AntiVirus Recommendation

[fightcancer]

Last I checked three very reliable sources (IMO) said Kaspersky is the best antivirus software. Two of them are IT professionals.

Which one's the best today? Thanks!
Software for Windows -> Security

-Schadenfroh

 

[Schadenfroh]

Hello,


These threads should help you:

[*]Best antivirus?
[*]Top free antivirus
[*]AntiVirus Detection Rate Thread

 

[fightcancer]

Thanks!

 

[LongTimePCUser]

Make sure you read this link too.
A Kasparsky full scan causes problems with chkdsk. They use a technique to speed up their full disk scan that writes some information to the ntfs file system.

Kaparsky & chkdsk.

I installed the latest Karsparsky trial, chose the deault, suggested settings and ran a full scan yesterday before I read about this problem. I started a boot time chkdsk this morning. Chkdsk stage did complete but stage 2 stayed at 0% for 5 minutes or so. Some people have reported that chkdsk would not complete on their systems after installing chkdsk.

I don't think that this is a show stopper, but it is something to worry about.

 

[LongTimePCUser]

Here is another recent survey that was posted this week at pcmag.
PC Mag Security surveys.

 

[JustaGeek]

I've been using Norton AntiVirus "religiously" since 2004.

Last year I got their Internet Security Suite 2007, and absolutely love it!

I might be hard on the system on startup, when it does its "Auto Update" thing, and periodically checking for updates (I believe every 4 hours), but i have not had ANY virus/malware issues since.

I also use Webroot's SpySweeper, and I strongly believe that it is superior to any other AntiSpyware application.

These two have been keeping my computer "safe", or however safe it might be, for some time now.