McAfee Anti Virus On XP Pro

[williammaw]

What is your experience with McAfee Virus Protection system on XP Pro?
I am trying out the free version. One thing that I noticed is that a
popup window shows up asking you if you want to continue what you wnat
to do. I am not too sure if that is disabled in the paid version.

One other thing that I noticed is that after a virus scan and fix
session, Visual Interdev stopped working. It may have been a
coincidence but the correlation seems pretty strong.

I want some safe guards against the development environment, but
wouldn't want the fix to cause more problems than it fixes.

Thanks you in advance ...

 

[Dave B.]

I would stay away from it and Norton, there are better options. Both of
these are major resource hogs and can kill system performance.

 

[williammaw]

I would stay away from it and Norton, there are better options. Both of
these are major resource hogs and can kill system performance.

I am currently using three machines: one for dedicated email and
business related web access, two for development/server/personal web
access, for fear of a problem on one bringing down the others, which
has happened before. If possible, I would prefer to use only one or
two machines. Could you kindly suggest a few alternative virus
proteciton packages please?

Thanks ...

 

[Alias~-]

I am currently using three machines: one for dedicated email and
business related web access, two for development/server/personal web
access, for fear of a problem on one bringing down the others, which
has happened before. If possible, I would prefer to use only one or
two machines. Could you kindly suggest a few alternative virus
proteciton packages please?

Thanks ...

Avast!:

http://www.avast.com/

AVG:

http://www.grisoft.com/

Kaspersky:

http://www.kaspersky.com/

The first two are free. Kaspersky is not but considered "the best".

Alias, who uses Avast!

 

[robbie_d]

I'm a great fan of Norton Internet Security... Me'thinks it's better
than the straight Anti Virus package from the same company...

2006 can still be bought and such updates on installation - but 2007 is
now on the market...

There's a lot out there... It's a case of personal choice and how much
yah wants ta spend...

Robbie D....

 

[Dave B.]

Actually it's worse, just adds more bloat and resource hogging apps.

 

[robbie_d]

A matter of personal preferrence no doubt...

Swings and roundabouts accepted...

G'day to you...

Robbie D....

 

[Dave B.]

Preference, no. Experience with customers PC's.

A matter of personal preferrence no doubt...

Swings and roundabouts accepted...

G'day to you...

Robbie D....

 

[williammaw]

Avast!:

http://www.avast.com/

AVG:

http://www.grisoft.com/

Kaspersky:

http://www.kaspersky.com/

The first two are free. Kaspersky is not but considered "the best".

Alias, who uses Avast!

I am currently trying out Avast. It seems to have much less popup
screens, but the only thing that I find strange is that it identified
its own installation file setupeng.exe as being infected and
uncleanable. Other than that it doesn't seem to take a lot of
resources and seems to be behaving well.

I might try Kaspersky next. If it's worth it, I don't mind spending a
little bit of money.

Thanks again ...

I would appreciate any useful tips.

 

[Alias~-]

I am currently trying out Avast. It seems to have much less popup
screens, but the only thing that I find strange is that it identified
its own installation file setupeng.exe as being infected and
uncleanable. Other than that it doesn't seem to take a lot of
resources and seems to be behaving well.

I might try Kaspersky next. If it's worth it, I don't mind spending a
little bit of money.

Thanks again ...

I would appreciate any useful tips.

That's strange, I never had that detection on three machines. Did you
update Avast! before running it? I set the detection level at High. It
also has a boot AV check in Settings/Set Boot Time Scan.

Alias

 

[williammaw]

That's strange, I never had that detection on three machines. Did you
update Avast! before running it? I set the detection level at High. It
also has a boot AV check in Settings/Set Boot Time Scan.

It stopped doing that after the third time. I didn't update Avast
before running it, but I will do it now.

I originally had the boot time check on but I found that it sits and
wait for you to select a choice for each file it found to have a
problem without booting up, so I disabled it.

What I did was turned off the on-access protection and did a manual
scan, with the option to do the same thing for every file that it finds
to have a problem.

Was that the right choice?