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Title: Virus software...
Post by: mr_roll on June 08, 2007, 21:42:05 PM
What do you use? is it any good?

Looking for recomendations
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Beaker on June 08, 2007, 22:10:11 PM
a mix of AVG and sophos at home.  I use Trend and McCaffe at work, niether of which i rate.
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Jaitsu on June 08, 2007, 22:37:47 PM
Quote from: Beakera mix of AVG and sophos at home.  I use Trend and McCaffe at work, niether of which i rate.

man... trend is probably the worst thing known to man, well thats kind of a lie, under XP it was really solid.. nothing special but did the job, but as soon as vista dropped and i upgraded - gave me bluescreen errors and i was tearing my hair out for weeks tryna figure out what it was

in reply to mr_rolls question... i use avast! antivirus, which is great so far (only been using it a month or so)
Title: Virus software...
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on June 08, 2007, 22:42:10 PM
Active Virus Shield which is basically kapersky 6 just rebranded. Damn good.
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Serious on June 09, 2007, 00:30:57 AM
Active Virus Shield here too, available free, or AVG which is free too.
Title: Virus software...
Post by: skidzilla on June 09, 2007, 00:32:24 AM
Linux. (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5384/lolantivirusip4.png) :P
Title: Virus software...
Post by: Tongy on June 09, 2007, 06:49:41 AM
AVS is the best free one on the market... however the noticable problem is that it doesnt scan active web content before it gets onto your PC .... then it will.

I use both Kaspersky Internet Security and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus at work and they both work well (Kaspersky is my favourite).

Aria are selling Kaspersky AV for about about £8 for a year. Thats not bad value.

Ebuyer were selling Bitdefender for about the same if not less for 2 PCs for 2 years.... I got loads of them :D

I steer clear of Norton (satans gusset stains) like its a woman with the clap.... just no. Mcafee canbe gotten from Aria cheaply too but I loathe that god awful Verify crap that always pops up.

Cheers
Tongy
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Mongoose on June 09, 2007, 07:19:53 AM
AVG here
Title: Virus software...
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on June 09, 2007, 09:59:29 AM
For paid for antivirus, ive yet to find anything that outperforms NOD32. Its a bloody amazing program that.
Title: Virus software...
Post by: Mardoni on June 09, 2007, 10:56:06 AM
I use F-Prot at home because a few years ago it was the cheapest way to protect 4 machines under one roof.

Nowdays I recommend the free home version of Avast.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: White Giant on June 10, 2007, 15:22:11 PM
Nutha vote for Avast, been using it for over 2 years.
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: mrt on June 11, 2007, 16:00:21 PM
Avast is ace ... have it installed on my media center; it does an auto update and when it says "your virus software has been updated" have to remember to turn the speakers down, had it pretty loud the other week as was watching finale of Lost .... scary stuff!!!  Software is very good though!!!
Title: Virus software...
Post by: Leon on June 11, 2007, 17:27:14 PM
AVG free here
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Post by: Quixoticish on June 11, 2007, 17:44:42 PM
Common sense, and Ive never really had an issue with viruses.

Seriously though, Ive had good experiences with NOD32 in the past, definitely recommended.
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Penguin on August 28, 2007, 16:27:55 PM
Erm- shouldnt you be asking about ANTI virus software? ;-p In any way, Im using Norton AV. It gets the job done and runs pretty reliable on my machine.
Title: Virus software...
Post by: addictweb on August 28, 2007, 16:46:54 PM
Another vote for BitDefender. Not sure if its the standard package but the one im running does spyware, firewall and anti-virus.

Nice an unobtrusive once its set up and so far (6 months-ish) has done the job.

Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Alfred PEnnyworth on September 27, 2007, 09:19:14 AM
I currently have norton 360. Very nice piece of software, if you like all-in-one stuff (I do;)).
Title: Virus software...
Post by: bear on September 27, 2007, 10:03:34 AM
I have run Bitdefender and NOD32 and am now trying Avira
on one machine. Bitdefender is fine but a bit annoying sometimes, NOD32 has always been good and give no hassels, Avira has so far been fine but I have only used it less than a month yet so it is hard to tell.
Title: Re:Virus software...
Post by: Cypher on September 27, 2007, 21:33:36 PM
Symantec Antivirus

Autoupdates, unobtrusive.  Doesnt ask you every 5 seconds what it should do.

I hate McAfee Secuity Centre with a passion.