What Kind Of Antivirus Do You Use

[thecableguy12]

Am i the only person not to use any Anti-Virus?

ive had my computer running with no anti-virus or any 3rd party software based firewall for 18 months now and have had no problems whatsoever, even when i knew i had a virus(random pop-ups) id just check process in task manager for unknown processes(yeh i remember my process list ), reboot in safe mode, delete it from startup in registry and do a search for it and delete it manually. ive only had to do this twice

you are mad! i bet you have nothing but trojon horse all over your pc, but thats your choice - vut mad

 

[thomasjcat]

I used to use Kaspersky free from AOL, but changed back to AVG free, coz it works well:eater:

 

[BIGGY007]

hi, i got avg but doesnt seem to pick up any virusses and when i do a seach doesnt locate any viruses either on my pc??

 

[crackerchalk]

Hi
Got Noton with a crack
NO worries till the year 2114
If im still alive lol

 

[TheDogsNutts]

kaspersky for me, never let me down...........

 

[gsmtech]

I'm still using McAffee at home. Thats probably why the pc just took 3 minutes to come on :eater:
I might try one of the others mentioned in this thread now.


I notice nobody has mentioned Sophos.
We use it on all machines at work, so was just wondering if that is any good.
Anyone know ?????


Cur1y

I used to have Sophos but it slowed my machine down big time, kept causing ossues with my P2P stuff as well like emule and Bit Torrent. This was a while ago thouigh, they might have improved it now.

I hear ESET NOD32 is the best anti-virus for detection rates, speed and Memory/CPU Utilisation. I cant be bothered to buy it though and aint found a decent cracked evrsion yet...

 

[reddwarf]

Tried a few, and for best protection Kaspersky is the best I found so far...but for some people it might be a bit overprotective sometimes

 

[Sonic]

 

[krazylegz]

usually use bitdefender10 but just changed it to AVG pro to give it a shot but if it's crap i'll be going back to bitdefender

 

[biglebowski]

AVG works a treat.

 

[Bainsy]

Norton here although i do turn it off as any antivirus scaning as your working hogs ram

 

[mwflivpak]

i have used avg for a good while, the best has to be between avg and avast. i have never liked norton and would never recomend it. avg and avast keep it nice and simple and get rid of the problem when ever you have one.

 

[ashbash]

Mcafee security center on desktop and avast on my laptop but i have tried loads. Have to say that Norton was the worst one i tried it was system hungry and i am starting to think the same about Mcafee on my desktop as well going to change to avast when licence runs out with Mcafee.

 

[Sajuk101]

i have avg (which i like because it never bothers me just works) i might try nod32 because Ive heard good things about that, im not really fussed about security of my pc as when i had a slower pc i did not install any security programs as it would slow it down and had no problems. i uses ad-aware and spybot and crap cleaner to get rid of any junk and registry cleaning and i run a disk cleanup and defrag once in a while. also every 6-8 months ill have a reformat.

 

[T4i]

you are mad! i bet you have nothing but trojon horse all over your pc, but thats your choice - vut mad

rofl, i'm another user who is vut mad then.

I can't do with the 'latency lag' - as I call it with anti-virus.

I run monthly online scans, I've had one virus over the last 3 years, installed AVG to get rid off the messy bits, uninstalled it once it was gone.

 

[TheWakeUpCall]

Kaspersky due to recommendations on this site.

 

[thecableguy12]

rofl, i'm another user who is vut mad then.

I can't do with the 'latency lag' - as I call it with anti-virus.

I run monthly online scans, I've had one virus over the last 3 years, installed AVG to get rid off the messy bits, uninstalled it once it was gone.

ok well i have not had a virus in the last 3 years at all but then again if i did my antivirus would probaly let me know about it

 

[jamrop]

I have no anti virus, never have done really. If there is a new virus out, the software that you use will prolly but out of date, but i use msn mail, that has anti virus.

 

[sideysid]

I've always used AVG since dinosaurs roamed the earth (that may be slightly exaggerating), and I have never had a problem.

I remember using Norton and Mcaffe back in the Windoze 95 days with a subsciption, and they used to be the bane of my life on system processes back then on my 90hz cryrix.

It is now one of my pleasurable pastimes, when repairing friends/familys computers, to great take pleasure in formatting them b*stards off.

 

[Napster]

panda antivirus for me used it for last 3 years