Best anti virus software for XP?

[meaty]

What is a good anti virus software for winXP , that doesnt confilct with most proggys?

thx

 

[Lars]

AVG AntiVirus (free)

 

[Mem]

<< AVG AntiVirus (free) >>



Yep it`s great and has never given me any problems with my Win98 and WinXP rigs.

 

[YaKuZa]

i use nav 2002 and have had no problems with it on XP. of course, i dont leave autoprotect running so i dont know for sure, but when i scan, it works fine.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Norton Antivirus 2002.
-- mrcodedude

 

[bsobel]

Biased answer: Norton Antivirus 2002 (or Norton Internet Security 2002 with AV if you need a firewall too)
Bill

 

[Workin']

AVG has worked fabulously for me.

bsobel works for Symantec, I think.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

<< Norton Antivirus 2002.
-- mrcodedude >>



same here.

 

[Vegito]

what about virus detection and removal, is it as good as mcafee or symantec ?

 

[MrBond]

<< what about virus detection and removal, is it as good as mcafee or symantec ? >>

Seems to be. Some website I keep visiting drops a script exploit that changes my homepage to www.msn-search.com, and AVG catches it every time during it's routine scan at midnight. I don't let realtime scanning run, so I can't say if it'd detect the script exploit when it actually dropped on my system. It's very low maintence, updates itself and runs a scan at midnight every night. I really like it, and you can't beat the price.

Email scanning is excellent as well. Strips off infected attachments and appends a warning to the messege.

 

[Workin']

<< what about virus detection and removal, is it as good as mcafee or symantec? >>

From what I've seen and read, it is. I personally know about a dozen people who are using AVG - not a single infection so far. The few reviews I've been able to find have ranked it well, too. And it doesn't gum up your machine nearly as much as Norton or especially McAfee.

 

[Vegito]

sweet.. i dl it and using it... looks great...

how can they give this away for free ?

 

[BFG10K]

If I used an anti-virus program it would probably NAV.

 

[Workin']

<< sweet.. i dl it and using it... looks great...

how can they give this away for free ? >>

They charge for commercial versions (which are very reasonably priced, BTW), plus they are in the Czech Republic where things are way less expensive.

 

[PicPop]

Norton 2002

 

[Biggs]

I tried AVG on my work PC and I can say that it's a great free software antivirus to use. Frequent updates for virus definitions too!

 

[travler]

I want to try AVG unfortunatly their webpage is broken so it wont allow me to enter my infrormation to DL it.. corection it wont accept my information.

I cant beleive some webmasters let thsi crap happen. on large commercial sites too. from HP to AVG apparantly web programmers are in short supply

 

[Mem]

<< want to try AVG unfortunatly their webpage is broken so it wont allow me to enter my infrormation to DL it.. corection it wont accept my information.

>>



Hmmm it`s working ok for me,I just tried to enter my info in the boxes,

travler try it again.

 

[cthulhu]

I am trying to sign up to download avg and keep getting an error message also. I've entered all the info but it keeps giving an error to enter my address - I enter my address!!!

I want to try avg since inoculateIT is shutting down this summer.

 

[Lioness]

I am disabling some background services in Windows XP pro. Does anyone have any idea which, if any, background service the Avg. software uses in Windows XP? I don't want to disable anything that Avg. requires to run.

I'm new to Avg. and Windows XP. Is the Task Manager a good indication in informing me what is running "properly" in the background?
I see the Avgcc32.exe and Avgserv.exe listed.

While I got your attention, or do I , what is the easiest way to scan a downloaded song with Avg.?

 

[Workin']

<< I see the Avgcc32.exe and Avgserv.exe listed. (in task manager) >>

That's what should be there.

<< While I got your attention, or do I , what is the easiest way to scan a downloaded song with Avg.? >>

It should be scanned automatically if the "Resident Shield" is enabled (it is by default). All files are scanned when they are opened, created, moved, copied, read, etc.

 

[Lioness]

Am I understanding you correctly? Avg. is working quietly in the background and will scan "after", not during the download? Therefore there is no need for us to right click on the particular downloaded file to manually have the Avg. scan it? Hmmm. Can't get any easier than that.

 

[travler]

still not working for me. who knows. keeps telling me to fill in my 'first adress'

something is broken somewhere.

 

[Workin']

<< Am I understanding you correctly? Avg. is working quietly in the background and will scan "after", not during the download? Therefore there is no need for us to right click on the particular downloaded file to manually have the Avg. scan it? Hmmm. Can't get any easier than that. >>

That is correct, as long as you have the "resident shield" feature enabled and keep the AVG program updated using its "update manager" you shouldn't ever have to do anything else to remain virus-free.