Antivirus/Utility Soft Recommendation?

[WyWyWyWy]

AVG looks VERY cool, many thanks.

[Gurm]

DirtFarmer,

I admit Panda comes VERY highly recommended by hackers and sysadmins alike, but do you care to comment on the fact that their installer is straight out of the Borland C++ kit from 1990?

K6-III,

Can you comment on the system speed after an AVG install, as compared to Norton or McAfee?

- Gurm

[DirtFarmer]

Gurm,
Could care less where the installer kit comes from. I know I can download the latest install package easily and it works. I do hate the cheezy Flash pre-install screens from the Titanium boot cd's autorun tho.

[Kooldino]

This AVG looks like a good reason to get rid of McAfee on my work machine...

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by Gurm

K6-III,

Can you comment on the system speed after an AVG install, as compared to Norton or McAfee?

- Gurm

When AVG runs it's disk scan, you can *ALMOST* still play a game on top of it. I've been Lan gaming several nights and it's kicked in in the middle of a game. I'll notice a little slow-down or lag in the game and when I get out I see it was because AVG had started it's scan, but the game was still playable, in my eyes. I have absolutely NO problems with speed when the AVG client is just sitting in the background, not scanning.

This is on a Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.668GHz, 512mb DDR, Win2K.

It works fine on WinXP systems as well, but I can't comment on any performance degradation.

amish

[Jessterw]

I'll echo what EA just said. On the K6-2 450, 256MB, Win2K system I have here at work I barely notice AVG running, even when it's scanning... this is while running Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and any number of other applications.

[Pace]

Hmm, time to install a virus checker?

Might give AVG a try, I thought it was a poor attempt at AV, I see a few recommendations here though. Off to download the free version (and see what the others offer ).

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Jesterzwild
I'll echo what EA just said. On the K6-2 450, 256MB, Win2K system I have here at work I barely notice AVG running, even when it's scanning... this is while running Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and any number of other applications.

ditto for me. Running it @ work now. Crashed the first time I ran it, but was good from there...i scanned the whole machine and barely noticed it (web pages rendered a tad slower). This is how an AV app should be.

[The PIT]

Well I know mcafee can cause all sorts of problems one of the reasons why we're not renewing the license at work.
However the replacement sophos which scans quickly does seem to have one major flaw. In some cases it refuses to clean the file wanting you to delete it instead and restore from a backup. Now since most users don't have backups it's not an option you can take up. In those cases I install mcafee to clean the files which it normally does.
Norton 2003 I found a bit unreliable and needs earlier versons need removing to run properly. This may have been fixed with patches it also seems to run quicker after one set of updates.