Not to sound stupid, but whats a good Virusscan??

[chiwawa626]

Not to sound stupid, but whats a good Virusscan??
i suppose norton is the best, and i know mcafee sucks dick,
anyother good ones?

 

[astroview]

I have always preferred norton to mcafee. Runs a lot better.

 

[Technonut]

I have used quite a few, but finally settled on PC-cillin 2000. It is easy on resources, and has caught a few Trojans that would have trashed my system. PC-cillin

Check out this Antivirus Shootout

 

[Pretender]

I've seen a few viruses which PC-Cillin caught which Norton missed. I'd go with PC-Cillin (I'm still using 6.0, not 2000 )

 

[Kill_Phil]

panda anti virus picks up sub 7, which is the only thing i find it good for
avp picks up alot, and the corporate edition is good.. i like this one the most
dont like norton or mcafee since ive been virused with both, and mcafee actually had a virus in it once(i have the REAL program, not some downloaded one)
never heard of pc-cillin, so no comment

 

[noxipoo]

i'm using mcafee for NT, all it does is catch life stages since thats the only one i get (from irc)

 

[Duckers]

You will get many different answers for this question.

Some will say Norton, some will say McAfee, some will say other...

I personally don't care how good Norton antivirus performs. Everything I can say is that it takes up a lot of resources and slows down my computer.

Unlike Norton, McAfee doesn't slow down my computer. I believe you should be ok with any antivirus software as long as you update it frequently.

 

[NicColt]

NIS 2000, includes antivirus, firewall, parental control with one year subscription for all updates. Install, do some weekly updates and forget it.

 

[bluezebra1098]

McAfee has some issues which have never been resolved. It seems to grab Outlook Express and run it in the close programs box every time you check your email. It duplicates the program (labeled "Msimn" a number of times) and Microsoft and McAfee keep pointing their finger at each other on this problem
See Microsoft support article# Q226313 for further info.
I have found this on several computers already and once McAfee is deleted the problem disappears.
My I suggest Innoculate IT
Innoculate It Virusscan
It is a small program that won't slow your system down and dat file updates are put out several times a week....the best part..it is FREE!

 

[Technonut]

Not trying to burst anyone's bubble, but here is what was said about Innoculate IT in a antivirus shootout conducted by Winmag:


Computer Associates' InoculateIT 5.1.0 brings back memories of how antivirus programs looked, felt, and worked a few years back. Though this isn't a bad thing if there are either benefits or if the program offers the best antivirus protection available, but unfortunately this isn't the case. In fact, the only high points that make InoculateIT worth considering is its price (it's free), and that it doesn't drag down your system as much as the competition.

InoculateIT was the second worst at finding viruses, catching only 90.7% of them.

Starting a scan is done either by right-mouse-clicking a file in the Explorer and choosing "check viruses" (which almost every other program offers as well), or by doing essentially the same thing in the InoculateIT window. No pre-set "quick scans" are configured, or even possible. There is no provision to schedule scans at night, but you can manually use Window's own scheduling program if you're feeling ambitious.

Not surprisingly, InoculateIT has no provisions to check for downloaded or emailed viruses, and thus it let them come through without complaint. Executable viruses were caught when they were saved to the hard drive as files, but ZIP files weren't. Script viruses that can email themselves weren't caught even when they were running.

Though InoculateIT caught more viruses than the other free product in this review, spending a few dollars for more complete protection is probably worth it.

 

[bluezebra1098]

Innoculate has never failed to detect any viruses I went after. The infected computers didn't have any virus scans installed at the time of infection. The reviewer's statement that it doesn't check downloads and email indicates to me that he didn't completely review this product. Proof of that is evident by Winmag's statements that there is no capability to set pre set scans when in fact by default the virus scan is set to scan 100 files every time one boots up his system. This can be adjusted or turned off.

I have read a number of articles on virus scans in different periodicals and all of them always find fault with the free products. Coincidentally you might notice that none of the free virus scans purchase any advertising in any of these mags so don't expect them to bite the big guys who always have the full page and multiple page ads.

McAfee and Norton are big programs (four to five times the size of Innoculate), they cost money and they do cause conflicts with other programs. I'll give up a few features and pretty buttons for a program that is small and doesn't bog down my system.

BTW, prior articles on Innoculate's capabilities compared to the others yielded better results than what Winmag is reporting. (Computer Shopper Oct.'99).

So you see my bubble keeps floating, though rather low to the ground due to the extra money in my pockets. Have you sent McAfee your $39 for dat files lately?