Best Virusscanner Finally Found

[Olger901]

Hi Guys I looked on the internet and I found a really good virusscanner called Kaspersky Antivirus. I installed it and it's really WoW.

The advantages:

1: It DOESN'T! take extra time for my pc to boot in XP (I clocked the times exactly)

2: It finds more then an avarage virusscanner

3: Best of all if you do the updates manually the virusscanner is for free

4: If a registered user your pc updates automatically without annoying questions like with Norton or Mc Afee

5: This Program Has Lots of extra options including a: Office Guard, Email Gaurd, A Monitor Program and a Main Control Program to keep everything under control

The Disadvantages (Only one and not important!)

1: It is for some new beginners difficult to use

[vileP]

Are you sure that's it's free? All i read is that it is free to scan, not to clean.

[Olger901]

Well yeah because I did a scan on my pc. It found the Virus Klez.H and it asked me what to do. It asked me if I wanted to Remove the virus, Disinfect the Virus or Report it only so I guess it is able to remove a virus.

[Eagle]

1. Does it monitor your PC constantly for new virus threats? If it does then its going to use some resources. Norton monitors constantly, and though it uses some memory, I don't notice any slowdowns while its running.

2. I doubt it finds more than Norton. They have huge teams of developers working on ways to neutralize new threats. Chances are, by the time you hear of a virus on the news, Norton already protects against it.

3. Yeah well, Norton is kinda expensive

4. What annoying questions? I can set mine to update automatically, or prompt me before updating.

5. Norton has all of that.

6. Its not hard to set up and use at all.


So, lets see here. I just shot down all but one of your points and using Norton alone. I've heard McAfee is pretty good too, but I've never used it. My dad uses one called PCCillain, but I don't care for it.

[Olger901]

1: I DOESN't take extra time while loading any program, and I can load all games without getting stuck while the virusscanner is enabled (with norton I always had to disable it)


2: Yes it monitors my pc constantly with the monitor program but I also don't have to disable it when installing my Nvidia drivers (and with norton this is a must) and also with the other drivers. Furthermore this finds more then norton because it also finds all joke programs around, and trojans and even some ADWARE!

4: On my pc it somehow didn't want to automatically update in Windows XP and the loading times with Windows XP were increased with about 1 minute 30

5: Is Equal

6: You might have a point there with Norton, But I still dislike the large loading times when booting (about 1 and 30 secs extra)

[Johnny_Rico]

Oh! I know this Kaspersky AntiVirus!

It's Great!!! I use it and it's fast and reliable, much better then Norton!

[Harteex]

Yep, I use it too. It rocks!

[blizz]

me likes Norton

[OmegA]

Am I the only one using Sophos here? :)

[Macca]

Go naked

its the only way :P

[Eagle]

Originally posted by Olger901
1: I DOESN't take extra time while loading any program, and I can load all games without getting stuck while the virusscanner is enabled (with norton I always had to disable it)


2: Yes it monitors my pc constantly with the monitor program but I also don't have to disable it when installing my Nvidia drivers (and with norton this is a must) and also with the other drivers. Furthermore this finds more then norton because it also finds all joke programs around, and trojans and even some ADWARE!

4: On my pc it somehow didn't want to automatically update in Windows XP and the loading times with Windows XP were increased with about 1 minute 30

5: Is Equal

6: You might have a point there with Norton, But I still dislike the large loading times when booting (about 1 and 30 secs extra)

Well, I've never had a problem with Norton slowing down my boot up or my pc in general, I've never tried not disabling it when installing Nvidia drivers because Nvidia warns you too do so, but honestly who cares? I mean its not like you do this everyday. Norton AV can find trojans and joke programs as well. As for ADWARE, they put that feature in their firewall software not their AV. Finally, as for the auto-update, I've never had a problem with it as most people that use it will probably tell you.

[Malcolm]

Originally posted by Macca
Go naked

its the only way :P

I agree, virus scanner, whats that !!!

oh, i just noticed something!

:linux: !!

[Doomulation]

Originally posted by Olger901
Hi Guys I looked on the internet and I found a really good virusscanner called Kaspersky Antivirus. I installed it and it's really WoW.

The advantages:

1: It DOESN'T! take extra time for my pc to boot in XP (I clocked the times exactly)

2: It finds more then an avarage virusscanner

3: Best of all if you do the updates manually the virusscanner is for free

4: If a registered user your pc updates automatically without annoying questions like with Norton or Mc Afee

5: This Program Has Lots of extra options including a: Office Guard, Email Gaurd, A Monitor Program and a Main Control Program to keep everything under control

The Disadvantages (Only one and not important!)

1: It is for some new beginners difficult to use
1) Same here with norton.
2) No, norton finds equal much, if not even more.
3) Norton updates are free for a whole year.
4) Norton doesn't put you a lot of stupid questions. It works totally in the background, with a small notice when your virus def. is updated and when a virus, trojan or anything else is found and couldn't be repaired.

5) Norton has e-mail protection as well as office protection, etc, etc, etc...

*Disadvantages*
1) Norton is relatively easy to use.

[Harteex]

They are kind of equal... so I guess it's just what you prefer.... I prefer Kaspersky Antivirus (aka Antiviral Toolkit Pro)...

And I don't think it's difficult to use....

[B*A*G*G]

man, i dont need no crap antivirus software slowing my system down when im trying to get some gaming going on.
you would have to be a pretty big idiot to even be dumb enough to even download a easy a fuc* to detect virus anyhow!

norton works for me tho :thumbsup:

[Vchat20]

Can someone please post a link of where to download it? Cuz I tryed searching on google and went through like 10 pages and still couldnt find it. Someone please read and reply.

[vampireuk]

Norton is the daddy of them all:emutalk:

[AlphaWolf]

I don't even bother with virus scanners, they are always nothing but a burden. The only time I have ever had a virus was 3 years ago, and it was one that the virus scanner I did have installed (norton) was unable to detect at that time. And yes, I was just like the rest of the lemmings, I would always keep the thing up to date every week.

I use alternative measures of security that to me are a hell of a lot easier, and no drain of disk/memory/cpu, in fact quite the opposite. Just for one example, I intentionaly break portions of the operating system that I never use, which in the past most virii/trojans will attack or relie on to perform whatever their destructive function happens to be.

[Vchat20]

Well, I still need an antivirus myself. And considering the # of crashes I have within a month, It is highly recommended for me.

P.S. As a reply to a topic I started in the General Emulation section of the forum's, would it be safe to bring back my ROM's that I have backed up on a cd? I beleive there was a file within those that caused a virus I had. But all those rom's are in pure form, and the only emu's im gonna use are PJ64, CORN, and ZSNES. I need a for-sure answer on this one.

[cooliscool]

Originally posted by B*A*G*G
man, i dont need no crap antivirus software slowing my system down when im trying to get some gaming going on.
you would have to be a pretty big idiot to even be dumb enough to even download a easy a fuc* to detect virus anyhow!

norton works for me tho :thumbsup:

Really. :phone:

[Josep]

i don't even have a freak'n virus scanner, although i don't download*cough* stupid shit*cough*;)

[Lachp30]

I like Norton, only I forgot to update and now I have to pay for them or something. So, I uninstalled Norton and put on PC CILLIN.

[gokuss4]

ok this topic is way to old...

[B*A*G*G]

i still stand by my first statement ^_^


Originally posted by B*A*G*G
man, i dont need no crap antivirus software slowing my system with its lame routine.
you would have to be a pretty big idiot to even be dumb enough to even download a easy as fuc* to detect virus anyhow!

[vampireuk]

Alpha what you said is pretty much true, just using common sense will stop you getting a virus. However it can never hurt to have one just for back up:)

[tooie]

Norton will not stay top dog over the next couple of years .. there is a virus scanner that can find out new viruses before they are ever known by anyalsising the programs behaviour. Granted it is still a couple years away before it is really mainstream.

[AlphaWolf]

No matter what happens, virus scanners will be all but obsolete in a few years. If all PC users move to palladium, there will be no chance of any virii. If all users move to linux, the way the OS is built prevents virii from doing anything, the only way a virus can harm a linux system is if either the user always runs as root, or theres a hole to exploit. If all users move to macs, OSX works the same as linux.

The only reason that virii can even exist in huge numbers right now is because the most common operating systems used today are built around the idea that there is no such thing as harmful code. This will no longer be true in a few years.

[tooie]

there are virus for linux, it is not imune from viruses. There is just not many cause it is not the most used platform. If new software was never deleveloped, and current software was free of bugs, and if ever user made sure they updated there system all the time, then it might be possible to make virus redundant.

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN............

how many people are updating outlook to protect against virus, how many people can afford to always be upgrading, especially when the machine already does what they want. When are peopel not want to something new. If new things are being developed then there will always be bugs.

There will always be script happy kids, there will always be a need to protect your computer. People will manually execute things them self.

[AlphaWolf]

Originally posted by tooie
there are virus for linux

oh? can you name a few whose exploits aren't already closed?



how many people are updating outlook to protect against virus, how many people can afford to always be upgrading, especially when the machine already does what they want. When are peopel not want to something new. If new things are being developed then there will always be bugs.

There will always be script happy kids, there will always be a need to protect your computer. People will manually execute things them self.

So how does this make you need anti-virus software?

[Jaz]

I use the same virus scanner that the British government use. So I guess it's pretty decent. ;)

[ra5555]

get pc-cillin 2002, its the best. It doesn't use as much resource as norton and its very fast with lots of updates

[Josep]

Originally posted by Jaz
I use the same virus scanner that the British government use. So I guess it's pretty decent. ;)

the british government you say?

/me knuckles up

well a simple trojan will do for Jaz's computer;) :happy: haha j/k
subseven yes?;) Coming right up:D

i agree completely with b*a*g*g, if your one of those idiots that uses P2P religiously and downloads uncharted exe files for god knows what, then you want a stupid anti-virus program, other than that, i don't put *foreign*(or dumb shit files) shit persay on my computer;)

[AlphaWolf]

Virus scanning software is only for people that have more than 10 tray icons and 10 quicklaunch icons. In otherwords, people who install every god damn peice of software that has the word "free" written on it.

[Vchat20]

The only stuff I usually install is Productivity stuff like Microsoft Office Products, Encarta, etc.. and my favorite games (games that I pay for). Also emulator's, I cant forget those.

[B*A*G*G]

Originally posted by AlphaWolf
Virus scanning software is only for people that have more than 10 tray icons and 10 quicklaunch icons. In otherwords, people who install every god damn peice of software that has the word "free" written on it.
people like that annoy me.
if you're lame enough to install something like "BonziBuddy" then you're going to need the best virus scanner you can find :D

[Lachp30]

Originally posted by Josep
i don't even have a freak'n virus scanner, although i don't download*cough* stupid shit*cough*;)

Geez Josep, you really need something for that cough.:P

[Josep]

Originally posted by Lachp30
Geez Josep, you really need something for that cough.:P

i know *Cough* faggot *cough*;):happy:

hehe j/k