Sigh. Once again.

"Which is best?" is a question that gets asked a great many times in this
group, and I've been following the trends for a while, but am lost as to
what the /current/ opinions are. So hopefully, this post isn't a simple
rehash of all the others in the last couple weeks.

Used to be it was McAfee vs. Norton for AV, and that was all there was worth
mentioning in the AV universe. The others were piddling nothingness.

Now it seems that there are a lot of accolades for other apps in the AV
arena. Basically I run both Norton and AVG (Norton full time, and avg "once
in a while").

I am mostly concerned with bandwidth impact of my continually running 2003
NAV auto-protect.

1. What is the best AV considered to be these days?
2. Which AV has the least impact on the system (perhaps this need not be a
separate question).
3. Is McAfee considered to be a bigger hog of cpu bandwidth?
4. What is everyone's favorite anti-spyware? I am using AdAware, but am
intrigued by McAfee's new app.

*And the whopper spyware question* :

5. Is microsoft's new and free anti-spyware application any good?



--
Onedoctortoanother:"Ifthisismyrectalthermometer,wherethehell'smypen???"

Thomas G. Marshall thought carefully and wrote on 1/26/2005 9:34 PM:
> *And the whopper spyware question* :
>
> 5. Is microsoft's new and free anti-spyware application any good?

It's still beta. So no, it's not good yet.

Lance
*****

"Thomas G. Marshall" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in message news:04%Jd.24986$rs2.2122@trndny07...
>
> Sigh. Once again.
>
> "Which is best?" is a question that gets asked a great many times in this
> group, and I've been following the trends for a while, but am lost as to
> what the /current/ opinions are. So hopefully, this post isn't a simple
> rehash of all the others in the last couple weeks.
>
> Used to be it was McAfee vs. Norton for AV, and that was all there was
> worth
> mentioning in the AV universe. The others were piddling nothingness.
>
> Now it seems that there are a lot of accolades for other apps in the AV
> arena. Basically I run both Norton and AVG (Norton full time, and avg
> "once
> in a while").
>
> I am mostly concerned with bandwidth impact of my continually running 2003
> NAV auto-protect.
>
> 1. What is the best AV considered to be these days?
> 2. Which AV has the least impact on the system (perhaps this need not be a
> separate question).
> 3. Is McAfee considered to be a bigger hog of cpu bandwidth?
> 4. What is everyone's favorite anti-spyware? I am using AdAware, but am
> intrigued by McAfee's new app.
>
> *And the whopper spyware question* :
>
> 5. Is microsoft's new and free anti-spyware application any good.


I have been using Nortons for a couple of years without any problems , I
have seen in some of the threads that a lot of
people have had some problems with it. I have also installed AVG and AntiVir
on a few other computers, both seem ok.

I have been using Microsoft's anti-spyware for a little while and it seems
ok, but I also run the following.

Router
ZoneAlarm
Ad-aware
Spybot S&D
Spywareblaster
A-Squared
Winpatrol
Pestpatrol
CWShredder
Stinger
Hosts file from MVPS.org
I also use a few other utilities like XP antispy,upnp,Dcombob,gdiscan and
some Windows process monitors.

On 27-Jan-2005, "Thomas G. Marshall"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> 1. What is the best AV considered to be these days?

For detection it's Kaspersky.

"Thomas G. Marshall" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in message news:04%Jd.24986$rs2.2122@trndny07...
>
> Sigh. Once again.
>
> "Which is best?" is a question that gets asked a great many times in this
> group, and I've been following the trends for a while, but am lost as to
> what the /current/ opinions are. So hopefully, this post isn't a simple
> rehash of all the others in the last couple weeks.
>
> Used to be it was McAfee vs. Norton for AV, and that was all there was
> worth
> mentioning in the AV universe. The others were piddling nothingness.
>
> Now it seems that there are a lot of accolades for other apps in the AV
> arena. Basically I run both Norton and AVG (Norton full time, and avg
> "once
> in a while").
>
> I am mostly concerned with bandwidth impact of my continually running 2003
> NAV auto-protect.
>
> 1. What is the best AV considered to be these days?
> 2. Which AV has the least impact on the system (perhaps this need not be a
> separate question).
> 3. Is McAfee considered to be a bigger hog of cpu bandwidth?
> 4. What is everyone's favorite anti-spyware? I am using AdAware, but am
> intrigued by McAfee's new app.
>
> *And the whopper spyware question* :
>
> 5. Is microsoft's new and free anti-spyware application any good?
>
>
>
> --
> Onedoctortoanother:"Ifthisismyrectalthermometer,wherethehell'smypen???"
>
>
Kaspersky Pro here. Also just started using MS Anti Spyware, which was
originally owned by Giant.

Clive

"Gary" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6sSdnYuxK7duWGXcRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> On 27-Jan-2005, "Thomas G. Marshall"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > 1. What is the best AV considered to be these days?
>
> For detection it's Kaspersky.

I believe both Escan and NOD32 both use the Kaspersky engine- does this mean
basically they are the same product as Kaspersky just under different names?

Will

Will James wrote:
> "Gary" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6sSdnYuxK7duWGXcRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>On 27-Jan-2005, "Thomas G. Marshall"
>><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>1. What is the best AV considered to be these days?
>>
>>For detection it's Kaspersky.
>
>
> I believe both Escan and NOD32 both use the Kaspersky engine- does this mean
> basically they are the same product as Kaspersky just under different names?
>
> Will
>
>
NOD does *not* use the Kaspersky engine. I'm not sure they are even
written in the same programming language.

Lance <lltbhill@link_earth.net> wrote in news:35resgF4r59amU1
@individual.net:

>> 5. Is microsoft's new and free anti-spyware application any good?
>
> It's still beta. So no, it's not good yet.

I once read a letter to an editor that put it perfectly.
If the automakers made cars like MS makes an operating system, there would
be callbacks every hour, and breaks failing every microsecond.

"Clive" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:_B4Kd.659$8B3.272
@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

> Kaspersky Pro here. Also just started using MS Anti Spyware, which was
> originally owned by Giant.

how is the MS anti-spyware and did you ever try Avast before you used
Kaspersky?

"Thomas G. Marshall" wrote

> "Which is best?"

Avast gets my nod. It allows exclusions, so you can exclude anything that
has a performance problem, although that probably isn't relevant.
Performance problems probably have other causes, such as going online.
TCP/IP sucks up about 10% of my computer's performance.

> 4. What is everyone's favorite anti-spyware? I am using AdAware, but am
> intrigued by McAfee's new app.

Take a look at a2 from emsisoft, which also scans for trojans.

> Is microsoft's new and free anti-spyware application any good?

No. Wait for the next version. This beta is too buggy.

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