Virus Scan - do you?

[az]

AntiVir isn't very good, but at least it's free

AZ

[KeiFront]

I'm using both, Antivir on my PC and AVG on my server. Both are good virus scanners.

[The PIT]

Nothing like different opinons.

My old favorite is Nortons. Mcafee sucks I've seen it send machines into a lets go very slow mode.
Sophos now has problems with 98 machines with network neighbourhood browsing causing the machines to hang for long periods.
Sophos also loves deleting files rather than cleaning which is a major weakness in my mind. Since 99% of users don't backup deleting their data isn't really an option although in a few cases I would take great joy in their carelessness.

[Nowhere]

and what do MURCers think about trend pccillin? (this thing bundled with mainboards)

[The PIT]

Sometimes refuses to uninstall requiring you to use the delete key in dos or prevent it from loading. Otherwise not seen it much.

[UtwigMU]

Generally if you don't do stupid things and don't let others do stupid things with your machine, the virus threat is in the hen's teeth category.

I scan online stuff, i'm going to restore or reinstall before doing reinstall.

The last virus I recall getting was in MS-DOS days.

Otherwise you can just download Panda or NAV the 2 times a year you need a scan.

[Fred H]

Norton AV with Auto Protect, E-Mail checking and Script Blocking turned "on" for my...

The same here, and it IS effective.

Ad-Aware v.6 is a complement.

Norton Ghost is also a "life-saving" tool.

Fred H

[Pace]

Originally posted by Slougi
I use Linux

Well then, all you need is a Win2K or WinXP install disk to eradicate that virus

[Jon P. Inghram]

I run NAV 2k2 with autoscan off, script blocking and email scanning on. LiveUpdate is OFF OFF OFF OFF, and OFF.

Here's the infamous EICAR "virus", great for testing how well your virus checker handles recursivily compressed files (.zip inside of .rar inside of .whateverthatpopularmacformat is.)

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

[az]

stuffIt? (*.sit.hqx IIRC)

AZ

[Jon P. Inghram]

Yeah, that's the one. Not sure if NAV can handle Amiga formats like .lha or .lzx.

[Slougi]

Originally posted by Pace
Well then, all you need is a Win2K or WinXP install disk to eradicate that virus

My metabolism has become so dependant on that virus that removing it might have severe side-effects, so I think I will pass

[Fred H]

Did somebody test "Pest Patrol" at http://pestpatrol.com/, a good complement to antiviral programs and firewalls? It seems to be better than Ad-Aware 6.0.

I did. It finds Trojans, spys, and monitors your PC to see if somebody try to take over your keyboard, etc.

Fred H

[Kurt]

Originally posted by 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....

I removed AVP as it would disconnect mapped drives from NT4 servers and win2k workstations and slowed the whole system done a lot (some 1GHz PIIIs), changed to AVG and the problems are gone...

[Kurt]

Originally posted by 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.

LOL...I still have the disks nicely put away/forgotten in a FDD plastic box, along with other ATARI/Amiga floppies... aahh memories...