Definitive Best 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.

[OxideNOS]

Nod32. It's like an undercover Antivirus agent. UAVP (Undercover Antivirus Program)

[Caledai]

How many of these clients have you tried out are corporate versions and link into a central server.

Thats how I base my judgment - but then again we are locked into Symantec Corporate with a state wide network.

[oubipaws]

avg for windows..

linux...I dont even have a virus program install

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

How many of these clients have you tried out are corporate versions and link into a central server.

Thats how I base my judgment - but then again we are locked into Symantec Corporate with a state wide network.

Man I hope you are joking. :no: You base your judgement on the way the software updates itself? Step into my office where I can sell you a car with no doors or windows but it goes really really fast. :shifty:

We've taken so many school districts off Symantec CE because of how many outbreaks they've had. NOD32's management console works fantastic but that's not how I've been judging them. And the fact that outbreaks have gone down to 0 since the NOD32 implementation is quite an advantage as well.

Kaspersky has the worst central updating mechanism I've ever used in my life but if I passed it on its pretty interface in v6 that by itself wouldn't be fair...would it? :p

Joking aside, I hope you base your judgement on more than just that. ;)

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

as usual, nod32 with my lil kerio 2.1.5

[Bhav]

NOD32 - absolutely the greatest AV ever.

[asdfoi83wyrl]

Despite numerous people's arguments on this forum, to this day I still do not see the problem with Norton/McAfee. They're widely used, have never slowed my computer down by a noticeable amount, and they're easily available in office/electronics stores. I think I can safely guess that they're used by the most number of people worldwide.

My middle school used a corporate version of Norton (which, unfortunately, they hardly ever bothered to update). My current high school--a lab school run by the University of Illinois--uses corporate McAfee (and so does the rest of the university).

[S1RHC]

Norton is different from symantec?

[TanuKi Beard]

Nod32 is the best antivirus I have ever used, BEST EVER!

[SnowRanger13]

I really have no idea. I don't even have a antivirius on my computer my dad just uses norton on his :p.

[paperless]

Im tired of antivirus, they all gave me more problems than virus themselves..

Its not that hard to keep away from virus.. honestly i dont see much need for an antivirus, my last one was AVG but it ****ed me off..

i used mcaffee, not much problems but its too heavy and they are nothing more than mega-ultra-money-hungry and i hate that.

Norton.. oh crap NEVER EVER tell me to install that piece of **** again, thanks to it i had to do so many stuff to get rid of it completely..it was some time ago but i remember as if it was today..it slowed down my computer startup, stopped other programs, an authenthic virus-like antivirus.

So now i quit no more AVs for me and im good like this, most of virus are easy to detect and delete manually tbh..virus are not magic they are just other programs but made for different purposes, often malicious.

EDIT: Im reading a lot of good reviews of NOD32 around here.. i might try it but if it gives me a single problem i will quit antivirus forever, again.

Edited June 14, 2006 by paperless

[Mostly Corporial]

Very happy with NOD32, before dishing out cash for it I used AntiVir Personal which also performed like a dream.

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

Despite numerous people's arguments on this forum, to this day I still do not see the problem with Norton/McAfee. They're widely used, have never slowed my computer down by a noticeable amount, and they're easily available in office/electronics stores. I think I can safely guess that they're used by the most number of people worldwide.

My middle school used a corporate version of Norton (which, unfortunately, they hardly ever bothered to update). My current high school--a lab school run by the University of Illinois--uses corporate McAfee (and so does the rest of the university).

The problems I have with McAfee is that [a] when I used their enterprise products in the past for clients that already had existing licenses, it didn't even have the capability to scan RAR archives. That was horrible seeing as that's what the clients were plagued with. Update options for Novell servers have been truly bad and non-functional without some type of intermediary workstation. [c] Viruses being missed by the scanner, aside from just the RAR archive gripes. [d] SuperDAT updates were constantly coming through as corrupt for many clients as well, with McAfee being well aware of it, as they'd inform us after-the-fact.

Symantec...[a] We've had problems with it installing on Windows 98 machines (version 8 and version 9) to the point where we've had to backrev to 7.50 to get it installed and configured...this was at Symantec's request as they could not find out why this was happening after a clean install of Windows 98SE. Red DOS box would pop up with a "Module did not stay resident" error and kill the PC's AV functions altogether. Support could not solve this issue over a 2-week time period where 8-16 hours of time was spent on it total. Problems with workstations randomly getting the yellow popup box with the "File protection is not enabled" message after various times of working on a PC. Only solution is to reboot it. [c] Communication failures when installing in managed mode - workstations can see the server, but after they select it, a communications error appears. [d] Virus infiltrations even with up-to-date definitions on workstations and servers. [e] Bad uninstall routine leaves plenty of registry keys behind. [f] Symantec tech support hold times were too long, causing the customers to pay us for sitting there, waiting for support. [g] Support personnel not knowledgeable about their own product. Novell support was absolutely horrid altogether.

[shark1]

I'm using Norton AV - never had problems with viruses so all good so far. It does take some system ressources but it's not like i have 64MB of RAM anyway, it also slows down a little the overall windows boot process.

[lol911]

I'm happy with Avast.

[HelgenX]

NOD32... trust me everybody, Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky... I've tried them all, and believe me... NOD32 detects even the smallest of viruses, and is not naggy and annoying like the other ones. It has a weird GUI, but think about it, it's from a country that makes practically every virus, they KNOW what they're doing. I will never use anything else than NOD32 from now on.

[ozgeek]

Despite numerous people's arguments on this forum, to this day I still do not see the problem with Norton/McAfee. They're widely used, have never slowed my computer down by a noticeable amount, and they're easily available in office/electronics stores. I think I can safely guess that they're used by the most number of people worldwide.

My middle school used a corporate version of Norton (which, unfortunately, they hardly ever bothered to update). My current high school--a lab school run by the University of Illinois--uses corporate McAfee (and so does the rest of the university).

I was like you. I didn't know that there were more better anti-viruses out. Norton Systemwork 2005 is the last version that I will ever buy from Symantec. They are too bloated and too expensive and do not do a very good job. You can test this by running NOD32, Crap Cleaner, RegSeeker (all those do more than Norton do). You might even be surprised to find that Norton wouldn't find some viruses that NOD32 would uncover. It takes me 5-10 minutes for a good 40GB scan with NOD32. With Norton it takes like an hour.

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

It takes me 5-10 minutes for a good 40GB scan with NOD32. With Norton it takes like an hour.

NOD32 is fast. With Kaspersky (even though I'm a fan, I can't use it...again) I could leave my laptop on and have it scan for an entire weekend and it would not finish scanning my little 80 GB hard drive. The engine is fantastic and the app is great, but the scanning kills me... I still recommend it, but I need something that can scan my hard drive efficiently; KAV cannot.

[Meraklis56]

kaspersky.light and effective.Never crashed and almost everyday there are updates :)

[FryzDog]

I like NOD32. I have only used Norton other than NOD and I did not like norton. Way too Bulky and too too long to scan.

[randomnut]

Hey,

What would you guys suggest is the best free antivirus available?

cheers!

[snyper]

Avast...

[CoolCatBad]

Avast

[Annorax]

I'm torn between Avast and AVG.

[snyper]

AVG

No, updates take too long..