Tired of viruses? Which program gives maximum protection?

Zardon · Jul 10, 2002, 03:32 AM

Are you tired of getting viruses?, or is your current antivirus program just not delivering the goods? Cnet put the top programs to the test a few months ago.
Although its not a recent test, its interesting reading for those of you unsure about which program to spend your hard earned cash on.

They tested the following:

• Norton AntiVirus 2002_
• EZ Antivirus
• F-Secure Anti-Virus Personal Edition
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro 4.0
• NOD32
• Norman Virus Control 5.0
• Panda Antivirus Platinum 6.25
• PC-cillin 2002
• Vexira Antivirus Personal 2.0
• VirusScan 6.0

http://www.cnet.com/software/0-80617...-1.html?tag=ld

FuNsTeR · Jul 10, 2002, 03:44 AM

I prefer AVG 6 pro its seen me ok most pc magazines rate the free edition as good as Nortons pay version and its a smaller download as well

GravY · Jul 10, 2002, 08:21 AM

I am using AVG6 right now, doesnt seem to slow things down when running in the background.. I hear about it on Techtv, and its free and autoupdates..

http://www.grisoft.com

FuNsTeR · Jul 10, 2002, 10:11 AM

i've been using Avg 6 pro for roughly 3 years no need to re register to get downloads

unlike norton you have to buy license every year i think i'll stick with Avg thanks PCcililin 2000 was *rap

kinetic · Jul 10, 2002, 10:54 AM

Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

FuNsTeR · Jul 10, 2002, 11:00 AM

dunno never tried download accelerators with Adsl i don't need one ..... trust me you will not regret Avg 6 scans everything email the lot even has advance hueristics engine for detecting viruses

kinetic · Jul 10, 2002, 11:04 AM

Originally posted by FuNsTeR1970
dunno never tried download accelerators with Adsl i don't need one .....

Thanks for that I feel much better!

Zardon · Jul 10, 2002, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kinetic
Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

Download accelerator plus 5 is pretty good, I used it alot in the past (I dont really need it now)... recommended.

XSwiftX · Jul 10, 2002, 11:45 AM

AVG 6 freebie user and love it! Will be upgrading to the Pro version soon. This one has caught every virus that has came my way..........

kinetic · Jul 10, 2002, 11:48 AM

Thanks guys 2 great free downloads there, AVG 6 and DAP 5.

boby · Jul 10, 2002, 01:23 PM

i'm using norton 2002 and it's very great program.It saved me a lots of time

skinlab · Jul 10, 2002, 05:22 PM

i had NAVCE2k2, then somehow it got corrupted, i uninstalled and it wouldnt reinstall. so now i use pc-cillin2k2... free of charge

works fine, scans quick, firewall is pretty useless tho, i dont have it running, i only right click/scan when i need to

MousePotato · Jul 10, 2002, 06:04 PM

i use NAV 2002 pro, and it can scan compressed files( manualy)

strange how this article didn't mention that !

Shaith · Jul 10, 2002, 06:57 PM

I've been using NAV for years now. Tried quite a few others, including PCcillin, McAfee, etc, and wind up coming back to NAV because it does what I want it to do, doesn't slow me down, and it kills bugs dead

And why bother buying liveupdate extensions - by the time your sub runs out, the next version is out.

Shaith · Jul 10, 2002, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kinetic
Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

I've been using Getright since it released. Works great, once you register you can remove all the adware crap. Even with my cable modem I still use it, as there are times it comes in handy, especially when you're trying to download something REALLY popular or from less reliable sites out there.

brc64 · Jul 10, 2002, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by FuNsTeR1970
unlike norton you have to buy license every year i think i'll stick with Avg thanks PCcililin 2000 was *rap

That's actually not true. The whole subscription thing is very misleading.. you can always download updated virus definitions without a subscription. To be honest, I'm not really sure what the subscription thing gives you other than maybe free upgrades in terms of software (not virus definitions).

- Me

bigAL99 · Jul 11, 2002, 12:33 AM

i use norton 2002 ive had no problems before with it at all ive used avg free in the past which is pretty good as well i recomend avg for my mates with erm.. slower systems lol

alan

Matth · Jul 11, 2002, 01:43 AM

Avast is now free for personal use, and has scored a recent VB100 success (AVG hasn't since some way back!)

http://www.avast.cz / http://www.alwil.com

If you want FREE, the only other game in town is the somewhat false-alarm prone ANTIVIR - http://www.free-av.com

Downloaders?
I wouldn't be without Metaproducts FREE Download Express - http://www.metaproducts.com
It's a downloader, but not a full download manager, but the important things - like resuming failed downloads, are all there. MASS DOWNLOADER is their "Pro" solution if you need scheduling, auto virus scanning etc.

The free one has 4 settings, configurable for throughput throttle and number of threads.
Drawbacks? tends to get thrown by some redirects, hold CTRL-SHIFT (one may be enough?) to prevent it activating!

Others:
Stardownloader, Freshdownload

I won't touch spyware infested junk like GoZilla and DAP - the free version of DAP IS Adware+Spyware, and any clear report by Ad-Aware does not make it different - the spyware is private, and embedded, and merely inactive in the pay version, but unremovable.

~~Crash Override~~ · Jul 11, 2002, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by brc64
That's actually not true. The whole subscription thing is very misleading.. you can always download updated virus definitions without a subscription. To be honest, I'm not really sure what the subscription thing gives you other than maybe free upgrades in terms of software (not virus definitions).

- Me

very true.......I've used it for a long time and only upgraded to 2002 recently

Necrosis · Jul 11, 2002, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MousePotato
i use NAV 2002 pro, and it can scan compressed files( manualy)

strange how this article didn't mention that !

Weird,

I know it can too because I have done the same. Now I'm using EZ Antivirus, which will also manually scan archives.. No it may not scan emails; if an email/download has a virus I know right then when it's coming through. It has never failed me.

lucytoo · Jul 11, 2002, 11:12 AM

Hi,

I tried AVG and Kapersky (when it was free), but now I use Avast 32 which seems pretty good.

Follow this link: http://toronto.virusbtn.com/vb100/ar...sts.xml?200206

to see how it and others did...

MikeDaMan · Jul 11, 2002, 08:24 PM

For all you cheap bastards that want to completely scan your comp for viruses can try the online virus scanner at http://housecall.antivirus.com/ It seems to work pretty good. However I'm using NAV2002 and find that to run perfectly fine.

Desert_Siege · Jul 12, 2002, 07:26 AM

I hate that it delays my startup process by almost 10 seconds, but Avast was telling me that the .exe files for Sum of All Fears and Ghost Recon were infected and no other virus scanner I tried detected it and they are the original files off the CD. I know they are not infected, but alas, Avast locks me out of them and it pissed me off so I trashed it and went back to Nortons. One feature of Nortons that I DO like is the fact that it scans my outgoing mail, very cool! No need in sending my friends the latest and greatest virus I just got by unzipping and running that *cough* "demo" version *cough* of that cool new game without scanning it first.

FuNsTeR · Jul 12, 2002, 08:11 AM

Avg Scans both incoming and outgoing mail with a advanced heuristics Engine ... excuse the shytty spelling

...

marcoyeo · Dec 24, 2002, 04:09 AM

I'm using Mcafee Anti-Virus Professional 7. the loading of this program pretty slow, currently only have 3 more (small)programs to load.

there's this Mcafee screen would appear everytime u load the program. would stay at abt 6-7 seconds, which is very slow.

Win2000Pro + SP3
PC specs at sig.

pls help.

EcPercy · Dec 24, 2002, 09:22 AM

its not on the list, but sophos antivirus is an excellent solution

i currently use symantec corp

nForcer · Dec 24, 2002, 10:31 AM

I prefer Norton AV Corp Edition myself, but not many need the advancements the Corp Edition includes, but its saved my butt more than once. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

fornicatarachnid · Dec 24, 2002, 11:32 AM

NAV 2002 for me

Aspect · Dec 24, 2002, 01:37 PM

I use AVG 6 and DAP for downloads.

dmaister · Dec 28, 2002, 01:39 AM

get a good firewall for one, blackice and norton are good, then get a good antivirus, i use norton, not sure if its best but i have updates daily or weekly

Jul 10, 2002, 03:32 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Tired of viruses? Which program gives maximum protection? Are you tired of getting viruses?, or is your current antivirus program just not delivering the goods? Cnet put the top programs to the test a few months ago. Although its not a recent test, its interesting reading for those of you unsure about which program to spend your hard earned cash on. They tested the following: • Norton AntiVirus 2002_ • EZ Antivirus • F-Secure Anti-Virus Personal Edition • Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro 4.0 • NOD32 • Norman Virus Control 5.0 • Panda Antivirus Platinum 6.25 • PC-cillin 2002 • Vexira Antivirus Personal 2.0 • VirusScan 6.0 http://www.cnet.com/software/0-80617...-1.html?tag=ld

Jul 10, 2002, 03:44 AM	#2
FuNsTeR Caledonian and Proud Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Darkest Ayrshire Posts: 1,268 Rep Power: 76 System Specs	I prefer AVG 6 pro its seen me ok most pc magazines rate the free edition as good as Nortons pay version and its a smaller download as well __________________ "They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages ..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows"

Jul 10, 2002, 08:21 AM	#3
GravY Master Shake Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Michigan Posts: 199 Rep Power: 0	I am using AVG6 right now, doesnt seem to slow things down when running in the background.. I hear about it on Techtv, and its free and autoupdates.. http://www.grisoft.com __________________ Amd 2400+ @ 2415mhz 11.5x210, Vantec Aeroflow, 512mb Pc3200 5-2-2-2, 9500np->9700 [color=red]17697[/color] 3dmark2k1 [color=red]5630[/color] 3dmark03, Epox 8rda+ Mobo, WD Special 8mb cache 80gig, Plex 48/24/48

Jul 10, 2002, 10:11 AM	#4
FuNsTeR Caledonian and Proud Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Darkest Ayrshire Posts: 1,268 Rep Power: 76 System Specs	i've been using Avg 6 pro for roughly 3 years no need to re register to get downloads unlike norton you have to buy license every year i think i'll stick with Avg thanks PCcililin 2000 was *rap __________________ "They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages ..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows"

Jul 10, 2002, 11:00 AM	#6
FuNsTeR Caledonian and Proud Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Darkest Ayrshire Posts: 1,268 Rep Power: 76 System Specs	dunno never tried download accelerators with Adsl i don't need one ..... trust me you will not regret Avg 6 scans everything email the lot even has advance hueristics engine for detecting viruses __________________ "They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages ..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows"

Jul 10, 2002, 10:54 AM	#5
kinetic DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester England Posts: 2,559 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for the tip, I'm downloading AVG 6 right now! (1.7KB/sec ) thank god it's only 5MB. By the way, whats the best download accelerator?

Jul 10, 2002, 11:04 AM	#7
kinetic DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester England Posts: 2,559 Rep Power: 0	Re: Originally posted by FuNsTeR1970 dunno never tried download accelerators with Adsl i don't need one ..... Thanks for that I feel much better!

Jul 10, 2002, 11:45 AM	#9
XSwiftX DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 64 Rep Power: 0	AVG 6 freebie user and love it! Will be upgrading to the Pro version soon. This one has caught every virus that has came my way..........

Jul 10, 2002, 11:48 AM	#10
kinetic DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester England Posts: 2,559 Rep Power: 0	Thanks guys 2 great free downloads there, AVG 6 and DAP 5.

Jul 10, 2002, 01:23 PM	#11
boby DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: slovenia-maribor Posts: 326 Rep Power: 0	i'm using norton 2002 and it's very great program.It saved me a lots of time __________________ NF7-S,AMD 2500+@2300MHz-&SP97+ 92mm vantec tornado on 2800rpm, MSi 5900SP 2X256MB Hyperx PC3200 DM+9 120GB SATA HDD Yamaha cd-rw 20/10/40 WIN XP PRO(SP1)

Jul 10, 2002, 05:22 PM	#12
skinlab Got Satan? Join Date: May 2002 Location: was in Canada, now in UAE Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	i had NAVCE2k2, then somehow it got corrupted, i uninstalled and it wouldnt reinstall. so now i use pc-cillin2k2... free of charge works fine, scans quick, firewall is pretty useless tho, i dont have it running, i only right click/scan when i need to __________________ Religion is the opiate of the masses - Marx God is dead - Nietzsche X-pider2 + Enermax 465 / P4P800-DX / 2.6C@3.25 / 1GIG XMS 4000PT/ R9800PRO / Audigy2 ZS / 80gig WD SE + 160gig Maxtor SE + 200gig Maxtor PS3100 External / Plextor Premium + BenQ DW1640 / other stuff

Jul 10, 2002, 06:04 PM	#13
MousePotato HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: N.S., Canada Posts: 124 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	i use NAV 2002 pro, and it can scan compressed files( manualy) strange how this article didn't mention that !

Jul 10, 2002, 06:57 PM	#14
Shaith HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 916 Rep Power: 0	my choice is... I've been using NAV for years now. Tried quite a few others, including PCcillin, McAfee, etc, and wind up coming back to NAV because it does what I want it to do, doesn't slow me down, and it kills bugs dead And why bother buying liveupdate extensions - by the time your sub runs out, the next version is out.

Jul 11, 2002, 12:33 AM	#17
bigAL99 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: london uk Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	i use norton 2002 ive had no problems before with it at all ive used avg free in the past which is pretty good as well i recomend avg for my mates with erm.. slower systems lol alan

Jul 11, 2002, 01:43 AM	#18
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,410 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	Avast is now free for personal use, and has scored a recent VB100 success (AVG hasn't since some way back!) http://www.avast.cz / http://www.alwil.com If you want FREE, the only other game in town is the somewhat false-alarm prone ANTIVIR - http://www.free-av.com Downloaders? I wouldn't be without Metaproducts FREE Download Express - http://www.metaproducts.com It's a downloader, but not a full download manager, but the important things - like resuming failed downloads, are all there. MASS DOWNLOADER is their "Pro" solution if you need scheduling, auto virus scanning etc. The free one has 4 settings, configurable for throughput throttle and number of threads. Drawbacks? tends to get thrown by some redirects, hold CTRL-SHIFT (one may be enough?) to prevent it activating! Others: Stardownloader, Freshdownload I won't touch spyware infested junk like GoZilla and DAP - the free version of DAP IS Adware+Spyware, and any clear report by Ad-Aware does not make it different - the spyware is private, and embedded, and merely inactive in the pay version, but unremovable. __________________ Mary had a little lamb, Her father shot it dead Now Mary takes her lamb to school, Between two crusts of bread

Dec 24, 2002, 04:09 AM	#25
marcoyeo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I'm using Mcafee Anti-Virus Professional 7. the loading of this program pretty slow, currently only have 3 more (small)programs to load. there's this Mcafee screen would appear everytime u load the program. would stay at abt 6-7 seconds, which is very slow. Win2000Pro + SP3 PC specs at sig. pls help. __________________ Main Rig Intel P4 1.6A \| MSI 645 Ultra \| 256MB Samsung TCB0 PC2100 \| Hercules 8500LE 64MB \| SBLive! 5.1 DE \| Excelstor J360 (IBM 180GXP cloned) 60GB \| Maxtor D740X-J 40GB \| Sony CD5211 \| Iomega 241040 \| Samsung 151s \| Creative Soundworks FPS1800 4.1 \| Epson Photo 810 \| 3COM EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI \| Motorola SB4200 \| CWT 300WATX12D \| HEC6A19

Jul 11, 2002, 11:12 AM	#21
lucytoo Aged DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I tried AVG and Kapersky (when it was free), but now I use Avast 32 which seems pretty good. Follow this link: http://toronto.virusbtn.com/vb100/ar...sts.xml?200206 to see how it and others did...

Jul 11, 2002, 08:24 PM	#22
MikeDaMan DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 874 Rep Power: 0	For all you cheap bastards that want to completely scan your comp for viruses can try the online virus scanner at http://housecall.antivirus.com/ It seems to work pretty good. However I'm using NAV2002 and find that to run perfectly fine. __________________ DFI Lanpart UT 250GB motherboard. 1GB 2X512 Crucial Ballistix PC 3200. AMD Athlon 64 3400+. Retail ATI Radeon X850XT PE AGP

Jul 12, 2002, 07:26 AM	#23
Desert_Siege Professional Slacker Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: KY Posts: 274 Rep Power: 0	Still using Norton 2002 here.... I hate that it delays my startup process by almost 10 seconds, but Avast was telling me that the .exe files for Sum of All Fears and Ghost Recon were infected and no other virus scanner I tried detected it and they are the original files off the CD. I know they are not infected, but alas, Avast locks me out of them and it pissed me off so I trashed it and went back to Nortons. One feature of Nortons that I DO like is the fact that it scans my outgoing mail, very cool! No need in sending my friends the latest and greatest virus I just got by unzipping and running that cough "demo" version cough of that cool new game without scanning it first.

Jul 12, 2002, 08:11 AM	#24
FuNsTeR Caledonian and Proud Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Darkest Ayrshire Posts: 1,268 Rep Power: 76 System Specs	Avg Scans both incoming and outgoing mail with a advanced heuristics Engine ... excuse the shytty spelling ... __________________ "They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages ..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows"

Dec 24, 2002, 09:22 AM	#26
EcPercy HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Iraq Posts: 1,535 Rep Power: 64	its not on the list, but sophos antivirus is an excellent solution i currently use symantec corp

Dec 24, 2002, 10:31 AM	#27
nForcer Twice the fun! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,404 Rep Power: 0	I prefer Norton AV Corp Edition myself, but not many need the advancements the Corp Edition includes, but its saved my butt more than once. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Dec 24, 2002, 11:32 AM	#28
fornicatarachnid Clanless Join Date: May 2002 Location: On the web, England UK Posts: 714 Rep Power: 0	NAV 2002 for me

Dec 24, 2002, 01:37 PM	#29
Aspect "Amusing Comment Here" Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Birmingham UK Posts: 232 Rep Power: 0	I use AVG 6 and DAP for downloads. __________________

Dec 28, 2002, 01:39 AM	#30
dmaister I got 99 Problems Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 71 Rep Power: 0	get a good firewall for one, blackice and norton are good, then get a good antivirus, i use norton, not sure if its best but i have updates daily or weekly __________________ "The Man, The Legend"