AntiVirus Software

[Bixler]

Great thread...thanks Steve.

My personal experience doesn't jibe at all with most of the posters on this thread, but now I'm interested.

I use McAfee because of my first experience with a virus several years ago...passed on to my box by my college student son who left a borrowed floppy sitting in the drive bay during a boot-up. The only reason I'm still using McAfee is that it found this particular Memory Resident bug and Norton didn't...at that time. Since McAfee saved my bacon and Norton wouldn't solve that problem, I made my choice and have stuck with it.

I've since been happily updating McAfee every week for the past 2 years.

It's interesting to see the McAfee complainers...maybe this is the source of some problems I've been blaming on other things. Hmmm.

[xortam]

The MSFT knowledgebase is filled with tech notes on problems introduced by McAfee AV software.

[DentyCracker]

Norton and McAfee are both crap.
AVP aka Kaspersky Antivirus is by far the best. www.avp.ru . I remember my brother asking on IRC what antivirus he used the OPs asked him what HE used and he replied truthfully "the latest NAV and McAfee with the latest definitions" There was a general chorus of derision and laughter. He aske why the laughter and was told that was like using a band aid on a gut shot. They told him to download the demo of AVP and run it. Sure enough viruses were found, where McAfee and NAV found none. I have found AVP to to be superior to those others in my usage over the years. It runs on XP too

[High_Jumbllama]

I remember

we were testing a title where I use to work. At the time, we had InnoculateIT. The scanner auto updates at boot if there is an update. We had gotten an update two days ago, just after we had gotten a new version of the title and installed it. We got another new version and tried to install it. The wonderful update crashed out the installer. That one was weak and complete crap.

[Rags]

Norton all the way. 2002 is by far the best AV software ever.

Rags

[DosFreak]

Mcaffee has always been terrible. In fact I remeber around 96-97 that the Mcaffee Corporate Licensed password had been 123 leaked (wasn't terribily hard to figure out....). But of course noone every used it.

I've also noticed that Norton Corporate is alot less intrusive than Norton Retail. I use Norton Corportate on all my work PC's/Exchange Servers/Gateway.

[Gurm]

McAfee corporate password, as well as the password to get licensed versions of the software off their ftp site, is STILL '123'.

- Gurm

[DosFreak]

OMG! MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!

[Maggi]

I run Innoculate IT Personal Edition and I'm very pleased with it.

http://antivirus.ca.com

only problem:

On Thursday June 7, 2001, Computer Associates (CA) ended the InoculateIT Personal Edition, eTrust Mail Watcher, and eTrust Content Inspection Personal Edition promotional programs. These promotional programs have been replaced with eTrust EZ Armor - the first solution set available from my-eTrust.com.

but gladly:

Although the InoculateIT Personal Edition program has ended, CA will continue to provide antivirus signature updates to registered users, for as long as InoculateIT Personal Edition is installed on their current personal computer.

Alternatively, a friend of mine recently recommended AntiVir Personal Edition, which is also available for free ...

http://www.free-av.de/

[Ovi]

Norton Antivirus 2001 here too! But then, I can't really comment on other Antivirus programs as I have never used anything else!
I prefer to disable every auto thing (updates, auto-protect) and do everything manually. And it has worked very well for me so far
Cheers
Ovi

[Technoid]

I used to love Thunderbyte Antivirus, but it was discontinued a while ago...

Now I use NAV2000....

BTW:

Only reason for NAV to miss avirus would be because of old definitions...

[MK]

I am using Frisk`s F-Protection. Should be the same than F-Secure`s software package, therefore I agree with Guru here ...

MK

[Tom]

NAV

Norton AntiVirus 2002, and before that 2001, and before
that 2000, etc, etc.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by Technoid
...
BTW:

Only reason for NAV to miss avirus would be because of old definitions...

Exactly that is why I stay away from Norton !

A few months/years ago I had to find out that the German mirror of their US ftp site was about two weeks behind on a regular basis, now guess which server gets contacted when using "live update" ...

The only chance to stay more or less up to date with NAV is manually surfing to ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/ and hunting the proper update.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Maggi


Exactly that is why I stay away from Norton !

A few months/years ago I had to find out that the German mirror of their US ftp site was about two weeks behind on a regular basis, now guess which server gets contacted when using "live update" ...

The only chance to stay more or less up to date with NAV is manually surfing to ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/ and hunting the proper update.

Thats weird!

I have no problems getting new definitions every week.

And they are the neves ones.....