Best Anti-virus Programs ?

Norton works fine for me

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Seemed like this topic has been broken into 3 sub-topics ::

1) Antivirus ::

I love norton! But I feel that it is a lil too resource extensive

But recently was introduced to this one called AVAST (www.avast.com) by a Czeh Company. Many users have used it and found that I was able to detect many that Norton have missed. I am using on my Laptop now. So Far so good. Small and dun take up much resource. Best part .. FREE !!

Macafee .. Used to be my fav but have given up on it since 2000 .. got too comlicated and took up tooo much resources.

In desperate times, I'll go to www.antivirus.com by Trend Micro. They have an online version of their scan .. and it's free!!!

2) Firewall ::
Zonealarm .. no reason to change it yet ..

3) Anti-Spyware ::
Adaware was my fav .. now starting to love the one by microsoft .. detected some that slipped past Adaware .. and .. FREE!!

LOL .. Guess I am really a believer of "Best Things in Life are Free"

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I use Etrust Antivirus, but there are many better ones out there. I only use this because it is free and works decent. Other ones cost money and don't work real well.

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me too! it's a great anti-virus program...and it's free!

it has found a virus that norton wasn't be able to find!!! i'm very satisfacted of it

 

 

 

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Am i the only who thinks AV is a load of crap? I start up AVG once a month, clear out my 5-6 java exploits now and then, nothing serious. I use SygateFirewall Pro, to kill worms. I honestly think that anything you download or such, its mainly intellegence. You dont download a serial number thats 430kb and an .exe. you just dont do that. Ive never had any trouble in 4 years.

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Hi,

Am using MC , but it s too slow, prev i used Norton but after installing Norton my system started behaving in a very strang manner, so then i went for MC, but still am in confuse which one to choose!

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Mac-users can read this article about viruses on macs. I use the freeware they suggested in the article, clamXav, which has a small footprint and does a decent job of scanning my files. So far, nothing caught yet, but it's a good small program to have running all the time.

I've heard bad thing about Norton on the Mac platform, mostly about how it's so bulky and not ported well, as well as being expensive, and I've never seen the need to really go beyond clamXav, so I have nothing to say about Norton...

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When I used my mom's Mac (for about 5 years) I downloaded gazillions of stuff, and never got any virus... I think.
It has Norton Antivirus, wich we update frequently but still, it has never found a single virus.

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Well, usually Macs don't suffer from viruses, especially with the new OSX, because (I'm basically summarising the points from the article I mentioned earlier) most users don't get root access to the system, we all operate out of a limited access account. If I was to install a program, I'd have to type in my admin username and password, which means if a virus was to operate on my computer, it would have to ask me for my username and password, a virus-attacking is something I have to actively participate in (which of course I won't) in order to succeed. Even with my admin username and password, I still don't have root access, it's usually very discouraged to access root.

I use the antivirus program I mentioned above mostly just to make sure I don't get virus-infected files from a pc user and pass the virus onto another pc user. The virus won't affect me, I just don't want to be the "spreader" of the viruses.

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Im using KV2004 now.
I think is really good.

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