I'm in the market for new AV software. I haven't had very good experience with Norton or McAfee. What do you recommend?

Thanks!

 

I use Grisoft AVG antivirus, it's free too!

 

Same here. I also put it on my customers computers when i seethat they dont have anything or are out of date. I am done with paying for AV software every year.

 

yep AVG free edition works pretty well.

 

Someone here turned me on to Kaspersky awhile back. (www.kaspersky.com) I use the suite with anti-virus and anti-spam. Not free but definitely cheaper than Norton & McAfee. No complaints after about a year.

-Scubaduck

 

Same here

 

I use AVG too, but it has never been able to get rid of something called downloader.tibs

I also just installed ewindo and it found some stuff AVG never saw, but it too missed downloader.tibs.

PM me for the sake of this tread if anyone knows how to get rid of it

Erich

 

AVG for several years now.

 

AVG is da bomb

avg cought viruses coming on with the windows updates. Norton and mcaffee just froze. Plus it doesnt seem to bog down the system at all.

 

AVG or AntiVir.

Antivir has a slightly better detection rate than AVG.

If you wanna pay, Kaspersky still has the best detection rate (99%). F-Secure is also up there with the best.

 

All the above are good. AVG is probably the best free scanner. Kaspersky is really good, I'm not sure about F-Secure, but I've heard good things about it.

NOD32 is a top contender as well, which is generally my choice. I hear good things about BitDefender as well. I don't think you can really go wrong with any of the ones I've mentioned, but be cautious about the ones I haven't mentioned.

Like you said, Norton and McAfee products are not as great as some thing. I think they are resource hogging bloatware that usually ends up messing up your computer much like a virus might. I avoid All Norton and McAfee products, regardless of house effective they are.

 

It gets my vote too! Been using if for 3-4 years now.

 

BitDefender was just rated the top anti-virus in the latest Consumer Report's magazine. I think it's the September '06 issue.

 

Funny how Norton & McAfee hardly get mentioned anymore. They've become bloated pieces of software which don't even rate at the top anymore. They still seem to be the most expensive though.

I am running antivir and freeAVG on my computers.

 

Everything Symantec touches goes down the toilet. If I had to pick between the two evils, I'd go with McAfee. Not much better, but every little bit counts. Symantec capitalizes on their name only, because they were the "pioneers" in antivirus programs. I still remember my dad's Windows 98 machine he bought several years ago that came with Norton System Works. That was actually the last good experience I had with a Norton/Symantec product.

 

Norton Utilities for Dos was good (along with pctools, those were the days!), ever since the windows versions came around it seems the Norton products created more problems then they solved.
They had some product for win95 that would prevent system crashes, it only made things worse it seemed.

 

Norton Commander, we miss ye.

 

Nice sigline from the C64 days there Allen (LOAD "*",8,1 ie dir)

 

Nice, you're the first to recognize that. Man, now I miss my Mail Order Monsters too!

 

L┌ "*" ,8,` worked too,

I never had one, my aunt did. Spend summer holidays there and got to play with their C64. I always liked "Save New York". I played it on the pc through C64 emulator a couple of years back.
In Europe and Asia there also was MSX, a standart which had a microsoft basic operating system which could also load MSX-DOS. It was a very basic version of DOS without support of subdirectories etc.
Philips, Sony, Toshiba and others made MSX computers. It was quite a novel idea, but got ran over by the PC market. At the time the sound and the video standart were ahead of the PCs, and konami produced a lot of good games for those machines. Quite amazing what games could run on 256kb machines back then.
The MSX used the Z80 processor just like the NES and coleco etc. (3.7Mhz, smokin' )

The end of the thread hyjack, just couldn't resist. Sorry if anybody is offended.