Community weekly poll: Which antivirus utility protects your computer?
- 2/22/07 1:55 PM
trend-micro
by lisaharrisstudio - 2/23/07 6:00 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used to use norton, but when my subscription ran out, I changed to t-m. Right away I noticed my computer ran faster, it up-dates often and have not had any problems with viruses. I also use Spysweeper for my antispyware software.
AVG Antivirus
by Bexster1 - 2/23/07 6:03 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The best. Never had a problem since I got it. I used the free copy for years now I purchase it out of respect to the company. Number 1 on my list. Nortons is over rated as well as the other "wellknown" programs
Bexster
ANYTHING BUT NORTON
by cnet=techpimp - 2/23/07 6:06 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Couldn't even wait for my subscription to end - just had to rid my computer of this bloated resource gobbling irritation. After what seemed like six "remove software" routines thru control panel, each with it's own required reboot, NAV is just a bad memory. Here was a company so full of itself it was unreachable by phone or email. Now one machine uses BitDefender (quite good), another AVG free, and another a test drive of Kaspersky.
You might look here --
http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/index.html
for good antivirus reviews and comparisons.
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition
by johncriley - 2/23/07 6:08 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Now, it may be for businesses, but I am an IT Pro and I use it at home! It is amazing software!
Having a BIG Problem
by Bexster1 - 2/23/07 6:12 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I start Movie make and get a message that it must shut dowm. I sent the report a requested but the problem continues. I even downloaded Movie Maker 2 but still the same problem. What do I do since it worked fine for 2 years and have many movies saved under it but can't run it anylonger
Frustrated
PS Microsoft is no help
Avast: updates 3 - 4 times per day & demands few resource.
by dynamius - 2/23/07 6:19 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Norton & McAfee are large targets. Norton detected WinFixer but couldn't delete it. McAfee just sat there & scratched its body parts.
Movie Maker- Having a BIG Problem
by Bexster1 - 2/23/07 6:20 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I start Movie make and get a message that it must shut dowm. I sent the report a requested but the problem continues. I even downloaded Movie Maker 2 but still the same problem. What do I do since it worked fine for 2 years and have many movies saved under it but can't run it any longer. I am using XP Professional v. 2002 with Service Pack 2 on a Pent 4 CPU 3.40 GHz and 1 Gig of Memory ( since I got the computer 2 years ago.)
Frustrated
PS Microsoft is no help
You would be better off asking this question in the right pl
by stinman - 3/1/07 7:34 AM In reply to: Movie Maker- Having a BIG Problem by Bexster1Try computer help forum or newbies or look through all forums until you find the one it fits under.There is so many posts here one would never find it.Hope you find what your looking for!
NAV works great, Zone Alarm ok, trying McAfee now.
by coffeecan - 2/23/07 6:24 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Have several computers. Have used Norton for years. Recently wanted to try another one so someone talked me into Zone Alarm and put it on one computer. It works ok. Added a new computer to the group. It has McAfee. Seems to work all right so far. I still never know what any of them are really doing at times. But I have never had a virus or trojan horse or other stuff that we are aware of or know about. Hope we're not in a dreamworld. We keep all of them updated and scan more than twice a week. Norton gave me trouble with installation several years ago but we haven't had any problems with more recent years. Especially since XP came out. Before that it was hit and miss with all of them with M.E. Wow, I'm glad M.E. is gone. BTW, new computer has Vista Premium. Had it a week and everything works well. There was a problem or two with a couple of older of programs but went to software web site and updated them.. So far, so good. No big deal.
But watch out for some printer driver updates. they are hard to find on some web sites.
Which Antivirus Utility Protects Your Computer?
by edbrady - 2/23/07 6:42 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
avast! all the way!
Don't get me wrong; AVG is excellent, and I used it for a long time. But, there was a period where they were updating the entire thing--with no explanation to anyone--and didn't have any updates at all for the old program.
That worried me, so I changed. Since then, I've been perfectly happy with avast!
Virus and spy ware protection
by Ian M - 2/23/07 6:51 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have used Macaffee and Norton and believe they are both very good. With 20 years in the early development of PCs (1980 on), I believe Norton to be slightly ahead. So I now use Norton Int Security, Windows firewall (because the Norton seems to clash with something on my PC) and
I also use SpyBot-search & Destroy and Ad-awareSE because these catch the little nasties that slip past Norton.
Ian M
antivirus
by bassbuwg - 2/23/07 6:52 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I just purchased the shield pro recently very good product an best part 24-7 live tech support and its free ...dumped norton an I feel no great loss ...and system resource sweet almost no loss off speed with this new service ...HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT
antivirus
by benrau - 2/23/07 6:58 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Avast, simply because it was the only free AV that worked seamlessly with Windows Vista 64. Although I miss the scheduled scan offered by AVG, at least Avast worked. And worked as well as or better than Symantec or McAfee, without the outrageous price and update policies, and without the bloat that these two seem to entail.
ZoneAlarm Security Suite
by tbltx - 2/23/07 7:08 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It is great. I have had it for several months with no problems. I believe the anti-virus that comes with the suite is Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
Matter of being too "dumbed down"
by EatFoilNow - 2/23/07 7:22 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Trend Micro, and the main reason I do is because of the countless times that it has placed in first or only second to BitDefender. I was a little annoyed by BitDefender, and frankly the same thing happens all the time with all anti-virus programs with the constant warnings about programs YOU know are safe. Anyways, Trend Micro is also the perfect amount of "user-friendliness" to make it helpful and useful, but not obnoxious. I started out with Norton, but I quickly realized that this program that everyone seems to settle for does not detect small viruses that Trend Micro removed when I installed it. The most annoying part of all was how slow and "dumbed down" the interface was. It seemed like they tried to make the program so user-friendly and happy looking that I couldn't even restart my computer without the program jumping into setting up filters, scanning without my approval, and just being there when I didn't want to see it. I think that McAfee and Norton are suitable for the average user, not one who actually wants to be highly productive on their PC.
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