Looking for a good Antivirus Program

Jase

Jase

Jase

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I presently have McAfee Antivirus installed. I've used it for a fair bit now but I still pick up a virus trojan here and there and it seems to do a poor job of removing the things (especially the one I picked up today from just clicking on something on ebay).

What is considered the best Anti-virus software atm, heard that Norton isnt as good as it used to be.. this is for a home sytem but I really like peace of mind when it comes to stuff like this.

Thanks

Jase
 
Kaspersky and Nod32 seem to be the two favourites. Kaspersky has a much better GUI but I feel Nod32 does a better job at what matters
 
lay-z-boy said:
I swear these 'recommended me an av app' crop up at least once a day.

Would it kill people to use the search function?
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Would have thought you'd have done a search to back up your idea that a post is made everyday and found out it's not... Yes there are other posts, most of which are about "free" programs.. others of interest were from October but a lot changes in that time

I really don't want to take risks when it comes to this software so need to be sure what I get is the best for the job.
 
From what I've read Kaspersky has the best virus protection, but it really slow slow down your system greatly (boot and shutdown times).

So I use NOD32 seeing as my computer isn't exactly the fastest. I must say I'm impressed with how fast NOD32 does a full scan of my hard drive. Full system scan in only 10-15 minutes. NOD32 is also very resource friendly which is nice.

Definietly get NOD32 or Kaspersky though, do some research on them and see which you like best.
 
Jase said:
Would have thought you'd have done a search to back up your idea that a post is made everyday and found out it's not....
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That you actually searched for that makes me worry... it was obviously an exaggeration to highlight a valid point.

For the record, Kaspersky IS the best of the best bar none... with NOD32 a close but definate second. I run NOD32 due to speed.
 
Jase said:
Would have thought you'd have done a search to back up your idea that a post is made everyday and found out it's not... Yes there are other posts, most of which are about "free" programs.. others of interest were from October but a lot changes in that time

I really don't want to take risks when it comes to this software so need to be sure what I get is the best for the job.
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just searching 'virus' comes up with many recent posts.
 
Well I went for NOD32, and from what I've seen it looks OK and my system seems faster now compared to McAfee. On running a scan it found a few things that worry me..

I keep getting a Threat message about a trojan file on at h ttp://www.m369m.com then quickly followed by a message that a file of threat had been created on my sysyem (trojan a variant of Win32/PSW.Agent.NBJ).

Now I've run the system scan again and deleted the files it says are risk but still get the above messages on a periodic scale.

Any idea how to proceed with this ?

Thanks

Jase
 
Jase said:
Well I went for NOD32, and from what I've seen it looks OK and my system seems faster now compared to McAfee. On running a scan it found a few things that worry me..

I keep getting a Threat message about a trojan file on at h ttp://www.m369m.com then quickly followed by a message that a file of threat had been created on my sysyem (trojan a variant of Win32/PSW.Agent.NBJ).

Now I've run the system scan again and deleted the files it says are risk but still get the above messages on a periodic scale.

Any idea how to proceed with this ?

Thanks

Jase
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Post a hijackthis log and i'll take a look for you.
 
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