What's the best overall Virus Scanner?

[Hankysmoo]

What's the best overall virus scanner? Thanks

 

[shiner]

You can't go wrong with either McAfee or Norton. I tend to stick with Norton because I've had a few flakey problems with McAffee. Nothing major, just some strangeness. I've also used Panda's AV solution and it works well. The only issue I had with Panda is that they didn't seem to release new updates as quickly as Norton or McAfee.


Norton Anti Virus 2004

McAfee Virus Scan 8.0

Panda Anti Virus Titanium

 

[NesuD]

partial to pccillin myself. Been using it for over 3 years now and it has never let me down. updates definitions several time a week to.

 

[EeyoreX]

I consistantly see NAV on top of reviewers lists. I guess that says something. I use NAV, not because of any review, but because I've used it, and several others, and found NAV to be very good. Never had any problems with it as far as compatability with other software, and it updates fairly often.

\Dan

 

[Hankysmoo]

K, thanks for all the help guys. Any idea how much ram these things take up?

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Hankysmoo
K, thanks for all the help guys. Any idea how much ram these things take up?

NAV Corporate Edition, which I have, loads itself as a service. However, the real-time protection process takes up about 2 MB RAM. I don't know how much the service does though.

 

[alocurto]

Norton Antivirus Corporate. Never bugs ya, just works and auto updates.

 

[Biggs]

AVG Antivirus 6 always worked well for me.

 

[agentorange3]

norton is a good anti-virus.i dont know how much ram it uses though.

 

[metalmania]

Yes, that's why I threw away Norton Antivirus and chose Macafee. Using Macafee since 1999, never let me down.

Originally posted by: agentorange3
norton is a good anti-virus.i dont know how much ram it uses though.

 

[azntiger0586]

I have used both McAfee and Norton and i would say norton is better, by speed and also by use of resource. I have Symantec AV Corporate ED 8. it uses 3.57 mb ram.

 

[shiner]

Norton AV 2004 is using 3.7MB RAM on my system.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Grisoft AVG!

 

[Stark]

rumor has it that NAV 2004 includes product activation (ala Microsoft).

anyone seen it first hand?

 

[ZimZum]

NOD32, Its Just as good if not better protection than Norton. But far less of a resource hog and far more customizable for advanced users.

 

[Sid59]

http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=59&mnu=59

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
You can't go wrong with either McAfee or Norton. I tend to stick with Norton because I've had a few flakey problems with McAffee. Nothing major, just some strangeness. I've also used Panda's AV solution and it works well. The only issue I had with Panda is that they didn't seem to release new updates as quickly as Norton or McAfee.


Norton Anti Virus 2004

McAfee Virus Scan 8.0

Panda Anti Virus Titanium

Panda releases sig updates multiple times a day.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: shinerburke
You can't go wrong with either McAfee or Norton. I tend to stick with Norton because I've had a few flakey problems with McAffee. Nothing major, just some strangeness. I've also used Panda's AV solution and it works well. The only issue I had with Panda is that they didn't seem to release new updates as quickly as Norton or McAfee.


Norton Anti Virus 2004

McAfee Virus Scan 8.0

Panda Anti Virus Titanium

Panda releases sig updates multiple times a day.

That's good to hear...back when I was using them it seemed like you were lucky if you got an update weekly. They might be worth giving another look now.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Stark
rumor has it that NAV 2004 includes product activation (ala Microsoft).

anyone seen it first hand?

It does, but it doesn't. How that for an answer. Actually I don't know how it works in the boxed version since I bought the upgrade and downloaded it off Symantec's website. The DL version has the key embedded in it so you don't actually have to update it. At least that's how it worked for me.

 

[shiner]

Here's a blurb from the Symantec website about their product activation...

"The activation process requires a unique product key upon installing the software on a PC. Users who own a packaged product are required to enter the Product Key during installation. The product key is typically located on the back of the CD sleeve. Products downloaded from the Symantec online store do not require the manual entry of a product key. The product key is automatically stored on the user?s machine as part of the download process."

Like I said.....when I installed mine it didn't go through any activation.

 

[madthumbs]

I found a review to be biased toward Norton. Both Norton and some free antivirus came out with major upgrades. This was a few years back, so I don't remember the name of this other company. The magazine (PC world) ran a review of a bunch of antivirii using the "just updated" Norton while sticking in the old free antivirus that had had an major upgrade (just like Norton) for 3 months. I knew many people that used this antivirus without problems. It was less invasive and less taxing on the system than Norton. Unfortuneatly they started charging for the next big upgrade to this free one a year or so later, and I've all but forgotten it. Bah... PC world sucked in every other respect as well.

 

[CommCR]

Originally posted by: NesuD
partial to pccillin myself. Been using it for over 3 years now and it has never let me down. updates definitions several time a week to.

PcCillin here too...it came free with my mobo (A7N8X-dx)

 

[BenSkywalker]

I've used Norton, McAfee and PCCillin and I prefer PCCillin without a doubt.