avast pro is the best used it for 5 yrs now it misses nothing and when it finds a virus it alerts you by a blue and yellow bar along the bottom of the screen,and then a voice say's WARNINING YOU HAVE A VIRUS ON YOUR COMPUTER and then you put it to chest.for me its the best.
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I use Avast.. never have had any problems
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WIGAN ATH the BLUE BRAZILIANS
DWSTADIUM the theatre of SCREAMS
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I use Common Sense 2009.
Doesnt use any memory or clock cycles.
Doesnt give me annoying pop up warnings.
Doesnt need to sit waiting to load or grinding my system to a halt whilst it scans.
Best AV EVER.He who laughs last thinks slowest.Comment
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Best anti virus is mostly a subjective topic after a certain point (the dregs) - beyond that they all do the same basic job....after all you can have the best antivirus in the world fact, and yet the biggest security risk is something no anti virus can ever and never account for and that's the stupidity of the person in front of the computer (or lack therof).....so.....the topic of question really matters not after a certain point - you will be fine with avg, avast, comodo, kasperky etc etc....some might say stay away from Norton though.
Personally I use AVG whenever I bother with antiviruses....I think a more important question should be "which is the best firewall software to use?" and for that thus far I'd say Comodo Firewall....by the way I'm surprised nobody noticed this but this thread is in the wrong section as this is the pc games section.....
Oh one more tip.....and heed this warning if you value your data.....stay away from any software made by Symantec! So that's Norton Anti Virus, Partition Magic etc etc.....there's miles better and lesser known alternatives out there that do the job advertised properly - remember if it's Symantec it's Shit. Don't believe me ? Use Symantec products and see how long your PC lasts - then use alternative products and see the difference in how easy and stress free it is to do what you wanted to do in the first place.Last edited by Raven; 17 August, 2009, 16:53.Comment
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I could give you a horror story or two....here goes - how does sluggish and difficult to get rid of sound ? how about not doing it's job particularly well ? and this is talking of norton anti virus which is part of the symantec product line......
As for Partition Magic - get this - just last week, all I wanted to do in the first place was to convert my NTFS external hard drive to FAT32 without losing any data (for use with my PS3) and reading around the net quite a few people suggested Partition Magic as being able to do that job - so I tried it, nothing but hassle, didn't do it's job, and corrupted my data so had to salvage what I could (which thankfully was most of it) but had to sacrifice one of my smaller Operating System partitions to do this....so then once the data had been salvaged I had another read around and tried out software called System Commander....and the difference was night and day....it was easier to use, it did the job properly, without any fuss, on a more corrupted hard drive at that point thanks to Partition Magic (which at that same point flat out refused to work literally - as in program wouldn't even start due to error message!) and it was nothing to do with what I was doing wrong, like I said all I wanted to do was a simple conversion, and did it with System Commander - it was just crappy software vs decent software. So yes, stay well away from Symantec - they don't make good stuff.Last edited by Raven; 17 August, 2009, 17:24.Comment
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Of course its a useful reply:
WHY?
Any virus worth its salt will infect a fair number of systems before it even gets discovered let alone AV developers finding a method of neutralising it, then it takes time to update the AV signature databases, then the AV client needs to update from the server.
Even then its fdisturbingly easy to work around this simply by opening up any virus executable and padding it with a few bytes of useless data in any common hex editor, or dissassembling the exe, adding a few more unconditional jumps between calls or even simply adding some comments!
There are even various resources out there to allow you to fire up any commonly available assembler and write your own from scratch without even really knowing a thing about the assembly language for the hardware your running on.
Any decent writer is patient enough to allow months sometimes even years for a virus to cultivate before triggering its payload, just sitting on a system doing nothing to arouse any kind of suspicion.
Its far easier to simply AVOID getting infected in the first place
How about NOT clicking on all those strobing popups before you read them (i recently read a fairly alarming study on this very topic, even when users are presented with "THIS WILL COMPLETELY FORMAT YOUR DRIVES CONTENTS DO YOU WISH TO PROCEED" users more often than not just clicked yes to get rid of the box)
Not downloading NOODZ from your daily spam and generaly avoiding downloading anything from an unverifiable source.
If it doesnt have an MD5 or a CRC to allow me to verify then its really not worth the bandwidth to download.
Completely dumping IE and its insane ActiveX scripting is also fairly useful as is slapping on some kind of script filtering onto any browser you do actualy use.
Not downloading hippity hop Retards Attempting Poetry from shady p2p clients like limewire or shareazza is also a fairly intelligent move. If i was to patch a virus to something you can bet your ass it would be the latest chart topper and id dump it straight onto every peer to peer network i could think of (and i can think of a LOT of p2p networks)
A decent firewall setup effectively prevents any unused ports from connecting so worms like those that where designed to run over the remote procedural call and their ilk are rendered useless.
Also every so often running a netstat -n and some simple diagnostic tools whilst performing routine maintainance shows if you have any trojans trying to connect or any executables running that are surplus to requirements.
Performing routine patching and updating to cover any exploits and vulnerabilities is also a good move.
NOT running as anything other than a basic USER account, any modern operating system should allow you to assign admin rights to an installer from a basic user account, this will prevent most things from automaticaly spidering into your system without your prior consent.
Monitoring filesizes for critical files should be second nature
I have a batch that compares my critical system file sizes and notifies me of any changes and reports the modification dates this takes a few seconds to run when i perform my weekly defrag and backup cycle, the only time these should ever change is when youve performed some kind of update and the changes will be listed in the release notes.
EFFECTIVE BACKUP STRTEGY, also far superior to any antivirus, if by some chance i do find myself infected through my own stupidity i just swap out my drive to one of my mirrors and im back up and running in a matter of minuites. Then its just a matter of overwriting the infected drive with a new mirror from a clean backup at the next cycle.
Reasoning
Ive ran various av programs in the past, (and still do on a testing rig for final builds and release candidates) a lot of which actualy interfered or otherwise hindered my work, especialy true if your debugging a project and you've got pointers to incorrect addresses/segfaults/memory leaks to pin down, a loop that writes out to a file can look like a virus (due to rapid growth of a file) but in actual fact is entirely harmless.
Procedures for capturing keypresses from a user send the majority of AV software into terminating the program and alerting users to something dodgy thats actualy completely benign.
I understand exactly how antivirus software works and know exactly what it does and more often than not its completely unproductive to my environment, especialy considering how little protection any actualy offers, The only use for AV software is to make sure any software gets past them without errors.
This drasticly cuts down on flames from hamfisted mouthbreathers convinced that that keymapper interface you spent a week working on is actualy some kind of keylogger, because after all why go in for corporate data when you can go after joe numpties msn conversations instead?He who laughs last thinks slowest.Comment
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Take a look at virus bulletin to see wich one is the best. I use Nod32 from several years and doesn't have any virus related problems.Comment
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" Its far easier to simply AVOID getting infected in the first place
A decent firewall setup effectively prevents any unused ports from connecting so worms like those that where designed to run over the remote procedural call and their ilk are rendered useless.
Performing routine patching and updating to cover any exploits and vulnerabilities is also a good move. "
I agree !!! i like KAV ....I use NOD32....and Spybot
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KAV it slows down PC,but KIS is the best solution
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Three cheers for AVAST.
Three Cheers For Avast. I had avast, on the trial basis, thanks to this thread. I received a prompt yesterday telling me that my trial period was running out soon. I investigated further on the prompt and Avast have given me another year free. Thanks Avast and Kebabzz.Comment
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I have been using nod32 (v2.7) for my home PC, never had a problem for 4 years. Updates daily. OS is Windows XP Pro.
In the office, I use Kaspersky Internet Security 2008 and I feel very safety. Even I can test all my colleague flash pens with my computer if there is a virus or not. Before KIS2008, I were using ESET v3.0... and my computer infected many times. I confirm Kaspersky slows PC down but only update times. OS is Windows XP Pro.
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