What Virus protection software do you recommend? Is Norton 2005 any good?

[DaveyTN]

 

[UsandThem]

Link to Software section.

 

[gobucks]

norton's decent. Also, if you like the idea of free software, then AVG antivirus is pretty sweet - the free version has good virus protection and email scanning. It's at www.grisoft.com.

 

[Budman]

I love Antivir,it's much better at catching stuff than AVG is.


And it's free.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Welcome to the AT Forums. There are many different forums, each covering different topics, including this forum for hardware questions.

For software questions, there is a "Software" forum. It even has some existing threads covering the difference between brands of AV software.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Budman
I love Antivir,it's much better at catching stuff than AVG is.


And it's free.

^ What he said. Daily def. updates too.

 

[Cares]

I recommend Symantec Antivirus over Nortan. Not particular reason why, just personal preference. If you want something free that is good - there was something called AntiViral Pro or something like that. AVP. Maybe you can Google and find it. But this was a few years ago when I used it so I don't know if it exists anymore.

 

[ribbon13]

Symantec AV9

 

[Jojo7]

If this was the software forum, I would say that Norton 2005 is trash.

Every time I've worked on a system with Norton 2005 or 2004 for that matter, it has some sort of error and will not work until I reinstall.
When I'm cleaning systems of spyware, I disable startup programs with msconfig and doing that totally trashes norton apparently. Even if I go back and recheck all the startup items, norton never works again unless I reinstall it.

 

[fstime]

Norton and Mcafee are trash, NOD32 is the BEST av.........

 

[ribbon13]

Double jeopardy man. You all point him to the software forum, and if he makes a thread there, he'll get doubly flamed for shotgun posting. :|

 

[Deslok]

I like Kapersky.
Caught things norton and avg didn't.

 

[hans030390]

I love Avast!... www.avast.com

It's 100% free, but you do have to register and re-register every 14months...but thats all free

coupled with that, i would get Spybot: search and destroy for spyware, and The Cleaner for trojans (the cleaner isnt free...so, i dunno about that)

then, make sure you have Mozilla Firefox...it's better than IE if you dont already have it.

 

[imported_Owl]

I used Norton for years, then tried CA Antivirus and their PestPatrol. I really like both of these products. I don't have all the conflicts and reinstallation problems I had with Norton like Jojo7 mentioned above. Norton's Systemworks was an even bigger pain in the rear, especially with XP.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: Deslok
I like Kapersky.
Caught things norton and avg didn't.

kapersky fixes some malicious adware palnting viruses the otherrs all cant. for ex. there was 1 virus on my pc (installs at least 250 some adware programs, when deleted, adware would reinstall itself) that inhabited itself in the explorer dll which is what makes uo the desktop. all other programs would try to delete this while kapersky would actually fix it.

 

[Brian48]

I like Norton, although I haven't been using the full Norton suite for a while now. I've been using an older, Corporate version of Norton AntiVir for about a year now and it has served me fine (much less bloated and virus subscriptions never expire). Prior to that though, I used Norton AntiVir 2003 and was very satisfied with it. I can't imagine Norton 2005 would be that much different.

 

[bigboxes]

I have been using McAfee for years. All my clients problems seem to be with Norton. It seems to take over one's system and waste resources.

 

[Pabster]

Ask the question to 20 people and get 20 different answers

Personally I like AVG. I spent the $ for the Pro version but the free version is very good.

Kaspersky is also very good. Norton sucks donkeys but it's better than nothing.

 

[dguy6789]

All of the ones mentions are good. Anyone who says any of them suck is a fool. Every one mentioned above all have their strengths and weaknesses. Norton tends to take up a bunch of resources and be a pain if you screw around with advanced settings, but it does have extremely good virus detection. Kaspersky is like Norton in the virus detection and resoure use, but i havent had a problem with it when fiddling with settings MS doesnt want you too. McAfee is pretty good, but it is basically Norton but with more problems and a less advanced virus detection setup.

 

[mechBgon]

http://www.av-comparatives.org has some detection rates you can check out.

One category they test is Trojan detection:

AVG Pro 45%
AntiVir 80%
Kaspersky Personal 99% :Q ~ uhhh... winnAr!