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fabulouswalls
Citizen
Username: Fabulouswalls
Post Number: 142
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:26 am: | 
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So Mrs. FW had to upgrade her Norton A/V and purchased Personal Firewall along with Systemworks. So the whole system crashes and I have to spend several hours trying to get the damn thing just to boot into Safe Mode. I would like to try a new A/V software. Any ideas? |
HOMMELL
Citizen
Username: Hommell
Post Number: 269
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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McAfee - but you need to uninstall all Norton stuff (including stuff in the directory) |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 10145
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:58 am: |
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Best Antivirus |
Jason
Citizen
Username: Jason
Post Number: 146
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 11:31 am: |
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Grisoft AVG - Free Version:
http://free.grisoft.com/
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growler
Citizen
Username: Growler
Post Number: 984
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 11:33 am: |
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AVG Antivirus is great. And it's free! You can pay for the full version however there are enough free firewall and spyware software that why bother paying. Here's the link:
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1
Norton crashed three of our computers non stop until we removed it and switched over to AVG. Since then, zero problems. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 4063
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 12:18 pm: |
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McAfee sucks almost as bad as Norton, AVG is great, and you will find that it's mostly a matter of taste, or no taste as to what one likes.
Dave's answer is good, but I still run ClamXAV on my Mac, only because I tend to download windows items on them and transfer to a PC.
Something else you may want to consider is Ewido, and NOD32.
Keep in mind that not just one utility will necessarily catch everything,
Here are some links that may be of interest.
http://www.ewido.net
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/?
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/downloads.html
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 4064
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 12:26 pm: |
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Oh yeah, here's a link for ClamAV for windows, ClamWin |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1452
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 1:15 pm: |
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Counter-hacking skills. |
fabulouswalls
Citizen
Username: Fabulouswalls
Post Number: 143
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 2:00 pm: |
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Thanks. Will check it out. |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1576
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 3:13 pm: |
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I really like Avast AntiVirus. Also free for home use.
http://www.avast.com/
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TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 561
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 4:09 pm: |
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I second Avast. It think it is far better than Norton (I use Norton at work). |
Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1815
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 5:02 pm: |
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Dave, you put up a link saying "Best Antivirus" but when I clicked on it I got sent to a web page spewing verbal diarrhea with pictures of warm vomit. Just thought I would let you know of your mistake.
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Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 4067
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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warm vomit?
where? |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1577
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 8:50 pm: |
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Mayor, don't be so hard on Dave. He is blinded by the white. |
fabulouswalls
Citizen
Username: Fabulouswalls
Post Number: 147
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 8:11 am: |
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Anybody use Trend Micro? http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/home.htm? |
Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1579
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:41 am: |
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I've used their website AV checker. It's great to use on machines where you don't want to install a full blown AV checker. However it's a long download.
Never tried their full product. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 4072
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:47 am: |
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I've tried it a couple of times, their antivirus is good, but the last time I tried it it wouldn't perform automatic scans, manual only. I also found that I was continuously having problems with conflicts, though this could have been due to the software configuration we were using.
Didn't make use of their other products (Firewall, Antispam, AntiSpyware) since there are others out there that are better, but maybe things have changed in the last year or so.
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Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 4073
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:53 am: |
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I would buy Kaspersky before Trendmicro, http://usa.kaspersky.com/products/internet-security.php |
fabulouswalls
Citizen
Username: Fabulouswalls
Post Number: 148
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 11:40 am: |
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Thanks Monster. I will check it out. |
wnb
Citizen
Username: Wnb
Post Number: 461
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 1:51 pm: |
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Avast! all the way.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15090
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 11:13 pm: |
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At my last job, my company rolled out a big installation of Trend Micro's product. Or one of them. It had scheduled scans, the time of which the user couldn't control. In a corporate setting, that's mostly a good thing. My experience with it was that other than the Thursday-at-noon scans, I didn't notice the product. That is to say it did its job dutifully and flawlessly.
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