The best antivirus?

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Hello, can you tell me the name of two, three best antivirus?
What are the best now?
Thank you

bye Jones
 
Kaspersky and NOD32. If you are looking for virus and Trojan detection in
one package then Kaspersky leads the pack for Trojan detection in a
Antivirus product.
 
Gary said:
Kaspersky and NOD32. If you are looking for virus and Trojan detection in
one package then Kaspersky leads the pack for Trojan detection in a
Antivirus product.
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Kaspersky appears to outdo trojan detectors when it comes to modified
trojans. Also the author of Hacker Defender (rootkit) tests with KAV,
since they have been keeping up with his code changes.

michael
 
Jones - 29.08.2004 11:01 :
Hello, can you tell me the name of two, three best antivirus?
What are the best now?
Thank you
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exactly this question arrive every three day producing huge threads with
always the same posting, hints etc.. There is no "Best antivirus", imo.
It depends on to many factors (your system, your Internet behavior, your
personal security behavior and so on).

Please read back the threads/postings in this NG first.
 
Gary said:
Kaspersky and NOD32.
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I tried Kaspersky in 2003. I regretted it quickly. I run Windows
under VMWare (<http://www.vmware.com>), and Kaspersky made VMWare
Tools stop working under various conditions. If I deinstalled VMWare
Tools and reinstalled them, the next shutdown caused a Windows kernel
stack overflow and reset. There was at least one unexplained Windows
reboot. The first time I tried to get updates, it hung and I had to
reset my Windows virtual machine. Then, after I restarted and
connected to my ISP, I could't do a manual update -- the buttons were
grayed out and would not respond to clicks. Also, it was quite slow:
it took an extra minute or so to reboot. Also, it detected a file as
"corrupted" but the help didn't explain what a "corrupted" file was.
(I had to Goolge for it: it's an invalid Windows executable, probably
with its start point outside the file image.) I tried to look for
help on the Web-based forum, but I found it to be slow and unhelpful
(lots of questions had no answers, I think).

I deinstalled and asked them for a refund. I followed the link off
their pages to the Element 5 support area and e-mailed them about a
refund. I gather that they contract with Element 5 to provide some?
all? their customer support. Element 5 e-mailed me back and said that
they couldn't find where I'd bought via them, which was true. I
called them and they gave me Kaspersky's 800 number. I asked how to
file a refund request; he told me to e-mail (e-mail address removed) and
they'd forward it to the seller. So I went back to the Kaspersky
purchase pages and found that I'd bought via Digitial River. I found
*their* request for refund pages (a sequence of four) and submitted
thru them. I eventually got it.

But many other people seem to be happy with Kaspersky, and if it works
for them, good for them. I can only report what happened to me.
 
Jones said:
Hello, can you tell me the name of two, three best antivirus?
What are the best now?
Thank you
Click to expand...

There is no best antivirus.

There are antivirus vendors that are good at marketing their product, and
making the interface appealing to the user.

There are those that are good at realtime scanning and catching a virus
before it does any damage.

There are those that are good at manual scanning, capable of detecting 100%
of known viruses.

There are some antivirus that are free, and some that are competitively
priced for enterprise use.

But every single antivirus I have ever used or evaluated, had a flaw one way
or another.

Now the real question is, what antivirus would be best for you? What are
your criteria?
 
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