Need a Anti-Virus app

[YoshiSato]

I am looking for a good anti virus application that will allow me to run scans without needed to fully install the app on the machine. I believe that Norton 2003 had this feature however after looking at Norton 2005 this appears I need to fully install the app which is not what I want to do.

I also need be able to update the definations on a constant basis.


Any suggetsion?

If you say McAfee I'll kill you.

 

[sandorski]

Avast! Pretty near daily updates, does a bootscan, and catches all kinds of Viruses.

 

[mechBgon]

McAfee CleanBoot comes to mind, except for the impracticality of getting your hands on it. If your employer happens to have a McAfee grant, see if it includes CleanBoot.

If you say McAfee I'll kill you.

Uh oh! :Q *flees*

 

[YoshiSato]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
McAfee CleanBoot comes to mind, except for the impracticality of getting your hands on it. If your employer happens to have a McAfee grant, see if it includes CleanBoot.

If you say McAfee I'll kill you.

Uh oh! :Q *flees*

McAfee is crap and you know it.

OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!!!!

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

another vote for Avast

 

[YoshiSato]

Now I just need to figure out the license I need if I'm going to use this as port of my pc repair services. As I won't be installing it on the computers.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: YoshiSato

Originally posted by: mechBgon
McAfee CleanBoot comes to mind, except for the impracticality of getting your hands on it. If your employer happens to have a McAfee grant, see if it includes CleanBoot.

If you say McAfee I'll kill you.

Uh oh! :Q *flees*

McAfee is crap and you know it.

OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!!!!

Actually, I think VirusScan Enterprise is fairly good. And I have several hundred thousands of machine-hours backing that opinion. If you're used to McAfee's home-user stuff, then you may find that Enterprise is the polar opposite in terms of configurability, for starters, and with many additional features like buffer-overflow protection and behavior blocking. This page shows all the configuration panels in VS Enterprise 8.0i, with my comments added.

Anyway, back to your main goal: CleanBoot creates a bootable CD that will scan outside of the Windows environment, and its definitions can be updated with McAfee's daily DATs. Licensing, you'd need to ask your NAI rep.

 

[mzkhadir]

I user McAfee Enterprise 7 for my household. Right now, I am beta-ing Windows OneCare live.

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
another vote for Avast

 

[Traire]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
another vote for Avast

 

[MustISO]

This looks cool if they make it easy to put updates on a disc so you always have the latest defs. If you just use a pre-made CD that may have old defs, it's not that great.