Antivirus Software Recommendations

[Pukmeister]

Hi Chaps,
I am currenty using Norton Utils Premier 2005, but will be updating soon and was wondering if any techies out there could recommend any rival products ?? I particularly require good AV protection due to a nasty mass mailing worm that Norton missed. Took me ages to track and kill the damned thing so my confidence in Peter Nortons code is waning.

 

[Big Lad]

AVG. It's free!. Better than Norton, no question.

 

[Fanum]

AVG. It's free!. Better than Norton, no question.

http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free/setup/avg71free_371a669.exe

 

[wessie]

AVG. It's free!. Better than Norton, no question.

Seconded.

I use it on 2 PCs. Neither has been infected with a virus despite my son's attempts with his visits to sites promising all sorts of free stuff.
http://www.avguk.com/doc/289/lng/uk/tpl/tpl01

For reassurance, make a periodic visit to Trend's web-based Housecall. It potentially finds all sorts of stuff. It's never found a virus on my system so I'm confident that AVG is a good product. Last week, it did point out that I needed a security update to MS Office that Windows Auto-update had missed.
http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/housecall/v6.5/

 

[shugie]

AVG is very good, worth paying the small amount to get the better professional version to keep them going and get faster updates.

 

[Fanum]

AVG is very good, worth paying the small amount to get the better professional version to keep them going and get faster updates.

In what way is it better??

I get an update automatically every day, it does everything I need it to and I can't see why you'd want to pay anything ??

 

[cookie]

I get an update automatically every day, it does everything I need it to and I can't see why you'd want to pay anything ??

i've seen mr mcafee's house, it doesn't look like he needs the money

 

[PRR]

After using AVG for a year or so I found Avast and like it even better:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

I'm not saying that it IS better, just that I prefer it.

You'll have to register once every year but it is free and I haven't even received any advertisment mails from them.

If I were to pay for antivirus software my choice would be F-Secure or Kaspersky as these constantly rank among the highest in effectiveness.

 

[shugie]

In what way is it better??

I get an update automatically every day, it does everything I need it to and I can't see why you'd want to pay anything ??

Probably not, to be honest, but for those of us that like to fiddle with what gets scanned and when, the paid-for version is more configurable. Also it is easier to update, and you can get more than one update a day.

 

[Steve]

After using AVG for a year or so I found Avast and like it even better:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

I'm not saying that it IS better, just that I prefer it.

I've been using Avast for over a year now, on 5 different PCs and laptops. It's never failed me yet.

 

[sk8mutie]

oi pukker....i have AVG pro...log on to msn and i'll beam itg over to you...or you can get a copy when u come up to see us all....

 

[<<Mark_C>>]

Another vote here for Avast. Used it on 2 PCs for the last 12 months with no probs - and its free!. Way better than McCrappy who fleece you for £20 every 12 months and bombard you with spam.

 

[centaur]

Having used both Avast and AVG in free versions, they both do a cracking job. I personally prefer AVG which only requires you to register once. If I were paying for a AV I would go for Nod32. All of these are very light on resources and I have never had any spam from any of them.

I used to use NAV but wouldn't have it as a gift today, it's bloated, intrusive and actively seems to interfere with applications arbitrarily.

 

[themadprofessor]

I vote for NOD32. It is not a FREE anti virus programme however it does lots more than just sorting out viruses.

http://www.nod32uk.com/home/home.htm

It has 5 modules. The realtime protection, The Email screening module, the Internet monitoring module that filters all web pages and stops any malicious content in them from downloading, the document scanner that installs into Word and other programmes and scans every document for malicious content before it gets loaded and the normal scheduled anti virus scanner of the hard disks.

I liked it so much that I replaced Sophos that we were previously using on 100 machines at work with NOD32.

It is very modestly costing as well just £23.00 per year. Cheaper if you buy multiples. Renewal is just £14.00 for the second year!!

Updates happen at least once per day, sometimes twice.

I recommend it as a very satisfied user

Chris

 

[themadprofessor]

NOD32 In your Face!!

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[sk8mutie]

someone asked why avg is better...

well, it does the same job as norton, but one of the main reasons i have switched to it, is that it is less intrusive... Norton gets everywhere on your machine, and time and again, people i have helped with their computers said it was fine till the installed Norton...esp the systemworks...it does way more than it needs to...and if you scan something once...ie, when you download it...you dont need to scan it everytime you hover your mouse over it

but as said manys a time...thats only my humble opinion