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What Anti-Virus do you use?


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Which antivirus do you use?  

172 members have voted

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    • NOD32
      84
    • Kaspersky
      26
    • McAfee
      3
    • Norton
      29
    • F-Secure
      1
    • F-Prot
      0
    • BitDefender
      5
    • Panda
      2
    • Avast
      10
    • AVG
      6
    • RAV
      0
    • PC-Cillin
      2


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Anyways, the bigger the company, the more is its manpower, the better its vrius definitions will be. :lol:

Sorry i would concur on this ocassion.

Its known that Kaspersky has the best overall detection (for quite a few years now) of virus/ trojans/ worms etc.

The current symantec products also have the following other flaws (i would hope they would correct these problems in the future):

* Lack of unpacking skills (for detecting variants of malware and runtime packed variants of malware)

* Poor hueristics (for detecting unknown threats), although these are improving

* Resource hungry operation (although, this has improved in the 2005 and the future 2006 versions of the home products)

* Only weekly updates of virus definitions (malware can stay on ones system for along time before being detected)

However, the the detection ratios of norton products are amoung the top 5 of all the products around - props to them for this.

I really do hope symantec take things like this into account when developing future products, i'm sure the updates situation will be changed pretty soon, as macafee will be issueing daily updates for virus definitions.

Peace out...

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I use Kaspersky. 8 or more signature updates per day and a verrrryyy good detection rate. Only antiviruskit has a better, but it's very slow.

Kaspersky is the best non-heuristic, NOD32 is still the best heuristic detection.

You can set sigs update to every (hour). Standard setting is every 3 hour that's why get 8 times connected to kav vir database.

What do you meant by very slow?...startup?...on-demand scan?...program startup?

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I use BitDefender mainly because on a site I read it is the best for 2005... Dunno..

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kaspersky hands down is the best antivirus for detection and removel :lol:

maybe not the lightest antivirus but not the heviest and slowest neither :lol:

kaspersky antivirus gives the best protection for an antivirus to all others :lol:

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I use GData 2006 (AVK) double scan technology (KAV+BitDefender) and the latest Outbreak shield. Not a resource hog using it on my Pentium III 1Ghz Processer, 512 RAM, Seagate 40GB 7200 RPM drive, WinXP Pro SP2.

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I use GData 2006 (AVK) double scan technology (KAV+BitDefender) and the latest Outbreak shield. Not a resource hog using it on my Pentium III 1Ghz Processer, 512 RAM, Seagate 40GB 7200 RPM drive, WinXP Pro SP2.

cough cough wouldnt your system run better under 98 se? just asking.

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No. Windows 98 has serious flaws that never can be fixed. Win 2000 and above is much better and has less flaws in its core.

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cough cough wouldnt your system run better under 98 se?  just asking.

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No. i dont have any problems under windows xp pro the OS handled my system very well if your talking about using the GData Antivirus 2006 (AVK). ;)

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I use AVG 7.1 Pro (cracked serial), i used to use NOD32 but i culdnt get the fix working soo i thought fuck it. i used to use Avast, and before that i used AVG.. i think AVG or Avast is the best still aint sure.. used Kaspersky i didnt really like it.. dunno i like AVG it was my first anti virus i used on my own computer , and FUCK Norton its to god damn slow :lol:

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I used Panda X edition for about 2 years, but as my computer got older it began to become annoyance on my system resources. Very effective but it comes with a few problems here and there. I have not used a virus program for about 4 months and i havn't had any problems yet. I use AdWatch though and that seems to iron out anything suspicious. I do online virus scan about once every 2 moths and get nothing.

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I was using NOD32 for 1 year, but the latest KAV has bigger virus database and i havn't noticed slower performance when switching from NOD32 to KAV

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NOD32 has been more than sufficient and my love for its small footprint also helps my choice. I've yet to be affected by viruses and when I have wandered obscure sites (mostly software related) it has caught up with the nasty trojans before anything gets out of hand so for now, I remain ever loyal to NOD32. I used to use BitDefender awhile back, useful but rather resource-hungry.

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People still use Norton and McAfee? I stopped using Norton about 5 years ago. NOD32 is my AV of choice.

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I use Avira AntiVir, very good and it's very light for your system also.

But it isn't on the list ;)

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I've used almost all the antivirus out there (kaspersky, bitdefender, avast, norton, panda, AVG, f-secure, pc-cillin etc). I've been using NOD32 for 3 years now and have not got a virus or spyware on my PC. NOD32 is very light on resources and can detect and remove all kinds of viruses including spywares and adwares. For safe PC, use opera or firefox, NOD32 and outpost or zonealarm firewall. I highly recommend NOD32!

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Hi, for those still using Symantec Anti-Virus and unable to update, try this. It worked for a friend, but this was more than a year or so.

Locally using KAV6 with some *Vitamins, Ginseng and what not... will upgrade soon though. But with a little of experience & paranoia, the AV is only used on demand, while browsing is dealt with some data & packet filtering. On personal experience, no infection to date AFAIK, except laziness from reading the whole license agreement (no information on ad-ware on their page & AV did not detect at that time) of a program, did installed the files to produce ad-ware, but apparently it failed to advertise. There's always the encounter of shady files, but as long as they can be detected, is what it counts.

*Note:taking into mind is some other periodic checks with other tools for security issues.

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I use the public RC of ESET's Smart Security product. It's working efficiently so far, only had a few hangs.

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Kaspersky Internet Security for about one year (maybe little more).

Currently running on KIS 7 with my key received from Kaspersky Labs 4 free :rolleyes:

I was having to use nod32 but year ago ESET was only making av solution and for firewall they redirecting to some other solution and I wanted to have all-in-one anti virus protection :dance2:

Also Avira is very good av - in the latest test avira haved better virus detection than nod & kaspersky :rofl:

Also used norton av 2005 but it hasn't protect from spyware sufficient.

Panda was eating all of my resources ;/

Avast - never used :D And I wll never install thiz piece of s*it xD

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