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Larry M. -> Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 10:17:26)

Hello Everyone,

No coincidence: with the latest major (30mb) Mcafee Security Suite upgrade, my workhorse Dell Laptop has (1) slowed to a crawl, (2) wireless printing is truncated and (3) file sharing is sporadic. Various end-user forums indicate this, in the composite, is a pervasive problem without resolution so I have made the decision to uninstall McAfee and protect my machine with other products.

Would appreciate any OutFronter recommendations for a stand-alone anti-virus program (with URL). Cost is not a factor. Since the laptop is a limited use machine, I going with the XP Professional firewall.

Thanks in advance!




swoosh -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 10:24:48)

I've been using AVG and it never interferes with anything. Co-workers also have it and are completely satisfied with it.

www.grisoft.com



Donkey -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 10:37:54)


NOD32 is very effective.



rdouglass -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 10:38:35)

I also use AVG free and am very happy with it.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

EDIT: This is the link to the free one. It's a bear finding it in the main site.




Reflect -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 11:32:16)

Second NOD32, most excellent product.

Take care,

Brian



womble -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 11:38:20)

I was using AVG Free on my laptop (I use the paid version with firewall on my PC) up until around a week ago. I've been having intermittent problems with the laptop slowing up, which on investigation seemed to be caused by AVG (no idea why - up it then it was behaving nicely).

I've now switched to Bit Defender on the laptop which seems good and hasn't caused any problems.

I've also installed a trial of Ewido Anti-Spyware which they assure lives happily with all the major anti-virus apps out there, which as well as well as keeping an eye out for sypware, adware, trojans, dialer, keyloggers and worms also lets you view and terminate processes and connections and a host of useful other bits and pieces as well.



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 12:16:28)

Bit Defender rocks. I've been using it for about 4 years. It's on all our machines with various OS and it's great.

The only thing you have to watch is when it comes time for renewal. As a prior user you get discount but last time I had to go hunt for the right link. I think they're doing something about it though.



Larry M. -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 16:15:25)

Thanks to all who responded !!



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 17:07:13)

Rachel can you keep me informed on Ewido as I have a client who's looking at it.



womble -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 17:38:18)

No probs - will do.

Btw, (apologies for slight thread-jack), I think it was you that first mentioned Snippetmaster around here wasn't it? Just installed it on one of my sites so the mods on my forum can edit their own bios etc. (thought I'd try it out on them before I let it loose on any clients [:D]) and it's looking good! [img]http://ecanus.net/smileys/coolup-blue.gif[/img]



Kitka -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 18:41:29)

quote:

Second NOD32, most excellent product.


I'll "third" that recommendation.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/24/2006 19:50:58)

Larry,

Kaspersky AV is the BEST around. It comes with a huge price, that most people don't feel they need for AV (currently $50/yr).

Since I can get Kaspersky licenses for $20 a pop right now, I would highly suggest that you go with Kaspersky.

"Cost is not a factor." = Kaspersky

Kaspersky sits in the number one spot for just about every AV test. It has been like this for years.

See: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0



treetopsranch -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/25/2006 1:15:48)

Free AVG rocks



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/25/2006 4:47:23)

quote:

ORIGINAL: BobbyDouglas

"Cost is not a factor." = Kaspersky

Errr yes well I'd rather like to use Sophos but that's even more expensive. Don't know what the licence is now but it used to be around £600. Just not going to happen is it



caz -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/25/2006 5:41:27)

I'll fourth NOD32 and it comes in at a reasonable price too. The lightweight footprint of NOD32 belies its reach - it goes onto both desktops and laptops without placing a burden on storage or system performance.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 0:05:18)

quote:

ORIGINAL: jaybee

quote:

ORIGINAL: BobbyDouglas

"Cost is not a factor." = Kaspersky

Errr yes well I'd rather like to use Sophos but that's even more expensive. Don't know what the licence is now but it used to be around £600. Just not going to happen is it

- That looks like it is more for the ISP level.

Just curious why people are suggesting NOD32 over Kaspersky....



caz -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 6:33:26)

I am not suggesting NOD32 over Kaspersky, it's just what I use currently and have not had any problems with it - or infections in the 2 years that I have been running it. At the time when I was looking to replace AVG (which did let some nasties in btw), which I had loaded when I finally got rid of all trace of Norton AV, Kaspersky was far too expensive and it's heuristics not as good as NOD. It looks like it is now on a par with NOD, so at the end of my annual sub I may look at this again.



Nicole -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 7:38:43)

WOMBLE my dear friend, what did you just do to me?

Any thread relating to anti-virus, spyware etc I read with great interest and often download trial versions of the other programs people mention. On your recommendation I downloaded BitDefender and on Jaybee's recommendation also, perhaps I downloaded the wrong thing, BitDefender 9 Professional Pro and two hours later it still had 9 hours to go!

It did find and deleted a virus which is good, but gosh I just had to stop it, and when I did, did it jam my pc up? Then of course Add/Remove programs took about 20 minutes to delete it.

I can't give an opinion on this program obviously, I didn't let it run it's course, but boy oh boy, was that a lesson in time consuming .......

Not blaming either of you, I probably downloaded the wrong thing, but gee!

Nicole



womble -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 8:08:54)

Eeeek! I had no problems with it - took a couple of minutes to download and install, and off I went. Not sure what could have gone wrong there. Um, just goes to show you shouldn't always listen to small furry creatures... [:D] [sm=theyareontome.gif]



Nicole -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 8:14:17)

That's okay Womble!

I probably went all super security conscious and downloaded the most comprehensive version available.



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 8:16:38)

Nah I've got Pro 9 and it didn't take that long.

Mind you, if you've got loads of crud on your machine, never clear your temp files, have external backup drives then it will take some time first time round as it does a full, deep system scan.

If you're worried, go back to the BD site, they have a live support link which tells you when they're online. If you can catch them (they're in Europe) they'll sort you out.

Make sure you have the right version. You could always leave it running overnight.



Nicole -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 8:29:09)

Might do that Jaybee.

Of course that overnight thing was running through my mind the whole time, just that I was away from the computer just after downloading it and it seems to have started automatically.

Nicole

p.s. I made a note of a lot of similar looking files that I wondered whether I could manually delete?

C:\windows\system32\cache329\...

Again Larry, hijacked your thread, sorry, anti-virus threads are always a winner though!



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 8:40:07)

Open all your browsers and clear history, cache, cookies you don't need

In explore do a search for all files ending with .tmp and kill as many as you can. Some won't go as they'll be in use.

BitDefender download, installs and then immediately starts a full scan. It doesn't muck about.

If you haven't done one in a while, a defrag would help too.



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/26/2006 8:46:12)

Try going with 9 Standard to evaluate and get going. Pro includes a firewall and it may be conflicting with something on your machine.



Nicole -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/30/2006 19:41:03)

Just an update,

I downloaded BitDefender 9 Standard again and ran it over the weekend. It took about 8 hours in total and found nothing (remembering that the scan that I'd previously cut short found 1 virus).

So I deleted it again, never to be downloaded again, of course it could be clashing with something else I have on this PC as mentioned.

I'm now wondering whether the virus it found was called "Grokster" as I've just run a Pest Patrol scan that was constantly finding "Grokster" but today it didn't.

I'm also looking into purchasing "a-squared Security Centre" and wondered whether others have it and is it worth the money?

Also, I'm thinking about "PC Pitstop Optimize" to remove junk files from my computer, but I've noticed it has a large percentage of thumbs down votes and wondered whether anyone has that or anything similar that they could recommend?

Nicole



caz -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (8/31/2006 7:05:38)

I have used a-squared for some time now and just had 1 false positive; this was taken care of in the next update but in the meantime their forums were quite helpful. I normally run the free version, but you can get the paid version for free if you display their details on your website.

The scan will take a fair amount of time if you have lots on your system, but it is very thorough. I normally set these things (AV and malware) to run on a Sunday, roundabout mealtime, since I am usually otherwise occupied. [;)]



Jack in the UK -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (9/15/2006 5:09:49)

Bit late i know and only my first post

I would always go McAfee every time

jiuk



jaybee -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (9/15/2006 5:22:29)

Welcome to Outfront Jack. Come join our merry, if somewhat bonkers, band of "Web experts". Whereabouts in the UK?

I'm glad you're happy with McAfee.

I personally think it's the biggest heap of doodoo ever, second only to Norton Internet Security which, IMHO, is the work of the devil.

Soooo is there anything else you'd like to recommend? [:D] I'm sure we'll agree on something somewhere. [:D][:D]

PS. my opinion only based on very bad experiences, so don't take it to heart.



Larry M. -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (9/15/2006 9:07:33)

quote:

I've been using AVG and it never interferes with anything. Co-workers also have it and are completely satisfied with it. www.grisoft.com


FYI: Very good experience with AVG so far - unobtrusive + my laptop has its old pep back [&:]

I continue to suffer McAfee on my desktop (with the miserable email client Spam filter turned-off) and have rebuffed repeated McAfee offers to "upgrade" due to past negative experience. Although I am running a 3.8 dual-core processor there is a noticable slow-down with McAfee installed; this program is definitely an albatross [:@]



Taz -> RE: Please Recommend Anti-Virus Program (9/15/2006 9:26:56)

Odd, I have McAfee on mt rig and it's flawless.

Then again I only installed the security suite withthe Firewall + Antivirus. I really didn't see the point in installing other parts I would not use, those would slow down a system...

Been using McAfee for a few years now and it's not given me a days trouble and has been far superior to any other brands I have used before.
I guess a lot of that is down to the user, his rig and what and how it is installed though.[8D]



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