Which is the best, according to you, antivirus tool?
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Which is the best, according to you, antivirus tool?
At the moment I would say Norton, but if they plan to support Magic Lantern, then I will give them the finger :flip:
and switch to Sophos.
The one i use at work and home and customers machines is InoculateIT. They have updates almost daily. Worked perfect for me and have not had any trouble, plus it was free.
It doesn't really matter to me. I'm currently using McAfee, but I would be just as happy with Norton.
AV Solutions can be somewhat subjective, they all have their strengths and weeknesses.
For the desktop I like Sophos as it is .dll based and loads in to memory rather than having to be called in and out all the time. So it causes system impact. it can be updated from a central installation so on a network it is easy to maintain recommended levels of protection with the updated IDE files
Mail bourne virus control is still a bit of a thorny issue with none products i have seen over the years dealing with it properly at desktop level requiring a mail gateway resident or smtp relay based solution. Being a bit of a synic I suspect this is more a money making venture for the Av companies as i dare say it aint that hard to trap email inbound to the desktop and have a quick look at it
As AV solutions are predominantly reactive to virii in the wild and with heuristics being over eager or sometimes down right unwilling to predict whether something is potentially dangerous then it is still the best option to use a non M$ mail client and viciously delete anything you werent waiting for
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Who needs enemies. When you have family, friends and co-workers
Speaking of M$ mail clients, does anybody know about the McAfee bug that deletes e-mails from Outlook. I had a hard time convincing the company I work for as a sysadmin to switch to netscape or something else.
Now they think that if they switch to just Outlook that the problem wil be solved.
Focmaester,
I believe this may be the item you are looking for
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Oops,
here is the link.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22508.html
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I really like the new norton corporate, real-time scanning that barely impacts system performance (unless you're copying thousands of files), and integrates into outlook and other common mail clients to scan e-mails as they're downloaded.
Trend Micro NeatSuite it is everything Norton is and cost less.
I am using AVG Anti-Virus and it is great! It is completely free for home users.
The maker (grisoft) used to have real slow servers (like 7-12 K a sec max), but they upgraded recentley, and the speed is nice. (so far i can get my max speed from my DSL line off it.)
They release updates fairly often and they had a patch for the "Goner" virus the day it came out. (Just like Mcafee or Norton.)
B4 I used AVG, i used McAfee and was pleased with it. I have heard horror stories about Norton software though, and two friends of mine had non-stop crashes after installing one of their products (Norton's) onto their systems.
I'm a Norton person, myself. I used to use McAfee, but it took at least twice the resources that Norton does now. As far as I can tell, it scans just as well as McAfee did. I also like its interface better.
Currently I'm using Total Virus Defence but I'm planning to change to Panda Antivirus since TVD is built on McAfee scan and it takes big amount of resources from the system.
Panda Antivirus have had a lots of bugs earlier but they have now rebuild the whole engine and it seems stable. A big plus for Panda Software are their support and disinfection tools. It's a dll scanner and it's faster and takes less resources then McAfee.
Another data security company not mentioned above is
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Norman - the data security company
Norman is one of the world's leading companies within the field of data security. With products for virus control personal firewall, risk analysis, encryption, data recovery and certified data erasure, the company plays an important role in the data industry.
http://www.antivirus.com
Trend Micro Pc-cillin 2000
I highly recommend this.
Has a real time scan that scans everything in the background and doesn't use any resources. It's only a 30 day trial but...
F-Secure Antivirus www.f-secure.com and one freeware
f-prot from same plase
I use panda software protection. they claim that most of the viruses originate in europe and by the time it reaches me and mine they have found it already. i like the update features and the muti-profiles i can implement on my computer. its high cost is a factor in its concideration, but i would tell anyone that it is one time, and has payed for itself already.
remember: its only print.
iam now with the norton antivirus 2002 and i just have one thing to say , is the same old ****
it never change, ohh the visual change but the rest its the same