Virus Scan - do you?

[az]

No, no, the fastest is NOD32

AZ

[Gurm]

"Doesn't Run As Well" = "Corrupts Windows XP Irrevocably".

- Gurm

[Slougi]

I use Linux

[Mikko]

Yes, I do have F-Secure Anti-Virus "real-time scanner" running at the background.

[dbdg]

Just email scanning with Norton 2003. Have another machine on my Lan with AVG that runs weekly scans.

I do get quite a few email virus's though, recieved this one http://securityresponse.symantec.com....mankx@mm.html three times already today.

Some people just seem to ATTRACT viruses. Dunno why.

True, in my case though it is my website.

[Tempest]

I've had a couple of viruses, but those were back in the good ol' DOS days. I also got some kind of email worm via Outlook Express on my secondary system a couple of years back, it was a newly installed system and I hadn't yet removed the file associations for those VB scripting extensions. That won't happen again, I'm only using webmail these days.

I really can't say I'm scanning for viruses... Every six months or so when I have nothing better to do I visit http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and run a check.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Slougi
I use Linux

Don't believe the hype no doubt there are virus's for Linux as well just not as many. If linux was as big as Microshaft they'd be plenty of virus's going round for it.

[Evildead666]

Kaspersky AVP Toolkit.
I tried Norton and McAffee...Norton never found anything.
Neither did mcaffee....AVP on the otherhand has found a couple of viruses (or Virii)...
They mostly seem to come by email, and my email is on hotmail, not directly DL'd to my machine....

[Slougi]

Originally posted by The PIT
Don't believe the hype no doubt there are virus's for Linux as well just not as many. If linux was as big as Microshaft they'd be plenty of virus's going round for it.

Even if I run across a virus, all it can do is delete my home directory, which is automatically backed up every night (actually all of /home is). So no harm done, at least nothing big And there really is no way it can automatically execute by itself.

[Gurm]

Yep, just keep telling yourself that.

- Gurm

[Slougi]

Don't worry, I will.

[Marshmallowman]

First virus I got was on my old atari ST, the magazine publisher for ST format included the green goblin with there cover disk(at no extra cost)

Funnily enough one of the game disks it infected was the game "virus", which is one the funnest games I have ever played.

But I do a full manual scan about once a month, and scan any new executables before running them and I don't use outlook.

[Agent31]

So, I'm getting the impression that AVG is a pretty decent scanner? I hate Norton 2003, slows the machine down at start-up so much...

so AVG is good?

[Chucky Cheese]

AVG Pro

Using AVG Pro here, but I initiate my scans manually(..usually once a week). The free version would give me a BSOD when scanning my windows drive, but not my other drives.

I never could get to the bottom of that!!

cc

[Nowhere]

What do you think about AntiVir? (in comparision to AVG especially)