AntiVirus Software

[SteveC]

Hi all,

I've never in the past bothered with using Antivirus software as I'm usually careful about what I download/open. However, the other day I thought it might be an idea after all these new viruses to install norton 2001 on my dad's PC and lo and behold - he had Sircam, Backdoor.Trojan and BadTrans viruses! I did a scan on my PC and in an old download I had there was some old crap one.

Anyway, I've not liked A/V software cos it slows down the PC and I don't like having a lot running, but if you were to choose, what would you run?

I've listed the main ones above, any others please let me know.

[The PIT]

I'm running Nortons Antivirus at home and cougth at work (Good job I've kept my old CD's) and at work I have it running all the time without any slowdowns. I started using this after mcafees sent my machine to a crawl.
At work we have a site license for mcafee and the software is so shit it's unbelievable. They don't test whether the dat files work properly with older engines or even the latest engine. Still it keeps us busy.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

norton has always done me proud!

[Guru]

F-secure all the way you can't beat there network options!

[High_Jumbllama]

From Norton to Mcafee

I originally used Norton around 1998because I had heard such good things about it, but it messed up restarting on my machine and I eventually switched to Mcafee and I have had only minor problems only during installs.

At work we used Norton Enterprise Edition and that running on our email servers we almost never got a virus and if we did Norton on the machines stopped them before they could do anything.

[xortam]

Does anybody know how to reinstall NAV after the trial period has expired?

I've always found AV SW too obtrusive and usually just scan, find nothing, and get rid of it. Maybe I should finally go out and buy NAV since its now fairly non-obtrusive and good about keeping itself up to date.

[SteveC]

Originally posted by xortam
I've always found AV SW too obtrusive and usually just scan, find nothing, and get rid of it. Maybe I should finally go out and buy NAV since its now fairly non-obtrusive and good about keeping itself up to date.

My thoughts exactly - that's the reason for this thread.

Also, At work we use McAfee and I'll not use this at home as it seems to kill some of our servers (nothing works (e.g. IIS) when McAfee's running!).

I've just installed the latest (free) Grisoft's AVG Anti Virus and it's found no viruses - let's see how this goes.

[Gurm]

Well, let's see...

First there was Norton.

Then there was McAfee.

Then a federal appeals court judge ruled that McAfee had stolen their entire virus engine from Norton.

Then there was just Norton (for a few months).

Then McAfee came back, and has sucked ever since.

Oops!

- Gurm

P.S. I've heard good things about AVS and whatnot, but I just use Norton.

[Nuno]

Norton. Definitly. I used McAfee with its "virus shield" and it let my system be infected by a virus. (now that was 2 years ago). I installed Norton trial version and it detected it presto.

Auto-protect doesn´t slow the system at all - I already have it on, I even play all games with it and don´t notice nothing. It´ll eat up 7Mb of Ram, that´s all.

[Kaj]

Norton all the way!!!

Thank you Peter, for this magnificent piece of software that keeps my system free of infections for quite a few years now.
Now if only you could do something about that one large bug that's eating about 400meg of my harddisk...

Nah, just kidding; I know that Peter Norton stopped writing it by himself, but NAV is the best one out there.

[isochar]

NAV 2002 (beta 3 here) raises the bar even further.

[cbman]

I had Mcafee 4 given to me by a family friend that didn't like it... I never had a problem with it...(In the two years that I used it) but at work we have had too many people come in with problems on their systems because of it.

Now that my free update period is over... I decided to give Norton 2001 a try... not too shabby...

On my slower system I use AVG... it works good

[cjolley]

Norton = Rox!
McAfee = Sux!
chuck

PS we use McAfee at work & it's like dragging the Queen Mary's anchor behind the servers & workstations.

[ZokesPro]

I have McAfee 4.03 and never had any problems, in fact it saved my system from many nasty viruses, and other systems too!

[LvR]

Running the new NAV2002 here and cant complain - have been running NAV2001 previously without any complaints either.

Both have already paid for themselves by catching a bug or two.