Frez Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Just curious what everyone is running for software for an anti-virus? I like Nortons 2002. I tried 2004 and that baby bogged everything doen to a crawl, even with a AMD 2400 and 1 gig of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunBillsBacker Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 I have Road Runner, so they give eTrust EZ Armor Firewall and Antivirus for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millbank Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 The Best right now and it will not slow down your system PC-Cillin PC- Cillin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frez Posted December 1, 2004 Author Share Posted December 1, 2004 I have used PC Cillin in the past mill, I'm thinking about going back to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsAlum Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 avast Its free and it works well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp000085 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 i have norton AVpro 2005. Although, my school uses AVG 7 and that's a great program. grisoft.com as fezmid mentions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php 140428[/snapback] i second that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tux of Borg Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 The best antivirus in the world is Kaspersky Antivirus. Eugene Kaspersky is widely respected and acknowledge in both the virus and antivirus community as being the best out there. Norton antivirus is my personal favorite. The only time it has ever had any major problem was when the CIH virus came out. It's pretty reliable, but can be a resource hog. They have one of the best antivirus researchers in world with Peter Szor working for them. http://peterszor.com/ And for those who wonder, Peter Norton hasn't had anything to do with that antivirus since the DOS days. McAfee was in real trouble but paid a 3rd party vendor big bucks for the Olympus search engine. Now they are always getting the VB 100% award. FYI John McAfee is no longer with the company and runs his own ISP in Colorado now. If you want to run a viral zoo I would recommend getting F-Prot. It is the best antivirus out there that will tell you what exact virus you have. (ex LoveLetter Q) Instead of giving you a generic name that most AV programs do. I have a copy of PC Chillen and have no complaints with it. They don't have any big names in the antivirus field working for them. Well except David Perry who is the company spokesman. If you ever go to any security conferences, chances are you will run into him there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarthur31 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 I used to have McAfee but was very disappointed with their product. I use Norton's now and it's the best. I only have 256 MB RAM and I don't see it slowing anything I do down. I multitask alot and have lots of programs running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Have a G4 running OS X.3.6. No antivirus, no adaware, no spybot. OS has a built in firewall and have an add on for Safari that blocks pop-up ads. Virus free since 1987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 i upgraded my zonealarm pro firewall to include their integrated virus protection -- has been working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick in* england Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 I have Norton Internet Security 2002. Its OK I guess - I think the subscription is a little too expensive... It is a bit of a hog on resources too - but I've not had a virus get thru since I had it. If there is a similar product that uses less resource I'd be ineterested... I just upgraded my RDRAM to 640MB so I am sitting pretty for memory. I think I need to get extra hard drive storage and partition my drives to get the best performance out of my machine though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkwwjd Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 i second that 140433[/snapback] Third Fourth Fifth Sixth and Seventh I have it on 5 computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 The best antivirus in the world is Kaspersky Antivirus. Eugene Kaspersky is widely respected and acknowledge in both the virus and antivirus community as being the best out there. Norton antivirus is my personal favorite. The only time it has ever had any major problem was when the CIH virus came out. It's pretty reliable, but can be a resource hog. They have one of the best antivirus researchers in world with Peter Szor working for them. http://peterszor.com/ And for those who wonder, Peter Norton hasn't had anything to do with that antivirus since the DOS days. McAfee was in real trouble but paid a 3rd party vendor big bucks for the Olympus search engine. Now they are always getting the VB 100% award. FYI John McAfee is no longer with the company and runs his own ISP in Colorado now. If you want to run a viral zoo I would recommend getting F-Prot. It is the best antivirus out there that will tell you what exact virus you have. (ex LoveLetter Q) Instead of giving you a generic name that most AV programs do. I have a copy of PC Chillen and have no complaints with it. They don't have any big names in the antivirus field working for them. Well except David Perry who is the company spokesman. If you ever go to any security conferences, chances are you will run into him there. 140443[/snapback] I agree. I use F-prot as my primary protection, but if I really want to make sure something is safe, I scan it with Kaspersky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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