Best antivirus software for Win XP

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Johnny Canuck

Just curious what you guys think is the best antivirus software for windows
XP.

I am currently using AVP antivirus (because it's free) but I wanted to
switch to something that was better.
I always thought Norton's was best but this site seems to say otherwise:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

My original plan was to go with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (not
Norton's regular one) but because of Norton's poor rating I was thinking
about trying Kapersky antivirus or someother one.

What do you guys think?

Thanks

JC
 
Johnny Canuck said:
Just curious what you guys think is the best antivirus software for
windows XP.

I am currently using AVP antivirus (because it's free) but I wanted to
switch to something that was better.
I always thought Norton's was best but this site seems to say
otherwise:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

My original plan was to go with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition
(not Norton's regular one) but because of Norton's poor rating I was
thinking about trying Kapersky antivirus or someother one.
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I can recommend Kaspersky, although the frontend can seem complex at
first because you can configure almost everything, it will do it's job
'out-of-the-box' though.

Kaspersky personal pro has the best malware detection engine, good job
you researched norton/symantec, IMHO their products are just not up to
the job any more.

HTH
 
Johnny said:
Just curious what you guys think is the best antivirus software for
windows XP.

I am currently using AVP antivirus (because it's free) but I wanted to
switch to something that was better.
I always thought Norton's was best but this site seems to say
otherwise:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

My original plan was to go with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition
(not Norton's regular one) but because of Norton's poor rating I was
thinking about trying Kapersky antivirus or someother one.
Click to expand...



I uploaded a single infected file to Virus Total. These were the results:

Scan results
File: CCTV-Assasination.scr
Date: 09/27/2004 07:47:33
----
BitDefender 7.0/20040924 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.1.Gen]
ClamWin devel-20040822/20040927 found nothing
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24/20040927 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen]
McAfee 4394/20040922 found nothing
NOD32v2 1.877/20040925 found [probably unknown NewHeur_PE]
Norman 5.70.10/20040924 found [W32/Backdoor]
Panda 7.02.00/20040926 found [Bck/HackArmy.T]
Sybari 7.5.1314/20040927 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen]
Symantec 8.0/20040926 found nothing
TrendMicro 7.100/20040926 found nothing

Judge for yourself.
 
S.Heenan said:
Johnny said:
Just curious what you guys think is the best antivirus software for
windows XP.

I am currently using AVP antivirus (because it's free) but I wanted to
switch to something that was better.
I always thought Norton's was best but this site seems to say
otherwise:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

My original plan was to go with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition
(not Norton's regular one) but because of Norton's poor rating I was
thinking about trying Kapersky antivirus or someother one.
Click to expand...



I uploaded a single infected file to Virus Total. These were the results:

Scan results
File: CCTV-Assasination.scr
Date: 09/27/2004 07:47:33
----
BitDefender 7.0/20040924 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.1.Gen]
ClamWin devel-20040822/20040927 found nothing
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24/20040927 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen]
McAfee 4394/20040922 found nothing
NOD32v2 1.877/20040925 found [probably unknown NewHeur_PE]
Norman 5.70.10/20040924 found [W32/Backdoor]
Panda 7.02.00/20040926 found [Bck/HackArmy.T]
Sybari 7.5.1314/20040927 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen]
Symantec 8.0/20040926 found nothing
TrendMicro 7.100/20040926 found nothing

Judge for yourself.
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Hi All,
I have noticed that all the time I have been on the net and I have used
various antivirus software programs some pick up viruses quicker than
others. I do however really like Trojan Hunter as I have helped numerous
people with pretty difficult trojans to get rid of and its cleaned their
pc's very well.I also really like HijackThis. So theres my option!!
Jules
 
S.Heenan said:
Johnny said:
Just curious what you guys think is the best antivirus software for
windows XP.

I am currently using AVP antivirus (because it's free) but I wanted to
switch to something that was better.
I always thought Norton's was best but this site seems to say
otherwise:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

My original plan was to go with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition
(not Norton's regular one) but because of Norton's poor rating I was
thinking about trying Kapersky antivirus or someother one.
Click to expand...



I uploaded a single infected file to Virus Total. These were the results:

Scan results
File: CCTV-Assasination.scr
Date: 09/27/2004 07:47:33
----
BitDefender 7.0/20040924 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.1.Gen]
ClamWin devel-20040822/20040927 found nothing
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24/20040927 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen]
McAfee 4394/20040922 found nothing
NOD32v2 1.877/20040925 found [probably unknown NewHeur_PE]
Norman 5.70.10/20040924 found [W32/Backdoor]
Panda 7.02.00/20040926 found [Bck/HackArmy.T]
Sybari 7.5.1314/20040927 found [Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen]
Symantec 8.0/20040926 found nothing
TrendMicro 7.100/20040926 found nothing

Judge for yourself.
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I've also noticed that Symantec skips a lot of bugs out there that Girsoft AVG picks
up; I use both products now to check any new file I receive.

Jon
 
Just curious what you guys think is the best antivirus software for windows
XP.

I am currently using AVP antivirus (because it's free) but I wanted to
switch to something that was better.
I always thought Norton's was best but this site seems to say otherwise:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

My original plan was to go with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (not
Norton's regular one) but because of Norton's poor rating I was thinking
about trying Kapersky antivirus or someother one.

What do you guys think?

Thanks

JC
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Do you (or anyone else know) if Symantec Anti-Virus is superior to Norton's
regular antivirus? Most of the test sites list just Norton's antivirus...

Kapersky seems to come up rated best on that other site, and I don't mind
taking the time to configure a program as long as it works well.

Thanks

SS
 
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