Anti Virus Recommendations?

[mxh]

I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV still the
best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up resources? All
recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,
Max

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I would recommended using a totally integrated,
comprehensive internet security program such as:

Norton Internet Security 2004
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/nis_pe/

-- Includes Norton AntiVirus 2004
-- Includes Norton Personal Firewall
-- Includes prevention of annoying web pop-ups
-- Includes Parental Controls
-- All in one, easy-to-install package

Does it use resources? All programs use resources to some
degree. If you have at least 256MB RAM installed, Norton
will run just fine while monitoring and protecting your PC.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV still the
| best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up resources? All
| recommendations appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
| Max
|
|

 

[Doug Kanter]

All software eats up resources. A recent PC Magazine review found that NAV
was less of a hog than its competitors. As antivirus software makers add
more features to help the helpless with things like updating, the programs
grow fatter. I've got the 2003 version and it takes perhaps 2 minutes to
load when my machine is rebooting. This is on an 800mhz laptop with 256mb of
RAM.

You may want to go to www.pcmag.com and find their latest review of AV
software. If I recall, they found a couple of other products that worked as
well, in terms of detection, but their interfaces were designed by
programmers, which is always a mistake. They said that if you like tweaking,
other brands might interest you, as long as you take the time to translate
some of the arcane menu options.

 

[kurttrail]

I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV
still the best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up
resources? All recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,
Max

AVG. www.grisoft.com Norton blows because of PA, multiple problems
many people have experienced with the latest version. Symantec's
Automatic Live Update is easily disabled in WinXP, yet NAV reports it's
enabled.

Oh, and the best part about AVG, it is free.

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[Tedd Riggs]

For once in my life I will agree with Kurt, AVG is good. I had better luck
with the free version then the full version as I cannot get it to check the
emails.

Hey Kurt, On that Linux name, the correct name is ThizLinux. Ever heard of
it ?
This is the Fry's add for it.
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3754566/
Thanks

 

[kurttrail]

For once in my life I will agree with Kurt, AVG is good. I had better
luck with the free version then the full version as I cannot get it
to check the emails.

Yeah, the pay-for version is a little harder to configure especially
with Outlook, with OE it autoconfigures pretty good, and their
documentation shows the signs of being written in another language, then
translated later to English.

What I ended up doing is setting up my email accounts in OE first, let
AVG configure them, then add them to Outlook and configure the POP &
SMTP ports the same as they are in OE, then disable the accounts in OE
from sending and receiving.

Hey Kurt, On that Linux name, the correct name is ThizLinux. Ever
heard of it ?

Vaguely. There are so many distros out, that it's hard to keep them all
straight. It's from China, right? We'll be seeing a lot more distros
out of Asia, over the next few years. MS really is gonna suffer in the
Asian market in the future, and some of that is just distrust of
anything AmeriKKKan, as the boys over at alt.os.windows-xp call us, and
some of it is MS's own fault.

This is the Fry's add for it.
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3754566/
Thanks

Thank you!

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[Plato]

I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV still the
best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up resources? All
recommendations appreciated.

All programs use resources. NAV tho, also put thousands of entries in
the registry, where better anti-virus programs put maybe a hundred
entries in the registry.

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Kurt,
Ah yes the AVG manual. Want to know why it sounds like from another
language. Guess two of them. The original is Czech and the rewrite into
English was mainly done by a Turkish guy.

I have let it do the autoconfigure on OE and I cannot get anyplace. It
changes the standard; pop3.email.msn.com and smtp.email.msn.com to 127.1.1
in both cases and changes the server port numbers from 110 and 25 to 5100
and 5101. I think I have followed everything in the manual, but that thing
is like reading an old Honda Motorcycle manual that is Japanese-English.
Well I have plenty of time to work on it.

That URL I gave you is for Fry's Computer, except their web site. I saw thee
PC and its almost a carbon copy of a Compaq Presario. In reading the tech
specs I cannot figure out what it is, with a ? CPU: VIA C3 Samuel2 GigaPro
800MHz Processor , that's a new one for me. If you look inside there are no
clues on it as far as where it comes from except the steel that is in the
case is that funny bluish steel color which is usually from Asia.
Talk with you later,
Tedd

 

[mark7]

I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV still the
best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up resources? All
recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,
Max

No. Poorly. Yes. Free AVG: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Better: http://www.my-etrust.com/

 

[mxh]

I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV still the
best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up resources? All
recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,
Max

Thanks to all for the responses. I do realize that all programs use
resources, but some are resource hogs while others are not. Looks like NAV
and AVG are the only ones recommended here. Last NAV version I bought was
2000, but I've heard some not-so-good things about NAV 2004. Again, thanks
for the responses.

mxh

 

[mxh]

AVG. www.grisoft.com Norton blows because of PA, multiple problems
many people have experienced with the latest version. Symantec's
Automatic Live Update is easily disabled in WinXP, yet NAV reports it's
enabled.

Oh, and the best part about AVG, it is free.

Hi Kurt,

How is AVG with up to date definitions? Also, being free, is functionality
limited? Is this program as good at catching viri, trojan horses, worms,
etc. as NAV?

Thanks,
mxh

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Q. How is AVG with up to date definitions? Also, being free, is functionality
limited? Is this program as good at catching viri, trojan horses, worms,
etc. as NAV?

A. What AVG does not capture or prevent, your computer will!
You'll get all the latest "free" viruses, worms, Trojans. etc.

 

[IronmanCurtis]

I've been using Avast! http://www.avast.com Works
great - I receive a lot of virus emails. It catches 'em
all.

Oh - and it's FREE! You can buy a fancier version.

I tried Norton. It used so many resources on my P4, I
might as well have gone back to WIN31 and my 486.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

I also run ZoneAlarm (also free), and have a router for
the network (which includes network address translation,
a big obstacle for hackers.)

-mike

 

[statesman34]

mxh wrote:




AVG. www.grisoft.com Norton blows because of PA, multiple problems
many people have experienced with the latest version. Symantec's
Automatic Live Update is easily disabled in WinXP, yet NAV reports it's
enabled.

Oh, and the best part about AVG, it is free.

 

[statesman34]

mxh wrote:




AVG. www.grisoft.com Norton blows because of PA, multiple problems
many people have experienced with the latest version. Symantec's
Automatic Live Update is easily disabled in WinXP, yet NAV reports it's
enabled.

Oh, and the best part about AVG, it is free.

Have had great success with PC-Cillin 2003, seaches are more in-depth
than norton etc.

 

[mrtee]

Then tell why there were 6 captures of the latest worm in my AVG virus vault?

You can set AVG to check for new signatures everyday at a specific time and/or do manual update checks as well.

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__________in response to__________
| Q. How is AVG with up to date definitions? Also, being free, is functionality
| limited? Is this program as good at catching viri, trojan horses, worms,
| etc. as NAV?
|
| A. What AVG does not capture or prevent, your computer will!
| You'll get all the latest "free" viruses, worms, Trojans. etc.
|
|
|

 

[Kristi]

I'm looking for recommendations for an anti-virus program. Is NAV still the
best one? How does NAV 2004 stack up? Does it eat up resources? All
recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,
Max

ESET's NOD32

Kristi

 

[mxh]

Q. How is AVG with up to date definitions? Also, being free, is functionality
limited? Is this program as good at catching viri, trojan horses, worms,
etc. as NAV?

A. What AVG does not capture or prevent, your computer will!
You'll get all the latest "free" viruses, worms, Trojans. etc.

If you have some actual information regarding AVG, I'd be interested in
hearing it. What you've posted above seems more like an uninformed opinion.
I'd just like to find the best AV program that doesn't bog down my system or
cause system instability as NAV as been known to do (I've Used NAV since win
3.1).
So, do you have actual information that would be helpful? I appreciated your
initial advice, but a program such as NIS is not really what I'm looking
for. I do have a hardware firewall and am careful regarding security for my
network. What do you have against AVG?

 

[mxh]

Then tell why there were 6 captures of the latest worm in my AVG virus vault?

You can set AVG to check for new signatures everyday at a specific time

and/or do manual update checks as well.


So you are totally satisfied with AVG? Do their definition and virus removal
tools rival NAV?

Thanks,
mxh

 

[kurttrail]

Hi Kurt,

How is AVG with up to date definitions? Also, being free, is
functionality limited? Is this program as good at catching viri,
trojan horses, worms, etc. as NAV?

Thanks,
mxh

They beat out Norton by about 3 hours getting the new defs out for the
MyDoom Variant. And there auto update feature works much better than NAVs
Live Update. As for catching the nasties, I haven't recieved one email with
the virus, since the latest outbreak, and I've kept off filesharing too. I
don't trust any company to protect me fully. Safe computing is like safe
sex, you have to take responsibility for your own protection.

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