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Free Anti Virus and Firewall...50.00 value

This has been going on since November, but a great deal. I use the AV software and it works great with very frequent updates.
 
To repeat what I said in another thread:

For those that don't know, Computer Associates is a huge, huge company, dwarfing the size of Symantec and the other principals in the antivirus field. This doesn't mean that every one of their products is great, but the support will be there; it's not fly by night.
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On AVG Antivirus [aka Grisoft], I realize that many people are happy with this, particularly the "everything on the Internet should be free" crowd, but the product does _not_ test out well. Here is the industry standard site for AV testing: http://www.virusbtn.com/

Drill down to "by vendor," and you see that Grisoft (aka AVG) gets a rather astounding 3 passes/19 fails. In fact, before the last two tests they were batting 1 pass/19 fails!

Norton has passed 16 times in a row at present.
Panda hasn't submitted in a long while, but was 1/3 back in 2000-2002.
Comp.Assoc. has passed the last 7, and 16 of 17.

Every review I've seen has shown Norton using the least system resources, if that is your most important criterion.

 
"Every review I've seen has shown Norton using the least system resources, if that is your most important criterion."
for me, it's the nav 2001 i bought doesn't work with xp
thanks to the op! will try it out
 
i believe symmantec actually uses less system resources since it is made for businesses, it doesnt need the pretty graphix made for home users. + symantec owns norton (or was it vice versa) so that the av engine is the same.

//krunk (^_^x)
 
I run NAV, Ca, and AVG respectively on three different box's

I have yet to get a virus on any of them, and I scan monthly via trend micro's free online virus scan to double check.

AVG has been running on my one box for allmost 2 years and has caught virus intrusions before they infected at least five times to my knolledge.

Works for me

Jax

++Edit++ Also it should be noted that the "pass/fail" results on the prior listed page test multiple OS's and AVG has a passing 100% score on XP. If your running ME you will have problems, including AVG not working so well on it.

Its a go for XP though 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Skitzer
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php" target=blank>Free AV Antivirus Software</A>

I use this too, seems to work quite well.
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This program is the shiznit. I make all of my friends and customers use it. How can you beat good and free? 🙂

 
i'm running NOD32 (made by a company named Eset) and it blows pretty much everything else away...

resource usage is pretty much mil (the background daemon is taking up 1300K on my box), the updates take less than three seconds on broadband, and it's $39 for a single user license.

i've used norton, agv, panda, and CA products and none of them have suited my needs as well as NOD. it's a bit of a learning curve for non-power users, but if you like tweaking, you'll love NOD.

BTW, i am not affiliated or getting paid by Eset in any way - i have been using their stuff for a few weeks and am a total convert already...

NOD32 website
 
This package is nice. you get zonealarm pro for free. I tired the nave product 2004 and as usual it screwed up my system and when I tried to uninstall it, it locked and it was a pain to get rid of. I really dont like symantec or the attitude of their employees. Also, I think it is BS about nave using less system resources. Everytime I install nave it slows down my entire system. NAV is a POS
 
Originally posted by: cremefilled
To repeat what I said in another thread:


Drill down to "by vendor," and you see that Grisoft (aka AVG) gets a rather astounding 3 passes/19 fails. In fact, before the last two tests they were batting 1 pass/19 fail.
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One problem with this and another poster's remarks about Grisoft is that the latest test quoted is for NT4, not one of the more common OS's people are using, like XP. Grisoft passed the last comprehensive XP test that I could see on the site in June of 03.
 
I installed the antivirus and the firewall...my internet stopped working right after the install. I checked to make sure the firewall didnt have it "turned off" still no go....i have a router that assigns my pc an ip now it says that is an invalid ip address...i cant even connect to my router or any other pc's in my network. So i configured the IP manually for this pc, now i get my local network back but still no internet...it looks to me as if the firewall is blocking the dhcp on my router from giving the pc an ip...i unistalled the firewall, reinstalled, done everything i can think of but i can not get my internet working on the pc i installe the firewall on....im all out of ideas..any help?
 
i got it fixed, finally.... I suggest anyone who is THINKING about installing this read this web page first, if not you might not be able to get to it later....Supposedly its also a problem in Norton software as well...basically it installs a registry entry that prohibits DHCP or somthing like that and makes it dependent on a service called SYMTDI...just do yourself a favor and check out this page before you install.

www.bl.com/moshe/text/quiddities/norton_errors.html
 
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