The best anti-virus program

hameed_farah · Post by **hameed_farah** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 2:31 am

After searching the forum I didn't find a difinite answer, so what do you think?

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 3:14 am

I think you will be hardpressed finding a difinitive answer to this question.
What is best is in the eyes of the beholder. What is great to me may be a nightmare to someone else.
From what reading there is around if you want to use a DOS AV program then try F-Prot. It is also available in Windows format. Careful with the DOS one though, it doesn't act as a "realtime scanner". Only works when you want it to.

I am using AVG at the moment and have for quite a while. Caught all that has been thrown at it including test files other than Eicar. The fact it is free has little bearing on my using it. I just think it's a good/great AV program. No-one has proven otherwise, yet.

Croc.

Matt615 · Post by **Matt615** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 8:49 am

I use Norton Antivirus 2000 and it works great.

Suzie · Post by **Suzie** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 9:09 am

We just recently bought Norton 2001, after being infected by a virus. Our older version of Norton caught it ( it was 5.01) but it couldn't clean up all the files found.

So far Norton 2001 one seems to be doing it all. Scans mail on the way in too and since that is how we got the last virus, I'm glad we have it now. It also watches while you're on the net.

New to having it, I can't hipe it too much but I have spoke to others that use it with great success.

I hope this helps!

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DiskDoc · Post by **DiskDoc** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 11:02 am

Nortorn Antivirus is good. tells you when to update the virus definition so ur always up to date.

crazyman · Post by **crazyman** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 11:30 am

http://my-etrust.com/products/info/Antivirus/2

hameed_farah · Post by **hameed_farah** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 11:37 am

Money isn't a problem here, almost

Meaning I have no problem in getting a program that is reasonably priced, on the sole condition that it is good.
So does this make any difference?

DiskDoc · Post by **DiskDoc** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 12:17 pm

Yo hameed where you from dawg?

Epiphany · Post by **Epiphany** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 7:35 pm

Hello hameed,

Well I still like AVG, not because it's free but because it's worked so well for me. If you really WANT to pay for it, you could... I think you get some advanced options and tech support with the paid version

gmcd33 · Post by **gmcd33** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 10:40 pm

I use Norton Anti-virus at home and have had no problems with it. Its easy to use and works great.

At work I use McAfee. I believe a larger percent of corporations run McAfee anti-virus products then Norton.

McAfee has a TON of network anti-virus management tools that make central anti virus administration a snap.

Innoculate IT from Computer Associates is big as well.

I like Nortons for home use, and McAfee for networks.

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 10:50 pm

Ya, at my previous work we used InoculateIT to protect the network but at my current one, we use McAfee. I preferred InoculateIT over McAfee tho...one major reason is it used a lot less resources than McAfee.

I have a crap computer at work and I literally just shutdown McAfee all the time (I never download or do anything to much tho) because it slows down my computer so badly that my mouse actually skips along the screen.

Rifter · Post by **Rifter** » Fri Aug 17, 2001 8:21 am

i use AVP and i had no problem with it.

hameed_farah · Post by **hameed_farah** » Fri Aug 17, 2001 8:45 am

I have no need for the network stuff.

So I see that Norton is the way to go, right?

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Fri Aug 17, 2001 9:54 am

I'd personally recommend AVG
(partially since u can't get InoculateIT PE anymore)

hameed_farah · Post by **hameed_farah** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 2:27 pm

Well I got Norton antivirus 2002 and on its first scan found 2 virusses...I think I will keep it.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Fri Aug 24, 2001 8:40 pm

I have used them all and the one I currently use is InoculateIT. I like it and it found virus' that Norton and McCappy didn't see. Auto updates are free forever.. Sweet program.

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Sun Aug 26, 2001 4:24 pm

i have tried nearly all of them also, and i still return to using Norton,it wouldnt be rated the best if it wasnt just that.

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Mon Aug 27, 2001 9:12 am

Ah... another succumbs to the hype of Symantic.

I will still stick to IPE and AVG. They've not let me down yet with virus trapping.

Croc.

fredra · Post by **fredra** » Mon Aug 27, 2001 1:14 pm

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Words of wisdom from croc and Ken.
PEACE!!!!
:2cool:

hameed_farah · Post by **hameed_farah** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 1:22 pm

And I thought *I* was paranoid...
hehehe

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 12:31 pm

ok so i like Norton's products, why?..
because i get them all for FREE !!!!!!!

muhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Dragonwc99 · Post by **Dragonwc99** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 6:29 pm

Recently PCworld did a review on Anti-Virus scanners..... Panda my friends...Panda all da way... http://www.pcworld.com/features/article ... g,4,00.asp

Check it out folks.. :-D

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 8:38 pm

I once got sick as a dog from drinking whiskey.....but it didnt stop me from returning to drink it some more later.

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 2:44 am

Originally posted by MousePotato
I once got sick as a dog from drinking whiskey.....but it didnt stop me from returning to drink it some more later.

Was the whiskey free too? LOL.

Croc.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 11:43 am

Has anyone tried Panda? It loks pretty powerful to me, plus it didnt miss anything in those test and performance was great according to the stats?

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 3:27 pm

Ken thanks for the reply....good advice but now what proggie should I go with as antivirus? It is really hard to test on your home machine without a real lab to see which anti does the ebst..I dont really want to download real live viruses to see which proggie catches it....I have been using InnoculateIT for a long time ever since speedguide forums have been recommending it, but now with recent reports and seeing how EZ-trust took over.not sure what to do..I am going to try Panda from reading the review it sounds pretty good.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 6:18 pm

Thanks for the reply..btw I just posted a main thread I decided to try and liked Panda so mcuh that I bought it for $30...will it catch everything hard to know..and cant really compare it to Innoculate since I have never gotten a virus that I know of accroding to Inncoulate...time till tell I guess

tam69 · Post by **tam69** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 12:51 pm

Iuse norton 2002 works pretty well also works with winxp.all the best Tam

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