Suggestions for AntiVirus?
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
I orginally ran Norton Internet Security. However, after replacing my Pocket PC that ran Windows Mobile 2003 with a new Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 5, my computer and ActiveSync failed to recognize the new Mobile 5 Pocket PC. After an hours long internet chat with HP (involving many reboots, ActiveSync reinstalls, and Norton reinstalls), it was determined that Norton Internet Security was preventing the new Pocket PC from being recognized. I am not going to run without Anti-Virus or a firewall. So, I switched to the security suite my wife ran on her computer, McAfee. McAfee ran fine on my computer for the year until the new year's version. Then, about every two to three weeks, always on a weekend, my computer would lose it's McAfee subscription information. It would say "Subscription cannot be verified". McAfee's customer support response was always, "Uninstall the software and reinstall". Then McAfee would run for another two to three weeks. I decided to give them 3 strikes. After the third occurrance, I was given a script that saves and restores the subscription information. But, I was determined to switch from being a Beta tester of McAfee's released RTM and retail boxed, Internet Security product and switched to Kaspersky. I have had no problems with Kaspersky. It was tough as nails getting a refund from McAfee since there is a 30-day refund window from purchasing, but since it never provided full 24/7 protection for less than three weeks, I finally got a refund from McAfee. My wife had not had a problem with McAfee, but she renewed in mid-year instead of the first of the year and I reckon that McAfee fixed the problems after many users had complained on their forum of the problem I experienced.
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Kaspersky It also has spyware and firewall. I paid 65 for mine with a 65 mail in rebate that I am still waiting for. Though I expect it will be another month until I receive it. Kaspersky is the best and it doesn't slow your system down.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
Where did you get the rebate from??
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
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AVG Free[^] If you're a user with common sense, you can easily turn off real time scanning. Keep email scanner alive, and you'll have a computer which is as fast as it can be. Keep in mind that the free license does not cover professional usage, meaning that you can't use it at work. :(
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
I've used Symantec (at home and work) and McAfee (at home) on and off for years without any troubles. Your mileage may vary, however.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
I second (or third, or fourth, as the case may be ;P ) Avast.
Cheers, Vikram.
"If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
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ESET NOD32 http://www.eset.com/products/[^]
Recommended books: Troelsen for Visual Studio 2008 Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET
I second that. It's reliable and lightweight.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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ESET NOD32 http://www.eset.com/products/[^]
Recommended books: Troelsen for Visual Studio 2008 Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET
I'd recommend the same. Nod32 is the best I've seen. It is very low on resources and works exceptionally well.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
Well, I just said it, and I honestly think it's the best solution there. No antivirus heuristics will defend against a new virus with 100% certainty.
ROFLOLMFAO
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
Don't do anything stupid. There you go, no antivirus required. :) I'm not really even joking, I've been computing since the 8088 and never got a virus despite religiously using anti virus software all that time. I'm starting to think it's a waste of money. It's pretty easy to avoid getting on these days if you're behind a firewall use up to date email software and web browser and don't do anything stupid. Conversely lot's of people I know can get a virus within less than a day on a new computer out of sheer stupidity alone. I use the AVG paid for version but only as insurance of last resort, I don't expect to ever actually get a virus. AVG works well for me on my Vista machine, no noticeable affect on performance.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Hey Chris! good to see you buddy:).. Did you try Kaspersky?? I designed a simple trojan and for my surprise, it got caught!! It's also acting as a reliable firewall "well, nagging a lot :laugh:".. BTW: Thank you for all the good updates in the CP, we luvvvv it:cool:
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
I would suggest that you think of the following: A free antivirus would help only if you are not always on the net like a broadband connection. Suggestions for free antivirus: Mcafee (Download from AOL!!) Suggestions for paid antivirus: Kaspersky, NOD32 (doesnt clean system volume information!!) HTH
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AVG Free[^] If you're a user with common sense, you can easily turn off real time scanning. Keep email scanner alive, and you'll have a computer which is as fast as it can be. Keep in mind that the free license does not cover professional usage, meaning that you can't use it at work. :(
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
I found that AVG was a bit of a resource hog. When you have a new Quad core machine with the best RAM money can buy and it grinds to a halt every time your system is scanned by AVG, then you know there is something wrong. At first I thought it was a problem with Visual Studio but that was only because I am always using it so it is usually the first thing to slow down. It turned out to be an IO problem. AVG was making many thousands of paging file writes and everything stopped working. I have 10,000rpm hard drives too so that wasn't the issue. The IO issue also explained the slowing down of Visual Studio. During compilation VS makes many small reads and writes to and from hard disk. It is a necessary evil but you can't get away from it. So when AVG ties up the hard drive with virtual memory paging, IO suffers for everything else. My 4 cores sit around running at about 0% and my system becomes totally unresponsive until the scan is complete. I had used AVG for a 3 years before I switched to Avast and the improvement has been noticeable.
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I found that AVG was a bit of a resource hog. When you have a new Quad core machine with the best RAM money can buy and it grinds to a halt every time your system is scanned by AVG, then you know there is something wrong. At first I thought it was a problem with Visual Studio but that was only because I am always using it so it is usually the first thing to slow down. It turned out to be an IO problem. AVG was making many thousands of paging file writes and everything stopped working. I have 10,000rpm hard drives too so that wasn't the issue. The IO issue also explained the slowing down of Visual Studio. During compilation VS makes many small reads and writes to and from hard disk. It is a necessary evil but you can't get away from it. So when AVG ties up the hard drive with virtual memory paging, IO suffers for everything else. My 4 cores sit around running at about 0% and my system becomes totally unresponsive until the scan is complete. I had used AVG for a 3 years before I switched to Avast and the improvement has been noticeable.
Ah.. I've never noticed such problems, because I don't actively scan my system. I only scan what comes in.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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ESET NOD32 http://www.eset.com/products/[^]
Recommended books: Troelsen for Visual Studio 2008 Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET
I've been using NOD32 for over 3 years, but in the end I found out that it's not that good in catching all viruses. I got infected with 3 viruses, while updating NOD32 daily. All 3 viruses were caught by other anti-viruses (i.e. BitDefender).
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
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Something that won't bring my machine to it's knees!!:mad:
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
[Avira](http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php<br mode=) It's for free for personal use, it doesn't hog many ressources and keeps it up-to-date daily. It also won some anti-virus testing benchmarks.
