Fair point Jase

As JackClark and others have said. Anti virus and a firewall are esstianals if you are surfing. They are NOT optional. The fact that they can both be had for free is even better.

Chris

 

another vote for sophos.

 

Out of interest, if AVG didn't pick it up, how did you know you had it? I run AVG 7 on my pcs, a little concerned now

Andy

 

Another vote for Sophos, which funnily enough we also use at work !!!!!!

 

Norton Internet 2004 for me

 

i havent found many faults, and the corporate use it !

 

I use Norton - we also use it it in work (large multinational corporation, very strict on computer usage) - so that's good enough recommendation for me.

Jen

 

SiDHEaD

pc started playing up , notepad got corrupted, so from then i went checking , eventually found out it was

NIKLAS.A ,

got free trial of norton and it found it, but AVG 7 reported system as being fine

email me if you want to talk more

jase

 

Don't overlook NOD32 by Eset. Highly rated in the industry and in independant tests (http://www.virusbtn.com).

Also puts very little stress on your system (low CPU & Memory usage while running as a background process).

It's heuristics are pretty damn good too - caught a newer variant of 'NetSky' before it actually *knew* what it was.

 

Norton AV too, the memory thing is rubbish..

 

Sophos, Norton, And NAI- all ****e...., I work for an ISP and SW/HW Support Company, We will only supply Trend Micro. Best AV Software you can get both commerically and domestic.
www.antivirus.com

Haxzer ;-)

 

You may not be bothered by bloatware eating away at your available resources, but please bear in mind others may be.

NOD32 has a very small resource footprint - fact.

This whole thread can very simply be put to rest with the results from here:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml

Virus Bulletin is unbiased & widely recognised in the industry as the test for AV packages.

 

> Virus Bulletin is unbiased & widely recognised in the industry as the test for AV packages.

Not by me and I've worked in Antivirus for 11 odd years. Don't you find it funny that they share the same address as an antivirus company? We - McAfee - missed loads of VB100's the only reason being that we wouldn't develop our products to pass their tests, prefering to develop a product that efficiently deals with real world threats.

I do however agree that NOD32 is a great product and resource hogging is an issue, hence our latest consumer product is the most lightweight we've ever produced.

If anyone wants to do a full test, bring your antivirus to our labs and we'll have a shoot out. I have a comprehensive virus collection we can test against, you'll be surprised by the results.

And don't forget, more Impreza drivers work for McAfee.

 

Thanks to Swaussie I have now installed the free anti-virus from Avast.

Neil.

 

I use AVG too... What problem have you found that was attributable directly to that software? - I obviously would be interested to know!


Cheers

Mick

 

mick on page 2 what happened

 

Has anyone found a cure / work-around for the NIS crunching email connections in Outlook and saying it's the server timing out, i.e.


Task 'apple.dd - Receiving' reported error (0x8004210A) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'

If I uninstall NIS, I get email back again...

I used AVG and ZAP for a while but never felt as comfortable with them - I haven't tried McAfee or Sophos yet

 

Just to add that there is an industry standard non harmful test virus (EICAR) that all antivirus software is supposed to recognise so you can test your installation works. The free version of AVG FAILS this test completely and on emailing AVG their only reply was upgrade to V7 (confidence inspiring NOT).

Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.

 

>>Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the >>consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.

Not in all cases. And your company would have to produce the discs and provide support.

 

Hello Jack

Having spoken to my distributor he tells me that the boxed consumer product would be sent out which I would then pass to the user to load to their system. Please advise what the exceptions are?
Thanks
Henry

 

Email me at work jclark@nai.com, I have the procedure documented.

 

Aqua - I have the latest AVG free version installed and have tried the downloads from the EICAR site and the software seems to recognise these files as potential viruses OK !

Cheers

Mick

 

CA etrust. $10/year subs. We use it corporately as well.

BTW zonealarm doesn't work with Windows 95.

 

CA etrust is free for a year at Microsoft.com.

 

We use sophos at work but it really is a bit of a PITA - mailing out CDs each month seems a bit stoneage in the era of broadband. plus the auto-update procedure isn't the easiest for a non-geek like me to get to grips with. Use NAV at home as it is about 10 times easier to operate than sophos and seems more than adequately effective.