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Definitive Best Antivirus 2007

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Definitive Best Antivirus  

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  1. 1. Your Choice?

    • [url=http://www.avira.com/]Antivir[/url]
      43
    • [url=http://www.avast.com/]Avast![/url]
      118
    • [url=http://www.grisoft.com/]AVG[/url]
      159
    • [url=http://www.bitdefender.com/]BitDefender[/url]
      21
    • [url=http://www.clamwin.com/]ClamWin[/url]
      5
    • [url=http://www.f-secure.com/]F-Secure[/url]
      13
    • [url=http://www.kaspersky.com/]Kaspersky[/url]
      258
    • [url=http://www.mcafee.com/]McAfee[/url]
      35
    • [url=http://www.eset.com/]NOD32[/url]
      581
    • N/A
      174

  2. 2. Your Choice?

    • [url=http://www.symantec.com/]Norton[/url]
      85
    • [url=http://www.pandasoftware.com/]Panda[/url]
      21
    • [url=http://www.sophos.com/]Sophos[/url]
      17
    • [url=http://www.symantec.com/]Symantec (Corporate)[/url]
      114
    • [url=http://www.trendmicro.com/]Trend[/url]
      38
    • [url=http://www.anti-virus.by/en/]VBA32[/url]
      7
    • [url=http://www.windowsonecare.com/]Windows Onecare[/url]
      83
    • [url=http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_zaav.jsp?dc=1]Zone[/url]
      49
    • Other (Please specify below)
      71
    • N/A
      922

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Grand Master

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A fresh "Best Antivirus" poll for 2007. Please use this as a reference when researching antivirus utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Due to limitations of IPB - this will be seen as 2 polls. Select the Antivirus program you wish to vote for, and choose N/A in the other poll.

Happy voting!

Poll choices are links to the software pages.

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For People who says that A is better, B is better, please let us know as well, why you think it's better, so you can help other people :)

I'll go with Avast, just because it's free and catch all of viruses so far in my computer/email

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Maligogo

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I think in terms in detection rate, Kaspersky is the best, but I prefer NOD32, even though it has a somewhat lower detection rate. I've used version 5 of KAV for a few months, and then the version 6 trial, but I found that it tends to cause some lag sometimes, especially in a directory full of many or large files.

NOD32 just happily runs in the background and I never notice it, until I get a popup about a completed update.

I still voted for Kaspersky though :p

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AdzzzUK

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Crap name, great software. Trend Micro "PC-Cillin" Internet Security 2007. I've used Trend in various different guises since 1997 and it just gets better and better.

NO problems at all. Plus as I'm a beta tester (have been for the last 5 years) I get it for nowt. But I'd pay for it, too.

Free Anti Virus has got to be Avast!, hands down. Solid as a rock, reliable. And Free :)

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Guest Jeremy of Many

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Many great posts from the previous thread should be included in this one because they were unbiased and very informative. Ghost96 made the best replies I had seen in ages.

http://av-comparatives.org

Best payware:

- Kaspersky (detection rate, update frequency)

- NOD32 (stability, memory usage)

Best freeware:

- AntiVir (detection rate)

- Avast

Regardless, nothing beats the human brain. If you have good knowledge on how to maintain a secure system and use computer sense, your need for an anti-virus software will vary. I'm currently using NOD32 and don't usually have it running unless I intend on scanning something I download, which is the only reason I use it. If I were to become massively infected (which never happens because I'm not naive or stupid) I wouldn't try to disinfect my system, I would just use my Acronis Rescue Media Boot CD to restore my system with an image file saved on my second HDD. Anything personal I keep in password-protection 7-Zip archives until I burn it to CD/DVD for safe-keeping (so my personal info/files are never compromised). I'm behind a DI-604 Router which I feel is pretty locked down. I use Opera with Java and scripting disabled. I use POP3 for e-mail through the Opera Mail Client. My G-Mail is imported into it from the actual site, then deleted from the site and saved onto my HDD where I can easily and quickly delete anything I don't want (I don't get spam/junk mail anyway). I have an nLited Windows XP Corporate SP2 installation where common exploitable components and EXEs are removed (which don't break any core OS functionality or anything I use). I use mostly open-source and freeware software and try to keep the number of programs installed as minimal as I can, which isn't directly related to staying secure, but it helps. And as I said, computer sense is crucial.

You could also use a second machine (old or new) and put Linux on it and have your network traffic filtered through that I imagine. I've personally never done it myself.

As long as you follow those general guidelines, you shouldn't ever have anything to worry about.

It's unfortunate that there are hundreds of millions of users out there who don't take such precautions, are naive, think they are invincible, don't understand how things work in the computer world, don't care, take things for granted, etc... and they complain that their OS or PC sucks or is slow, strange 1 minute calls to dozens of wherever-places show on their phone bill, a charge for a $5000 auction item on eBay shows on their VISA, everyone on their MSN contacts list received a message stating they want to have sexual relations with them and then are blocked and deleted, but not before all of them received a trojan horse download, and finally their system becomes unbootable. Yeah, it's really unfortunate...

Well, that's my two cents.

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sy64

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NOD32 is the best of all the antivirus I've used. Kaspersky was not bad but is so much slower, not only with scanning but when you move several files around it takes a lot longer with Kaspersky running the background scan than it does with NOD32. I found NOD32 to be less hassle, I could leave it to do its thing.

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halcyoncmdr

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I have used Trend for years and it has never let me down in any of the areas that it covers. I have never been without protection, and it catches absolutely everything, both virus and malware that I have gotten. Plus the easy beta testing they provide really helps for?suggesting?options?and?relating?problems?directly?to?the?developers.

For free A/V though, I'd have to go with AVG free. Not quite as good IMHO, but still great considering it is free?:)d?small :)

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widkidone

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NOD32 is a great AV software. I switched from Symantec Norton to NOD32 and I am very happy. Symantec and Kaspersky both use up alot of resource and both are expensive software compare to the NOD32. For both Kaspersky and Symantec one year is about $70. But with Nod32 two years is $40. The new verison of NOD32 (Version 3.0) will come with a firewall coming this Feburary.

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