What Anti-Virus do you use?

LOL you killed the old thread just as I was posting in it!
Edit: Actually you didn't, my bad.

I use Avast on my XP Home and my new XP Pro system and Avir on the old PIII.

I would use Norton only if it were the only anti virus application available and I had a system with large amounts of RAM to squander to its needs.

Sorry, I probably did(you can still post in it.)
I was reading a post in this part of the forum and then noticed those topics again and remembered that I meant to restart them.

Norton. I still believe in paying software. LOL

But everything else is free.


AJ

No problem with paying for software but Norton you couldn't pay me to use.

AntiVir on most machines and Avast on another. I much prefer AntiVir though.

A diehard Avast fan here. Works very smoothly with my setup, and always faultless updating.

Avast was my AV choice for years, until I changed to Antivir about a year ago.

Avira for me.

AntiVir for me.

Using AntiVir here, and even put it on the laptop my mom bought. I like AntiVir for the fact you can download manual VDF updates for offline computers.

Avast! Home Edition

None on my own setups but I do use Dr Web's Cureit for scans on other machines if and when needed.

Besides, they would only get in the way of all that lovely malware I'm constantly downloading.

Virus Bulletin - Latest AV Test Results

Antivirus 2008! Works wonders! It detects 300 viruses a day on my PC! I'm so glad I have this gem of a product! And I only paid $100US for it! Per month! And the money goes directly into a Nigerian bank account!




Seriously, I use Avast, because I like pirate language.

No AV on my machines

I know I've posted in the old topic but I'll quote it in here.



Now I checked out AntiVir today at it appears its only for WinNT systems so that one is out.

Now I also posted in the old topic that AVG were stopping support and updates for 7.5 at the end of August. Now they have decided to postponed the demise of 7.5.

http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,146520,backpage=,sv=

until more users start using v8.0

Now I read a post on here this lunchtime Why use Defraggler? and davey posted a link to http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/search/label/Thumbs%20Up which talks about Defraggler and Is Your Anti-Virus Program Working?.

Now the EICAR test file talks about making a test file in NotePad and saving it as a *.com file. Now I made this file 7 years ago after reading the McAfee help file and it worked then.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Just copy and paste this into NotePad and save it as a Virus.com or any name providing it has a .com extension then scan the file or folder to see if you virus checker picks it up.

Now at work we use McAfee 8.5 and I made a test file and scanned it but nothing showed up. So I downloaded the test file from the External links at the bottom and tried to unzip eicar.com but it wouldn't let me because its a virus threat. Now I don't know what the difference is between my file and eicar.com they are both 68 bytes as stated. But the file is still picked up as a virus threat, try your virus checkers to see what they report.

I'm using KAV v8 in my desktop and Avast on my laptops. So far none of the two messed up the computers.

Am still using AVG 7.5 as Primary but I switch back and forth with Avast using three providers.
These are the only ones that us low RAM users can use without serious slow down.
Some small company is going to take over the "New World" market for security on these new tiny systems. They are going to get a good bit of the market share because of this. That is if one of the "Big, Big Guys" doesn't pickup the ball and run with it.
The one that protects the most "little guys" is going to pickup a big piece of change.
Let's face it, there are a few billion "little guys" running around Asia right now.

davey

The official EICAR test file is located at: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

If anyone is trying out a new AV scanner they should always test it using EICAR which is a 100% safe way to test out resident protection, and on-demand scanning. That way they'll know beforehand how their AV or other anti-malware will react to a possible real infection, if/when that happens.

I know that its at the bottom of wikipedia.org I was just quoting Davey link.

As I've said this test text is nothing new I read it in the McAfee help file 7 years ago.

Antivir Premium

Nod32

avast. I could not be more satisfied. Love the audio alerts :-)

avast! 4.8

I dont use anti-virus

Your brave or stu*** if you surf the web.

Not really. I can't remember the last time my AV blocked anything. It has been years. The entire time I could have gone without one and I would not have been infected. If you use a program like Sandboxie or some other virtualization program you would probably be better protected than you would with an AV. I use an AV because the one I use is very light and doesn't have an impact on performance. If I was forced to decide between Norton or no AV I would choose no AV and run with Sandboxie on full time.

I've never heard of Sandboxie Anthony.

It's mentioned on here often. Do a search there are many threads about it.

Yes I've done a web search and its for WinNT only but I still wouldn't bother using it.

Oh I didn't notice you were still on Windows 98. When you upgrade get a Mac than you won't need an AV Ha Ha

Still using Sandboxie 3.28 here. Any real need to upgrade to 3.30?

Avast here I used AVG for many years but after trying Avast I will never go back.

Well we will have to see how long AVG still supports v7.5. It was supposed to end at the end of August. Then they postponed it the end of September because they wanted users to use v8.0. I've just installed the latest update today so support is still there, I haven't checked the AVG forum to see if its been postponed again.

I've downloaded Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1229 and AntiVir Personal 7.00.03.02, so when support stops I will have to try out both versions to see which one suits, not at the same time.

One of the reasons why I dumped AVG was the abusive Moderators on its forum.

I use Avast! Free on 2.4GHZ P4 XP Home and 2.8GHZ P4 Pro SP3 systems.

I use Avira Free on my old 500MHZ PIII XP Pro SP3 that I use to test IE8 beta2.

They used to be very helpful and it was a good forum to get help at. When AVG 8 was released things really changed. No doubt the many millions of complaints about AVG 8 has something to do with it.

Just imagine if they did a major update of CCleaner and it was a flop like AVG 8 and this forum started to get flooded with a million complaints. I wonder if the mods here might get a little testy

Never. The mods here are tested, rigorously, for their testiness.

They are also rigorously tested, for their rigour.

This ensures that we have the least testy and most rigorous mods available.

Currently using McAfee, but i'm changing when my subscription runs out. Probaly to Avast! but I might look into AntiVir as soo many people seem to be using it.

AntiVir is really good, although, it doesn't like being on my HD with other virus scanners, and that leads to false-positive wars (note : i don't run them at the same time). (

Make sure that you remove all traces of McAfee as it will prevent most other anti virus applications from installing.

I use Avast! and AntiVir and they are both good.

I use Avast!. One of the best free anti viruses. Not just my opinion either.

I uses Avast! becuz it is the best free anti-virus currently but AVG / AntiVir is also good and improving.
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Me ( myself ) and also by the best optimize guide.

You are a brave man for sticking with it for that long. My current laptop from my school has Symantec Antivirus, and I've never enjoyed McAfee.


AJ

I have been using AVG Free for years with no problems .I highly recommend it to any and all users

I use AVG 8.0 it works great for me.

Avast - It's fast, updated frequently and plus it's free!

avast! is the best

I think out of the freeware ones Avira probably has the best detection rate, but i couldn't stand the look of it. I hated the nag screen with it and went to Avast though. Out of the paid for products probably Kaspersky has the best detection rate, but i went with second best Nod32, just really liked it. Next year I might make the change to Kaspersky to give it a shot.

Testing Kaspersky Anti-Virus v8