Anti-Virus?

[Kurt]

Depends what week of the year you're talking about...

[Adis]

Try NOD32, it is the best for me. Easy to use, powerfull, will not slowdown your PC.

Highly recommended. I'm using it for years and never had problems with it.

[Maggi]

It looks decent. However, the cracks on Astalavista for the pro version are lagging 4 revisions behind (v6 is out now, v2 is what they have cracks for). So that's likely an indicator of how well-received the pro version is. But I'll try out the free one.

interesting stance ... ROFL

but you could also see it as an indicator that the pro version is not that much superior to the free version and thus nobody makes an effort for such little extra, not ?

however, thanx for your quick peek so far and I'd surely appreciate any possibly upcoming details.

[UtwigMU]

Avast is OK, it catches most stuff but then again I'm not doing stuff to catch virii.
- Free with registration for a year for program updates, then you can reregister. Virus base is free forewer
- It also scans inbound mail and lately there's also a web proxy that prevents virii from being downloaded (configures itself for Thunderbird and Firefox automatically).
- It autoupdates virus database (it talks about that but you can disable it). It only tells about program updates and asks you if you want to install them, program is updated usually every few months. On dialup you need to do stuff manually.
- It has skinable interface, default skin is ugly but you can download a couple of corporate skins that look more like windows.
- It's not obtrusive, I don't see a performance drop, I don't feel it's present except maybe when executing 200MB game installer it takes a bit to start. Defaults are pretty low on obtrusive scale and you can configure every segment individually.

It finds virii before downloading them from internet, it prevents executing infected executables and also asks what to do with infected attachments.

It's a Czech product, they have tech support fora (in English) and their employees answer with constructive replies next or same workday.

http://www.avast.com/

[3dfx]

I'm using Mcafee at the moment, I find that it catches everything. I haven't had any problems with it up to this point. I also find it less resource hungry than Norton 2005.

[Kurt]

Is there anything more resource hungry than Norton?

[Adis]

Is there anything more resource hungry than Norton?

NOD32 Antivirus