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Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: skidzilla on September 05, 2006, 09:30:41 AM
Kaspersky? (http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/04/and-the-best-antivirus-is/)
Good to see Avast beating both AVG and Norton anyhow. :)
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Mardoni on September 05, 2006, 09:51:52 AM
Pulling your network cable :D

I use and like F-Prot.
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Leon on September 05, 2006, 09:59:24 AM
Amusing about AOL, good to see they choose a good AV to base their free one on... Might even be worth downloading some AOL branded software :P
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: bear on September 05, 2006, 10:16:01 AM
Was thinking my Nod32 on 10th !!! Got to get Kapersky or AOL but then I read further and saw Nod32 at top in heuristics .
QuoteHeuristic testing is extremely important because that is what gives an Antivirus the ability to catch a virus even it is not in the database.
So Ill keep Nod32 :)
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on September 05, 2006, 11:39:40 AM
Quote from: skidzillaKaspersky?
Good to see Avast beating both AVG and Norton anyhow. :)

No heuristics though, but then, its not such a big deal if the virus db is bang on and very regularly updated I guess.

AVG still does very well.
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: redneck on September 05, 2006, 12:01:05 PM
i dont use antivirus.

no one sends them to me.
Title: Re:And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Serious on September 05, 2006, 12:06:01 PM
/sneezes great big green gobs of snot all over red

You have plenty now then ;)
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: redneck on September 05, 2006, 12:17:01 PM
ive got a throat infection if you want a kiss.
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on September 05, 2006, 18:23:06 PM
Avast ye tbh
Title: Re:And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Beaker on September 05, 2006, 18:33:31 PM
TBH Im still liking Sophos.  Its a great little proggy, though im living on the fact someone else pays my subscriptions :)
Title: Re:And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: funkychicken9000 on September 20, 2006, 16:14:40 PM
Just to say I installed the AOL AV on my dads desktop as his norton subscription expired the other day.  Time will tell, but it looks pretty promising at the mo.

On  related note:  Why does uninstalling Norton always corrupt the registry and stop computers from booting?  Thats two machines its borked, thankfully starting in Last Good Config mode fixes it  :?
Title: And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Poison_UK on September 20, 2006, 16:35:38 PM
AVG still for me :)
Title: Re:And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Serious on September 20, 2006, 16:41:52 PM
The most interesting bit is that the AOL offering is a badged version of Kaspersky and seems to be free. Just try it out :)
Title: Re:And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: funkychicken9000 on September 20, 2006, 17:37:52 PM
Quote from: SeriousThe most interesting bit is that the AOL offering is a badged version of Kaspersky and seems to be free. Just try it out :)

I know, I already have.  Thats why I mentioned it  :?
Title: Re:And The Best Antivirus Is?
Post by: Serious on September 20, 2006, 17:44:26 PM
but you didnt mention it was free ;)

Anyways now running a full scan to see if anything has gotten past me...

Seems OK so far except it gave the report :/

detected: adware not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Gator.1050   File: G:\install\getrt45d.exe/WISE0087.BIN

Didnt give the same elsewhere so I just deleted the exe for it dispite the fact its totally OK and everything seems fine. Nothing else detected.
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