Recommend an AntiVirus Program

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Wattsville Blues

What is the best antivirus program available, in terms of overall
performance?

Thanks.
 
Well, I am sure you are going to get all kinds of answers...but in my own
personal experience...I use McAfee online virus protection. In the 2 years
of having it, I have never had 1 prob with any sort of virus. You gotta
love those automatic updates also

just my 2 cents
 
NOD32 is not a memory hog like Norton, McAfee, etc...

It outperforms almost every other antivirus program out there.

I used to use AVG, which is good, but I switched to NOD32 when I discovered
it was better.

It also usually gets updated at least once a day.

Stu.
 
Wattsville said:
What is the best antivirus program available, in terms of overall
performance?

Thanks.
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I will second the NOD32 reccomendation. The only virus I ever had was
when I was using McAfee. And Norton has gone to product activation, so
scratch them off my list. Anyway, Norton has a way of hogging the
computer when it wants, not when I want.

jimbo
 
Wattsville said:
What is the best antivirus program available, in terms of overall
performance?

Thanks.
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Kaspersky by far,I have seen it find what the others have missed more
often than not.
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I just purchased nod32 after trying panda and finding it rendered my
computer somewhat disfunctional :-). Nod32 has given me only one problem -
the MAPI interface stuff pops up messages about outlook not being my primary
mail interface (and right it is - it isn't my primary mail interface :-). I
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madmax said:
Kaspersky by far,I have seen it find what the others have missed more
often than not.
-max

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The bad thing about asking on the newsgroups about a particular product is
that there are way too many opinions out there for each (not a bad thing
mind you), but it tends not to really answer a question at times.

I must say though, I learn about other products out there after reading each
post. Choices....we have choices
 
Wattsville said:
What is the best antivirus program available, in terms of overall
performance?

Thanks.
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I rather like Blue Bayou anti-virus. It's unbelievably light on
resources. It's like it's not even there. And would you believe it has
never detected a virus on any of my systems? Must be doin' its job.
 
jimbo said:
I will second the NOD32 reccomendation. The only virus I ever had was
when I was using McAfee. And Norton has gone to product activation, so
scratch them off my list. Anyway, Norton has a way of hogging the
computer when it wants, not when I want.

jimbo
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I'll also recommend NOD32, but you should see the selection
of AV programs before you make your final decision:
http://www.wilders.org/index.htm

Netuser 58
 
Wattsville said:
What is the best antivirus program available, in terms of overall
performance?

Thanks.
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I've tried about 5 AV programs, and prefer NOD32. It does well in most
of the detection tests on the web. I dunno how good the heuristics are.

For anti-trojans, I like TDS-3.

michael
 
madmax said:
Kaspersky by far,I have seen it find what the others have missed more
often than not.
-max
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Is there a list online of which AV programs use the Kaspersky engine?
And I'm assuming there are different verions or revisions of the engine
also.

I will certainly try Kaspersky before purchasing my next AV.

michael
 
For performance I would go with NOD32. I know of two viruses Kaspersky
caught and NOD32 did not detect for me because NOD did not have a virus
definition for both viruses. Kaspersky updates it's database every hour
which makes it a leader in that area and also has one of the best Trojan
detection also. I like them both but I now run Kaspersky 5.0 personal. In my
opinion they are the top two Antivirus programs.
 
Is there a list online of which AV programs use the Kaspersky engine?
And I'm assuming there are different verions or revisions of the engine
also.
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That I don't know, but off the top of my head I know that F-Secure,
AVK, and Escan use the KAV scan engine. I think there are may be
several others as well.
I will certainly try Kaspersky before purchasing my next AV.
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The KAV and McAfee scan engines have always been tops for overall
general malware detection, as shown by comparatives at av-tes.org
(Uini Magdeburg) and Uni Hamburg VTC over the years.


Art
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Let's review that statement, shall we?

"And would you believe it has never detected a virus on any of my
systems?
Must be doin' its job."

How do you equate the fact that it has never alarmed to the product
doing it's job?
If your system were to run across a virus that the product missed, it
wouldn't alarm
then either.

Now folks, Optikl is no idiot. I just found the statement humorous. Can
you point me to
a url? I'd like to take a look.
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Really suckered you in, didn't he? LOL!


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
jimbo said:
Julian Moss wrote:

The 100% rating by vb100 and the low resource requirement are the
reasons I went with NOD32.

jimbo
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It's not the only product to get the VB100 rating on a consistent
basis, though.
 
optikl said:
I rather like Blue Bayou anti-virus. It's unbelievably light on
resources. It's like it's not even there. And would you believe it has
never detected a virus on any of my systems? Must be doin' its job.
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LOL - - That's great . . . one in every crowd I suppose. You guys are a funny lot.:)
 
I've tried about 5 AV programs, and prefer NOD32. It does well in most
of the detection tests on the web. I dunno how good the heuristics are.

For anti-trojans, I like TDS-3.

michael
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Dittos to that, I use Nod32 for antivirus, and TDS-3 for trojans.
Each is great at their respective jobs.
 
Julian said:
jimbo wrote:




It's not the only product to get the VB100 rating on a consistent
basis, though.
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I've always see good comments on Kaspersky in this NG and the charts
show why. If I decide to use another brand of AV software (in addition
to NOD32), that will probably be my next choice. Anyway, sending samples
to NOD32 is a very simple matter with good results. The automatic
updates work good too with no problems. NAV has proven itself to be very
confusing to many as seen in this NG and not easy to use. The NAV
updating certainly has shown problems as well.

Netuser 58
 
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