Tired of viruses? Which program gives maximum protection?

***Zardon*** · Jul 9, 2002, 08:32 PM

Are you tired of getting viruses?, or is your current antivirus program just not delivering the goods? Cnet put the top programs to the test a few months ago.
Although its not a recent test, its interesting reading for those of you unsure about which program to spend your hard earned cash on.

They tested the following:

• Norton AntiVirus 2002_
• EZ Antivirus
• F-Secure Anti-Virus Personal Edition
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro 4.0
• NOD32
• Norman Virus Control 5.0
• Panda Antivirus Platinum 6.25
• PC-cillin 2002
• Vexira Antivirus Personal 2.0
• VirusScan 6.0

http://www.cnet.com/software/0-80617...-1.html?tag=ld

FuNsTeR · Jul 9, 2002, 08:44 PM

I prefer AVG 6 pro its seen me ok most pc magazines rate the free edition as good as Nortons pay version and its a smaller download as well

GravY · Jul 10, 2002, 01:21 AM

I am using AVG6 right now, doesnt seem to slow things down when running in the background.. I hear about it on Techtv, and its free and autoupdates..

http://www.grisoft.com

FuNsTeR · Jul 10, 2002, 03:11 AM

i've been using Avg 6 pro for roughly 3 years no need to re register to get downloads

unlike norton you have to buy license every year i think i'll stick with Avg thanks PCcililin 2000 was *rap

kinetic · Jul 10, 2002, 03:54 AM

Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

FuNsTeR · Jul 10, 2002, 04:00 AM

dunno never tried download accelerators with Adsl i don't need one ..... trust me you will not regret Avg 6 scans everything email the lot even has advance hueristics engine for detecting viruses

kinetic · Jul 10, 2002, 04:04 AM

Originally posted by FuNsTeR1970
dunno never tried download accelerators with Adsl i don't need one .....

Thanks for that I feel much better!

***Zardon*** · Jul 10, 2002, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kinetic
Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

Download accelerator plus 5 is pretty good, I used it alot in the past (I dont really need it now)... recommended.

XSwiftX · Jul 10, 2002, 04:45 AM

AVG 6 freebie user and love it! Will be upgrading to the Pro version soon. This one has caught every virus that has came my way..........

kinetic · Jul 10, 2002, 04:48 AM

Thanks guys 2 great free downloads there, AVG 6 and DAP 5.

boby · Jul 10, 2002, 06:23 AM

i'm using norton 2002 and it's very great program.It saved me a lots of time

skinlab · Jul 10, 2002, 10:22 AM

i had NAVCE2k2, then somehow it got corrupted, i uninstalled and it wouldnt reinstall. so now i use pc-cillin2k2... free of charge

works fine, scans quick, firewall is pretty useless tho, i dont have it running, i only right click/scan when i need to

MousePotato · Jul 10, 2002, 11:04 AM

i use NAV 2002 pro, and it can scan compressed files( manualy)

strange how this article didn't mention that !

Shaith · Jul 10, 2002, 11:57 AM

I've been using NAV for years now. Tried quite a few others, including PCcillin, McAfee, etc, and wind up coming back to NAV because it does what I want it to do, doesn't slow me down, and it kills bugs dead

And why bother buying liveupdate extensions - by the time your sub runs out, the next version is out.

Shaith · Jul 10, 2002, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kinetic
Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

I've been using Getright since it released. Works great, once you register you can remove all the adware crap. Even with my cable modem I still use it, as there are times it comes in handy, especially when you're trying to download something REALLY popular or from less reliable sites out there.

brc64 · Jul 10, 2002, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by FuNsTeR1970
unlike norton you have to buy license every year i think i'll stick with Avg thanks PCcililin 2000 was *rap

That's actually not true. The whole subscription thing is very misleading.. you can always download updated virus definitions without a subscription. To be honest, I'm not really sure what the subscription thing gives you other than maybe free upgrades in terms of software (not virus definitions).

- Me

bigAL99 · Jul 10, 2002, 05:33 PM

i use norton 2002 ive had no problems before with it at all ive used avg free in the past which is pretty good as well i recomend avg for my mates with erm.. slower systems lol

alan

Matth · Jul 10, 2002, 06:43 PM

Avast is now free for personal use, and has scored a recent VB100 success (AVG hasn't since some way back!)

http://www.avast.cz / http://www.alwil.com

If you want FREE, the only other game in town is the somewhat false-alarm prone ANTIVIR - http://www.free-av.com

Downloaders?
I wouldn't be without Metaproducts FREE Download Express - http://www.metaproducts.com
It's a downloader, but not a full download manager, but the important things - like resuming failed downloads, are all there. MASS DOWNLOADER is their "Pro" solution if you need scheduling, auto virus scanning etc.

The free one has 4 settings, configurable for throughput throttle and number of threads.
Drawbacks? tends to get thrown by some redirects, hold CTRL-SHIFT (one may be enough?) to prevent it activating!

Others:
Stardownloader, Freshdownload

I won't touch spyware infested junk like GoZilla and DAP - the free version of DAP IS Adware+Spyware, and any clear report by Ad-Aware does not make it different - the spyware is private, and embedded, and merely inactive in the pay version, but unremovable.

~~Crash Override~~ · Jul 10, 2002, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by brc64
That's actually not true. The whole subscription thing is very misleading.. you can always download updated virus definitions without a subscription. To be honest, I'm not really sure what the subscription thing gives you other than maybe free upgrades in terms of software (not virus definitions).

- Me

very true.......I've used it for a long time and only upgraded to 2002 recently

Necrosis · Jul 10, 2002, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MousePotato
i use NAV 2002 pro, and it can scan compressed files( manualy)

strange how this article didn't mention that !

Weird,

I know it can too because I have done the same. Now I'm using EZ Antivirus, which will also manually scan archives.. No it may not scan emails; if an email/download has a virus I know right then when it's coming through. It has never failed me.

lucytoo · Jul 11, 2002, 04:12 AM

Hi,

I tried AVG and Kapersky (when it was free), but now I use Avast 32 which seems pretty good.

Follow this link: http://toronto.virusbtn.com/vb100/ar...sts.xml?200206

to see how it and others did...

MikeDaMan · Jul 11, 2002, 01:24 PM

For all you cheap bastards that want to completely scan your comp for viruses can try the online virus scanner at http://housecall.antivirus.com/ It seems to work pretty good. However I'm using NAV2002 and find that to run perfectly fine.

Desert_Siege · Jul 12, 2002, 12:26 AM

I hate that it delays my startup process by almost 10 seconds, but Avast was telling me that the .exe files for Sum of All Fears and Ghost Recon were infected and no other virus scanner I tried detected it and they are the original files off the CD. I know they are not infected, but alas, Avast locks me out of them and it pissed me off so I trashed it and went back to Nortons. One feature of Nortons that I DO like is the fact that it scans my outgoing mail, very cool! No need in sending my friends the latest and greatest virus I just got by unzipping and running that *cough* "demo" version *cough* of that cool new game without scanning it first.

FuNsTeR · Jul 12, 2002, 01:11 AM

Avg Scans both incoming and outgoing mail with a advanced heuristics Engine ... excuse the shytty spelling

...

marcoyeo · Dec 23, 2002, 10:09 PM

I'm using Mcafee Anti-Virus Professional 7. the loading of this program pretty slow, currently only have 3 more (small)programs to load.

there's this Mcafee screen would appear everytime u load the program. would stay at abt 6-7 seconds, which is very slow.

Win2000Pro + SP3
PC specs at sig.

pls help.