What antivirus software do you use?

**Sonnie** · **05-04-06, 11:42 PM**

Don't laugh at me... AVG is my buddy. I have the paid version on all of our computers at home and at work.

I really like how they keep their database up to date and the fact it uses very little resources to run... it's not a puter hog like some others I've had.

**Fincave** · **05-05-06, 02:01 AM**

F-Secure Internet Security for me, easy to use, very regular updates, tried Norman for a while as it came with my machine, as a result picked up the Lovsan virus and so switched to F-Secure.

**nova** · **05-06-06, 11:34 AM**

What's wrong with AVG? I use it on all my computers,... I also use McAfee that is provided by Comcast for free.

**DrewM** · **05-06-06, 12:40 PM**

I'm running AVG and Avast on my computers and like them both.

**Sonnie** · **05-06-06, 01:51 PM**

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nova wrote:

What's wrong with AVG? I use it on all my computers,...

I hope nothing... I've been using it for about a year now with great success. I just had a few people poke fun at me about it before and in a few of the computer forums some folks dog it for no good reason.

**Exocer** · **05-06-06, 01:56 PM**

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Sonnie wrote:

I hope nothing... I've been using it for about a year now with great success. I just had a few people poke fun at me about it before and in a few of the computer forums some folks dog it for no good reason.

I never was a fan of this type of bashing. My friends do the same to me because they're all running AMD cpu's and I am running an INtel cpu

**Sonnie** · **05-06-06, 02:07 PM**

Agreed... no reason to bash it... especially if it works for you.

I run AMD's and Pentiums. I've never been able to tell that much difference myself, but I'm not much of a gamer and don't do an extreme amount of multi-tasking either. Just your average everyday computer life.

**05-07-06, 01:08 PM**

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DrewM wrote:

I'm running AVG and Avast on my computers and like them both.

Same here 3 pc's use Avast and the other two use SVG.
All connected on an ethernet network with broadband, skype and a Hardware firewall as well.

**JohnM** · **05-08-06, 05:11 AM**

AVG for me as well, only began using it a couple of months ago - finally ditched Norton.

**gsmollin** · **05-08-06, 09:08 PM**

Well I'm still using NAV. I used to use McAfee,but had a problem with them changing the engine, and obsoleting my subscription in the process. Symantec changes the engine too, but just downloads new one. I don't think Symantes is great, but the scanner seems to work.

**05-21-06, 03:34 AM**

NAV before, nod32 recent.

**Ghislain** · **05-21-06, 05:04 AM**

MCAfee Virusscan Enterprise and NAV

**Steve Williamson** · **05-21-06, 07:47 AM**

AVG on 5 pc's, all running behind hardware firewall though, hate symantec, have to use them commercially as they have the best server/client solution, better than Trends

**pierrebnh** · **05-21-06, 01:23 PM**

Symantec Anti-Virus, Corp. Edition. Pretty solid for the 1,000 desktops/laptops we manage. Sprinkle on some Spybot S&D when needed.

**xmas111** · **05-21-06, 04:16 PM**

I know you're all going to jump all over me....I've never used any antivirus.

I'm the only one that uses any of my machines.

**pierrebnh** · **05-21-06, 05:34 PM**

So you're the one sending us all this spam!

**xmas111** · **05-21-06, 05:54 PM**

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pierrebnh wrote:

So you're the one sending us all this spam!

**lcaillo** · **05-21-06, 09:36 PM**

I have been using AVG on my machines for some time now and no problems. I have heard that Avast is better but have not really had a reason to change.

I find spyware is a bigger problem than viruses these days. What are you all using for that?

**rcarlton** · **05-21-06, 10:42 PM**

Norton Antivirus...probably since the mid 90's.

**Sonnie** · **05-21-06, 11:55 PM**

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lcaillo wrote:

I find spyware is a bigger problem than viruses these days. What are you all using for that?

I use three programs for this...

Spybot Search and Destroy
Spyware Blaster
Windows Defender (previously Microsoft Antispyware)

**pierrebnh** · **05-22-06, 12:41 AM**

SAV actually does a decent job against Spyware, but we do supplement with Spybot.

**05-22-06, 10:08 AM**

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lcaillo wrote:

I find spyware is a bigger problem than viruses these days. What are you all using for that?

zone alarm pro block them all.

**FlashJim** · **05-23-06, 10:52 AM**

Just Adaware and Norton here.

**highcurrent** · **05-23-06, 03:12 PM**

- McAfee Enterprise 8.0 (and earlier versions in the past)
- Zone Alarm Pro

This combo works perfectly. 0 viruses, 0 intrusions, on many PC's for many years.

**toecheese** · **05-25-06, 10:46 AM**

As I mentioned in a different post, I got smited with a nasty virus by using IE. Norton found nothing. AVG found *one* after the dropper had put in serveral others (probably a week after the initial infection).

Avast found 2 more.

But, I had to run ethereal (a packet sniffer) to see that my PC was actually still trying to talk to some remote website. I then had to run some tools to track down IP port usage and I had to manually delete a fake windows service.

Not cool.

If you have any suspicion about something running on your PC (in my case, my router was going beserk) get a software firewall running, or run TcpMon from http://sysinternals.com (free).

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