Anti-Virus Products - How many?

[Und3ertak3r]

Hi Guys,

Doing the rounds of some forums I discovered another Av company to check their products. Now this lead me to think "Just How Many AV Companies and Products Are There". Ok, I would consider the answer to be dynamic in qunatity, and the quality to be very diverse.

My first thought was to exclude the well known companies, but that is a subjective matter..
(this has been done before - I thought it was time to revive the subject , oh I was also too lazy to drag the original threads out) [edit]Check this Tutorial by noODle [/edit]

So here is what I have.. a short list .. and in no particular order..

1. Symantec - Norton AV
2. Trend-Micro - PC-Cillin
3. Network Associates - McAfee
4. Frisk Software - F-Prot
5. Grisoft - AVG
6. Authentium - Command Software - Command Com AV
7. Sophos - Sophos AV
8. Panda Software - Panda AV
9. Leprechaun Software - Leprechaun AV
10. GeCAd Sofware - RAV AV - or is that M$ AV
11. SRN Micro - SOLO AV
12. Bitdefender AV
13. Astonsoft Software
14. Computer Associates - eTrust - aka VET (well in some parts of the world)
15. Kaspersky
16. Norman
17.


Sry I haven't put links with every thing here.. but if you want to visit them try this link.. it works for me.. any I don't know?

Cheers

[noODle]

www.free-av.com <--AntiVir Personal Edition

A piece of a previous listing
http://www.kapersky.com
http://www.f-secure.com
http://www.norman.com
To read virus-info go to:
http://www.viruslist.com
To view hoaxes about virii visit:
http://www.vmyths.com

Taken from:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=237724
I removed the duplicates that were allready posted and dead links (I hope I got them all).

Nice posting, perhaps a AV/FW/AT list should be compiled and made sticky.

[nihil]

I agree with noodle about making this sticky.

How about e-safe from Aladdin Industries...............I have always had a soft spot for it, as it includes a "sandbox" and used to whinge like hell when you ran its update.

I must get my wife's box up and running again.................she was studying Spanish, and I loaded a Peruvian AV product that I was beta testing at the time

Cheers

[Und3ertak3r]

Anyone reading this threa should give Noodle's Tutorial thread a read, as he has commented some of the links are dead.. but then that is where I picked up a couple of links months ago..That is a hand tutorial.. suppose we could ask Neg if you can Update the original Post..or shud we wait untill after the big day?..


Cheers

[WishMaster]

I agree it should be made into a sticky That way there people who come here will have a thread to look at and see what antivirus software is available and not ask "Does anyone know any good antivirus software for windows and where can I download it"

[noODle]

I agree with noodle about making this sticky.

Anyone reading this threa should give Noodle's Tutorial thread a read, as he has commented some of the links are dead.. but then that is where I picked up a couple of links months ago..That is a hand tutorial.. suppose we could ask Neg if you can Update the original Post..or shud we wait untill after the big day?..

Thanks for the compliments.

I have actually started rewriting the tutorial a couple of times but for some reason never got fully to it, mainly because of the dead links and there are some thing not fully covered (like anti-trojan software and anti adware (there is ad-aware but not spybot for example)).
I even made an effort in creating it in AntiCode.
I will make another effort in rewriting this and then figure out if it should be replaced or reposted or something.
I will take me some time to get it straighten it out though.

I will contact Neg or MsM once it is done.

[Giant]

I heard that Panda was better than Nortons, what do you guys think?

[Fatphantom]

Anti Virus products -
Avast Anti virus
Solo Antivirus
nod32

Other links -
Open AntiVirus Project
Trend Micro Webprotect evaluation
Nod32 Antivirus Comparison
Panda Antivirus Comparison

The new Zonealarm comes with pestpatrol.. Might want to have a look at that - Click

[bpiedlow]

I heard that Panda was better than Nortons, what do you guys think?

I tend to agree with this for the following reasons:

- Panda scans faster (at least every system I've tested it on)
- Panda definition updates tend to come out quicker then Norton
- When scanning in non-safe mode Panda seems to use less system resources

To name a few reasons off the top of my head...

RRP

[Giant]

Thanks for that.