Anti-Virus

[bsobel]

1. It is too much of a resource hog.

Can you elaborte, every version since 2001 has actually used less resoures than the previous. We've greatly reduced the overall footprint (especially in autoprotect).

Does not detect some of the new viruses, ( I have more than two AV's which I check manually once in a fortnight or so, and there have been instances when NAV hasnt detected something and the other AV's have).

I'll call you on this one, please give some exact examples.

Bill

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: bsobel

1. It is too much of a resource hog.

Can you elaborte, every version since 2001 has actually used less resoures than the previous. We've greatly reduced the overall footprint (especially in autoprotect).

I used AVG until recently because I bought a copy of Norton Systemworks 2003. I noticed that Norton is considerably slower than AVG in loading at start up. The control panel also takes a while to load. From what I can see in my processes list though, Norton barely takes up any resources.

 

[injinuity]

Originally posted by: bsobel

1. It is too much of a resource hog.

Can you elaborte, every version since 2001 has actually used less resoures than the previous. We've greatly reduced the overall footprint (especially in autoprotect).

Does not detect some of the new viruses, ( I have more than two AV's which I check manually once in a fortnight or so, and there have been instances when NAV hasnt detected something and the other AV's have).

I'll call you on this one, please give some exact examples.

Bill

This is one of my posts w.r.t virus software on another popular forum made on the 13th of March.

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MY ACTUAL TESTIMONY: Today I scanned a CD first with Nortan AV with the lastest AV def updates and then with NOD also with the lastest updates. Norton found the CD to be clean, I then used Nod and it detected the virus signot.trojan something...
Whenever you are in doubt use two AV programs and you will be safe.
Jinu Johnson


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13th March 2003 10:21 AM

As you can see, NAV clearly did not detect the virus signot.trojan.? .. and yes my AV definitions were uptodate.. they always are.... I use NAV, NOD32, Panda AV Platinum... this computer is shared by my family members who are not computer savvy so I have to have the best protection available...

Coming back to the resource hog comment, how does NAV justify 40MB of a software when Nod32 comes in under 3 MB, Kapsersky comes in under 15...... when you take into consideration memory usage as well, NAV uses much more memory than all the rest with the exception of Mcafee, Mcafee and NAV are almost similar in this regard....

I have been using NAV as for a very very long time, and one thing that really bothers me now is that all their AV updates as of late have been around 2-3 Mb ..what gives????.....

 

[BeauJangles]

I find norton to be a PITA. The installation I made corrupted itself after a few days, and, even when it did work, I found it consumed too many resources for my liking. All in all, Norton feels like a giant piece of bloatware. AVG is much nicer IMO, however, I can't comment on other anti-virus suites as I haven't used them.

 

[bsobel]

As you can see, NAV clearly did not detect the virus signot.trojan.? .. and yes my AV definitions were uptodate.. they always are.... I use NAV, NOD32, Panda AV Platinum... this computer is shared by my family members who are not computer savvy so I have to have the best protection available...

NAV didn't detect this and another program did, that does not 'clearly' indicate that NAV was wrong (however, it could be), but the other program may well have false positived on the file. Did you use scan & deliver to send the sample in? (if not, could you or at least zip it with a pw and send it to me directly).

Coming back to the resource hog comment, how does NAV justify 40MB of a software when Nod32 comes in under 3 MB, Kapsersky comes in under 15...... when you take into consideration memory usage as well, NAV uses much more memory than all the rest with the exception of Mcafee, Mcafee and NAV are almost similar in this regard....

Your refering to disk footprint presumably? The in memory footprint had dropped considerably over the last 2 versions.

AVG is much nicer IMO, however, I can't comment on other anti-virus suites as I haven't used them

When was the last time AVG passed a virus bulletin test 😉

Bill