What is the best anti virus program? I use norton as it was pre-installed. but im not sure if there are better programs available
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What is the best anti virus program? I use norton as it was pre-installed. but im not sure if there are better programs available
Best....Thats sort of a judgement call. It really depends on your personal preference. A lot of people use AVG because it is free with free updates and works quite well. Here is a link to AVG's site
www.grisoft.com
-NeuTron
Hi mate!
You have asked the impossible question there :) It all depends on you and your kit, I suppose. I do use, and recommend, PC-Cillin from Trend Microsystems...........you have to pay for it, but it runs very sweetly, with daily updates, on my Win2K machines...........also works with other operating systems...I just happen to use 2K a lot.
The reason that I like it is that it does an additive update, rather than re-load the whole thing, and that it will do it in the middle of what you are doing without freezing your machine (only tested with a PII/333MHz at the low end)
I probably use about 5 or 6 others, but that is my suggestion.
Now :mad: Do you have a firewall?............try some of this stuff, and keep the thread going until you are satisfied.I have posted a couple of tutorials that might help on "preventative measures"
Firewall: ZoneAlarm from zonelabs
AdAware( from lavasoft), and SpyBot Search & Destroy.
All are free to single private users ( no....you don't have to divorce the wife :D )
You will have to use your search engine to find them because I am too lazy to find the links!
Cheers
Or you could check a few out and see which one suite you operating enviroment...
Some are better for office applications, some are better for games.. some aren't.. some hit well some don't..
Check this thread for a hint of what is available..
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=248056
there is a forum link in there as well..
Cheers
As about everyone's said, it really is more a matter of preferance rather then 'better or worse'...
One not mentioned yet that I like, is Panda Antivirus - if nothing else, when I first installed it on a machine that was running Nortan, it was able to immediatly detect and remove 3 infected files that my Nortan never detected.
Also, if you use Outlook, it works hand and hand with Outlook much nicer then Nortan seems to - it will even detect and remove viruses on incoming email headers...
RRP
which do you mean hereQuote:
Nortan
Norman
Norton
or Nortan
If it is Nortan.. I am interested in a url so I can check it out..(google didn't help me..
Cheers
Quote:
Originally posted by nihil
Firewall: ZoneAlarm from zonelabs
AdAware( from lavasoft), and SpyBot Search & Destroy.
I totally agree with nihil (not to mention the rest!) about the fact of 'preventative measures' are very necessary. After all, it's better to stop the nasties at the door rather than deal with them later so a good firewall is highly reccommended. ZoneAlarm is probably the best one out there (thats free, anyway ;) ) but there are a few others that are worthy of a look.
As far as AV is concerned, may I reccommend Eset's NOD32. Again, this is one you gotta pay for, but it's well worth it (IMHO). Deep searching but also amazingly fast. Returned a 100% detection rate (providing you keep your sigs updated).
Hope this helps.
We have a magazine in UK called PCPlus dont know if its published anywhere else, They done a huge article on AV's whereby they infected a computer with 500 well know virisus, tried 10 well known AV's. Here are the results:
1. PC -cillin 495/500 virisus recognized
2 Norton 454/500
3.Command AV 442/500
4.Sophos 440/500
5.McAfee 432/500
6.AVG (free edition) 398/500
7.EZ AV 387/500
8.Panda AV Platinum 340/500
9BitDefender (Home) 302/500
10.Achilles'sheid 254/500
This was done the back end of last year, so new versions of all the AV's have prob come out by now, but it gives a good idea of what AV to pick i think! I certinaly woul'nt recommend any of the bottom 4!
Thanks Nokia Wow sudenly AVG doesn't look quite so hot. I had a quick look on the pcplus web site and found the whole thing online as a PDF
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/media/pcplus...20software.pdf
It seems they have back issues available as PDFs for free how good is that eh?!
Another comprehensive source for A/V tools is on the VirusBulletin site <http://www.virusbtn.com/index.xml> where you can find a good comparison between the various vendor products. They are fairly even-handed about their test environments and give good reviews and summaries. Might be worth a look.
Thanx 4 all the advice so far its been very helpful
not a problem :)
not sure of it but ive heared AVG one of a good anti-virus but am using symantec the one from norton i only hate it when am updating my anti-virus it gives me a lot of trouble sometimes downloading the update...
well my favorite remain Norton......for a personal PC i recommend the whole suit of Norton SystemWorks + Norton Internet Security......
Norton AV is proving damm gud for me...and i haent ever had to complain about Norton....Also updates work fine for me....
Hey und3rtak3r...which ones is ur Fav.
Yep norton is my fav too. I don't have any problem with the updates either. Sgear17, you should go to the norton help pages and get the fix for that problem and like nightgirl says if that doesn't work get the hammer.
Freddy
I am an AVG fan myself. It has a smaller footprint on the hd and ram - updates are easily scheduled or handled manually and you gotta love the price-tag.
Sgear, you can also d/l the signatures via FTP by going to ftp.symantec.com then navigate through the public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/norton_antivirus and download the current *-x86.exe file and all should be well. As for why your system is not updating - who knows? How old is the software? Did your license possibly expire? If you are trying to run LiveUpdate are you behind a proxy? Is your firewall blocking you? Is the config correct and pointing to the Symantec LiveUpdate site?
You can also check the knowledge base (under support) for the problems you are having and may find a workable solution fairly soon.
the avg works very well. i like it