General discussion

What antivirus do you have?

gio 25 set 2008 22:54:15 UTC da Reprotected

I have avast!, not the best one in the list, but it beats ClamAV =]

Also MyWOT staff, do you use F-Secure?

General discussion

Bullguard or pctools

gio 25 set 2008 23:03:19 UTC da wehaveitall

Pctools.com has some great ones and you can get even spyware defender even for free through the google pack
Bullguard you have to pay for but it's very good

Wot rocks

Mac

gio 25 set 2008 23:16:31 UTC da Security_Wiz

I use a PPC Mac 10.4.11 with Norton AntiVirus 11.0.1. There are few choices for Mac antiviruses, and only two known free choices.

Virex-Not compatible with 10.4+ (Possibly Discontinued)
iAntivirus by PC Tools- Free, only compatible with 10.5 Intel-------- http://www.iantivirus.com, http://www.pctools.com
ClamXav 1.1.1- Free, compatible with 10.4 and testing on 10.5------- http://www.clamxav.com, http://www.markallan.co.uk
VirusBarrier X5- Intego, compatible with 10.4-10.5------ http://www.intego.com
Tiger/Leopard Cache Cleaner
Agax 1.3 (Discontinued)
vScan (Discontinued)
Disinfectant (Discontinued)
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac------- http://www.sophos.com
avast! antivirus for Mac (not free)------- http://www.avast.com
ProtectMac Antivirus------- http://www.protectmac.com
MacScan by SecureMac----- http://www.securemac.com, http://www.macscan.securemac.com

Those are basically the only choices, besides common sense. It's still really good to have a Mac anti-virus, cosidering all the new threats. To see a list of about 90 threats, you can go to http://www.iantivirus.com/threats. To see a Mac Security Blog, go to http://www.blog.intego.com.

Me too

gio 25 set 2008 23:20:06 UTC da phantazm

I also use Avast. And F-secures online scanner for a second opinion.
(Plus the old classic Spybot Search & Destroy...)

What plays well with your system is the way to go

ven 26 set 2008 00:29:07 UTC da BobJam

It's just a matter of 1) What you're comfortable with, and 2) What "plays well" with the other stuff on your system. Nevertheless, all of them may exhibit some problems. Antivirus programs are notoriously cranky.

The most common bash on McAfee and Norton are that they are resource hogs.

AVG, Avast, and Avira's Antivir are three that have gained a reputation for not taking up much resources, and they all have good detection capabilities.

As far as virus detection itself, they are all pretty good . . . retail or free, and the ratings that the trade magazines give them are all within a few percentage points, so I don't think any one is a whole lot better than the other (of course, there are a few slackers out there, but if you stay with the brand names and exercise good security best practices, you'll be pretty safe).

Bottom line: As I said, it's mostly a matter of personal preference and what you AND YOUR SYSTEM (Norton is notorious for not playing well with systems) are most comfortable with. No doubt, though, you'll find plenty of people that will bash individual products. (And I think I just bashed Norton there!)

Ultimately, the only protection against phishing, forged Web pages, downloading malware, and other threats is the technology located between the user's ears.

And if you visit Manufacturer forums, just keep in mind that most people come to those forums to complain about problems they've had, so your information from them is going to be skewed. Very few people visit a forum just to say "Atta' boy".

And what ever you decide to pick, it's a good idea to run an on line scan now and then, because what your local protection misses (and they all miss some things), an on line scan may detect.

1. Panda ActiveScan 2.0 - http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/

2. Kaspersky - http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

3. Symantec Security check - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

4. Trend Micro Housecall - http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

5. McAfee - http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp

6. BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

7. VirScan - http://www.virscan.org/ NOTE: This is just for selected files, NOT the whole machine.

8. Virustotal - http://www.virustotal.com/ NOTE: This is just for selected files, NOT the whole machine.

Re: What antivirus do you have?

ven 26 set 2008 05:49:09 UTC da Sami

Also MyWOT staff, do you use F-Secure?

We use all the major brands (not in the same computer, obviously =), mostly to test for any incompatibilities.

i use antivir anti virus its

ven 26 set 2008 08:49:27 UTC da Simon Mowlam

i use antivir anti virus its a freebee and but it doesnt do spyware protection. The upside is that it use very little resources

I use Antivir too

ven 26 set 2008 09:38:50 UTC da BobJam

I had McAfee Enterprise 8.0i and Zone Alarm for many years, and I had no problem with them. But recently my system started to slow down significantly. I did a lot of troubleshooting and one of the things I did was switch to Avira's Antivir and Comodo FW. Don't know if that was all of the problem, but I am satisfied with them, and obviously my start up time has improved and also my resource availability is better.

AntiVir

ven 26 set 2008 13:17:11 UTC da Reprotected

I don't like AntiVir because it messes up my Vista, Firefox and it slows down my computer... It seems like out of AVG, avast and AntiVir, avast is the fastest for me.

Avast

ven 26 set 2008 14:19:21 UTC da cotojo

I use Avast on my main machine and Comodo on my others, which I chop and change for testing.
For online scanning I also use:
ESET - http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/index.php
Ewido anti-spyware and anti-malware:
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan
Housecall:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
BitDefender;
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
For single files use:
http://virusscan.jotti.org
http://www.virustotal.com

AVG I gave up with when V8 was released, and although it is one of the most popular it lost a lot of ground with the new format, and is slowly starting to catch up again, but I prefer Avast's performance and cover.
AV Comparison:
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-compare-home-professional.html
http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

Colin
http://cotojo.wordpress.com - Free PC Security

What comes to my, I have two

ven 26 set 2008 15:50:59 UTC da lordpake

What comes to my, I have two licenses for KIS (Kaspersky Internet Security) here. One for my PC and one for my brother's laptop.

Additionally I have AVG A-S Plus and WinPatrol Plus here, besides having some other stuff for on-demand scans (ClamWin, MBAM, SAS, BlackLight, Panda Anti-Rootkit, Trend Rootkit Buster, McAfee Rootkit Detective).

"Men make good pets."

antivirus

dom 28 set 2008 02:35:44 UTC da dbert

I have used Symantec and McAfee. Both work very well but do take up space on the hard drive. Right now I am trying out Avira. So far so good.

NoD32. You really can't beat

dom 28 set 2008 02:39:28 UTC da TheFryingIrishman

NoD32.

You really can't beat it ;D

My personal recommendations .........

dom 28 set 2008 03:05:10 UTC da MysteryFCM

Anti-Malware and System Monitors

1. WinPatrol - www.winpatrol.com (without a doubt, the best system monitor available)
2. MBAM (Malwarebytes Anti Malware) - www.malwarebytes.org
3. Spybot Search & Destroy - www.safer-networking.org
4. Mamutu - www.mamutu.com/en/software/mamutu/
5. a-Squared - www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

I always recommend having WinPatrol, and one or more of 2-5.

Please note, an anti-malware/system monitor is NOT a replacement for your antivirus, it's an addition to it. I'd strongly recommend (in order);

1. ClamAV* - www.clamwin.com (free/open source, available for Linux, Windows and the MAC)
2. NOD32 - www.eset.com (commercial)
3. Kaspersky - www.kaspersky.com (commercial)
4. Avira AntiVir - www.free-av.com/en/download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.htm... (free for home use (advert presented when updating signatures))
5. Avast Home Edition - www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html (free for home use)

* ClamAV does NOT provide a realtime scanner. Thus whilst I highly recommend using it, I also strongly advise having an AV that has a realtime scanner at the same time.

Regards
Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group / hpHosts
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What antivirus?

dom 28 set 2008 06:16:15 UTC da mummsie

I have Comcast with free McAfee. My computer kept getting slower and slower and I kept running a scan with 'all is aok' coming back! I had to get a new computer to do the work the 'slow aok' one could not do and was advised to try Kaspersky. I am so thankful! I ran Kaspersky on the old one that Comcast McAfee said was aok and it found several worms, viruses and even 1 Trojan! I have had my new computer for almost a year now and several times a day while using Windows doing office work, not online, Kaspersky warns of stopping an intrusion of a worm!

Offline Worm!

mar 11 nov 2008 10:49:57 UTC da Athlonite

Hey mummsie!

I don't think your PC is as clean as you think. If Kas. is still notifying
you that it has stopped a threat while Off Line, this could mean one
of two things: it is reporting a False Positive or that the worm or Trojan
that was first reported as being cleaned, has replicated and keeps
on replicating itself after Kas. has cleaned it.

My suggestion to you is that you Register at:AumHa .net / Forums
http://aumha.net/ucp.php?mode=register&sid=b1b0d9c324d29f05c0f1a73ed6dd4...
for a good cleansing.( not you but, your PC LOL! ).

The address provided is the first step in the registration process ( simply Accept )
and you will be re-directed to the real registration like you did here.

After registration , Log-In with your particulars and post in the "HijackThis" forum
where they will ask you to run and post a HijackThis log which will be analyzed
by the expert malware fighters at AumHa.

You will find these people very understanding and patient. They will also inform
you on which programs would be the most effective against any re-installation
of malware.

Athlonite

Your help is always needed.

I use ClamWin...

dom 28 set 2008 07:20:00 UTC da Yatti420

Good for lightweight setups.. Scans a tad slow.. But its not going to do anything weird like the big A\V suites listed above.. Also no system monitor here... Unless SDhelper from spybot is one.. (I dont use teatimer(was to intrusive\buggy in the early days of using spybot..) - haven't tested recent version though)..

I find that any real time scanner just slows down my comps way to much to be of any benefit to me.. Do proper backups...

Peace
---------
Jared Gray

Real-Time Protection

lun 01 dic 2008 04:29:58 UTC da Xp54321

is very important...It can slow download your computer, however that depends on the program and your computer itself. If no program with real-time protection works well on your computer, I'd suggest upgrading the computer or getting a new one. Nowadays the old-fashioned "Does this file match any of the virus definition files?" method is no longer enough. Threats come out before security companies can do anything. Prevention(Real-time protection) is far better than cure(Old-fashioned way, with threat definitions and signatures.) :)

My antivirus is -

dom 28 set 2008 12:27:39 UTC da logicman

My antivirus is AVG free.
It is definitely a bit of a resource hog, and a bit slow. I can put up with that because, although I have hundreds of gigs of data to scan daily, I run a dual core machine.

Even though I run my browser in a sandbox, I still need a very good antivirus so I can warn others about the malware sites.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Protect and Surf.

Avira Nag Screen

dom 28 set 2008 15:50:14 UTC da BobJam

MysteryFCM (Steve) mentioned that Avira shows a nag screen when updating: "advert presented when updating signatures". There is a way around that, and it's NOT a registry hack. For those solutions, take a look at the comments (you will have to scroll down quite a bit) at http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008/09/09/secure-computing-free-a...

(I did one myself, and it worked just fine . . . I no longer have the nag screen)

I was concerned myself that these solutions would be a violation of the Avira EULA, so I took a gander at the Avira forums and searched on this issue.

The question of whether disabling the nag screen in AntiVir goes against the EULA has been asked on the Avira forum. Bottom line, the consensus is . . . who knows??

Here is a link to one of the threads where this question was asked: http://forum.avira.com/wbb/ind.....light=EULA

The title of the thread is "Is it a EULA violation to disable the avnotify nag/update screen?"

And here is an excerpt from a post by a Moderator in that forum that I think sums up the consensus:

"Because the EULA doesn't specify more about the notifier, I suppose only a court could decide this question for sure. - but I don't think that's going to happen in reality.

Avira is probably happy to accept that the Notifier runs in most installations, and not worry to much if it's blocked in a relative handful of cases, as long as people don't post their methods here"

My own personal opinion is . . . don't sweat it!!

I use Avira AntiVir since I

dom 28 set 2008 17:29:58 UTC da DiM1319

I use Avira AntiVir since I have internet conection, I began with AnitVir Classic, later I found promotion by chip.de and could use AntiVir Premium 3 months for free;
later I tried to find more free licences for Premium and there were really some existing, this ones I have linked on my website

I had never (big) problems with Avira, my last is that www.hotmail.com is blocked by AntiVir Premium because of malware, when I asked in Avira Forum, a Mod told me that it is in responsibility of MSN;
but that is not a real problem because I can use hotmail.de or www.mail.live.com for enter my mail account.

AntiVir is just one of the best antivirus tools, but brain.exe bewares you from real problems, in addtion with WOT it is very good ;)

To discusion of speed, I have just 1024MB RAM Dualchannel and 128 onboard graphics card but my computer is not slowed to much, further I use Win Vista and it needs 400MB RAM for itself;
but who have problems wiht it he can enter configurations and adjust Heuristics to low; some malware may be not found then. a price of safety, but it is suicide to deactivate antivirus tool completely because of low speed..

greetings D.1319

PS: at admin, it would be nice if a poll could be integrated into forum too :)

Kaspersky FTW

dom 28 set 2008 19:56:45 UTC da djsonik

I use Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2009, and I've been loving it, because its a highly effective antivirus, antispyware, and firewall in one. Before I started using a paid-for solution, I used Avast, Spybot, and Komodo Firewall (only the firewall, Defense+ disabled), which I continue to recommend if you don't want to pay for protection. However, you can sometimes find multi-month Kaspersky trial deals, and, to Kaspersky's credit, I tried one and loved it, and I am now paying for it. (It's worth it for me) :)

My antivirus is..

dom 09 nov 2008 19:57:43 UTC da elfling

Avast! Antivirus. I used Avira once, and McAfee a long time ago, though. Out of those I recommend Avast!!!

Avira AntiVir Personal paid

lun 10 nov 2008 12:58:47 UTC da YoKenny

Avira AntiVir Personal paid for on my XP Home SP3 system and avast! Home Free on XP Pro SP3 system.

Avira on Vista

mar 06 gen 2009 07:35:59 UTC da Athlonite

I have been using Avira AntiVir free now for over a year in both my XP and Vista machines. I haven't seen an infection in that time. I do run other security programs to compliment Avira. I am a firm believer in the "Layered" method of protection meaning,
the best AV , the best Antispyware and a good firewall. Another little program
that protects your browser against Spyware infestation is :
SpywareBlaster :http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html .
works in the background , not intrusive and almost no resources.

There is also the fact that, a up to date and patched OS will go a long way in
protecting you against the bad guys. Do not forget to stay on top of Java :
version 6 up-date 11. And if you use Adobe then make sure that you have the
latest version : Adobe Reader 9 , Flash Player 10.0. 12.36.

All of these little things will more than likely fowl attempts at infecting your PC and keep you happily surfing with out worries.

Athlonite.

Your help is always needed.

i use Norton Internet

gio 13 nov 2008 14:16:25 UTC da greyfoxsylux

i use Norton Internet Security 2007, Spyware Doctor, and Spybot Search & Destroy.

Spyware Doctor consumes alot of resources for slower computers, but is a very powerful antivirus/anti-spyware program. I recommend it all the way.

I would not use anything

gio 13 nov 2008 16:30:46 UTC da YoKenny

I would not use anything from Norton ( Symantec) even if they gave me the system to run it on.

avast! or Avira AntiVir are for me.

Norton

ven 14 nov 2008 06:26:30 UTC da BobJam

Norton is well known as a resource hog. You would think that Symantec would have remedied this bloatware circumstance by now since I'm sure they've been aware of this reputation for the past several years. To turn this situation around would have been a good marketing strategy, and it's entirely possible since others (Avira and Avast come to mind) have gained a reputation for low profiles and being gentle on resources.

AVG8 is doing their utmost

sab 15 nov 2008 18:55:46 UTC da YoKenny

AVG8 is doing their utmost to catch up.

avg does great job but

sab 15 nov 2008 22:47:10 UTC da wills_bwkn

AVG does a great job but I use Kaspersky AV..Its very light on resource and doesnt steal much RAM...So frenz..Im with Kaspersky and WOT ..They are protecting me from all the baddies............. ;)

Panda AV Pro 2009

sab 29 nov 2008 20:43:43 UTC da Xp54321

I use Panda as it is light on resources and has a full set of capabilities. It blocked ALL 4 test virus files from [http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm] before even a download yes/no dialog window could pop up. It just immediately neutralized them by deleting them. :) I find it instantly kills spyware such as when a tracking cookie tries to get on when I visit a site, Panda immediately kills it and gives me a nice balloon message that the job is done. :D I for one hate Norton(Horrible detection, slow, heavy on resources) and McAfee(Heavy on resources, messy uninstallation). AVG, Avast!, Avira are all very good though AVG is my favorite of those 3. I use Panda AV Pro 2009 primarily though, however - especially with music downloads - I'll run the files by 3 different upload and scan sites.
1.http://www.virustotal.com/
2.http://www.virscan.org/
3.http://virusscan.jotti.org/
I have yet to be infected by any threat. :P

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