Anti-Virus Comparison

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Alias said:
What do you think of TrendMicro?

Alias
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I used PC-cillin for a year, never had a problem. Trend is the AV app that
comes with System Suite and Fix-it Utilites. Trend does a huge amount of
business selling to businesses, more than McAfee and Norton I believe.
 
edgarperrito said:
Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
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Thank you all for answering my post, I also wanted to tell that Defender Pro
is powered by Kaspersky Labs.

Again, a whole world sized THANK YOU
 
Leythos said:
Nope, didn't miss it at all, most AV products have dictionary lists they
use to find viruses, some also have other means to detect them. I've
always considered AV products to be mostly "reactionary", but, some of
the better ones provide a means to sense virus activity based on past
methods without a definition.
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Do you mean Heuristic Analysis? Haven't seen an a/v product provided
without it in years.

Steve
 
From: "Peter A. Stavrakoglou" <[email protected]>


|
| I used PC-cillin for a year, never had a problem. Trend is the AV app that
| comes with System Suite and Fix-it Utilites. Trend does a huge amount of
| business selling to businesses, more than McAfee and Norton I believe.
|

The Trend Micro engine may in the fix It Utilities but Fix It Utilities is pure junk.
Trend Micro has a smaller business share "...than McAfee and Norton..." and its signature
library is also smaller. McAfee is at about 155,000 signatures and Trend Micro ~113,000.

Know the facts !
 
From: "Steve N." <[email protected]>


| Do you mean Heuristic Analysis? Haven't seen an a/v product provided
| without it in years.
|
| Steve

All AV applications have some form of Heuristics scanning capabilities. However, it may not
be enabled by default in most applications and if enabled there may be an increase in
reported False Positive declarations.
 
digisol said:
AVG Pro is # 1 IMHO

Norton is system hogging GARBAGE.
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Your response is GARBAGE. I have Norton Internet Security 2006, and have
been using Norton products for many years. Norton consumes no more
resources than any other AV or Internet security suite, period. If you are
using a real time scanning engine, and it has no discernible impact on files
as they are opened, then it is not doing its job.
On a properly configured, well maintained and healthy system, NIS and NAV
have negligible impact on system resources.
If you can PROVE otherwise, with documented evidence, please do so.

Bobby
 
Running NAV 2004 since it was available to date. Except for liveupdate
crapping the bed, twice, its worked fine.

Due to increase virus definition update subscription, switching to another
AV when it runs out.

My take on current AVs is NOD32, Kapersky, then Panda. The trial version of
Panda 2005 really weighed down my system (temp removal of NAV at the time).
Even more than NAV. Got another 10 months to decide which to use.
 
=?Utf-8?B?ZWRnYXJwZXJyaXRv?= said:
Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004
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The free ones.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Blair" <[email protected]>


| I would strongly recommend AVG Free
| I use AVG plus Zone Alarm
| with skybot and Adaware for anti spyware
| Blair
|

I hope you mean; SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4 and Ad-aware SE v1.06. ;-)
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Yes I do
Blair
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Peter A. Stavrakoglou" <[email protected]>


|
| I used PC-cillin for a year, never had a problem. Trend is the AV app
that
| comes with System Suite and Fix-it Utilites. Trend does a huge amount
of
| business selling to businesses, more than McAfee and Norton I believe.
|

The Trend Micro engine may in the fix It Utilities but Fix It Utilities is
pure junk.
Trend Micro has a smaller business share "...than McAfee and Norton..."
and its signature
library is also smaller. McAfee is at about 155,000 signatures and Trend
Micro ~113,000.

Know the facts !
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I agree, you should know the facts. As of 2003, Trend was the leader in
gateway market and mail server market. I don't believe that's changed.
 
From: "Peter A. Stavrakoglou" <[email protected]>


|
| I agree, you should know the facts. As of 2003, Trend was the leader in
| gateway market and mail server market. I don't believe that's changed.
|

But not the Desktop AV market and I don't think they come close to the email server market.
Probably Symantec has that distinction but I'm not 100% sure.
 
Peter A. Stavrakoglou said:
I agree, you should know the facts. As of 2003, Trend was the leader in
gateway market and mail server market. I don't believe that's changed.
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Symantec has been and probably always will be #1 by a huge margin.
Symantec makes both Corporate and Consumer versions of their product, and
are used
widely throughout the world. Trend represents a tiny share compared to
Symantec.
Don't know what made you think Trend was number one, but it is far from
being number one.

Bobby
 
NoNoBadDog! said:
Symantec has been and probably always will be #1 by a huge margin.
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That doesn't make it good. That makes it popular.
Symantec makes both Corporate and Consumer versions of their product, and
are used
widely throughout the world.
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See above. There was a time when most people thought that the world is flat.

Trend represents a tiny share compared to
Symantec.
Don't know what made you think Trend was number one, but it is far from
being number one.

Bobby
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To truly rid a computer of viruses, more than one AV needs to be used.
None of them detect all of them.

Alias
 
From: "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org>

| NoNoBadDog! wrote:
||
| That doesn't make it good. That makes it popular.
||
| See above. There was a time when most people thought that the world is flat.
|
| Trend represents a tiny share compared to|
| To truly rid a computer of viruses, more than one AV needs to be used.
| None of them detect all of them.
|
| Alias

Absolutely correct. a multi-tiered implememtation.
Example:
Trend on border gateways, Symantec on Servers and McAfee on workstations.

It should be noted there is a big difference between the enterprise/corporate versions of
both McAfee and Symantec as compared to the retail versiosn. It is the retail versions that
cause so much bitching about their respective AV offerings.

I will also note that McAfee, Symantec and Trend are on the DISA DoD wide Anti Virus
contract.

Trend was awarded, this year, a DISA DoD wide Anti Spyware contract.
 
Alias said:
That doesn't make it good. That makes it popular.


See above. There was a time when most people thought that the world is
flat.

Trend represents a tiny share compared to

To truly rid a computer of viruses, more than one AV needs to be used.
None of them detect all of them.

Alias
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Wasn't making any claims about the efficacy of any product...just responding
to the claim that Trend was number one.

FWIW, Symantec does work, and offers protection as good as any of the other
products named in this thread. There is nothing significantly better or
worse about any of them. They all do their job.
Sort of a Ford-Chevy-Chrysler type of situation.


Bobby
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org>

| NoNoBadDog! wrote:
||
| That doesn't make it good. That makes it popular.
||
| See above. There was a time when most people thought that the world is
flat.
|
| Trend represents a tiny share compared to|
| To truly rid a computer of viruses, more than one AV needs to be used.
| None of them detect all of them.
|
| Alias

Absolutely correct. a multi-tiered implememtation.
Example:
Trend on border gateways, Symantec on Servers and McAfee on workstations.

It should be noted there is a big difference between the
enterprise/corporate versions of
both McAfee and Symantec as compared to the retail versiosn. It is the
retail versions that
cause so much bitching about their respective AV offerings.
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While I do not use Norton AV on any of my home systems, we use Symantec AV
in our office and it has kept us clean, no problems and very good
performance.
 
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