antivirus is the best! easy on resources

should also add that it's one of the very few AV's that can load on a usb pen for eg. without any installion and there's no subscription ie no need to buy a license every year

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I picked NOD32 over Kaspersky for a few of reasons:

[1] NOD32 is faster and the detection rate is very impressive

[2] Kaspersky for whatever reason has problems with scanning my emails when the come in.  This happens in Outlook and Thunderbird.  It's just sporadic.  Sometimes it works and other times it just doesn't.

[3] I'll stress this again...speed.  Kaspersky has one of the slowest startup sequences I've ever seen.  I know that they seem to have done more with 2006, but I cannot use it.  I use VPN so much, and the workstation version seems to be the only one that is compatible with it.

Maybe I'll try Kaspersky's next version.  My laptop has 2 GB of RAM, compared to my old one with only 512 MB of RAM.  Hopefully that improved its load times.

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Kaspersky makes your system start up slower because it scans your critical system files. Which is a blessing and also crap at the same time.

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I use Antivir Personal XP classic.

I like F-Prot and Sophos best.

I detest Norton :p

-fm

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Kaspersky makes your system start up slower because it scans your critical system files. Which is a blessing and also crap at the same time.

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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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