31 replies to this topic

[athletec64]

I need to know cause I just uninstalled Norton, and want to try a new one. Thanks

[ShadowLink64]

Try McAfee... I guess its the 2nd best to Norton?

[Dagron]

Trend micro pc-cillins what I use

[ZERO]

Mcaffe IS the best, sorry to say shadow

I use Mcaffe

DO NOT get free antiviruses, they kill your comps

[acidtears]

ewww McAfee?

try AVG from grisoft I think

its pretty good for a free anti virus

but the best would be Kaspersky <3

[ShadowLink64]

Mcaffe IS the best, sorry to say shadow

I use Mcaffe

DO NOT get free antiviruses, they kill your comps

I don't even need an antivirus (Linux), so shows how much I know.

[Dagron]

Free antiviruses give you viruses xD

[ZERO]

ewww McAfee?

try AVG from grisoft I think

its pretty good for a free anti virus

but the best would be Kaspersky <3

Ewwww AVG and Kaspersky

1. AVG is nothing

2. Ewww Kaspersky

don't even need an antivirus (Linux), so shows how much I know.

LUCKY!!!

Free antiviruses give you viruses xD

YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!! They eat up al lyour space to AND it takes like 30 mins for your computer to load at startup

[Fatal]

uhh bitdefender 8.0 or Norton 2005

[SteWieH]

exbecausee me Zero I used Linux and it took me just as long to load windows as it took to load linux is not LONGER. so shh. but Kaspersky and Norton is the best

[NP_craver]

I use mcafee atm, it pretty good and doesnt lagg me down to much..or mayb try nod32, I heard its also pretty good

[AUS]

Personally.. I'm a Kaspersky man.

[Dagron]

Does anyone else use pc cillin?

[Kniferkia]

hmm if theres Ads that u dun like.. Try Ad Aware.. well I'm using norton tho.

[Ashaide]

I am using AVG free edition, it's good for me. there's loads out there, I tried Panda but hated it

[huggles290]

Norton miss's a lot of stuff when I had it installed, when I installed mcaffe it's picked it all up...

so I'd go with mcafee + some good antispyware program

[pyke]

mcaffee is pretty good I think. Kaspersky is also very powerful. I think it crushed a lot of other competittors for percatnage of viruses found in a test.

[AUS]

My experience from being in the trojan scene is that Kaspersky detects files that have been repacked or encrypted a lot better than Norton does.  I don't have a defenite opinion on mcaffe... but I think Kaspersky is probably better than it.  Only negative about Kaspersky is that at ti'mes it tends to be a bit of a resource hog.

[414de7fe6]

One that works.

[Mumei]

not wishing to get into a flame war - I knew quite a lot about AV's last year (could all have changed since then LOL)

none of them are perfect and all have things that they are stronger in and areas that they are weak in.

The most I'mportant thing is whichever one you use, update it regurely - daily if they allow

Norton is always resource hungry and changes some core settings in your PC that can cause issues with some programs - not worth the money I'mO - people like it because they sell it as a "complete solution"

Kaspersky is good, not always the first patches released to market, quite resource hungry, but worth the money

Sophos, a good one ai'med at the business market

McAffee have some good configurations (they do a low resource option) but the active-scan is slow and can cause problems with some applications

AVG - the best of the free AV's out there, good regular updates, not as quick to market with the updates on the free version as Sophos, but you get what you pay for LOL

A-squared, a good free malware scanner that can be used in conjunction with all the above as a backup - free version has manual update option only, still I recommend it's used as a second scanner - especially if you're using AVG

ad-aware & Spybot S&D - just put them on, they are a requirement LOL

then there are the online scanners - there's loads of them, trend is the last one I've used, seemed ok, worth doing if you suspect you've got a virus and you don't want to install an AV

I still recommend AVG, A-squared, Ad-aware, and Spybot S&D - for people who don't want to spend any money (and on one of my systems)

[Bahbuu]

Me use mcafee

with ad-aware and spybot S&D

but in my opinion.. the best is that... just don't dl stuff from unreliable sources

[Jaf]

Avg worked nicely but it has slow updates...

[414de7fe6]

Norton is always resource hungry and changes some core settings in your PC that can cause issues with some programs - not worth the money I'mO - people like it because they sell it as a "complete solution"

My father works for symantec, a company which majorly helped with that AV..He actually did some work on it, It changes, maybe 2 settings to do with the computer. One is a hosts file thing and he wont tell me what the other is. I use symantec GHOST (google it) and it works like a charm. I got a prototype copy to test out, it really really rules.

I have to agree with you on the price, it is a bit overpriced for what they offer.

[ShadowLink64]

I wish I had AV people for parents.. rawr!

[ToxicS]

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

This website. It has most of the antivirus scanners combined