Anti-Virus Comparison

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Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
 
edgarperrito said:
Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
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Never heard of Defender Pro but Panda's OK and Norton SUCKS.

Alias
 
From: "edgarperrito" <[email protected]>

| Dear Everyone:
|
| Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
| -Defender Pro
| -Panda Antivirus Platinum
| -Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004
|
| Any answers will be great, and also a big
| THANK YOU

None of them.

Kaspersky and NOD32 in that order.
 
Especially a 2 year old product! Norton has just released version 2006.
However, I never seen it yet!

I am working on using AVG 7 Free.
 
Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
Click to expand...

Never seen Defender, removed Panda from every computer we've come across
due to it being a complete resource hog and slowing down everything.
Used NAV 2004 on many machines, never had a problem with it. YMMV.
 
From: "Leythos" <[email protected]>


|
| Never seen Defender, removed Panda from every computer we've come across
| due to it being a complete resource hog and slowing down everything.
| Used NAV 2004 on many machines, never had a problem with it. YMMV.
|

I think he meant BitDefender Pro ;-)
 
David said:
From: "edgarperrito" <[email protected]>

| Dear Everyone:
|
| Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
| -Defender Pro
| -Panda Antivirus Platinum
| -Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004
|
| Any answers will be great, and also a big
| THANK YOU

None of them.

Kaspersky and NOD32 in that order.
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What do you think of TrendMicro?

Alias
 
edgarperrito said:
Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
Click to expand...
 
From: "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org>


|
| What do you think of TrendMicro?
|
| Alias

Good -- but not the greatest.
 
edgarperrito said:
Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004
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I'm using Nod32 and I think it's great.
Previously I used Norton Antivirus 2004 but it's too heavy for the pc
and not that good at detecting all the viruses.
 
edgarperrito said:
Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
Click to expand...
I would strongly recommend AVG Free
I use AVG plus Zone Alarm
with skybot and Adaware for anti spyware
Blair
 
From: "Blair" <[email protected]>


| I would strongly recommend AVG Free
| I use AVG plus Zone Alarm
| with skybot and Adaware for anti spyware
| Blair
|

I hope you mean; SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4 and Ad-aware SE v1.06. ;-)
 
I agree with Blair. all free, all good. Avg has never let me down,
nor has zonealarm.is funny how spybot and adaware take up each other's
slack. in a pinch I will "borrow" off the net, but is good to have
truely free and easily updatible software. bottom line, they work well
 
Dear Everyone:

Which anti-virus software do you think is better?
-Defender Pro
-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-Symantec Norton Anti-virus 2004

Any answers will be great, and also a big
THANK YOU
Click to expand...

I like and use Computer Associates EZAntivirus.
 
You may find this interesting....

http://news.com.com/Evasion+bug+bites+virus+shields/2100-1002_3-5924738.html?tag=nefd.top
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"The problem affects numerous antivirus products, including software
from Trend Micro, McAfee, Computer Associates and Kaspersky Lab, said
Bayora, who works as a computer security consultant in Israel. His
advisory also lists several products that are not affected, including
software from Symantec, F-Secure and BitDefender."

"This is one of the most significant antivirus vulnerabilities of recent
times, as it affects the majority of scanner software," Bayora wrote in
an article on his Web site that details the issue.

It was nice to see them show that Symantec makes good AV software.
 
Uncle said:
"Norton SUCKS." I respectfully disagree. To each his/her own.
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Hey, it's your computer, install whatever you want on it. My opinion is
that Norton is a POS. YMMV.

Alias
 
Leythos said:
"The problem affects numerous antivirus products, including software
from Trend Micro, McAfee, Computer Associates and Kaspersky Lab, said
Bayora, who works as a computer security consultant in Israel. His
advisory also lists several products that are not affected, including
software from Symantec, F-Secure and BitDefender."

"This is one of the most significant antivirus vulnerabilities of recent
times, as it affects the majority of scanner software," Bayora wrote in
an article on his Web site that details the issue.

It was nice to see them show that Symantec makes good AV software.
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Did you miss this bit?

" "It's not a real security vulnerability, as this is the way antivirus
scanners work: If someone creates a new malware, the antivirus industry
will create a new signature for it," said Andreas Marx, an antivirus
software expert at the University of Magdeburg in Germany. "This way
always leaves a detection and protection gap."

The signature lists used in antivirus software are like a dictionary of
descriptions of known viruses. The virus-scanning process looks for
matches against that dictionary. If a new threat is found, a signature
is added. "

Steve
 
Did you miss this bit?

" "It's not a real security vulnerability, as this is the way antivirus
scanners work: If someone creates a new malware, the antivirus industry
will create a new signature for it," said Andreas Marx, an antivirus
software expert at the University of Magdeburg in Germany. "This way
always leaves a detection and protection gap."

The signature lists used in antivirus software are like a dictionary of
descriptions of known viruses. The virus-scanning process looks for
matches against that dictionary. If a new threat is found, a signature
is added. "
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Nope, didn't miss it at all, most AV products have dictionary lists they
use to find viruses, some also have other means to detect them. I've
always considered AV products to be mostly "reactionary", but, some of
the better ones provide a means to sense virus activity based on past
methods without a definition.
 
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