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What AV do you use the most?

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TheBigCheese said:
I had Kaspersky and moved across to Bitdefender when I got a good deal on a 3 year license...what a nightmare it's been...it's seems to crash every few days, whether it be on XP, Vista or 7...the annoying thing is it crashes but won't close, you can't restart it you have to reboot.

I'm back with Kaspersky for the main machines now along with doing what HighlandeR suggests and running Malwarebytes occasionally...fingers crossed everything seems OK.
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Was that BitDefender Antivirus Pro 2011, or a suite package instead?
 
Been using bitdefender antivirus 2011 and malwarebytes and noscript/adblock plugins with firefox for about 2 months now, am happy to report its doing a fantastic job and bugs coming in are getting blocked and stopped, no popups and funky win7 recovery fake malware or anything, and best of all is bitdefender is faster and lighter then kaspersky.

So far im rating Kaspersky and bitdefender as my 2011 top choices, along with malwarebyes.

Buying malwarebytes is good since one can use its active shield once purchased, googling discount code malwarebytes will knock a few quid off and its a life time buy so worth it :)
 
Does anyone know of a good AV for Windows Server 2008?

I have installed server 2008 onto a server machine to learn but your AV like kaspersky requires a special edition that comes with 5 client licenses which costs a fortune and I only want a single copy on the server but it appears you can't do that.

I am a kaspersky user but I don't need all those licenses especially when I might remove server 2008 in a few months when I am finished learning.
 
Scream said:
Does anyone know of a good AV for Windows Server 2008?

I have installed server 2008 onto a server machine to learn but your AV like kaspersky requires a special edition that comes with 5 client licenses which costs a fortune and I only want a single copy on the server but it appears you can't do that.

I am a kaspersky user but I don't need all those licenses especially when I might remove server 2008 in a few months when I am finished learning.
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Forticlient might be worth looking at, not sure if it requires a licence though.
 
Can someone who's read all the pages tell me the general consensus on which AV they use? I'm using Avast and while I've had no problems I was wondering if there was anything better? :)

Also, as a general rule.. how much of your resources does your AV use and do you guys/girls generally turn it off before gaming?
 
Avast, Avira and AVG are always going to be popular and free editions are available, I tend to find Avast and Avira better are detecting and deleting bugs, and AVG worser.

But thats only over the many years of seeing AVG and customers machines being infected with many viruses, the customers with Avast and Avira not so much :)

If I was getting a free Antivirus id stick with Avast or Avira...

If I was buying a AV package, bitdefender, Kaspersky, Nod32 are all top of my list and malwarebytes to further protect it. Im currently having a great run wtih Bitdefender and malwarebytes, but it would not have been as well protected if I didnt have mozilla firefox addons noscript and adblock plus to block most of the bugs from surfing the net !
 
Does F-Secure and similar brands allow for product keys from old versions, like 2005, to be used with newest version?

I know Kaspersky allows old products keys to be used for newest version. And Norton have a webpage that updates you to most recent version if have active subscription.
 
Thinking about getting BitDefender Total Security now as Zone Alarm seems to have gone way down hill.

One thing I'd like to know though is. Does BitDefender have an option that allows you access to your network but blocks all computers on the network from having access to you.

If not, how does Kaspersky compare?

ta.
 
Wepohn said:
Thinking about getting BitDefender Total Security now as Zone Alarm seems to have gone way down hill.

One thing I'd like to know though is. Does BitDefender have an option that allows you access to your network but blocks all computers on the network from having access to you.

If not, how does Kaspersky compare?

ta.
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yes it does, its called remote mode.
 
I already tried different Antivirus but now I'm using an ESET Nod32 antivirus it's quite handy to use. I've tried norton but it was definitely not for me because it make my computer run slow it take a lot of memory space. Their are also times that when I schedule to run a whole computer scan I can do any work because it stocks. Another is an AVG and it works good for me for almost 2 years but eventually it expires then I got my PC infected by virus as a result I had to format my PC.
 
brucey034 said:
Anyone using Kaspersky 2012 ?
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my Bullguard free licence expires soon, Ive had no problems with it from the AV side but it smacks of being a bit resource heavy. Im looking at kaspersky.

I hear reports of Kaspersky hogging resources, any truth in this?

Also Kasperky offer a free upgrade to 2012 from 2011, do you reckon you can buy 2011 and upgrade or is there a catch?
 
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