Anyone using AntiVir?

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psycho_pastrami

http://www.free-av.com/

The interface is a little clunky, but functional and it does not seem
to suck up resources like Norton does.
Also the updates are very frequent.
I use it in combination with ZoneAlarm "Integrity Desktop" and I am
satisfied.

Any other users?
Just curious if this is a decent program or should I look elsewhere.
I was never impressed with AVG BTW.

psycho
 
http://www.free-av.com/

The interface is a little clunky, but functional and it does not seem
to suck up resources like Norton does.
Also the updates are very frequent.
I use it in combination with ZoneAlarm "Integrity Desktop" and I am
satisfied.

Any other users?
Just curious if this is a decent program or should I look elsewhere.
I was never impressed with AVG BTW.

psycho
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I've used it. It appears to work. Depends what you want I guess. I would
suggest that virus checkers need to catch all in the wild viruses as
published on the wild list, at least. Detecting antique dos viruses, is in
the majority of cases not so important. Many don't are unable to work under
windows, and those that do are less able to do any sort of damage because
you can't go writing to sectors anymore wily nilly. They still float around.
But I suppose it's the state of the art that you have to be mindful of.
Macro viruses don't really figure in things today either.

It's swings and roundabouts, and some AV checkers don't always seem to be
very user friendly. On this PC, which isn't mine, is AVG, because it's
fairly easy to use, not because it finds the most viruses. It seems to work
ok though, I've poked a few in its direction from time to time and it's
nabbed them. This pc's never seen a virus 'outbreak'

Best thing to do might be to look somewhere like virusbulletin, or some such
place if you want a comparison.
 
Any other users?

Yes - I use it along with one other freeware and two payware AV's.
Just curious if this is a decent program or should I look elsewhere.
I was never impressed with AVG BTW.
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IMHO, it is much better than AVG 6 - it scores higher on my little
collection (80) of baddies, and it allows more fine control.
 
IMHO, it is much better than AVG 6 - it scores higher on my little
collection (80) of baddies, and it allows more fine control.
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Except that using your collection of 80 "baddies" doesn't mean
anything. try referring him to a competent independent review such as
the Virus Bulletin.
 
Except that using your collection of 80 "baddies" doesn't mean
anything.
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He was asking for personal opinions - I took some time and gave him an
opinion.

There are lots of testing sites; VB is one of them; and many have
conflicting opinions.

Some of us (two posters in this thread) have taken the extra step of testing
scanners and monitors themselves. Certainly testing these things gives a
potential user some insight into the AV).

Yes, I have AVG as well.

1. It is certainly the least capable of the AV's I've used.
2. While it handles eicar files quite well, the gui scanner will
automatically "vault" any non-eicar file it considers infected - which means
a lost system if it comes up with a false positive on a critical system
file. The program obviously has a separate subroutine for handling eicar.
You can validate this by scanning a folder containing both an eicar file and
an infected file.
3. It comes with three scanners; DOS, command-line 32 bit; and gui 32-bit.
If you want to do yourself a favor, then don't run the gui scanner, but
instead use the command line - making sure that the options include "report
only". It is just as fast as the gui interface, but allows more fine
control.

But you aren't interested in any of this - you love AVG and all you want to
know is it's latest score at the Virus Bulletin.

That's sad enough, but you simplistically berate postings with which you
disagree.
 
But you aren't interested in any of this - you love AVG and all you want to
know is it's latest score at the Virus Bulletin.
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No. Actually, I don't like it....at all.
 
I've been using it for a while and like it. It's easy to use, and I have it
update my virus files with the latest version automatically when I boot up
my machine. I also like the support bulletin boards, which have been very
helpful to me troubleshooting issues or just getting answers to questions.
 
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