Which Antivirus do you use?

DOOMJESUS · February 26th, 2009, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mkey

Remember the tile and I think I watched it, but don't recall.

aah the big lebowski is a must-see and yes i stole that sig from someone else i must confess but it is the first sig i've ever used in forums just because it's so fucking cool.

yes you must get a couple friends together and watch the big lebowski! i never did see the entire movie up until last year i think but i've watched it like half a dozen times now. it's an incredibly well executed and hilarious flick with great actors having fun.

**Regeneration** · February 26th, 2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DOOMJESUS

yes you must get a couple friends together and watch the big lebowski! i never did see the entire movie up until last year i think but i've watched it like half a dozen times now. it's an incredibly well executed and hilarious flick with great actors having fun.

Especially John Goodman.

IModIntel · February 26th, 2009, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by blindartist

Avira is leaps and bouds better then mcafee (86.57%) and norton (83.34%) which will only cause oyu problems and slow oyur system down, even if you got thoes two for free throw the disk away, the worst free alternative is better then these things.

The Norton 360 2.0 installed on my laptop actually is extremely efficient and stopped a shit load of stuff already. Avira is also great, tried it yesterday and also think it's excellent.

lyla · February 26th, 2009, 11:17 PM

Basically I spent all last summer moving through the 30 day trials they all offer measuring their effectiveness and hit on system. Ultimately Kaspersky was a pretty clear winner. A friend also did this independently and came to the same conclusion. NoD32 was 2nd in our tests. We did not test Avira though, so don't know about that one. The rest are all pretty far behind.

Cannyone · February 27th, 2009, 12:29 AM

I was using NOD32 and thought it was the best. Then someone, I had convinced to use NOD32, got an Adware Trojan named Win32.zafi.b. It wasn't that serious a threat but you couldn't convince the infected system's owner of such.... And to make matters even worse. All emails to ESET for assistance went unanswered for about 2 weeks.

The end result is that I decided not to renew my subscription with them. And instead I got Panda Internet Security. The footprint may be larger, but their Online Scanner was the only thing that would remove that Malware. And when I first scanned my system it reported that I had a bunch of "spyware". I guess I was mistaken when I thought NOD32 was supposed to stop spyware...?

lyla · February 27th, 2009, 12:42 AM

Thats what we found, the main strength of Nod32 was it was really low profile, and didnt hit the system, it just isnt as effective as Kaspersky at its task. Kaspersky is 100% customisable so you can customise it to be as low profile as Nod but it so far has proven to be a lot more effective at a lot more threats.

check this out to get an idea of update rate, basically every hour 24/7

http://www.kaspersky.com/viruswatch3

RejZoR · February 27th, 2009, 12:48 AM

No avast! in main poll? Ugh...

krasno · February 27th, 2009, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Regeneration

Well... I don't use any and I haven't got infected since 1998.

Using Windows?

lyla · February 27th, 2009, 01:42 AM

with regards to not being infected, can you prove it, not all virus's do anything noticeable. But they can use your computer to infect others.

Try using this:

http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/virusscanner

it is an online scan, it doesnt put any software on your machine as far as I know, but will give your PC a check for any viruses.

blindartist · February 27th, 2009, 02:17 AM

For anti virus detection ratings you should go to virus.gr, their based on aprox 250k virii

here is their latest detection rating listing as of june 2008:
Rank

1. G DATA 2008 version 18.2.7310.844 - 99.05%

2. F-Secure 2008 version 8.00.103 - 98.75%

3. TrustPort version 2.8.0.1835 - 98.06%

4. Kaspersky version 8.0.0.357 - 97.95%

5. eScan version 9.0.742.1 - 97.44%

6. The Shield 2008 - 97.43%

7. AntiVir version 8.1.00.331 Premium - 97.13%

8. Ashampoo version 1.61 - 97.09%

9. Ikarus version 1.0.82 - 96.05%

10. AntiVir version 8.1.00.295 Classic - 95.54%

11. AVG version 8.0.100 Free - 94.85%

12. BitDefender 2008 version 11.0.16 - 94.70%

13. Avast version 4.8.1201 Professional - 93.78%

14. Nod32 version 3.0.650.0 - 93.36%

15. F-Prot version 6.0.9.1 - 91.87%

16. BitDefender version 10 Free - 91.32%

17. ArcaVir 2008 - 88.65%

18. Norman version 5.92.08 - 87.72%

19. Vba32 version 3.12.6.6 - 87.21%

20. McAfee Enterpise version 8.5.0i - 86.57%

21. McAfee version 12.0.177 - 86.39%

22. Rising AV version 20.46.52 - 85.87%

23. Norton 2008 - 83.34%

24. Dr. Web version 4.44.5 - 82.87%

25. Antiy Ghostbusters version 5.2.3 - 80.23%

26. VirusBuster version 5.002.62 - 77.19%

27. Outpost version 6.0.2294.253.0490 - 75.35%

28. V3 Internet Security version 2008.05.31.00 - 75.23%

29. ViRobot Expert version 5.5 - 74.50%

30. Virus Chaser version 5.0a - 73.65%

31. A-squared Anti-Malware version 3.5 - 71.66%

32. PC Tools version 4.0.0.26 - 69.82%

33. Trend Micro Antivirus+Antispyware 2008 version 16.10.1079 - 67.28%

34. Iolo version 4.325 - 63.98%

34. Panda 2008 version 3.01.00 - 61.41%

36. Sophos Sweep version 7.3.2 - 54.71%

37. ClamWin version 0.93 - 54.68%

38. CA Anti-Virus version 9.00.170 - 51.08%

39. Quick Heal version 9.50 - 47.97%

40. Comodo version 2.0.17.58 - 43.15%

41. Trojan Hunter version 5.0.962 - 31.39%

42. Solo version 7.0 - 21.10%

43. Protector Plus version 8.0.C03 - 20.14%

44. PCClear version 1.0.8.0 - 19.63%

45. AntiTrojan Shield version 2.1.0.14 - 14.74%

46. Trojan Remover version 6.6.9 - 13.49%

47. VirIT version 6.2.94 - 8.63%

48. True Sword version 4.2 - 3.42%

49. Abacre έκδοση version 1.4 - 0.00%

Now i know what your thinking.."Man, i gotta get Abacre" but that level of protections comes at a price, it will cost you 25$ to be able to protect your system against absolutly nothing