I have tried many antivirus and the best for now are karspersky and avast anti virus
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I have tried many antivirus and the best for now are karspersky and avast anti virus
I use Kaspersky,
Very good and easy to use.. and also i like this russian name :P
I do not bother, I find they slow my machine down to the machine to the extreme.I back up weekly and am very carefull which sites and emails I open.
Ian
I was using Norton AV for the last year.I now use AVG free edition and my pc is running alot faster!!!
I agree with Mark.
I have used the free version of AVG ANTI VIRUS.
The computer magazine that I have subscribed to for the last five years Computeractive. Did a comparison / test survey and came to the conclusion.
All Anti Virus Software has issues and none are infaluable but at least AVG. Is free!
Incidently they have a brilliant little program called Mailwasher on their website. Which allows you to view all emails before they are opened. More importantly you can bounce the email back as if it's a redundant address.
Check it out.
Grizzly
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnun...814/mailwasher
I have been using the free version of AVG till recently, when I found that there are some problems with it. Now I have installed Norton in all my office and personal computers and fortunately they are working till now.
I use an Apple Mac, virus's are written for the Windows operating systems, therefore do not affect the osx operating system. I have opened many corrupt files and i just delete them.
Also, now I have Windows on my Mac, but i only boot it up when i need to, ie when i have a Windows only program, but saying that most programs are now released on osx also.
Chris
I have had good luck with Norton and have just recently updated it to Norton 360.
I have used Spybot S&D free versions and that seemed pretty good as to keeping my registry in good shape, but not all that good to keep viruses from getting in the first place.
I hear many peiople swear by it but for me, its Norton antivirus 360 all the way. as it has proven to work very effectively.:D
A-Z
www.avg.com only no problems since, and up-dates daily.
Had norton, continual problems after each up-date, and having paid for privilage.
magoo
AV software depends on what you what.
Do you want something that runs continously consuming resourses and checking every file you access constantly?
Or do you want a simple small program you can use just to check new downloaded files manually before opening, and maybe run a full scan once a week?
I use to run AVG and avast, but I didn't need that level of obtrusiveness and memory stolen from me, as I didn't seem to get any viruses anyway. I didn't need every program checked on schedule or every email checked.
Now I just use clamwin, it's a manual scanner that doesn't protect you automatically, so it doesn't hog you PC memory. You just manually right-click and scan any downloads or attachments before opening and if you know what you're doing, that, a good firewall, good malware scanners and good PC usage is enough.
You don't have to pay continually for a product or updates (clam win is free and has free updates), and you don't need some resource hogging bloatware always running on your PC.
I recommend avast if you want something fully automatic and have a decent spec PC though, small enough and funtional enough.
It sounds like good AV softwaqre for you if you are the only user of the PC,
In my situation many house hold members use my PC and will not know how to manually run the AV manually or will be to lazy.
I think for PC's that are used by other users need auto protection, especially in my application and situation, otherwise i may be doing system the dreaded system recoveries every 3 months.
Regards A-Z
NOD 32 for me, tried a few and they seem to slow the system down, this one you install, set it up for scanning and forget about it
Avast Home Edition Its Free And Updates Every Day
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 now available for download.
You can use this edition to protect your computer from virus.Many people have downloaded this free edition version
here is link free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe
Though at home I have Window Live OneCare I think the best one is NOD32 from www.eset.com.
Norton crashed my computer several times and McAfee is slow besides don't detect viruses in .dbx (Outlook Express) files and this is anoying. It does detect them if you try to open an email with the virus but not if you scan the files.
Haven't tried the rest.
I know this is an old thread but I read through it and just wondered how many of you have tested your firewall. If you haven't you could try this.
grc.com
I haven't made 15 posts so it won't let me insert a hyperlink
Click on shields up and choose the various options to see how hidden you really are when online.
avg free edition with comodo firewall (also free)
excellent combo
Switched my desktop to linux last summer, so no longer need anti-virus there. Use Kaspersky suite on the laptop Haven't had a virus in years.
I use nod 32 it covers most viruses, and it keeps its self to its self, Just get the odd pop up telling me its updated. did i mention its free too :)
I used Kaspersky Anti Virusversion 2009.
You can get free 100 days by using their promotion
To my way of thinking; if I install several anti virus software if one doesn't catch the bug the other will. However, I was told that is not a good idea, it will slow down my system - which I beleived. I am also getting other conflicing advice - not sure if it is sound advice.
I would like to hear some of your opinions.
Only run one AV if it's a constant background running program. Even one of them chews up a lot of system resources. Right now I'm using avast as a constant running program for anti virus. But I have installed many anti spyware type scanners as they are manual scanners, not always running in memory, (superantispyware, spybot, antimalware and MS's own defender), and clamwin for antivirus as I have mentioned before.
So I scan every so often with those manual spyware/malware scanners, plus online anti virus scanners if I feel that my one full time running antivirus isn't doing the job.
Trend Internet Security seems to be pretty good
There is quite a good guide here:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/sho...virus-software
Gives details on free anti-virus and spyware programs.
I am a nod32 user too
NOD32 from www dot eset dot com
No reduction in performance.
No false positives.
Daily updates.
Very light on resources.
Nothing got through it yet.
I dare say I havn't seen it's equal.
I use several OS's for different reasons and found out that avast works good on 2Kpro, Mcaffee works good on XP and AVG is great on 7. No issues.
i started useing "bullguard" on a reccomendation from a friend in the know.
So far so good!
All of AV is good I think, as long as it up to date...
Everybody know SMADAV antivirus?
It 's Indonesian product. I use it. so far is OK.
I think no antivirus ferfect to protect all virus attack.
i use Nod 32 from last two years, as its serial are readily available on torrentz .com and its uninstalling is also very eazy.. if u have any problem then u can uninstall.
Unlike norton its very difficult to unistall.
I've voted for AVG but my real choice is Avast... wondering why its not included in the choice. For me it the best.
For those techies out there you might want to check out this site, which is very trustworthy:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/
As far as virus scanners, I'm with Paul. The free versions of these have to be updated manually but they are very good:
http://www.superantispyware.com/
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
I run these weekly.
For my real time scanner I use Webroot Spysweeper
http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-products.html
get the 39.95 version, that is all you need. When you renew you can get the CD for another $5-6 but you don't need it. Although it is real-time, you should run a full scan weekly also, and it can be set to do that automatically if desired.
I'd also run Spybot as mentioned
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
These recommendations are from techie friends who do this for a living. You definitely need to run more than one scanner.
If you have your business and finances on a computer, I would highly advise that you never go on-line with that computer, instead use a separate computer for on-line activities.
You should also consider cleaning your machine weekly using this (but don't use the registry cleaner utility):
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Set it to automatically update, and clean before you scan, that way scanning will be faster.
i use smadav, is the best antivirus for indonesian users
u can visit here smadav.net
AVG free
Malware Bytes
SuperAnti Spyware
and Microsoft Security Essentials
use all 4 concurrently, they work great together, nothing gets through and they are light on using system resources