Anti-Virus

June 17th, 2004, 8:58 pm

What are you using?

Im looking for a good antivirus program.

Norton is on my list so far.

Anyone have any better ideas?

June 17th, 2004, 9:07 pm

i use Norton corporate edition cause it never runs out of live updates.
i trust norton but i hear McAfee is just as good.
i wouldnt trust those freeware anti-virus programs, if you are gunna get protection buy it.

June 17th, 2004, 10:11 pm

well AVG is what I use here at home, of course I would not suggest anything free for corporate use. I usually know what I am doing, and I don't really need an anti-virus. But if you have other people using your computer, or you are downloading a lot of crap that you have no idea about; that you would probably be suited best with Norton like the previous poster suggested

June 17th, 2004, 10:34 pm

I've been using AVG free version on my home system for the last few months. So far it has worked very well. I'm pretty careful like vladdrac so it's probably all I will need. I don't use p2p programs and never open attatchments. I like the fact that it's not a resource hog and updates are made available on a regular basis. Grisoft also makes a pro version of AVG which gets good reviews. I have no experience with it so I can't really say how well it works. Based on my experience with the free version, I would guess it works very well.

I used to use McAfee and it did a good job. It seemed to be a bit of a resource hog however. I didn't care for the activeX interface which was necessary for virus def. updates.

Of course, if your willing and able to spend some money on virus protection, then that's probably your best bet. Especially if you download a lot of files and use p2p networks.

June 18th, 2004, 2:34 am

AVG free version. its very good and free to update too.

[Rabid Dog]

June 18th, 2004, 2:50 am

Well I was on the internet for just under a minute and caught a variation of msBlast.;

Downloaded AVG anti-virus (plus the all the patches) and it cleaned the mess up nicely

Would say go with AVG, it is free for personal use, live updates etc.

Hasn't let me down

June 18th, 2004, 5:58 am

No matter how careful one might be, you should always have some sort of protection. Last year after reformatting and reinstalling my OS I waited a day to install my AV. Just being lazy. Wouldn't you know it? In that short amount of time, I got infected.

[Rabid Dog]

June 18th, 2004, 6:06 am

It is amazing how these things get around. I mean in order for blaster to still be going around means a few things.

Servers that are infected have not been disinfected.
Servers have not been patched

and the same applies to user machines.

It is insane but I suppose virus writes form some part of an equilibrium in the programming world, I mean imagine the whole world was comitted to writting one piece of software, scary what it would be able to do

June 18th, 2004, 8:55 am

I personally use Symantec (Norton) AntiVirus Corporate Edition.

June 18th, 2004, 8:57 am

Yes, I don't understand people that aren't updating or patching their systems rabid dog. It just defies all logic. Its like, who the hell is on there IT staff?

June 18th, 2004, 9:00 am

Luckilly, since we use the Corporate Edidtion here at work, we set everyone up as managed. So everyones virus definitions are updated automatically, that way I don't have to worry about updating 50+ computers.

June 18th, 2004, 2:29 pm

that would would take quite a while....

June 20th, 2004, 2:22 am

Norton by far has been my prefferance I prefer this one over Mcaffee
all though both are very effective.

June 21st, 2004, 9:54 pm

Updated my computer week before last, connected to the net without any firewall or antivirus, within 1 minute of being online (hadn't even gone to any websites) got infected with a virus and had to reinstall everything again.

Tools I recommend to anyone to protect your computer (and they are free)

Zone Alarm firewall: http://www.download.com/ZoneAlarm/3000- ... ag=lst-0-5
AVG Anti Virus: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
Google Toolbar (popup blocker): http://toolbar.google.com/
Adaware (spyware remover): http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
& Disable preview pane in Email
& keep your Windows updated with the latest patches

Do these things and your chances of getting a virus/intrusion etc on your PC is next to nil

June 21st, 2004, 11:11 pm

yeah, I fully agree with that, and the best thing about all those programs mentioned...they are free