What Is A Good Antiviiri App?

[DoG]

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

[NutCracker]

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

Nutz

[mohqg]

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

[~*McoreD*~]

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

[unicorn]

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,

[Cactus]

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!

[areia]

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

[daMANiack]

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