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View Poll Results: Which is the best in your opinion?
Norton 3 4.00%
Kaspersky 10 13.33%
McAfee 4 5.33%
Sophos 1 1.33%
Avira 2 2.67%
Nod32 26 34.67%
Avast 9 12.00%
other 20 26.67%
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Old 22-07-08, 12:20 PM   #21 (permalink)
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AVG sans link scanner plus spybot search & destroy
have tried most of the others including kapersky just last week (didn't find any nasties) but keep coming back to AVG.
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Old 22-07-08, 01:56 PM   #22 (permalink)
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CA (vet) for me, used it for years, the only virus i got was msblaster, but i think everyone got a dose of that
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Old 22-07-08, 04:59 PM   #23 (permalink)
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McAfee, compliments of Premium Members Lounge.

Other wise Kaspersky.
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Old 22-07-08, 06:15 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Nod32 here,

we run trend micro @ work and have had virus get through.
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Old 22-07-08, 11:11 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Sophos for me and Vet as well
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Old 23-07-08, 07:22 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Nod32 here... Have used most, nothing comes close to Nod32

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Old 23-07-08, 09:12 AM   #27 (permalink)
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I used to use work's version of McAfee, when it was OK for employees to use it on their home PC's..... but that changed a long time ago.

So then I used AVG Free 7.5, which I thought was OK at the time. When AVG 8.0 came out I switched to Avast instead, which found a few nasties on some of the machines at home that AVG 7.5 had been totally oblivious to.
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Old 23-07-08, 01:26 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Old 23-07-08, 08:30 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Nod32, windoz and ClamAV, linux email server
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Old 23-07-08, 09:15 PM   #30 (permalink)
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I have found Kaspersky and Nod32 to be extremely reliable.
Having said that, no antivirus program is perfect, therefore it will sometimes be necessary to use several programs to detect and/or remove a particular virus.
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Old 23-07-08, 09:26 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I personally have been using norton for a while and it's been sweet, I use windows defender,trojan remover,and adaware as well on one laptop.
But according to recent reviews Bitdefender came 1st, kaspersky second.
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Old 23-07-08, 11:47 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Symantec Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Forefront Client security - running both works fine and fast.
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Old 24-07-08, 12:01 AM   #33 (permalink)
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NOD32 extremely good and very very light weight i am running it on my eee pc and it flyes.
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Old 24-07-08, 09:28 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I have found Kaspersky and Nod32 to be extremely reliable.
Having said that, no antivirus program is perfect, therefore it will sometimes be necessary to use several programs to detect and/or remove a particular virus.

My I.T guru HIGHLY recommended to me not to do this!

One may say " oh you get that virus" and the other one says " no I thought you were getting it", so they both do nothing and your pc gets hit..

its up to you, But I would trust not to run 2 antiviruz progams at once.

He says to tell you guys

AVG
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steer well clear of norton$, and don't ever pay for it, its a pain and it just uses up resources.

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Your IT guru recommends AVG ? LOL , time for a new guru I think
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NOD32 here
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Old 27-07-08, 12:19 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Currently using Avast. Used to swear by NOD32, but I think they lost the plot a bit with their newer V3 version.
Liked Kaspersky a lot, but dam, it was the slowest program i've ever installed and updated. Ever. I'm sure new virus's were written by the time it finished updating.

I actually think A/V programs are a bit like motor racing. They seem to rotate around as to who's the best for a while.
Honda wins 2 world championships in a row, and they relax and get blown away fro the next 2 years by Yamaha, then 2 years later, Honda catches up and over takes them again.
I reckon the A/V's are like that too.
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Quote:
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My I.T guru HIGHLY recommended to me not to do this!

One may say " oh you get that virus" and the other one says " no I thought you were getting it", so they both do nothing and your pc gets hit..

its up to you, But I would trust not to run 2 antiviruz progams at once.

He says to tell you guys

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steer well clear of norton$, and don't ever pay for it, its a pain and it just uses up resources.

Security-Tech,

I did not say to run them simultaneously (however it might not be such a bad idea if you can tolerate the increased demand on resources and are in the habit of visiting sites notorious for transmitting virus infections).
I continue to run a single anti-virus program (Nod32), firewall, (Zone Alarm Plus) and anti-spyware simultaneously on my own PC's without problems.
I often temporarily install one or more anti-virus programs (one-at-a-time) in order to detect and remove virii on any system, which exhibits obvious virus-induced problems and have successfully done so for many years .
Once you are sure that the system is virus-free, simply remove the temporary installation and restore your normal anti-virus program for every-day monitoring.
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I've used NOD32 and Kaspersky and found those to be good.

My work uses Macaffee and its awful, slows down the computers there something fierce. So much so that I "retired" two computers after they installed it because it sucked so many resources, that you couldn't even use them for web based stuff.
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i have used VET for over 10 years, might not be the best but it has saved me many times
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