[RESOLVED] What's the best Anti-Virus software?

[nightzulu]

Well my opion about anti virus software is every one has there likes and dislike...i use a free 1 callded AVG and it does great and i love it and i run pc cillian 98 which works realy great also.

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[SNAFU]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by nightzulu:
Well my opion about anti virus software is every one has there likes and dislike...

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Good call. I agree. I used AVG for a long time. I liked it alot. I now have Norton 2000, which works well for me too.

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[Deity]

I prefer to use McAfee, simply for the various features involved in the program, but there seem to be issues with the software too often. Guess it's time to switch.

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[Renée]

I gave up Norton and McAfee for Aladdin's eSafe. It's free and works really well for me so far. Has its own mini-firewall, too. Best of all, it doesn't freak my system out the way Norton and McAfee sometimes did. Just my $0.02. Sometimes people's opinions on AV products are as varied as they are about drycleaners.

[crazyman]

I have used norton for years and I installed inoculate a few months ago on one of my boxes and it seems to work fine.I have had no virus problems.They both seem to work good.

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[anothergeorge]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned AVG for home use. The free version is extremely user friendly, and it comes out well in most tests that I have read. I have Norton 2001, but I find that it takes over the computer too much. Also I downloaded the latest update the other day and it took out some of my Web Drivers. When my current year ends, I think I'll switch to AVG, I have recommended it to all my friends and they all seem very happy with it.

[Tushar]

I would vote for McAfee. They come out with extra.dats in case of outbreak & also update weekly their DAT files.

Particularly useful when situations like the latest spoof caused due to Verisign certificate issued to a person claiming to be MS employee. Patch from MS itself is yet to come.

In fact I went to their site for this particular case because of windrivers.com and yes it was available there.

[jay015]

Personally prefer Mcafee...

[Tony Vallester]

All my aproval to inoculateIT PE, it really works, my lan is free now from viruses. and they will release new updates almost weely, and change the engine every 6 months or something, so they are ahead of many paid for it a.v.

[Manicheya]

F-Secure AV is the one I use at home, work and for customers.

Haven't had an issue with it at all. Updates can be centrally managed (policy-based). It uses 3 detection engines (including Kaspersky's AVP) and doesn't miss anything. More importantly it is good at removing virii also.

As for updates, they do them daily or more if required. Updates can be done automatically or manually for you control freaks.

When the Happy Virus made the rounds, F-Secure had a fix within minutes for people who didn't update, while other "popular" AV programs mentioned above took quite a bit longer to provide ANY updates.

[jrd]

I dunno bout Norton. The IT dept. I work in is responsible for 1000+ machines, and we have chosen McAfee NetShield over NAV (in fact putting on any Norton product is almost giving yourself a virus....) Anyhow, we had NAV at one site on or WAN that just lost a huge amount of data to the LoveLetter worm. In fact, after it took several scans of the server drives before Norton stopped finding anymore viruses. The find command had a different story to tell when we searched for *.vbs . Then we installed McAfee. And if your using it on a network, the netshield controls make it simple to update all the DAT's on your workstations and schedule scans etc.

Long live Network Associates

[swork]

Any of you heard of Sophos? www.sophos.com.

I used this in a Novell environment with W95 workstations and then in WinNT Server with W98. Depending on your licence it can also allow remotes. The installation is a doddle and the support is excellent. Price-wise, I suppose it's quite hefty but for Administrators it's a real time-saver.

However, at home on my desktop m/c W98 and OP97 with Outlook 98 and my laptop m/c with WinNT4 WS and OP2000, I use NAV2001 as it fits in nicely with my other Norton utilities.

Only trouble with NAV2001 is the listing of protected e-mail clients. Symantec seems to have a problem with listing (although the POProxy.exe file works anyway) OL98 as a protected client - although OL2000 has no probs.

I'm one of those DREARY PEOPLE who likes to keep my program builders down to a minimum so it's just Bill and Symantec's (Norton) for me - but I can highly recommend Sophos - check it out!

[shadow1]

With bloodhound heuristics turned up to max norton has stopped all virii on my servers.

[tha 4NiK8R]

You opened a can of worms with this one...well here is my opinion: goto www.grisoft.com ang get AVG. It is free and it has nailed every virus I have thrown at it. I did extensive testing of Norton and McAfee and ended up with AVG(the free one beat out the "corporate standards" who would have guessed).

[JeanneD]

Norton 2001 gets my vote hands down.
At my store I don't know how many pcs I have gotten in running mcaffee that either detected the virus but couldn't fix it or didn't detect it at all,
Nortons also picks up a lot of password trojans particular to AOL which a majority of my customers use. The CD is bootable also. Plus it live-updates automatically EVERY time you go online if you set it, without prompting which is great for average users who think their 3-4 year old virus software that came on their computer and has never been updated is doing the trick.