What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?

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Doofy

Allright, i`m sorry! please stop this!
Julian said:
If he did, I bet he snuck into a church and nicked the collection box
first!

Either that or sold his sorry ass 159 times in the Barri del Raval.
 
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Alias

Julian said:
If he did, I bet he snuck into a church and nicked the collection box
first!

Either that or sold his sorry ass 159 times in the Barri del Raval.

The fact that you think that you're cute and clever by making up lies
about me says more about you than me.
 
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Leythos

Nuking Vista and installing a real OS like Ubuntu. Check it out at

Providing a link to something that does not answer the question asked of
the OP, not even close to answering it, is trolling and OT.

The best is one you can afford, will remain updated, has support, and
has minor impact on system performance during normal operation.

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Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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Adam Albright

The fact that you think that you're cute and clever by making up lies
about me says more about you than me.

Frank is your typical lowlife newsgroup bully. He can dish out insults
but can't take the return volley. This loser has been proven a fool
and liar so many times it is laughable. I REALLY think Frank is
mentally disturbed. He sure acts that way.
 
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Robert Moir

All anti-virus software lull you into a false sense of security.
They can all only detect *known* malware.

Well yes but some are worse than others. One Care can't even do a very good
job with known malware.
If you're careful, you don't need anti-virus software at all.

While I've gone long periods of time without AV on my windows machine with
no trouble, this is bad advice to be bandying around... the sort of people
who have to ask with help in this subject are the sort that probably don't
know enough to be careful and prudent.

I've likened the need for AV in the past to car safety features.

Antivirus programs are like a seatbelt or an airbag. They can usually but
not always do a job of saving your bacon when something goes wrong, but all
the seatbelts and airbags in the world will never make it 'safe' to crash
your car on purpose. And as for being a good enough driver to not need these
things, that might technically be true but even the best people have
accidents sometimes.

Thanks, I know that site quite well. You'll notice it actually links to one
of my old websites if you look around.
 
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Leythos

How about BitDefender?

I have every AV solution on the market, purchasable, except NOD, bit
defender is not my first choice. If you're going to "Pay" for AV
software, if you can afford the 5 license minimum, get Symantec
Corporate Edition 10.2 for Workstations and Servers. This one, while you
are suppose to renew your maintenance contract very year, currently gets
updates well past the 1 year mark - I know people still using v8 that
are getting daily updates and they've not renewed their support for 5+
years - if you consider that, the cost is cheaper for the corporate
version than for x years of a home version.

SCE is very easy on resources.

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Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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Robert Moir

Hapkido said:
There are only 2 antivirus programs I would even consider:

1. Kaspersky AV (KAV) or their suite (KIS), currrently at version
7.0.0.125 which is 100% Vista-compatible. This new version includes a new
active heuristics engine which scans for "suspect" items not covered by
it's Pro Active Defense definitions. KAV has a 99.7% positive detection
rate. It uses very little memory, it's fast, easy to use and runs great
right out of the box. Support on the Kaspersky Forums is excellent too.

2. NOD32 is another very good product, albeit not quite as effective as
Kaspersky. However, it is right up there and rates a strong second place,
IMHO.

I've installed KAV on well over 100 of my customer's PC's of all flavors
and have never had a complaint nor has any of them ever been infected.

Great home products that I'd be quite happy to point out to people looking
for AV for a home computer, but I've not seen evidence that either of them
'scale' to enterprise deployment. And we're back to my point about no single
product being "the best" because they all meet different requirements.
 
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The poster formerly known as 'The poster formerly

Alias said:
I bought Vista the other day.

My condolences!
You must have missed the reply to YOU
where I stated that. Cost me 158.86 euros for a copy of a generic OEM
Ultimate. I also bought an AMD2 Dual Core 4600+, two gigs of Corsair 800
RAM and a PCIExpress nVidia GeForce 7300 at 512 MB to go with it.

Sounds sweet! :)

Well, all except for the vista part, lol!

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http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

"Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with
legality."
- Linus Torvalds
 
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Leythos

I bought Vista the other day. You must have missed the reply to YOU
where I stated that. Cost me 158.86 euros for a copy of a generic OEM
Ultimate. I also bought an AMD2 Dual Core 4600+, two gigs of Corsair 800
RAM and a PCIExpress nVidia GeForce 7300 at 512 MB to go with it.

It's good to see that you've learned from your Ubuntu mistake and have
moved to Windows - congrats. I can't imagine anyone with your massive
amount of Linux experience even wanting to use Vista unless you've
failed to master Linux or unless your Linux platform failed to provide
the resources you needed - after all, you are the one telling everyone
TOO BAD for getting vista, and that Ubuntu is the solution.

Sounds very hypocritical of you to be buying something you rail against.

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Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
(e-mail address removed) (remove 999 for proper email address)
 
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Alias

The poster formerly known as 'The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy'
wrote:
My condolences!


Sounds sweet! :)

Well, all except for the vista part, lol!

It's a triple boot with XP and Ubuntu. I only bought Vista to see what
it's like and for when the games need DX10. I'm not impressed or wowed
by it, although the search feature is almost as good as Beagle.
 
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Alias

Leythos said:
Providing a link to something that does not answer the question asked of
the OP, not even close to answering it, is trolling and OT.

Usenet rules:

Rule #1. If you can't stand the heat, then get the H-e-l-l out of the
kitchen! And, Rule #2. If you can't take it, then don't try to dish it
out! Rule #3. Rule #s 1 & 2 apply to Everybody, and that means you too,
Fool!
 
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Alias

Leythos said:
It's good to see that you've learned from your Ubuntu mistake and have
moved to Windows - congrats. I can't imagine anyone with your massive
amount of Linux experience even wanting to use Vista unless you've
failed to master Linux or unless your Linux platform failed to provide
the resources you needed - after all, you are the one telling everyone
TOO BAD for getting vista, and that Ubuntu is the solution.

Sounds very hypocritical of you to be buying something you rail against.

I bought it for two reasons:

1. Curiosity.

2. For games that use DX10.

I will never use it as a workstation and I am not impressed or wowed by
it. Seems like an XP SE with a little eye candy thrown in, although the
search feature is almost as good as Beagle.
 
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Leythos

Usenet rules:

Rule #1. If you can't stand the heat, then get the H-e-l-l out of the
kitchen! And, Rule #2. If you can't take it, then don't try to dish it
out! Rule #3. Rule #s 1 & 2 apply to Everybody, and that means you too,
Fool!

And the Definition of a Troll fits your postings exactly.

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Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
(e-mail address removed) (remove 999 for proper email address)
 
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Marco Desloovere

Robert said:
Well yes but some are worse than others. One Care can't even do a very good
job with known malware.

As long as AV software cannot detect *all* viruses, they are *all*
useless. Even if the best AV software were 99% efficient, that last
percent still contains undetected malware.
It suffices that *one* single virus slips through to cause havoc.
While I've gone long periods of time without AV on my windows machine with
no trouble, this is bad advice to be bandying around... the sort of people
who have to ask with help in this subject are the sort that probably don't
know enough to be careful and prudent.

Wrong! These people believe that AV software is the answer to their
malware problems, and they think that anything is permitted, because
their AV software is taking care of the bad things.
Even with AV software running on a PC, one still has to be very careful.
Should I mention phishing here?

I believe that the computer users should be *educated* on malware.
Don't just let them use AV illusionware and hope for the best.
I've likened the need for AV in the past to car safety features.

Antivirus programs are like a seatbelt or an airbag. They can usually but
not always do a job of saving your bacon when something goes wrong, but all
the seatbelts and airbags in the world will never make it 'safe' to crash
your car on purpose. And as for being a good enough driver to not need these
things, that might technically be true but even the best people have
accidents sometimes.

That is not quite the same, because you might be protected in your car,
and still have an accident, but be injured just a little bit.
But if only *one* virus gets through the AV software on a PC, that PC is
not just a little bit infected, it could be totally compromised.
That is the difference.
Thanks, I know that site quite well. You'll notice it actually links to one
of my old websites if you look around.

OK, for other users this information might be new.

Marco
 
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Frank

Alias wrote:

Seems like an XP SE with a little eye candy thrown in, although the
search feature is almost as good as Beagle.

That statement alone proves you don't have Vista.
No more lying!
We're all sick and tired of your bs lies!
Frank
 
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Bill Yanaire

Alias said:
I bought it for two reasons:

1. Curiosity.

2. For games that use DX10.

I will never use it as a workstation and I am not impressed or wowed by
it. Seems like an XP SE with a little eye candy thrown in, although the
search feature is almost as good as Beagle.

I guess your job as the Ubuntu Marketing Department wasn't paying enough so
you decided to join the rest of the world and hitch to the Microsoft
bandwagon. Good choice. Ubuntu is so Yesterday!
 

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