McAfee or Norton?

[BigJ]

Kaspersky.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Amused
Neither. I have never had a virus and have no need for an antivirus program.

famous last words

Yeah, for 20+ years, right?

I'm sorry, but because I am behind a hardware firewall, and never download suspicious files, nor click on prompts, I have NEVER had a virus or spyware on my systems. NEVER.

And every time I am fear-mongered into getting an AV program or spyware program, I find I wasted my money.

you know avg, and anti-vir are free don't you?

tell you what, go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com and run thier free online scanner and see what it pulls up. (you might be surprised)

I have a hardware firewall as well and never dl suspicious files either, and I guarantee you viri can still occasionally get through (unless you block all incoming traffic, but then you might as well not be connected)

granted, you might not have any trojan's lurking about, but that likelyhood is pretty low if you've never run any scans with updated def files.

 

[LordMorpheus]

NOD32.

/thread

 

[slpaulson]

Norton Corperate here
It's much better than normal Norton because it doesn't take over your whole computer.

If I didn't get Norton Coperate for free I'd be running NOD32.

 

[npoe1]

Norton Antivirus 2004

 

[corkyg]

What's wrong with Avast by AVG? It's free and it works!

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Amused
Neither. I have never had a virus and have no need for an antivirus program.

Right! You are perfect.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Kaspersky.

One of the few knowledgeable folks in this thread.

 

[n7]

Neither!

AntiVir, though i only run it like once every few months.

 

[snidy1]

You don't need an antivirus program, it just takes common since. Antivirus programs just take up resources.

 

[Xyclone]

Kaspersky ftw!

 

[imported_Phil]

Oh, I forgot, my work laptop uses Symantec Corporate.

 

[yosuke188]

NOD32. Switched from NAV, and I'm never going back. It is simply the best.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Amused
Neither. I have never had a virus and have no need for an antivirus program.

famous last words

Yeah, for 20+ years, right?

I'm sorry, but because I am behind a hardware firewall, and never download suspicious files, nor click on prompts, I have NEVER had a virus or spyware on my systems. NEVER.

And every time I am fear-mongered into getting an AV program or spyware program, I find I wasted my money.

you know avg, and anti-vir are free don't you?

tell you what, go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com and run thier free online scanner and see what it pulls up. (you might be surprised)

I have a hardware firewall as well and never dl suspicious files either, and I guarantee you viri can still occasionally get through (unless you block all incoming traffic, but then you might as well not be connected)

granted, you might not have any trojan's lurking about, but that likelyhood is pretty low if you've never run any scans with updated def files.

I do this periodically. I'm clean. I'm always clean.

In fact, I did this just 3 days ago when I worked on someone else's infected computer, and had to put it on my network.

Again, NONE of my systems have ever been infected with a virus, or spyware.

If you know how not to get spyware or viruses and are behind a hardware firewall, you never will.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: Amused
Neither. I have never had a virus and have no need for an antivirus program.

Right! You are perfect.

Not perfect, just intelligent. Let's face it, the vast majority of viruses and spyware come from people trying to get something for nothing. Be it pirating or "freeware." I don't pirate software, nor do I participate in any P2P theft. I don't download any software that isn;t from a reputable company.

And then there are just the idiots who click yes to spyware prompts or popups.

If you remain behind a firewall, viruses and spyware are EASY to avoid.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: Amused
Neither. I have never had a virus and have no need for an antivirus program.

Right! You are perfect.

Not perfect, just intelligent. Let's face it, the vast majority of viruses and spyware come from people trying to get something for nothing. Be it pirating or "freeware." I don't pirate software, nor do I participate in any P2P theft. I don't download any software that isn;t from a reputable company.

And then there are just the idiots who click yes to spyware prompts or popups.

If you remain behind a firewall, viruses and spyware are EASY to avoid.

Do you recall the Bofra incident at The Register? Perfectly legit above-board site, but their advertiser's ad servers got compromised and began serving Bofra to visitors. Never say never.

Also, if you have a rootkit, then guess what the antivirus software will find when you do occasionally install it and scan. That's right, nothing. Because the rootkit got the first punch in and it's filtering what the antivirus software can see right at the kernel level. How may invisible people do you see in your living room today?

I have a fair amount of practical expertise in this, since I have about 100 "kids" to keep out of trouble. I personally do adhere to the practices you're advocating (no P2P, no warez, no instant messaging, and I'd use a locked-down router for firewalling if I had broadband) but you won't find me getting onto my high horse claiming that I am teh invulnerable. I run Kaspersky Antivirus Personal at home, and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i on the work boxen.

 

[mechBgon]

Oh, and put about 85 votes under the McAfee column to account for my work fleet

 

[Hadsus]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: Amused
Neither. I have never had a virus and have no need for an antivirus program.

Right! You are perfect.

Not perfect, just intelligent. Let's face it, the vast majority of viruses and spyware come from people trying to get something for nothing. Be it pirating or "freeware." I don't pirate software, nor do I participate in any P2P theft. I don't download any software that isn;t from a reputable company.

And then there are just the idiots who click yes to spyware prompts or popups.

If you remain behind a firewall, viruses and spyware are EASY to avoid.

LOL! I use Firefox, have good firewall protection, am suspicious of anything that might even smell like spyware, use mailwasher to eject emails at the server......and I still get spyware. Run ad-aware and if it says you're clean I would be surprised.

BTW, I use Avast!