Best antivirus?

willhub · 22 Nov 2007 at 22:31

Hi.

I've tried NOD32, AVG, Avast, any Antiviruses better than these?

Thanks
Willz.

willhub · 22 Nov 2007 at 23:50

Thanks for all the replys guys, I'll check out Avira AntiVir

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

willhub · 22 Nov 2007 at 23:57

Bony Maloney said:
I ran without one for a few years no probs. Did a Shields Up test every now and again for peace of mind. It's belt and braces with a software firewall and router.

Whats a Shields Up test? Some website that can do a diagnostic like PC Pit Stop?

willhub · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:10

That look ok?

willhub · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:13

Bony Maloney said:
Oh yes that looks very niiice

Awsome, this netgear router must be well awsome, I havent needed to configure much in it and its allready secure after like a year.

willhub · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:26

Maybe I should try 2 at once, should be fine if one is disabled at one time?

willhub · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:30

Bony Maloney said:
They don't tend to like that, conflicts n all. not saying it won't work, it's just not tennis

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

willhub · 29 Nov 2007 at 21:06

When will we have Hardware Antivirus?

willhub · 30 Nov 2007 at 09:23

I'm trying Antivir atm and I deactivate the firewall but it always activates on boot :mad:

willhub · 2 Dec 2007 at 18:25

Do the free ones actually keep your PC safe I mean what benefits do the paying ones have really? I cant stop the damned firewall coming everytime I start windows.

willhub · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:01

I'm going to try Kaspersky 30 day free trial and if I like it I might buy it.

willhub · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:12

Zildjian said:
Let me know how you get on.

And by the way, the 50% sale at Kaspersky ends on the 27th of the month, so if you do decide to buy it you will need to purchase it before the trial finishes to get the 50% deal.

Hmmm I'll think about it

willhub · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:30

I just installed kaspersky and, well, after like 20 seconds windows locks up but I can still use my cursor, I just quickly got task manager up and killed services I thought was the antivirus then it worked and Kaspersky said to restart to apply new updates, dunno what went wrong but disabling the firewall incase it was that.

willhub · 3 Dec 2007 at 00:55

Scream said:
I never thought about that.

Do you know much about kaspersky or heard any problems like what I described?

willhub · 3 Dec 2007 at 16:25

Liking Kaspersky now, I deleted the installation from Vista, uninstalled it in XP, then re installed it and it seems to be working fine.

On launching Xfire it detected riskware: Invader (loader), is this what Xfire is or is it just a virus thats got into Xfire?

willhub · 3 Dec 2007 at 17:54

03/12/2007 17:51:48 Intrusion.Win.MSSQL.worm.Helkern 202.96.87.29 UDP 1434

Kaspersky just blocked that? If I never had kaspsersky on would I have got infected with a worm? Shocking really as I've never had a software firewall before and I thought I was safe coz all my router ports show as stealth on this thing I was using.