what ANTIVIRUS software do you USE and WHY?

[Rohan]

What huh? WHAT?

I am now using NOD32, because its fast (acc to my personal tests with the product) and because of this link:

http://www.nod32.com.au/nod32/awards/awards.htm#vb0404

I dunno, it made me ditch my previous AV software, Trend Pc-cillin, which made me ditch my first AV software, that is the greatzorz, NORTON. pffft.

What AV do you use and why?(zorz.)

:D

[Bhazard]

AVG Free Edition, cause it doesn't suck up my resources(norton) and fuck up my computer(norton).

[epsilon]

Symantec Norton. Keeps the nasty shit out of my computer, so I use it.

[Chimera[NL]]

Originally posted by Bhazard
AVG Free Edition, cause it doesn't suck up my resources(norton) and fuck up my computer(norton).

[epsilon]

My norton never gave me any problems.

[Chimera[NL]]

Originally posted by epsilon
My norton never gave me any problems.

Try installing Norton Systemworks and then delete stuff of your HDD's. Norton will give you a a big fuck you and store all the deleted shit in special files. Useless piece of crap.

[epsilon]

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
Try installing Norton Systemworks and then delete stuff of your HDD's. Norton will give you a a big fuck you and store all the deleted shit in special files. Useless piece of crap.

lol. I have never had Norton Systemworks and never will.:D

[Rohan]

Epsilon, I'd really like you to try NOD32.
You'll never want to go back to that crap your using... ever again.

The installer is less than 10megs and pm me for the... you know... TRY IT GODDAMMIT!

Compare the reviews:
http://www.nod32.co.nz/compare.htm

[future man]

None, becaust I'm stupid.

[epsilon]

Originally posted by Rohan
Epsilon, I'd really like you to try NOD32.
You'll never want to go back to that crap your using... ever again.

The installer is less than 10megs and pm me for the... you know... TRY IT GODDAMMIT!

Compare the reviews:
http://www.nod32.co.nz/compare.htm

meh, why fix something whan its not broken ? I'll just doo fine with norton.

[jnick]

Norton Antivirus, Norton System Works, Norton Internet Security . . . No problems here . . . I've been using them all for about 3 years now..

[Striker]

I just use AVG because, well, it's free. Eventually I'll probably pick up just regular Norton Antivirus 2005 (none of that Internet Security shit, Zone Alarm is much better in my opinion.)

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

Norton, AVG and Avast for my current work PC (in the company that I resigned from). Yes simultaneously coz I am paranoid like that.

AVG Free at home pc.

Nod 32 at my new pc. I will install Avast and AVG on both PCs as well.

So all in all I will have Nod 32, AVG and Avast running simultaneously. I don't give a fuck about resources unless when I am gaming and since its always offline. I turn off all the AVs.

[Freakonaleash89]

I use Norton's AntiVirus it does hog resources, but it's what I have always used and it works, and it is updated often.

[Chimera[NL]]

Originally posted by Freakonaleash89
I use Norton's AntiVirus it does hog resources, but it's what I have always used and it works, and it is updated often.

You should try AVG, it's updated almost daily. Almost every time I boot up my pc, it's downloading a 2 mb update. Talk about being sharp.

[MrBored]

I have one serious problem with AVG, it doesn't stop viruses coming in, sure it can clean them but it doesn't prevent them in the first place which norton does. It pops up with this message, "xxxxxx file is infected with xxxx virus, run AVG to clean it". Then you have to do a whole fucking system scan, and if the virus has come in through a network you HAVE to unplug the network cable, clean all the systems on the network then connect them again. i.e. its fucking useless.

That thing about Norton System works not really deleting files is a little tick box in your recycle bin, you just turn it off...

[Chimera[NL]]

Just scan everything you download. I always do. Every zip/rar/exe/whatever file I download gets scanned before I open it. I've never had a virus in the 7 years I have my own PC. Honest.

[Silence]

Norton, havent gotten any probs from that fello.. tried others and sayd "meh" on them...

[MrBored]

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
Just scan everything you download. I always do. Every zip/rar/exe/whatever file I download gets scanned before I open it. I've never had a virus in the 7 years I have my own PC. Honest.

With norton you don't have to. I hadn't got a virus for years until my update subscription ran out and I tried avg.... So I installed norton again ( with a re-install of windows you get the subscription back again ;p ).

[RADiator]

Back to NAV for me. Sygate, doesn’t stop anything and Avast doesn’t clean anything. Though its somewhat disappointing that I found out it only after everything went to hell. Oh well, lesson learned.

[MrBored]

see, there's a reason nav uses a lot of resources, its actually doing its job ;p

[Hobbes874]

Norton. Dunno why though.

[cr3am]

Originally posted by Rohan
I dunno, it made me ditch my previous AV software, Trend Pc-cillin, which made me ditch my first AV software, that is the greatzorz, NORTON. pffft. Aha, my friend's dad is like uber-german and he calls it "PC LEEEEN" lol. Anyway, my bro's old computer had PC LEEEEN and it fucking sucked. Once I got mah free norton (came with my mobo), I haven't switched since...

But someone told me I should switch to NOD32. I dunno, I don't trust 'em yet. I am leaning towards it, though, because norton is too popular, and I'm betting there's gonna be some viruses that target Norton systems...

Meh, fuck it. I haven't gotten a virus in years, so I'm good.

[Chimera[NL]]

Originally posted by RADiator
Back to NAV for me. Sygate, doesn’t stop anything and Avast doesn’t clean anything. Though its somewhat disappointing that I found out it only after everything went to hell. Oh well, lesson learned.

You do know that Sygate is a firewall right? I mean incoming virusses are not Sygate's job.

[RADiator]

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
You do know that Sygate is a firewall right? I mean incoming virusses are not Sygate's job. And I suppose trojans are not in its range of responsibilities as well. I found 3 (amongst other things) after a single week of use. Nothing was stopped, nothing prevented. So all I know is that I will not tolerate the absence of sufficient security on my machine and that Sygate is not sufficient to provide such.

[Chimera[NL]]

Originally posted by RADiator
And I suppose trojans are not in its range of responsibilities as well. I found 3 (amongst other things) after a single week of use. Nothing was stopped, nothing prevented. So all I know is that I will not tolerate the absence of sufficient security on my machine and that Sygate is not sufficient to provide such.

You downloaded Trojans to test Sygate? Or did you have them while you didn't know? Were they active? Were they opening ports? Didn't Sygate tell you a certain program was trying to acces Internet? Cause if even some update program from some game wants to do a simple broadcast he gives me a warning. I find it hard to believe that Sygate let these programs go freely.

[TopSecretBoy]

I do believe NOD32 technically stops the most viruses/trojans. If I were to buy an anti-virus, it would be NOD32 (I mean, come on, it's reccomended by hackers) but I use Norton because it's what my Step-Dad bought. :D

[RADiator]

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
You downloaded Trojans to test Sygate? No

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
Or did you have them while you didn't know?Yes.

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
Were they active?Oh yes.

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
Were they opening ports? Indeed they where.

Originally posted by Chimera[NL]
Didn't Sygate tell you a certain program was trying to acces Internet?There where no alerts regarding Trojans and/or their activities. And yes my definitions where up to date. And if it matters, yes the copy was completely legal. Borrowed it from a friend. Thank god I didn’t buy it, which would have been most unfortunate.

[Yian]

Prventing the virus will probably require the program to be running in the background all the time, so it can be actively monitoring the incoming objects. That also means it is going to be a big resource hugger. I guess that's the price you have to pay for keeping things clean.

And I always thought Sygate does a very good job. It turned out to be not all that safe after all. I guess nothing is.

[Chimera[NL]]

Ok, something is very wrong then RAD. Whether Sygate knows the prog is a Trojan or not, it still detects if it wants to acces the internet and should therefore give you a warning. I don't know what happened but I'm not sure if Sygate it to blame. That may sound a bit harsh but I'm not sure how you set Sygate up, did you tell it to give you a warning when something wants to connect for instance? Also it doesn't matter to me if you have bought it or not. Warez/cracked software is no different than the real deal.

[Chimera[NL]]

Originally posted by Yian
And I always thought Sygate does a very good job. It turned out to be not all that safe after all. I guess nothing is.

What makes you think that?

[RADiator]

Well that wasn’t the first firewall I worked with, so yes everything was set up accordingly. Oh well, doesn’t really matter now. Should have listened to my inner conscience screaming to me: "Don’t fix something that is not broken dickhead!"

[TheKua]

ZoneAlarm Pro and AVG make a great setup..nothings gone wrong for me in a long time.

[Rohan]

Originally posted by TopSecretBoy
I do believe NOD32 technically stops the most viruses/trojans. If I were to buy an anti-virus, it would be NOD32 (I mean, come on, it's reccomended by hackers) :D

Yipee!
(I am t3h NOD32 fanboy!)

[Chimera[NL]]

OK, I'm gonna try this NOD32. Let's see what it's got,