Anti-Virus

Aeven · Post by **Aeven** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:41 am

I was wondering what anti-virus program people here use.

I used to use Norton for years (back when my dad did all the computer stuff), but once I got my own was knew how, I switched it several times. Norton is both shit and slow.

Today I use AVG Free, which I like a lot. It's free for one, and offers good protection (haven't had anything slip through and I browse a lot) and it frequently gets better.

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:58 am

I use McAfee. I didn't like AVG at all.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:21 pm

I have AVG Free 9.0 on my desktop (and I like it a lot) and McAfee on my laptop (which I still haven't tried, as my laptop has no internet connection yet).

Praedator · Post by **Praedator** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:25 pm

I work in a computer shop. Here we install AVG 9.0 and Bitdefender. It proved to be the best configuration. Norton is a very bad choice because most virus attacks, attack Norton.exe and then Norton will not show any threaths anymore, so it becomes virtually useless.

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:27 pm

You don't need antivirus software.

Kiteflyer61 · Post by **Kiteflyer61** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:50 pm

I use AVG as well. I've used Mcafee with good results but the price got to high to justify when AVG is free. I absolutely hate Norton because it didn't do so well years ago (which is why I switched to Mcafee) and I lost two hard drives to a nasty spinup virus (the drives literally spun until they smoked) and haven't used Norton since.

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:06 pm

Really the only viruses (and I've had to work with some incredibly deadly ones) I've ever encountered or heard of come from porn, so just stay away from that and you'll be good.

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:56 pm

Haplo wrote:Really the only viruses (and I've had to work with some incredibly deadly ones) I've ever encountered or heard of come from porn, so just stay away from that and you'll be good.

[joke that could occur in fancy comment section like on... um cracked.com)
That's like telling people if they live they might die, so they should just avoid the former.
[/joke that could occur in fancy comment section like on... um cracked.com)

Kiteflyer61 · Post by **Kiteflyer61** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:15 pm

Many years ago ('94 ) I worked as a repair tech at a small computer shop. Somehow or other we managed to have a virus called "stoned empire monkey b" infect our mainframe. By the time we found out we had a virus it had infected more than half of our floppies that we used to reinstall programs for our customers. Considering we had more than 11,000 floppies that we had to check and clean one by one, you can understand the frustration with Norton which we used for all our machines. It took the two of us more than three weeks to go through all of the floppies.

The virus itself was pretty nasty, not because of the damage it did (it encrypted a random sector on the hard drive every so often), but because it spread by just putting a disk in a drive. You didn't have to open anything or run anything, all you had to do was put the disk in and you were infected! Norton didn't spot the virus at all at first and when the update came out that could spot it, it still couldn't clean it. We found the virus because of a customers machine having Mcafee installed and it went off when we put in an infected disk from our collection. We switched to Mcafee that day!

FelixAmherst · Post by **FelixAmherst** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:52 pm

Kaspersky FTW.

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:58 pm

Oh, and as far as programs goes, no one should be saying anything other than NOD32

gro-Dhal · Post by **gro-Dhal** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:19 pm

I use Avira, which came highly recommended.

Beave · Post by **Beave** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:24 pm

I use Avast!, which is pretty awesome in my opinion. I hear Avira is better, though.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:52 pm

i use Common Sense, 2009 edition

i should probably invest in something more fool-proof...

[edit] come to think of it, i do think we have something installed. no idea what it is though, other than prompting to check for updates it doesn't seem to do anything.

RelinQ · Post by **RelinQ** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:59 am

CA E-trust Anti Virus, on this PC anyway, but Ive use the software since 97

If you want somethings thats really good and dont mind paying a little, get Trend Micro. has patches and updates like every 20minutes

, No joke.

Otherwise AVG is probablly the way to go, that with Spybot (and Teatimer) is usually good for free.

If you want something powerful, Norton 360 is okay, but be aware its a resource whore and a complete an udder "something" to remove fully.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:50 am

RelinQ wrote:
If you want somethings thats really good and dont mind paying a little, get Trend Micro.

Yes, Trend Micro is good as well. In addition to AVG, I often run a free online scan with its HouseCall.

ShaddowT · Post by **ShaddowT** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:28 am

I was wondering if you know any free complete scan AND remove antivirus software downloads please need help?

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:33 am

malware bytes, avast, spybot, avg, and adaware are all free.

edit: there are more as well, those are just the ones I have

ShaddowT · Post by **ShaddowT** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:34 am

cool thank you.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:33 pm

I have been using AVG free edition pretty much since i first got internet access (were talking many years here), i think i started with version 5 or there abouts, using 9 now of course.

Never had any complaints about it.

JD

Shyscire · Post by **Shyscire** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:02 am

I used to use Nod32, and ive used McAfee in the past, though I use AVG right now. I think it's worked out pretty well for me.

MelancholyGamer · Post by **MelancholyGamer** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:00 am

I got a virus on my computer the other day called the Vista Security 2010 Virus. It killed my hard drive. I have now no MW or OB.

My life is over.
Kidding.

Drift3r · Post by **Drift3r** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:14 am

MelancholyGamer wrote:I got a virus on my computer the other day called the Vista Security 2010 Virus. It killed my hard drive. I have now no MW or OB.

My life is over.
Kidding.

haha i got this virus on my computer about a month ago..its the biggest load of crap ever lol...my sister got it from playig a stupid game called Kaneva =D

Varenvic Var · Post by **Varenvic Var** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:24 pm

I've been infected numeral times when I first started using a PC, although now it's all but common sense to me what a virus is. For instance if a porn video has a ".exe" at the end it's obviously not really a video. If I happen upon a fishy executable I send it to Virus Total which scans it with 40 of the most well known virus protection softwares, or anyways their virus datebases. I also use 127.0.0.1 host file to IP block many known infective and advertisive sites. Just to be sure I still reformat my PC every few months to be a bit more positive that nothing's amiss.

The Greatness · Post by **The Greatness** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:32 pm

We used to have Norton too. Big mistake! You probably haven't heard of it but we use 'ESET Smart Security 4'. I haven't heard of it either but the dude in the computer shop recommended it and it works like a dream.

Post by **Haplo** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:42 pm

yeah nod32's the best on the marketplace.

immortal_pigs · Post by **immortal_pigs** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:08 pm

I use avast, malware bytes and spybot. I'd recommend CCleaner also.

keres · Post by **keres** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:22 am

You don't get virii on linux

Jule · Post by **Jule** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:48 pm

I'm using NOD32 and I haven't had a single virus yet.

Praedator · Post by **Praedator** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:14 pm

@home: I don't use virus scanners, as I only click that what is safe, and never open attachments, e-mail text based, and never surf to unsafe sites. Neither do I use programs like Limeware (or Napster when it existed). And I never get infected.

The Greatness · Post by **The Greatness** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:50 pm

immortal_pigs wrote:I use avast, malware bytes and spybot. I'd recommend CCleaner also.

Avast? What a great name. Now I just have to hope it speaks in pirate talk.

Sniper4 · Post by **Sniper4** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:34 am

I use McAfee Internet Security, so it gives me Antivirus/ antispyware, a firewall, and instant messenger/e-mail protection. I also use Spyware Blaster as a backup means of blocking malware, Spybot S&D and Malware Bytes as "2nd opinion" scanners, Hijack This to manually detect threats, and CCleaner... to clean things

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