Antivirus recommendations

Dalek Dave

Anyone got a recommendation for a free/lowcost antivirus? Or should I just go ahead with Nortons?

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Pete OHanlon

Dalek Dave wrote:

Or should I just go ahead with Nortons?

Sure - if you want your machine never to respond to you ever again. Norton's worse than a virus for taking all resources and eating them. Norton is the fat kid at an all you can eat buffet, and your memory's the main course.

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Lost User

NOD32[^] is considered by many as the best commercial anti-virus being both lightweight and fast. AVG[^] is absolutely the best free anti-virus much better than many commercial products. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

Lutoslaw

AVG.

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realJSOP

Dalek Dave wrote:

Anyone got a recommendation for a free/lowcost antivirus?

Yeah, it's called "common sense" (proven to be not that common).

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John M Drescher

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

and your memory's the main course.

I have seen the corporate edition claiming about 150MB of memory in 2 of its processes. Endpoint seems to be better, however I have not watched it that much.

John

modified on Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:04 PM

Joe Woodbury

Yeah, none. Keep Windows patches up-to-date, avoid going to risky sites and don't click on anything that makes you suspicious, especially pop-ups and new CODECs. My family and I have followed that policy for years and haven't been infected. Before then, the only spyware (not virus) infections we got on my home computer were when from an iffy music site my teenagers were visiting at the time (and had clicked "OK" in response to a popup) and one when someone hijacked a well known, Pokemon or Nickelodeon site.

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l a u r e n

i thought that was nortons strategy these days ... be worse than any virus and hog all the resources so a decent virus gives up and doesn't bother :rolleyes:

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code frog 0

your own personal use then go with http://www.grisoft.com/ and use the AVG free edition. If someone here bags on it then they don't know how to use it. I can probably answer all of your questions so ask away. So long as it's for your home I'd do a few things. I'd run a free firewall such as ZoneAlarm (free) it's really pretty cool. I am willing to help you with that. I'd also install and run Spybot Search & Destroy. Then just have some good basic browsing practices. You can probably learn a lot from my articles on this see this one: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/work/antispyware.aspx[^] I think it's packed full of information and I'll take you as far as you want to go.

Todd Smith

Try a Mac.

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Tom Delany

I see the Univoter is alive and well...

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code frog 0

He's insecure. Hasn't turned 13 yet and feels horribly sorry for himself. To bad we don't feel sorry for him. But :) that's okay. It's a sign of his mentallity. He cannot fathom a number larger than 1 and interestingly that means in his life he is number 1 which also means in his life he's the only 1. So he's also the lonely 1. Sometimes 1 isn't so great. Case in point. :laugh:

Rutvik Dave

Just get Kaspersky Internet Security 2009. It comes with 3 user license. and Its best and less resource hungry. I am using it since 2-3 years (version 6.0) and never had any virus problems. I bought version 2009 from amazon.com for $25.00 / 3 users, few days ago. dont even think about norton or mcafee.

Bob X

Avira or Nod32 if you're willing to pay for it. AVG otherwise.

Lost User

Avast - better than AVG Free in my (humble) opinion. http://www.avast.com[^]

Henry Minute

A bit late I know but I would second AVG for a free AntiVirus. Highly recommended.

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Zhat

As most have said, AVG, or AVAST (which I currently use but have used AVG as well).

Dan Neely · modified on Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:04 PM

Symantec Corporate AV is a completely separate codebase from Norton Home. It's not pretty but is reasonably well behaved (not that I wouldn't still upgrade to avast/avg free if it was my choice), compared to the POS they box for retail.

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