I'm running XP pro.

I would like to get a good advice about a anti-virus application. What I want is something that is good (finds viiri if they exist), fast (no bloatware), get antiviiri-updates frequently and (like Norton) can be started and told to check a single file by rightclicking in the explorer window. I do not want Norton since I'm fed up with it and systemworks and their habit to spread out useless stuff all over my drive. And I have had no luck with Kaspersky.

Is there anything else you know of?

pc cillin is my best for xp

Running F-Secure and AVG on two different systems with no problems yet...and both have the right click option you describe... :D

believe it or not and be displeased as much as you want, norton might just be the best out there when compared on a whole :)

pc-cillin is good, but it's terrible when comes with compatibility when working with other firewalls other than its own.

mcafee is okay, but it doesn't have updates as fast and as frequent as norton, and hogs more resources. plus it totally failed to prevent that nasty "klitz" worm.

panda antivirus might be the worst. terrible updates, bad realtime scans, and fails to discover several viruses.

f-secure is powerful, but it lacks a solid console window everyone's acustomed to like norton or mcafee.

so coming back, norton takes less resources, faster and more frequent updates, good at realtime scan, and its really great with wild viruses out there, nasty scripts that aren't officially dictated as viruses but could be potentially dangerous.

ofcourse, this is just 1 man's opinion :)

but cnet.com concurs with me :D
http://home.cnet.com/software/0-806174-8-2...g=st.cn.sr1.ssr.



Last edited by Capricorn at Jul 31 2002, 07:15 PM

if you don't want norton, then i would get avg (www.grisoft.com)(freeware).

I have to say "Norton" and the engine of "Trend Micro" who is included in Ontrack System Suite 4 :lol:

Antivirus programs are a bit like clothing - it's partly a matter of personal taste.

NAV is a good all-round choice to throw at people who want a known quantity. Most of us agree though that NAV is very bloated, and this sends us looking for a replacement.

I personally use F-Prot (www.f-prot.com). Please note that this is not the same as F-Secure. One of the things I like about F-Prot is that the updates are small and I can script-update a whole LAN easily (try doing that with NAV!). This is great for my customers with dial-up modems.

I used to use AVP v3.5 but it has succumbed to bloat like NAV.

Other popular choices I see around are: Vet, AVG, NOD32. Try them all out and see which one you like.

Capricorn: Cnet is not a reliable antivirus tester. Check out this article:

http://www.nod32.com/news/cnet_zdnet.htm

Cnet also gave weight to email scanning. That's a clumsy feature that many of us can do without. Besides, any AV worth its salt will scan the attachment either as it gets saved to the temp-files folder or when you open it.

Epyx



Last edited by Epyx at Aug 1 2002, 02:38 AM

I've been using BitDefender with XP for quite a while , quite happy with it so far + it has an inbuilt firewall of sorts , only trouble I have is it seems to block access to some FTP servers.

I Use AVG. It's free and updated often. It's my choice after using them all. The thing I like most is the low drain on resources and it has an e-mail checker. And once again IT'S FREE



Last edited by roban at Aug 1 2002, 05:19 AM

Well i know you said not to mention Norton,but i must say i have been useing Norton Antivirus corporate edition server/clent gold version 7.60.926
and it just works very well.jtk

Another one you could try is sophos AV- i'm just about to install it on a clients machine so i will let you know what i think

I use AVP (www.avp.ch) - works fine with no problems under XP.

Nutz
:wacko:

peace

you mentioned that you had problems with Kaspersky. while i even admit that their interface is something strange one gets used to it. it is i would consider one of the best all-round av on the market and have a great track record of mail scanning, viral and TROJAN detection, auto daily updating.

beware though that their default settings are not that great and KAV can be a resource hog if you are not careful...

just my $0.02

peace out

well as Capricorn says, Norton is the best right now. It is releasing the version 2003 this year or the early 2003. I actually had trouble with McAfee VirusScan 6.00 installed in Windows XP. They've got version 6.02 now -- don't know how is it -- but NAV2002 is far better in compatibility over any other anti virus program and you can't feel you have installed an anti-virus program for that uses so less resourses even in Pentium 133, 48MB RAM computer.
But I currently having problems with sending emails, incoming emails are alright. But I cannot send emails sometime. I dunno whether it has something to do woth NAV2002 as it handles out going mails. I disabled it but it still gives the trouble. I am not actually sure if it is NAV2002 to blame, but it says it has got some performance problems with Outlook 2000/XP. I am using Outlook XP and may be that. But however I still believe NAV2002 is the best and hope it will be better in NAV2003.
On the other hand McAfee has got connections with Microsoft (Hotmail emails are scanned using McAfee) so I doubt compatibility-wise McAfee should be better than NAV. We will see what is going on from the future versions of both NAV and McAfee.
I ain't sure enough to give a exact answer to say which is better, but have a current understanding that NAV performs better :)

Thank you all! I find the input quite valuable, made me think a little more about this... and I might go for Kaspersky some time again.

For the moment I have thrown out Norton everything (systemworks incl NAV) and I find that a relief. From now the only Norton thing I will "ever" run is Ghost - which btw doesn't origin from Norton anyway...

...then I have loaded Grisoft AVG. I have to admit - I'm a cheapskate and prefer to buy hardware if I have a choice. This far, only one day, I think AVG does what I want it to do.

Thanks again,

Hya,

.unicorn, I'm glad that you've found the answer in this thread. Still I regret that you have thrown NAV out.

NAV is one of the better AV programs I know. I wonder if you threw it out because other Symantec/Norton programs were messing up you system. When NAV is configured in a smart way, it doesn't use much processor time, and the memory usage isn't that bad eighter. And most important, it never misses a virus.

I myself have configured NAV Corporate 7.6 to only scan modified files, and only the seleced files (the default Symmantec offers). Besides that I do a complete scan on everything once a week. I know it caches scans, but what's the use of scanning every read file when you are sure it's clean?

Anyways, I still love NAV, Ghost & pcANYWHERE. I'll keep using these programs till something better comes along . . .

Cheers!

cactus, agree with you about norton corporate edition, have it about a year and don't want anything else, .unicorn, give it a try.

Hi,

Running Nortons AV 2002 from SystemWorks 2002 Pro on 6 PC's and not one virus has got through, so I gotta say it's GREAT.

Cheerz :) :D ;)