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Virus software...

Started by mr_roll, June 08, 2007, 21:42:05 PM

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mr_roll

What do you use? is it any good?

Looking for recomendations

Beaker

a mix of AVG and sophos at home.  I use Trend and McCaffe at work, niether of which i rate.

Jaitsu

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)

M3ta7h3ad

Active Virus Shield which is basically kapersky 6 just rebranded. Damn good.

Serious

Active Virus Shield here too, available free, or AVG which is free too.

skidzilla


Tongy

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

Mongoose


M3ta7h3ad

For paid for antivirus, ive yet to find anything that outperforms NOD32. Its a bloody amazing program that.

Mardoni

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

White Giant

Nutha vote for Avast, been using it for over 2 years.

mrt

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!!!

Leon

.::. www.leonslost.co.uk .::. Media Server Guide .::.

PC: i5 760 .::.  GA-P55-UD3 .::. 8GB Corsair 'Dominator' DDR3 .::. 1GB EVGA GTX 460 SC .::. Win7 Ultimate  .::. Dell 24" Ultra Sharp
Netbook: HP Mini 311c-1101sa .::. 3GB Ram .::. ION Hack .::. Win7 Ultimate
Server: HP MicroServer .::. 3GB Ram .::. 4x 2TB Storage .::. 512MB nVidia 210 .::. Win7 Ultimate, XBMC 11 (Aeon NOX), Sick Beard & Couch Potato
Phone: SE Xperia Mini Pro .::. MiniCMSandwich Lite (Android ICS Custom) .::. OC @ 1.6Ghz
Tablet: Asus Transformer TF101 w/ Dock .::. EOS JB Nightlies (Android JB Custom) .::. OC @ 1.6Ghz

Quixoticish

Common sense, and Ive never really had an issue with viruses.

Seriously though, Ive had good experiences with NOD32 in the past, definitely recommended.

Penguin

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.