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12/20/2007, 10:22 PM
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I use F-Prot. Its only 30.00 bucks and it allows you to put it on upto five computers. I have use most of them and this is the only one that seems to catch everything that I throw at it.
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12/20/2007, 10:59 PM
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One care from microsoft seems to be ok from what I hear and they give you a 90 day trial. Gives you some additional time to look around.
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12/20/2007, 11:02 PM
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12/21/2007, 08:41 AM
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yea i use avg too its good
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12/21/2007, 09:32 AM
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This year I am using the Zone Alarm Security Suite. It works pretty well and doesn't bog down the computer down too much. It does a good job handling spam and the price is reasonable. My only complaint with the software is that the periodic scan will use 100% of CPU and seems to run as a high priority task even if you set it to be a medium or low priority task. Also it doesn't detect if the computer is in use and then pause the scan until it becomes idle. You can schedule it to run in the middle of the night though.
Overall, I think I'll probably renew the license when it expires rather than change out the software. I've tried MacAfee, Norton/Symantec, AVG, F-Secure, and probably a couple of others. They all caused problems of one sort or another for me. Norton seemed to be the best of that lot though. |
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12/21/2007, 10:08 AM
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The best I have found to date is Eset's Nod32, I have tested it and it finds everything that Norton and McAfee leave behind. My company uses Norton and we have been infected several times even with the most current updates. In these situations I have loaded up Nod and in seconds it finds and deletes what Norton missed.
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12/21/2007, 10:16 AM
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I've used pretty much all of the virus scanners at one time or another... I've found that AVG and Norton's work the best... not to mention they were more "user friendly". |
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12/21/2007, 10:24 AM
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I worked for Symantec for a few years and still work in the Security field. If I were to pay for something these days (we are just talking AV here) I would go with NOD32. Stay away from the MSFT stuff. They have had horrible ratings on detection %. If you want to go free I use AVG. If you need a good firewall use Comodo. All free.
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12/21/2007, 11:24 AM
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As you can see there is no clear winner
 almost like asking what the best fish store is.Check out this review from PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130869/article.html |
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12/21/2007, 12:44 PM
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Bitdefender Security Suite...
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12/21/2007, 12:44 PM
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That is a good article related to them, I agree there is never a clear winner on these types of things. I would say that from someone that has used a few of these products in a professional corporate network environment, Symantec products may be highly rated but they are resource hogs and bog machines down to a crawl and they have been proven to not catch a major portion of the virii out there. I have tested others with similar results and for me as I said Nod is the clear winner.
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12/21/2007, 11:11 PM
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k, reason why i asked this is that i had a virus, spysweeper and norton didnt pick it up, resorted to a system restore (delete everything except priorities like the XP program etc), so i lost all my stuff, least the virus is gone. Kinda disappointed in norton and spysweeper.... Since im already using norton, i might just keep it, or look into avg, since its free. Thanks all
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12/22/2007, 06:33 AM
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AVG works really well for me and its free.
zone alarm has a good free firewall program. ad-aware is good to have too. all 3 are free from download.com 
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