best antivirus ?????

knowlesy · 17 Jul 2006 at 23:37

basically im looking for somthing thats low recources a good buy ISNT mcafae or symtec due to its anoyances 3million processors and constant dont forget to buy (correct me please if im wrong) but is also at a reasonable price as avg i feel dosent cut it anymore ......... so any ideas please.....

Poolybit · 17 Jul 2006 at 23:39

knowlesy said:
basically im looking for somthing thats low recources a good buy ISNT mcafae or symtec due to its anoyances 3million processors and constant dont forget to buy (correct me please if im wrong) but is also at a reasonable price as avg i feel dosent cut it anymore ......... so any ideas please.....

Urrm best one I can suggest is actually the Symantec Corporate antivirus (v9), its not cheap though, but its definately good.

Haven't touched any others since I've had this.

killer_uk · 17 Jul 2006 at 23:49

I would go with either Kaspersky or NOD32. NOD32 being my favourite.

ants83 · 18 Jul 2006 at 00:04

nod32 cant go wrong with that!

Dorian · 18 Jul 2006 at 05:06

Nod32 for me too

AnastieByte · 18 Jul 2006 at 07:50

I have in the past used Norton, Mcafee and AVG. Now use NOD32 and its fantastic

theforce · 18 Jul 2006 at 08:09

Kaspersky for me here.

VaderDSL · 18 Jul 2006 at 09:29

Kaspersky and NOD32 here

chrislusty · 18 Jul 2006 at 09:42

NOD 32 and Avast never had a problem with either of them.

CurlyWhirly · 18 Jul 2006 at 13:36

I used to use McAfee and it worked okay but the scan used to take ages and I used to get annoyed with all the pop-ups asking me if I wanted to buy this or that McAfee security package, so I uninstalled it and tried out NOD32.

I tried out the 30 day free trial and like it and so when my trial is up in a few days time, I am going to buy it in order that I can continue to get updates.

Another thing I have noticed is that NOD32 only has 2 processes in Windows Task Manager compared to over a dozen with McAfee :eek:

Also the scans are quicker and the updates are more frequent, one day last week I had 4 updates in one day!

awaybreaktoday · 18 Jul 2006 at 13:45

Kaspersky is the best!!

mrk · 18 Jul 2006 at 14:11

Windows xp!!!

oh sorry, im at work and get this answer a lot from customers

AVAST is good.

NOD32 is good

Modcon · 18 Jul 2006 at 16:20

Another vote for nod 32 is my favourite

masterk · 18 Jul 2006 at 16:26

Get Avast, ive tried them all this is the best.

|Ric| · 18 Jul 2006 at 17:02

yet another vote for NOD32, certainly my favourite out of the lot

Dorian · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:31

Kaspersky and NOD32 here

Not at the same time I hope :eek:

Richdog · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:33

masterk said:
Get Avast, ive tried them all this is the best.

Better than NOD32 or kaspersky? You're having a larf.

VaderDSL · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:36

Dorian said:
Not at the same time I hope

Aye they're running at the same time ... no problem though

on two PC's

Dorian · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:44

Running two at the same time is not a good option, this can cause conflicts within the system and slowdowns, Have a read of this --> http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2003/s1407/38s07/38s07.asp

Scott Salisbury · 18 Jul 2006 at 21:48

chrislusty said:
NOD 32 and Avast never had a problem with either of them.

Another vote for Nod32. Still using the trial here and I forgot I even had it running.

Easy and simple interface, only one process as far as I know and it uses almost no memory.

Avast is the next best free AV. I used that before I reformatted, just trying Nod32 now, which I prefer because avast seemed to need updates a lot more often and I knew about it when it began updating in the background.