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.

[Skiver Veteran]

im always switching around ive used, norton (few versions) panda, avg, ZA secuirty suites AV and avast and so far ive found avg to be the best one, im keen to try this nod32 and kapersky

just out of curiosity is thier a firewall thread like this also? i have the same situation with firewalls

[Tai]

interesting thread... probably one of the best on neowin just now ..

i'm about to change from norton 2003 ....

I saw Panda running well on a friend's pc and might try it ... anyone had bad experiences with Panda Titanium 2006 ?

Other than that, from reading the posts, I'm torn between AVG, Kapersky, & NOD32 ...

[chconline Veteran]

Norton sux0rs :p

[Shane Pitman]

i just got symantec antivirus corporate edition, we'll see how that goes.

Well, I've used Norton AV, Kaspersky, NOD32, AVG, and finally Symantec AV, and I would have to say my favorite out of all is Symantec. I'm talking about the Corporate edition... It's so nice on resources and so very out of the way... Me likes it very much :D

Throughout my IT career I have done a lot of testing of AV products. When I started consulting on my own I wanted an AV solution that I could sell to my clients that was highly effective yet simple enough for the average client to feel comfortable with. After sitting down and evaluating numerous products and having years of experience with others, I settled on Avast. Pricing is very competitive, the scanning engine is one of the best, they update both software and definitions religiously, and management is as simple as can be. Since I started recommending and installing Avast for my clients, I have replaced 3 Symantec Corporate installs with multiple servers and multiple clients on each. They were all fully updated, with both the latest software and virus definition updates, and more than half of the PCs on the networks of each of those three clients had numerous viruses that Symantec Corporate had been missing.

[gigapixels Veteran]

Throughout my IT career I have done a lot of testing of AV products. When I started consulting on my own I wanted an AV solution that I could sell to my clients that was highly effective yet simple enough for the average client to feel comfortable with. After sitting down and evaluating numerous products and having years of experience with others, I settled on Avast. Pricing is very competitive, the scanning engine is one of the best, they update both software and definitions religiously, and management is as simple as can be. Since I started recommending and installing Avast for my clients, I have replaced 3 Symantec Corporate installs with multiple servers and multiple clients on each. They were all fully updated, with both the latest software and virus definition updates, and more than half of the PCs on the networks of each of those three clients had numerous viruses that Symantec Corporate had been missing.

Well, that's good to know. Even though I'm happy with SAV it's nice to see what other people say from their own experiences. I've been thinking about trying Avast, and it looks like you tipped me over the edge on it. I'm going to give it a try.

[Tai]

has anyone tried out Kaspersky 2006 ? (still in beta though) ..

I'd like to hear if anyone had good or bad experiences with it .. looks good though, and Kaspersky is a good antivirus ..

[randeepsamra]

norton and only norton

[manifesto]

NOD32 for me

[-MeeTz]

Nod32 :yes:

best for me :whistle: : cheap and good ;)

[dboywj]

McAfee :p

[mAcOdIn Veteran]

Lol there's alot of FUD around here. First off Nod 32 does not have an unbeatable track record, unless you consider VB tests to be more important than real world, and it does not catch everything thrown at it.

The amount of processes that a program uses is unimportant, if you had 5 processes taking 4k each it would still be less for instance than one process taking up 21k of memory. Or what about cpu time?

Pop3 scanning is not a necessity so long as you have the active scanner going, there's no reason why an anti virus programs pop3 scanner should catch something your active scanner doesn't or vice versa.

That said Nod 32 is a pretty good AV. I still prefer McAfee's professional line although thier home version has gone down the drain, Norton and McAfee should both get props for having such good sales despite thier mediocre home versions.

[theyarecomingforyou]

has anyone tried out Kaspersky 2006 ? (still in beta though) ..

I'd like to hear if anyone had good or bad experiences with it .. looks good though, and Kaspersky is a good antivirus ..

Wow, that looks really nice - a huge improvement over earlier versions. I always liked Kaspersky but I went with NOD32 because it made less of an impact upon my system. If they improve it's speed then I can't see a downside to it.

[razor_88]

avast!

[allifm]

I really like SBC's online protection by Computer Associates. It seems to do the job as well as Norton, and is free.

Alli

[Tai]

I'm getting some good results with the Kaspersky 6 beta (although all I have to compare it against so-far is norton, and anything is faster than that !)

having said that, it has picked up some files that norton missed, and it's scanning engine seems good. mem usage sometimes goes crazy in the web antivirus mode though .. but it's still a beta .. I will stick with it for now & see what happens. Their forums make good reading for the beta tests ..

a friend installed nod32 on a 1.7centrino laptop with 1gb memory, etc .. it seemed to me to be running about the same speed in its scanning as kaspersky 6 beta

[Jorgo]

Norton: Mediocre detection rate

McAffee: Gives you absolutely no clue about the state of its updates (date, version, etc.). Detection rate mediocre.

Kaspersky: Best detection rate there is, but VERY slow (at least in versions 5)

Panda: Very good detection rate and quite fast, but hooks deep into your system and might conflict with other low-level network software like firewalls.

[MuddyMuDmaN]

just looking at Antivir's website and it says the premiem edition has pop3 scanning, so the free one doesn't?

You are correct. I guess that's the one knock I have against it, but doesn't really give you less protection, it just means it isn't as proactive as an AV solution that is scanning your incoming POP3.

Basically, I have my Gmail account running through TB so my incoming email has already been scanned on Google's end of the deal. To take this a bit further, even if I was using my ISP's email, I'd have to download a virus and attempt to execute it in order to get infected, but ideally, AntiVir's scanner would catch it (with its higher detection rates than the other free solutions). I think common sense comes into play in this scenario as well, I always treat emails from people I don't recognize or with attachments with a healthy amount of suspicion. :shiftyninja:

What worries me, is that someone might choose something like AVG over AntiVir, because it offers POP3 scanning, even though its detection rates are a heck of alot lower. :)

I am now preparing myself to get flamed by our resident AV experts who may disagree with this philosophy! :p

[Navigator]

hahaha VOTE for NoD32

[Sav]

NOD32 over here!

[Kr0z]

AntiVir? PersonalEdition Classic V7

[cowneyone]

i used kaspersky.

[Guest craft660]

how come you can't vote for F-Prot? :|

isn't it one of the best lightweight av's out there like nod32?

[spartyjohnson]

has anyone tried out Kaspersky 2006 ? (still in beta though) ..

I'd like to hear if anyone had good or bad experiences with it .. looks good though, and Kaspersky is a good antivirus ..

I like your key... :|

[felixml]

CA eTrust, industrial strength, unbeatable, and does note leak. like ALL others

[Tai]

I like your key... :|

that screenie isn't of mine - I got that from Google images search :D :D

had to dump it for now though - when reading their forums (it's a beta, anyway) I noticed there were probs with avedesk, which I had too, along with some mail issues that I didn't even notice, so back to norton 2003 until it finishes it's beta or I decide on another to use.

Was going to use Panda titanium - but some neowinians have put me off it with tales of deadly destruction ... :rolleyes: