best current anti virus software?

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Mamba said:
You can get a dedicated removal tool from Nortons website which will clean
it off your machine. Avast is a much better antivirus compared to AVG and
will offer you better protection
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The Norton Removal program doesn't remove everything but it does clean
out a lot of stuff that the Norton Uninstall Program misses. For example
a number of Symantec "features" like LiveReg and Live Update are usually
left in place... just in case you have other Symantec products
installed.

I used NAV on most of my PCs from version 2.0 up through 2002 plus I
tried 2003 and 2004. At times I only used NAV as a backup AV scanner and
eventually removed it from all of my systems except my Email PC.
Norton's proxy Email scanner blocked a lot of garbage during the Email
malware attacks a few years back saving me a lot of time having to
delete junk.

About a year and a half ago I switched that PC over to NOD32 and have
been very happy with it. I regained over 400MB of disk space when I
uninstalled NAV on that PC.

Do system searches for Norton and Symantec. Look for Symantec leftovers
in the Windows\Application Data\ and Windows\All Users\ folders in
Win98.

OT: Last night I uninstalled a 30 day trial of AVG on my test PC. The
AVG uninstall program removed everything except 2-3 entries in the
Registry and some empty folders in Program Files... impressive!

Chas.
 
Noel Paton said:
Might I suggest that you actually read a little more into what was written -
and what's written elsewhere - about Norton, and the particular version of
Norton, before commenting??

WHICH EXACT review did you read that so glowingly reported NAV? (how much
was the editor/magazine paid for advertising in that issue by Symantec??)

WHICH EXACT version of Norton was so glowingly reviewed?
WHICH EXACT PC was running that Norton?
could it actually run anything else (significant) at the same time???
would it withstand a System Restore without having to rebuild the system
(like you always have top after using NAV?)
....... complete after me

"NORTON AND WINDOWS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE in the long term"
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Well put! If Symantec put as much effort into making sure that their
products worked better as they do in making sure that copies are
legitimate then I wouldn't hold their newer products in such disregard.
For example, constant updates of LiveReg.

I've used just about every version of NAV from 2.0 up to 2002 and tried
2003 & 2004. With NAV 2003 Symantec started a new program verification
scheme that added nothing to functionality except bloatware. I went back
to 2002 which I found was being continually updated with the functional
improvements added in the later versions without the garbage.

I'm running NOD32 on my PCs that connect to the net and F-Prot on the
others just to have some protection against something on my network. I'd
run NOD32 on all of them but their licensing is a little steep for
multiple users.

Chas.
 
Noel Paton wrote
(Check the name of the tested AV, if it's Norton it *may* be
the Retail version, if it's Symantec, then it's *probably* the Corporate
edition).
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Its Symantec.....its corporate I presume as I did not buy it but my
employer did BTW it never caused any problem with other users I
know...

Shane wrote..
But, if one study shows Norton doing better on FPing than rival AV,
that's
just one study and a person would be a fool to base a decision on that.

Shane I think you are a PARANOID person...its time to consult a
psychiatrist !
 
Roy said:
Noel Paton wrote
(Check the name of the tested AV, if it's Norton it *may* be

Its Symantec.....its corporate I presume as I did not buy it but my
employer did BTW it never caused any problem with other users I
know...

Shane wrote..
But, if one study shows Norton doing better on FPing than rival AV,
that's
just one study and a person would be a fool to base a decision on
that.

Shane I think you are a PARANOID person...its time to consult a
psychiatrist !
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Go **** a duck, Roy.

Shane
 
Roy said:
Noel Paton wrote
(Check the name of the tested AV, if it's Norton it *may* be

Its Symantec.....its corporate I presume as I did not buy it but my
employer did BTW it never caused any problem with other users I
know...

Shane wrote..
But, if one study shows Norton doing better on FPing than rival AV,
that's
just one study and a person would be a fool to base a decision on that.

Shane I think you are a PARANOID person...its time to consult a
psychiatrist !
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Shane is pretty right on about the corporate version of NAV and there's
no need for personal attacks because someone has a different opinion.

Symantec Corporate Edition is a much leaner application than the home
user version of NAV. Just because you haven't experienced problems with
NAV at your place of employment doesn't mean that it's the same for
everyone else.

Over the past 5 years I've been affiliated with 2 different companies
who use Symantec Corporate Edition. One, a small company with about
10-12 users frequently Emailed me Excel files infected with macro
viruses plus about 3-4 times a year their whole system got hosed with
the latest virus that was going around at the time. The viruses were the
mostly the result of users opening attachments in OE but NAV didn't
catch the problems in time to avoid problems.

My current company has over 100 users and runs a combination of a
Windows network running off of a Unix server. Periodically the Windows
based software has been attacked by viruses causing much havoc. We're
going from AIX Unix to Windows Server 2003 and our IT guy installed
Symantec 10.0 on the new server. All of the other PCs were running 9.0.
The update knocked all of the other PCs of the LAN and he had to go back
to 9.0!

So much for Symantec's great testing!

I use Act!, WinFax Pro, Norton Utilities and Ghost plus I've used just
about every version of NAV from 2.0 to 2002. Most of the modern threats
and malware attacks that I've run into have come while using NAV as my
full time scanner - about 6 issues over a 3 year period. Other programs
probably would have protected me more effectively.

There are far better programs to protect your system than NAV or McAfee
for that matter.

Chas.
 
Did you try to Symantec NIS 2005 and 2006?
I think you are only familiar with the earlier version.
BTW, I think its not right to generalize that Symantec is crappy as my
experience with this AV software is contrary to what most people claims
here...

Anyway
Nothing is perfect among these products...
In the past I have used McAffee, and Norman and from my experience were
inferior if compared with the Symantec versions...
BTW I think it was Noel Paton who mentioned the corporate edition
Not that silly guy Shane...

I waa wondering if a trojan that have escaped his vigilant anti malware
crusade have instead corrupted the file system of his brain..<g>

Regarding alternative AV unless I had a bad experience with Symantec I
will not change;;

If ain't broken... why fix it?
 
Yes. It's KAV 6.0 that I am using now. I gather from your post that
you're
pleased with its performance on your system(s). That's good to hear.
What
do you mean when you say it's the best in terms of resources used? Do you

feel that it is lighter on the resources (eg smaller footprint) than
previouse versions of KAV or is that comment relative to other AV apps in
general?
Thanks.
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Smaller footprint than other versions.
 
I think you must be PARANOID Roy.

Oh, sorry. I mean, I think you don't know what PARANOID means, Roy. Hey,
have some chocolate, you'll feel better you retard!

That's all, mush. If there's any more it'll be face to face.

Shane
 
LOL!
SILLY SHANE thinks he knows english but does not even understand the
word paranoid..
I was right then that some form malware have pickled your brains.!
 
Jeff Levy, a local Los Angeles Computer guru on radio station KNX
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Guy is a clown. Answer to EVERY problem is either some nonsense he
makes up or to buy a product from one of his sponsors. When he
formerly took 3 hours of calls at KFI, he made so many mistakes that
somebody even created a webpage mentioning everything that was wrong.
Of course, there some items even that website missed as Levy repeats
the same junk so many times that people start to believe it as the
truth.

http://home.earthlink.net/~duneboy79/tjlgw.html

continually disses Norton Anti Virus as being too cumbersome and
resources hogger.
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It is not so much that he disses Norton. Instead, he just whores for
another sponsor: Anti-CyberCrime. Now is this Anti-CyberCrime any
good? Who knows, but I bet if I paid him enough he would promote
another AV.

http://www.secureresolutions.com/solutions/rav4.aspx

Is this a valid criticism?
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I would not trust anything from the mouth of Levy. Give me at least 1
INDEPENDENT source.
 
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