Best Anti-Virus Software?

[davsl]

Could anybody please tell me what is the best anti-virus and firewall software as lately I have just had lots of infections and am totally fed up of it! At the moment I have Sygate Personal Firewall (free edition), and Norton Anti-Virus 2002 and AVG version 6. AVG is picking up my latest virus by falshing up a small window listing the virus Trojan horse Backdoor.Optix.AG and telling me to run AVG to get rid of it, however when I run AVG it does not pick it up, neither does Norton 2002. I do not know where these annoying bloody things are coming from as I no longer use Kazaa etc I was getting really fed up of them. There does not seem to be a simple method to get rid of this virus either i.e. removal tool :wall: :smash:

Is Norton 2004 better than 2002 or is there something even better that actually works as I am getting really fed up of this nonense, sorry for crying by the way :rolleyes: :smash: :smash:

[ghost2003]

NAV2k4 is the worst out there.

My favorite AV is by far NOD32, but it costs 40$ www.nod32.com

Sice I dont want to pay I use avast! 4 HOME www.avast.com , its free and very good (but you wont see it next to stable in a dictionary any time soon).

[Markoman01027]

There is no best anti virus program. One virus scanner can detect something that the other one cant, vice versa..

I like AVG, Trend Micro, and never had a problem with Norton AV.

[aym]

NAV 2004 takes a lot of system resources, I prefer NAV 2003.

[the mul]

I think a layered protection is best, for example, I have kav 4.5 as my main av and nod32v2 as a back up av, or should I say an on demand scanner.
So what kav does not detect nod 32v2 might very well catch the virus that might not be in kav database.
This is only my opinion, but many do agree that kav and nod are very good in there own right at detecting viruses.
The only thing I would say Is that both of these programmes are not free but you can try both of them for a 30 day trial period.


The Mul

[glc]

One of the best manual scanner and cleaners I've used is Trend Micro's Sysclean. It's a simple com file, run with the current Trend pattern file in the same folder. It's free too.

[kram 2.0]

I agree - NOD32 is a really good Antivirus System. It takes up relatively low resources, yet seems to keep what needs to be out, out. I use it for my Win98SE desktop, in replacement for the McAfee Internet Security that was just being laughed at by the viruses. I hear AVG is a good free AV, but haven't tried it.

Hope that helps,
kram

[ghost2003]

I dont care how god the scanning engine is in AVG, I would never use it as a on-access AV, maybe turn off the resident and use the on-demand scanner since the resident only tells you you have a virus, it doesnt let you do anything to it. So your stuck making a long full system scan till if finds it and some viruses might not let you do that(or would just cause more and more damage untill found).

[pam123]

I use Norton's 2003 and I supplement with Trend Micro.

[toomyg]

I use AVG-anti virus and sygate free fire wall works well together plus you can look up anti virus tests and firewall test on the net and see what works best for what you do

I went throw 4 different anti-virus programs before I stopped and use avg-antivirus with syagate firewall

In closing I used to use NIS and NAV 2003 they worked and gave my computers a good work out to in others words my laptop and desktop were super slow at start up and outlook express took forever to load untill my subscription ran out and I went FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

now every thing is alot faster


It's sorta upgrading your computer when you uninstall NIS and NAV

I don't mean to bash norton it's just I and it looks like alot of others havent had much luck with it

[bloodwrath]

I use norton AV 2003 and AVG
or Etrust and AVG

along with analogx script protector, maildefence for email
and ZA pro as well for firewall & email protection

[cobra]

I use trend, but used to use norton...
trend puts out updates pretty often, maybe daily.
And a lot less overhead than norton...

[kram 2.0]

So basically, my recommendation, as welll as my previous thread, would be to try <a href="http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php">AVG</a> first with probably <a href="http://www.kerio.com/kerio.html">Kerio Firewall</a>, then go to paid products. I would say again that NOD32 is excellent - low resource taker, and is at worst, efficient.

Hope that helps,
kram