good virus program??

[seaweed1317]

I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did. But it
was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error message on my
task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it, it took over 4 hours
as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive & my external.

I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone, I
couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without Norton. So
my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)? I don't
care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton anymore & will also
remove it from my laptop.

Thanks in advance
......seaweed

 

[Tom Porterfield]

I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did. But it
was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error message on my
task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it, it took over 4 hours
as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive & my external.

I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone, I
couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without Norton. So
my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)? I don't
care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton anymore & will also
remove it from my laptop.

For a good, paid product, I like NOD32 from http://www.eset.com.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)?

Free... AVG Antivirus from grisoft.com

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did. But it
was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error message on my
task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it, it took over 4 hours
as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive & my external.

I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone, I
couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without Norton. So
my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)? I don't
care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton anymore & will also
remove it from my laptop.

Good move!

I run the freeware Avast! on all my machines, and am happy with it.

 

[seaweed1317]

Thanks to all.

Anyone know about another I just heard about, "Avira AntiVir?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I run the freeware Avast! on all my machines, and am happy with it.

I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
it ENDLESSLY.

What did I miss in the setup?

I am still happy with AVG.

 

[HeyBub]

I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did.
But it was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error
message on my task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it,
it took over 4 hours as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive
& my external.

I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone,
I couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without
Norton. So my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not
McAfee)? I don't care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton
anymore & will also remove it from my laptop.

Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the
super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton"
and "Symantec?"

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
it ENDLESSLY.

Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.

If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
even less patience than I thought you had.

What did I miss in the setup?

I am still happy with AVG.

I've heard only good things about AVG from those I respect. I'm happy
with Avast!, but I suspect that if I changed to AVG, I'd be happy with
that too.

 

[DL]

Kaspersky www.kaspersky.com has for the past few years been reccomended by
many mags, this side of the pond. Personnally I use F-Secure on three PC's

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.

If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
even less patience than I thought you had.

It was more than a corner pop-up on my notebook. It was an annoying
pop-up that forced me to reply.

At my age (64), patience doesn't come easily ;->

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

It was more than a corner pop-up on my notebook. It was an annoying
pop-up that forced me to reply.

I can't explain that, other than to say it doesn't do that here.

At my age (64), patience doesn't come easily ;->

You're a kid. I'm almost six years older than you are (I'll be 70 in
November), and I have many time the amount of patience you have.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Uncle,

I totally disagree

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I totally disagree

BFD

 

[just plain rob]

I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did. But
it was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error message
on my task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it, it took
over 4 hours as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive & my
external.

I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone, I
couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without Norton.
So my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)? I
don't care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton anymore & will
also remove it from my laptop.

Thanks in advance
.....seaweed

On one of my machines, I use SpySweeper and really like it, so for the 10 bucks, I added the anti-virus.
Can't complain and it's very unobtrusive.

Avast! antivirus is excellent freeware, actually excellent anythingware. Good luck.