Antivirus software

[J-Nic]

I just recently uninstalled norton antivirus off of my cpu for many reasons, and now I'm looking for a decent antivirus program to purchase. can anyone please tell me of any good programs out there that aren't as bad as norton was for me? I would appreciate it.

 

[WhiteX]

I´m on Avast! as my antivirus and Zone Alarm as my firewall, both free and i do not experience any problem.

 

[xneoangel]

Many of my friends say a Kaspersky is pretty good AntiVirus, i havent tested it tough, because i use Norton Antivirus.

If you want a free Antivirus go for AVG Free Edition.

 

[J-Nic]

I just installed Avast! home edition 4 and it seems to be working well. especially cause it's free!

 

[Agozer]

I use BitDefender Professional. It's good enough.

 

[smcd]

AVG, Avast, AntiVir, ClamAV... all are free and the first 3 are most popular, the 4th being open source

 

[J-Nic]

well so far avast! is working well, so I'm sticking with that. it already detected a virus that was in my cpu for the period of time I was relying on windows live safety centre. thanks for the tip, WhiteX.

 

[euphoria]

in your cpu ?!

 

[J-Nic]

in your cpu ?!

yes... yes it was...

 

[smcd]

Unfortunately lots of people call their tower a cpu. I highly doubt it was in the cpu

 

[Flash]

Unfortunately lots of people call their tower a cpu. I highly doubt it was in the cpu

That's a "tradition" from 60s when CPU was a crate of discrete chips.

 

[Flash]

BTW Avast is really great - it's free and it requires a lot less resources than Kaspersky or Norton and it does the job as good as any non-free antivirus.

 

[J-Nic]

Unfortunately lots of people call their tower a cpu. I highly doubt it was in the cpu

your right, i didn't mean the CPU as in Central Processing Unit. My mistake...

 

[smcd]

It happens and people knew what you meant but prefer to be pedantic

 

[yegosimo]

i dont know why u uninstalled NAV.. Norton Internet Security 2005 works great for me
and about those free antivirus programs... remember that they are free because of a reason

 

[Doomulation]

That reason is not because they're bad...
They aren't.

 

[Hexidecimal]

AVG Pro FTW.

 

[WhiteX]

i dont know why u uninstalled NAV.. Norton Internet Security 2005 works great for me
and about those free antivirus programs... remember that they are free because of a reason

Avast! is free because you send virus data for them to improve the corporate (paid) edition.
So the free edition needs to be constantly updated in order to protect from thew latest virus and give them the latest information.

Most of the time ppl use pirate AV software, i rather use a free one.

 

[J-Nic]

Norton Internet Security 2005 works great for me

that's a first...

if I had a quarter for all the viruses that norton has missed and/or found but not cleaned up ... the amount of sytem memory that it hoggs... the amount of times that it has constantly asked me to update after doing so a thousand times, and paying once... well I guess I would be a very wealthy man.

 

[arnalion]

I use NOD32. It doesn't eat up all your resources, it get updates often, has high security and it's nice to config.