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air2k5

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Well, i am currently using AVG 7.0 Free Edition and i am not too happy with it. What it the best antivirus software out right now? it has to be free becasue i am a cheap bastard... :p
 
got the same AVG7 free and im not happy either except for the price. that SOB program just found 7 files infected that ive had on my sys for at least a month. all with the same infection. on the postive side it caught em. but why take a month after downloading some innocent files fer it to catch em. ??
preEDIT innocent = pRon and other assorted files.
others will provide better free AV links Im sure.
 
flynlr said:
got the same AVG7 free and im not happy either except for the price. that SOB program just found 7 files infected that ive had on my sys for at least a month. all with the same infection. on the postive side it caught em. but why take a month after downloading some innocent files fer it to catch em. ??
preEDIT innocent = pRon and other assorted files.
others will provide better free AV links Im sure.
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maybe because it couldnot catch them till it had updated its virus signatures.
 
Steel Chicken said:
maybe because it couldnot catch them till it had updated its virus signatures.
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This is actually a problem I've had as well. Fully updated system, didn't find the virus I knew to be on there ( well, because I put it there myself, but whatever ). After a few days of tinkering with no luck, it suddenly starts picking it up.

Which is why I am a big supporter of Symantec Corp AV.
 
I haven't used Trendmicro's solution, but I've had more than one machine lately that their online scan was the only program to identify a few oddball bugs. McAfee and Norton overlooked some on clients PC's and gave me fits.

I still sell Norton, but they'd better get their ass in gear cuz I'm looking for a better solution.
 
I like Panda and Trendmicro the best. I can't stand Norton, Mcaffee or PCcillin.
 
omg and when AVg finds a virus any action is not appliable, lol have to go and try to fix it manually, hate it
 
Symantec AV client, to bad you gotta spend $400 to get the Small business edition CD to install it.
 
I've been using F-Prot Antivirus for several years now and I've really liked it. It's non-intrusive, which I probably like the best, and since I haven't had a virus since I started using it, it seems very effective. $30/year gets you five licenses and it will even run on Linux and DOS.

EDIT...oop. It's not free, but you can keep installing the trial...


 
Trendmicro (PC Cillin) or NOD32. They're the best of the pack in my opinion. Last time I looked (several weeks ago), PC Cillin was more expensive than NOD32, thus I would recommend NOD32. Get which ever is cheaper of the two, you cant really go wrong with either one.
 
PC-cillin is rather useless, but Trendmicro's enterprise solutions are decent.
 
Esets NOD32
or
Kapersky (slightly more of a performance hit though if you're a gamer)

Not free...but NOD32 is only $39.00. You won't find anything as effective as NOD32 or KAV for free.
 
I used AVG for a while but got tired of it not wanting to update alot of the time. And I didn't care much for its interface.
I tried F-Prot but got alot of false positives, like it locking me out of php files for websites because of the code in them.
I tested Nod32 but didn't care for its interface, and it used a bit of ram when not doing anything.
I finally settled on the $30 version of BitDefender 9 Standard and am fairly pleased. I have no need for the Uber package w/ firewall and all that junk, just the Virii scanner. It's ligthweight and fast with a good interface.
Just don't ever touch Symantec.
 
sieb said:
Just don't ever touch Symantec.
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Why? I use it here on about 50 machines ( corporate version ), and it's awsome. In the three years I've been here, we haven't had a single infection. I barely touch it beyond making sure it installed, and occationally checking to make sure the updates are being pushed out correctly. That's about it.
 
XOR != OR said:
Why? I use it here on about 50 machines ( corporate version ), and it's awsome. In the three years I've been here, we haven't had a single infection. I barely touch it beyond making sure it installed, and occationally checking to make sure the updates are being pushed out correctly. That's about it.
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Have you upgraded to version 10? If you have...check out your Task Manager. Has about 130 megs worth of processes if you add them all up. Translation...any workstation you have that aren't full P4's with 512 megs minimum of RAM will suddenly become glacially slow.

I'd had been a Symantec CE/SBE reseller for years..going way waaaay back in versions..stopped using it fully last year, switched to NOD32. Almost every month I convert a client of mine from Symantec to NOD32 as their Symantec licensing expires..and NOD32 finds stuff on the networks that Symantec never found.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Have you upgraded to version 10? If you have...check out your Task Manager. Has about 130 megs worth of processes if you add them all up. Translation...any workstation you have that aren't full P4's with 512 megs minimum of RAM will suddenly become glacially slow.
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A 2 second search and a single .reg file fixes that:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/pfdocs/2005042710304248?Open&dtype=corp

You don't have 10.0.1 installed i'm guessing?
 
SAV10 had a default startup scan that did use lots of memory.
Opening the gui and deleting the defualt startup scan fixes (or using the aformentioned reg file) I have SAV on now using about 25MB of RAM.

Been using since v8, not one infection and updates are pushed *daily* to the clients.

Makes my life much easier.

 
XOR != OR said:
Why? I use it here on about 50 machines ( corporate version ), and it's awsome. In the three years I've been here, we haven't had a single infection. I barely touch it beyond making sure it installed, and occationally checking to make sure the updates are being pushed out correctly. That's about it.
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I agree, we run at all our clients with few problems and few virus outbeaks., the Panda, Macafee and PC Chillin is utter shit.
 
IceWind said:
I agree, we run at all our clients with few problems and few virus outbeaks., the Panda, Macafee and PC Chillin is utter shit.
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I don't think it's fair to compare a corporate client against a group of desktop apps. Trenmicro's OfficeScan suite is very nice. Mcafee, I can agree with.. I did not like their management solution. I have not tried Panda or Symantec's.
 
Yeah, as far as free antivirus programs, I like Avast the best. IMO its much better than AVG.
 
SirKenin said:
PC-cillin is rather useless, but Trendmicro's enterprise solutions are decent.
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Would you elaborate on why you think PC-cillin is rather useless?
 
metallicafan said:
Yeah, as far as free antivirus programs, I like Avast the best. IMO its much better than AVG.
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I found it drags more on the system that AVG does.
Although I use it on people's pc where there are hacker wannabe kids, since you can password protect the controls. That stops most younger kids from tinkering.
 
JonR800 said:
I don't think it's fair to compare a corporate client against a group of desktop apps. Trenmicro's OfficeScan suite is very nice. Mcafee, I can agree with.. I did not like their management solution. I have not tried Panda or Symantec's.
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Why? Why is it not fair? Is it any more OK for a desktop system to get infected DESPITE running AV software than it is for a corporate machine? Or maybe it's more OK for a desktop AV to use more resources and be more annoying in general?

I am confused.
 
I was using AVG free edition today and I think it missed a few. You know those randomly named .exe files in Windows\System32.

Symantec is some bloated shit.
 
MooCow said:
I was using AVG free edition today and I think it missed a few. You know those randomly named .exe files in Windows\System32.

Symantec is some bloated shit.
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Norton/Symantec home stuff is bloated....

Symantec Corprate edition is nice, but not worth its price tag for a home user, I run Etrust for servers, which I got for free a long time back, it has been pretty solid, on par with AVG, and NOD imo.
 
My vote goes to Kaspersky or NOD32. I have used both and have difficulty deciding between the two. I am currently using Kaspersky and noticed no performance degredation. Kaspersky seems to maintain extremely high detection levels (updates are released every few hours consistently) while NOD32 seems to have the edge on stopping infections that it may not have a definition for. Either way you can't lose, but both have trials available. Try both and decide for yourself.
 
Another here who converted the companies I work for from NAV corporate to NOD32 corporate product and very glad I did.
After the clients were updated I ran a full scan on each machine and there were a good number of pc's which had viruses that NAV left on the pc's.
After a while it became obvious that NAV is lacking in detecting viruses in java folders. A large percentage of missed virii were located there, but not neccessarily just in that area since others were missed as well.
Also NOD32 has additional malware detection in it and has been helpful in preventing other malware.
 
Boscoh said:
Would you elaborate on why you think PC-cillin is rather useless?
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It's a scaled down version of something that is actually decent and it misses half the virii. All it does, as far as I'm concerned, is take up valuable space. Just like Norton and Mcaffee.

I have been really impressed with how deadly accurate Panda is (but I'm using BusinesSecure, not their home level product. Panda wants me to evaluate their home level products and have given me a free license to do so).
 
SirKenin said:
It's a scaled down version of something that is actually decent and it misses half the virii. All it does, as far as I'm concerned, is take up valuable space. Just like Norton and Mcaffee.

I have been really impressed with how deadly accurate Panda is (but I'm using BusinesSecure, not their home level product. Panda wants me to evaluate their home level products and have given me a free license to do so).
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The reason I ask is because I've never noticed a difference in effectiveness. Yes, PC-Cillin is a lot more bloated with GUI fluff that shouldn't be there, and takes up a bit more memory. However, as far as scan engine and pattern go...OSCE and PC-Cillin use the exact same files.

I'll have to test it again and look for any problems and tell our TAM about them. If it really does as you say, they need to fix it. Corporate and home edition products shouldn't be different in effectiveness...and thats a really shady practice.
 
Personally I'm using AVG free on my home computers.
I was using the Norton's that came with Systemworks 2005 and I was pretty happy with it even though its a resource hog - but not bad on a P4 3.0GHz with 1 gig DDR.
But I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card and Norton and Creative Labs software doesn't play well together. Norton says that is Creative's problem and Creative say's it's Norton's. I wasn't getting rid of a $200.00 dollar(at the time) sound card so Norton had to go.

Since I've been using AVGFree I've been happy with it. It's caught virii in zipped files that Norton had been missing for years. It's updates automatically once every 24 hours. It doesn't hog the system like Norton did. And it does background file scans, in addition to the scheduled scans. Norton home wouldn't do that.

I tried NOD32.....it wouldn't let me download my email, because it's email scanner sucked. It literally wouldn't d/l 50 emails in an hour.

I tried Kasperanskys<sp?>.......it worked but it hogged the system as bad as Norton did.

I have always hated McAffee's home products - the corporate stuff we use at work seems to be ok - But we couldn't get our IT manager to upgrade to the latest version until that win2000 worm shut us down. We were still using the cmd-line scan versions of McAffee's.
Then he was all for it.....go figure. :rolleyes:

I haven't tried Panda.

I will not try any AV product that comes bundled with a PCChips motherboard....like PCcillin does. The thought of that makes my skin crawl!!

I'm using ClamWin (AVG free won't work on a server OS) on my server and it seems to be working, I kow that it updates at least once every 24hrs, but it's kinda protected inside my home network so it's not really being exposed. Though I guess that I could surf some pr0n sites and see if it really works. ;) not!

So I guess that I'm happy with AVG-Free at the moment, and ClamWin for my server.
The price is right anyway!!
I might upgrade to the AVG Pro....$39.95 for 2 years is better than most of the A/V product subscriptions.

 
rodsfree said:
I tried NOD32.....it wouldn't let me download my email, because it's email scanner sucked. It literally wouldn't d/l 50 emails in an hour.]
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Something funky with your system there...using an oddball e-mail client? NOD32 is very VERY light..one of the lightest out there. The only e-mail client out of <so many different ones out there> that I've seen NOD32 act odd with...was a yacht broker client of mine who uses Act2000 contact management. I had to shut off the e-mail protection...but this was back with version 2.0 of NOD32...the incompatibility with Act e-mail client is fine with version 2.5. Shutting down the e-mail protection doesn't really hurt you anyways...e-mail port scanning is more of a "feel good" image for the public anyways..since active monitoring would bag the baddie once it got an inch closer.
 
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