Recommendation for AV Software

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Sierra1996

Hello.

I am in need of recommendations for AV software. I have been using McAfee
for 6 years or so & had to un-install, as it was not allowing the complete
installation of my HP software. IOW ~ McAfee was preventing the scanner
feature from installing.

When I went to McAfee's site to re-download the software that I purchased
via the Internet in February of this year...I discovered that I am required
to pay an additional $50 for the Internet Security Suite 7.0. As I am
unwilling to do this, I am now looking to purchase software that is highly
recommended.

This time...I plan on purchasing the disk.

Thank you all in advance for any suggestions. Have a great weekend.

Sierra.
 
Sierra1996 said:
Hello.

I am in need of recommendations for AV software. I have been using McAfee
for 6 years or so & had to un-install, as it was not allowing the complete
installation of my HP software. IOW ~ McAfee was preventing the scanner
feature from installing.

When I went to McAfee's site to re-download the software that I purchased
via the Internet in February of this year...I discovered that I am required
to pay an additional $50 for the Internet Security Suite 7.0. As I am
unwilling to do this, I am now looking to purchase software that is highly
recommended.

This time...I plan on purchasing the disk.

Thank you all in advance for any suggestions. Have a great weekend.

Sierra.
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Give some thought to dumping the payware route and going for a free AV
solution. I too was running McAfee AV, and before that Norton AV.

Now running Avast free for the last 10 days or so, very pleased with it
so far. Less bloated than McAfee, as well the update process doesn't
take forever to accomplish unlike McAfee and provides positive feedback
something actually took place.



Some of those payware solutions will clean out your wallet faster than a
Hoover, small chunks at a time.
 
Some of those payware solutions will clean out your wallet faster than a
Hoover, small chunks at a time.
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Agreed - however some of them are well worth it and if you ask me are
superior to the freebies. NOD32 is my fave @ 29euro (and there is no
such thing as a 2004/2005 version you always get the latest version)
it's cheap too. I paid 21euro for F-Prot, also very much worth it.
Kaspersky personal is about 39euro so doesn't break the bank.

Norton, McAfee retail versions got bloated :(

Couple this with a firewall - sygate personal is free, zone alarm is
free,
 
Ian JP Kenefick said:
Agreed - however some of them are well worth it and if you ask me are
superior to the freebies. NOD32 is my fave @ 29euro (and there is no
such thing as a 2004/2005 version you always get the latest version)
it's cheap too. I paid 21euro for F-Prot, also very much worth it.
Kaspersky personal is about 39euro so doesn't break the bank.

Norton, McAfee retail versions got bloated :(

Couple this with a firewall - sygate personal is free, zone alarm is
free,
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Regards,
Ian Kenefick
http://antivirus.ik-cs.com
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I agree on NOD32. It's the best I've used since the demise of Dr
Solomon's. It has one of the smallest footprints, uses very little
resources, is highly configurable and has fast easy daily updates.

I use F-Prot as a backup scanner. The DOS version is free.

Kerio Personal Firewall 2.15 is an older version but still works well
and it's free. Along with that I have AdAware and SpyBot S&D installed
which are both free programs.
 
* * Chas said:
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I agree on NOD32. It's the best I've used since the demise of Dr
Solomon's. It has one of the smallest footprints, uses very little
resources, is highly configurable and has fast easy daily updates.

I use F-Prot as a backup scanner. The DOS version is free.

Kerio Personal Firewall 2.15 is an older version but still works well
and it's free. Along with that I have AdAware and SpyBot S&D installed
which are both free programs.
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Agreed on Kerio!

However after having run very stable on this Win2K SP4 box for months...
years... it has now decided to give trouble with BSODs. The dumps always
point to fwdrv.sys.

I'm going to reinstall the OS and see if that clears it. I am very
suspicious that perhaps the last Windows Update triggered this.

If it doesn't I'll be moving on to either Kerio 4 or Outpost, both free
versions. From reading, it appears Sygate breaks the Avast web shield so
it is out.
 
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Joe Canuck wrote:

| Agreed on Kerio!
|
| However after having run very stable on this Win2K SP4 box for months...
| years... it has now decided to give trouble with BSODs. The dumps always
| point to fwdrv.sys.
|
| I'm going to reinstall the OS and see if that clears it. I am very
| suspicious that perhaps the last Windows Update triggered this.
|
| If it doesn't I'll be moving on to either Kerio 4 or Outpost, both free
| versions. From reading, it appears Sygate breaks the Avast web shield so
| it is out.

I'm using Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.10 on two Windows 2000 SP4
machines and have found if I update it to any subsequent versions then
it starts suffering from memory leaks. You can open the Task Manager and
just watch the Page Faults ticking up by 20/30 or so per second without
any network traffic.

Can't say I've had any BSODs due to it though, but it would make sense
if it's leaking memory like that it could BSOD after long enough. I've
got 1GB of RAM on my desktop so it would take a while to use it all up :-)

Tried testing it on a Virtual PC with Windows 2000 and it did the same,
so it's not other software clashing etc. *shrug*

Apart from that I like KPF, but have been looking around for something
to replace it with.

Regards,


Adam Piggott,
Proprietor,
Proactive Services (Computing).

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Adam Piggott wrote:
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I'm using Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.10 on two Windows 2000 SP4
machines and have found if I update it to any subsequent versions then
it starts suffering from memory leaks. You can open the Task Manager and
just watch the Page Faults ticking up by 20/30 or so per second without
any network traffic.
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page faults != memory leak... page faults occur when the program needs
part of it's in memory image that happens to not be in physical ram at
that point in time... depending on the availability of physical ram,
the demands for physical ram by all the processes, and the operating
system's paging algorithm it may be entirely reasonable for a
constantly running process to constantly have page faults on 2 similar
systems even when it has no data to process...

that's not to say there isn't a memory leak, but page faults are not
the way to detect that...
 
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:52:46 +0100, Adam Piggott

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Apart from that I like KPF, but have been looking around for something
to replace it with.
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Why not go back to v2.1.5 - it is stable.
 
I'm using Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.10 on two Windows 2000 SP4
machines and have found if I update it to any subsequent versions then
it starts suffering from memory leaks. You can open the Task Manager and
just watch the Page Faults ticking up by 20/30 or so per second without
any network traffic.
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Page faults are a normal thing, and not an indication that anything is
wrong.

Here's a guide to investigating memory leak problems.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/troubleshooting/memoryleaks.htm
 
Hello.

I am in need of recommendations for AV software. I have been using McAfee
for 6 years or so & had to un-install, as it was not allowing the complete
installation of my HP software. IOW ~ McAfee was preventing the scanner
feature from installing.

When I went to McAfee's site to re-download the software that I purchased
via the Internet in February of this year...I discovered that I am required
to pay an additional $50 for the Internet Security Suite 7.0. As I am
unwilling to do this, I am now looking to purchase software that is highly
recommended.

This time...I plan on purchasing the disk.

Thank you all in advance for any suggestions. Have a great weekend.

Sierra.
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My opinion:
http://www.nondisputandum.com/html/anti_virus.html
greetz
 
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