Best antivirus?

Greenlizard0 · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:39

In antivir how do we stop those annoying daily pop ups?

Bony Maloney · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:49

willhub said:
lol I'll try one at a time then, they all work fine with Vista do they? Vista is been a pain atm.

I've tried AVG, Nod32, Kaspersky and Norton in Vista with no problems. I am using Nod32 V3.0 atm.

willhub · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:51

Bony Maloney said:
I've tried AVG, Nod32, Kaspersky and Norton in Vista with no problems. I am using Nod32 V3.0 atm.

And what possessed you to use Norton?

Bony Maloney · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:54

willhub said:
And what possessed you to use Norton?

Corporate edition

Daft as it is Nod32 V3.0 looks better, that's why it's staying (for now anyways

).

lolwtfbbq · 23 Nov 2007 at 07:48

Zildjian said:
Yep, Avira AntiVir is very good. It beat AVG, Avast and NOD32 in recent detection tests (AV-Comparatives.org) and it is very light on resources.
Avira classic does not scan emails though, but this isn't a huge problem. The Classic and Premium also does not have a web scanner. But the Classic is FREE and the Premium is just £12.95 (you can get a 3 month free trial for it too).

Another good AV is Kaspersky. It has performed very well in tests and has excellent reviews. I am currently using the trial and will probably end up buying it because it is so damn cheap right now. They have a sale on right now and their antivirus can be got for just £8.40. I was expecting it to eat up loads of resources but it is actually pretty light on my PC.

I've installed it but I can't read german. Is there anyway to set it to english?

Vimes · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:39

willhub said:
Thanks for all the replys guys, I'll check out Avira AntiVir .

Whilst I'm in this thread, any point me having a software firewall when my router is supposed to have a hardware firewall?

If you want to take control of applications etc that try and connect to the Internet and or 'inject' or update items already on your machine then I would give Comodo a try...

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

that too is free

malccy · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:43

Which works on 64bit Vista as have read that only a few do.

AJUK · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:53

willhub said:
That look ok?

You can't beat a good port probing!

Bony Maloney · 23 Nov 2007 at 11:02

malccy said:
Which works on 64bit Vista as have read that only a few do.

Check my post 5 up, all tested on x64 Vista with no problems.

Vimes · 23 Nov 2007 at 11:09

Bony Maloney said:
Check my post 5 up, all tested on x64 Vista with no problems.

I think that he is referring to my link to Comodo the firewall and not any AV application.

Bony Maloney · 23 Nov 2007 at 11:20

Vimes said:
I think that he is referring to my link to Comodo the firewall and not any AV application.

m'k

hp7909 · 23 Nov 2007 at 11:26

postmanfw said:
Another vote for Kaspersky

GSDog · 23 Nov 2007 at 12:11

vinh24 said:
I've installed it but I can't read german. Is there anyway to set it to english?

When I used it, it was never in German...

Vimes · 23 Nov 2007 at 13:46

vinh24 said:
I've installed it but I can't read german. Is there anyway to set it to english?

Make sure that you select English as the language when you visit the website before you download it, you select the language from a drop down thingy on the top left of the website.

sammie377 · 23 Nov 2007 at 18:42

Antivira for me. Tried loads this week Antivira.

Arge · 23 Nov 2007 at 19:35

Kobrakai said:
Nothing is better than NOD32.

Nuff said.

Duke · 23 Nov 2007 at 20:56

NOD32!!

NorthstaNder · 24 Nov 2007 at 10:29

NOD32 for the win.

Easily the best AV I've ever used (and I've used a few!)

LoadsaMoney · 24 Nov 2007 at 20:21

Hows that AntiVir at updating now, i used it about a year or so ago, but it stopped updating, would never connect so i just got shot, and now using AVG 7.5.

Greenlizard0 · 24 Nov 2007 at 20:31

LoadsaMoney said:
Hows that AntiVir at updating now, i used it about a year or so ago, but it stopped updating, would never connect so i just got shot, and now using AVG 7.5.

Really? that's worrying I have done the opposite.....for those that can get updates how often is the program doing this? I have had only one update since I installed it (recently, I think last week?).