Anti-Virus Recommendation

I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any opinion
about which anti-virus solution is the best?

"Gator" <gatorcc@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any opinion
> about which anti-virus solution is the best?


There are a number of good ones. IMHO Kaspersky is the best (although its
interface is rather geeky). Historically, Kaspersky has been especially
strong in looking inside various packing schemes (UPX and many others) to
find viruses that are camouflaged - this feature is very helpful for those
who download warez, etc. from P2P networks, etc.

There is another anti-virus program that uses the Kaspersky engine in
combination with another engine which should be very effective - but,
sadly, the name escapes me at the moment.

I've also heard good things about some free ones such as AVG.

While Norton does work reasonably well I recommend you avoid it for (at
least) three reasons: it is bloatware which will slow your system, it puts
down roots very deep and is a ***** to uninstall completely, and there have
been reports of difficult-to-resolve conflicts with other software.

Same for Macafee (but, to be fair, to a *much* smaller extent).

Regards,

PS I use Kaspersky Personal Pro

From: "Gator" <gatorcc@yahoo.com>

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| I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any opinion
| about which anti-virus solution is the best?
|

The really good ones cost $$. NOD32 and Kasperski are the best.
However, here are some suggestions...

AVAST -
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE

AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE

AVG -
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE

CA eTrust -
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
{ Free offer extended indefinitely }


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> From: "Gator" <gatorcc@yahoo.com>
>
> |
> | I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any
> opinion
> | about which anti-virus solution is the best?
> |
>
> The really good ones cost $$. NOD32 and Kasperski are the best.
> However, here are some suggestions...
>
> AVAST -
> http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE
>
> AntiVir -
> http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE
>
> AVG -
> http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE
>
> CA eTrust -
> http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
> { Free offer extended indefinitely }
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>

I'll go with AVG....used it for years with no problems, updates sometimes
2 -3 times a day

Thanks. I would not use McAfee or Norton. I have been using Panda and I
like it except it sometimes crashes when I use Mozilla Thunderbird. I have
hear a lot of good things about AVG Professional and PC-Illin
"nemo_outis" <abc@xyz.com> wrote in message
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> "Gator" <gatorcc@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:MoednZ2dnZ1lWt_dnZ2dnesIjd6dnZ2dRVn-0J2dnZ0@giganews.com:
>
> >
> > I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any
opinion
> > about which anti-virus solution is the best?
>
>
> There are a number of good ones. IMHO Kaspersky is the best (although its
> interface is rather geeky). Historically, Kaspersky has been especially
> strong in looking inside various packing schemes (UPX and many others) to
> find viruses that are camouflaged - this feature is very helpful for those
> who download warez, etc. from P2P networks, etc.
>
> There is another anti-virus program that uses the Kaspersky engine in
> combination with another engine which should be very effective - but,
> sadly, the name escapes me at the moment.
>
> I've also heard good things about some free ones such as AVG.
>
> While Norton does work reasonably well I recommend you avoid it for (at
> least) three reasons: it is bloatware which will slow your system, it puts
> down roots very deep and is a ***** to uninstall completely, and there
have
> been reports of difficult-to-resolve conflicts with other software.
>
> Same for Macafee (but, to be fair, to a *much* smaller extent).
>
> Regards,
>
> PS I use Kaspersky Personal Pro
>
>
>
>

I am looking also for a new antivirus because my norton licence gonna
finish.
I tested a few antivirus (demo versions) the past month.

NOD32: did not work with me, found it strange but got endless problems with
it ... ok, it is like that; but I have no doubt it is a good product

Kaspersky: How is this possible ??? This guy is an old viruswriter and he
still continue in this style. He write something in the header of each file
in order to scan faster. After uninstalling his product, my whole NFTS
filesystem was corrupt... thanks Eugene, but no more with me.

Bitdefender: Excellent product, light on resources, fast updates - good
detection. But the only problem was how to clean zip files, He cleaned it
but the zip file came corrupt. I doubt about the realtime protection of this
scanner. He give warnings about infected files, but he let them trough...
even with the option 'deny access and delete' But this will sure improve in
te future

NAV 2006: Good, a littlebit bloatware and popups, warnings here and there
and requires a newer system. Excellent if you have a strong computer and
enough memory.

F-secure: too heavy on resources... very slow scanning

F-prot: This is what I gonna buy - This fits the best for me and I enjoyed
to use it - simple but excellent. This is really the scanner for me !

Avast ! - My second choise ! Excellent and he does everything the right
way - realtime protection works flawless

regards

siegfried

"Gator" <gatorcc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any opinion
> about which anti-virus solution is the best?
>
>
>

"Ver Eecke Siegfried" <s.ver.eecke@skynet.be> wrote in
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> Kaspersky: How is this possible ??? This guy is an old viruswriter and
> he still continue in this style. He write something in the header of
> each file in order to scan faster. After uninstalling his product, my
> whole NFTS filesystem was corrupt... thanks Eugene, but no more with
> me.

I'll just clarify this one misconception of yours. Nothing happens to any
file "header" but there is an *option* (in the Pro version) in Kaspersky
for the program to mark files it has already scanned so that future scans
are much faster. This option - if not disbled by the user! - puts its own
metadata in an "NTFS stream" attached to the file (i.e., uses the Windows
feature ADS). If you're uncomfortable about this feature disable it.

You can also strip off the stream info if you prefer using any number of
third-party programs or get KLStreamRemover directly from Kaspersky.

Nothing is this does anything whatsoever to "corrupt" the file system!

Regards,

Ver Eecke Siegfried wrote:
> I am looking also for a new antivirus because my norton licence gonna
> finish.
> I tested a few antivirus (demo versions) the past month.
>
> NOD32: did not work with me, found it strange but got endless
> problems with it ... ok, it is like that; but I have no doubt it is a
> good product
>
> Kaspersky: How is this possible ??? This guy is an old viruswriter
> and he still continue in this style. He write something in the header
> of each file in order to scan faster. After uninstalling his product,
> my whole NFTS filesystem was corrupt... thanks Eugene, but no more
> with me.
>
> Bitdefender: Excellent product, light on resources, fast updates -
> good detection. But the only problem was how to clean zip files, He
> cleaned it but the zip file came corrupt. I doubt about the realtime
> protection of this scanner. He give warnings about infected files,
> but he let them trough... even with the option 'deny access and
> delete' But this will sure improve in te future
>
> NAV 2006: Good, a littlebit bloatware and popups, warnings here and
> there and requires a newer system. Excellent if you have a strong
> computer and enough memory.
>
> F-secure: too heavy on resources... very slow scanning
>
> F-prot: This is what I gonna buy - This fits the best for me and I
> enjoyed to use it - simple but excellent. This is really the scanner
> for me !
>
> Avast ! - My second choise ! Excellent and he does everything the
> right
> way - realtime protection works flawless
>
Anyone have views (but preferably based on experience) on WinClam (free)?

From: "Mike Jones" <admin@127.0.0.1>


| Anyone have views (but preferably based on experience) on WinClam (free)?
|

It's library is too small. It is 20 ~ 25% of the size of other AV applications.

BTW: That's ClamAV -- http://www.clamav.net/


AVAST -
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE

AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE

AVG -
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE

CA eTrust -
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
{ Free offer extended indefinitely }


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

"Gator" <gatorcc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any opinion
> about which anti-virus solution is the best?
> I am using Norton Antivirus from Symantec and have no problems with it.
> John
>

Kasperski is the best I believe.