What do you suggest for an anti Virus Program?

**pcgal** · August 21st, 2005, 12:20 AM

[SIZE=2]Hello I am using Norton 2003 and need to upgrade. Now I have never had any probs with it and never had any infection that I know about. Can any one suggest to me a really good anti virus program other than norton?

**TechZ** · August 21st, 2005, 03:47 AM

I've used Norton for a good long time, and the only thing better than Norton 2003 IMO, is Norton 2005.

Two other I would recommend are Panda AV, and TrendMicro.

**Kodiak** · August 21st, 2005, 08:50 PM

Kaspersky is a very good antivirus.

**Ferrit** · August 21st, 2005, 09:13 PM

Norton no question

**geoscomp** · August 22nd, 2005, 08:50 AM

Can any one suggest to me a really good anti virus program other than norton

I would suggest NOD32 at www.eset.com
Here in the shop I am seeing more and more problems with new versions of Norton and XP updates, etc. Also, Norton is extremely difficult for the typical end user to remove completely if it is desired.

**slgrieb** · August 22nd, 2005, 06:29 PM

My preference is still Norton, but Nod32 has a great track record, as do Norman Antivirus, Sophos, and McAfee (over the last couple of years). Virus Bulletin http://www.virusbtn.com/ has a very rigorous testing procedure (VB100 Awards).

Still I would check out reviews on PC Magazine, CNet Central, PC World, because differences in ease of use and support vary quite a bit between products. You can also Google reviews.

**Fatal0E** · August 22nd, 2005, 08:55 PM

I hate norton 2004-2005

I really like trend micro, but after upgrading to XP X64 I am using Avast and I think I like it even better.

**ADS_Tech** · August 25th, 2005, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by geoscomp

I would suggest NOD32 at www.eset.com
Here in the shop I am seeing more and more problems with new versions of Norton and XP updates, etc. Also, Norton is extremely difficult for the typical end user to remove completely if it is desired.

I cant praise NOD enough. Yes, Norton is good, but theres too many problems to deal with with upgrading to 2005. Clean install on a new system, fine. But where youve got the machine with an older expiring version, and recently upgraded to SP2, then its a real headache. I just uninstall it, then install NOD. Its quick to install and update, runs very light, is very effective and best of all, Ive yet (and I install about 5 licences a day) to encounter any incompatibilities. Not to mention the time saved. NOD takes about 30 seconds to install, and only a few minutes to update even on dial up.

**Kodiak** · August 25th, 2005, 09:31 AM

I always tell my customers that all antiviruses are only as good as there last update. I have tested just about every one out there and I always come back to Kas.

**confus-ed** · August 26th, 2005, 03:33 AM

I think all AV stuff is much of muchness, despite all the alarming detection (or lack of it) rates that get reported for various products, they are all generally capable of detecting most known viruses & generally all you are paying for is to get to know about them a bit earlier & get your definitions updated a bit sooner (when there are some 'new' ones).

What does differ greatly between 'anti virus' type products, is what they also might 'tackle' - a very simple (yet pretty reliable) virus scanner such as AVG might give your system a clean bill of health, yet if you scan with something else it might say you do 'have an infection' .. but what did you actually get infected with ? Well not a virus (in this case) but some trojan or worm or some other bit of s/w that you didn't really want (malware)! ( so it ain't 'strictly' a virus, so some things might just ignore it)

NIS is meant to protect against viruses, trojans, worms, infact the whole malware spectrum, & I suppose on that its 'reasonable', but there just isn't a product, if you ask me that's capable of fully protecting any system, as security weaknesses in windows itself seem to make this a never ending task to accomplish ..

Best AV protection you can get is unplugging from the net !