Antivirus software besides Norton Antivirus?

[quangdaika]

I've always use Norton Antivirus and never had any problem with it. However, with it 2005 version, I can't d/l the definition files seperately, but have to use Norton's AutoUpdate. Is there another software, free or paid, that let me d/l definition files seperately?

 

[Spydermag68]

Read this

This thread has several free anti-virus software suggestions.

 

[Azndude2190]

Originally posted by: quangdaika
I've always use Norton Antivirus and never had any problem with it. However, with it 2005 version, I can't d/l the definition files seperately, but have to use Norton's AutoUpdate. Is there another software, free or paid, that let me d/l definition files seperately?

Kaspersky Anti-virus Personnel should be good for you.

 

[quangdaika]

is mcafee still good?

 

[Nocturnal]

McAfee is just as bloated as Norton. I'd stay far away from both. You may want to sign up for Microsoft's OneCare beta. It's in its open beta stages right now. It's decent. Comes with a firewall, anti-virus, and a backup program.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Spydermag68
Read this

This thread has several free anti-virus software suggestions.

 

[murphy55d]

Kaspersky is the best IMO.

 

[ivwshane]

http://www.overclockers.com/articles1260/

This should help you out.

 

[Noema]

Stay away from the bloatware that are Norton and McAffy, and get some antiviruses that actually work without hogging your system down:

Kapersky


Avir In my opinion, the best AV out there. We had some problems with trojans at work; all of the PCs had Norton's Bloatware running in full protection mode, which didn't help against the trojans at all. Norton's scan failed to find anything, whereas AVir's scan found all the trojans in one pass.

AVG Antivirus Another nice one, free and non bloated antivirus.

 

[quangdaika]

yeah i forgot to add that norton added so many crap processes to my laptop. i'll give kapersky a tried. thx

 

[montag451]

I am a great fan of Kaspersky for first aid virus despatcher.
Unfortunately - on my own systems that I have attempted to keep it on, it tends to eat RAM (upto 80MB).
NOD32 seems brilliant at the moment, as does Antivir which I am using at the moment. (using them on different computers, obviously)

 

[redbeard1]

Panda is one of the best I've used.

Panda

 

[BW86]

AntiVir = :thumbsup:

 

[sswingle]

AVG