Community poll forum: Which antivirus utility protects your computer?

Not meaning to be facetious in any way, I must state that I was a bit surprised that Avast was not in your listing. From what I have seen
that is a fairly popular piece of software.
Dale

though I do carry a portable scanner for courtesy of others.

I run a Mac, yes, and I use a scanner on it. I only got the Mac recently.

On Windoze I just use a portable scanner to check for bad files.

I don't need AV scanners --I'm not retarded-- but I do in order to make sure I'm not holding stuff.

Norton is a 'no-go' for Macs, otherwise you will make the Mac as vulnerable as a pc to virus attack. I know from experience. Virus attacks pc's, not Macs - mostly, that is. Whilst there is a version of Norton Anti-Virus for Macs Apple Mac Computers advise against using it. Graeme.

I use AVAST

retired med.dent.Sava Trel

I have a few friends who run Macs and don't bother with any AV program. I tend to be very careful with any attachments from them. I see them as being like Typhoid Mary. I have on several occasions had to send messages to them to let them know that they are distributing a virus. Just because the virus writers don't tend to include code which will infect the MAC does not mean that it will not sit on their hard drive waiting for a chance to pass on an infection.

If I receive an infected file, My AV program may clean it out or simply not allow me to open the infected file. It most certainly will not allow me to send the infection on.

MY RESPONCE WAS TO THE STATEMENT

I don't use any Anti virus because I have a MAC

When I was in school it was spelled IBM, A while later it could also be spelled CDC Then decades later there was P-B or HP. I do tend to make the mistake of forgetting that Macintosh wanted people to think that they were not a "computer" Sorry

BTW What is the difference between an Imac

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an iMAC http://shopping.msn.com/results/computers-software/bcatid4506/forsale?text=category:computers-software&layout=grid&ptnrid=178&ptnrData=54713&av=1441-5686899

I tried Panda and it was absolutely horrible, would never go back to it no matter any changes they made. Slowed the computer down, didn't catch a bug that was on the computer. When I tried Zone Alarm, which is/was rated highly on CNET, it found the virus that Panda missed. Been happy with it ever since.

Try Avast or F-secure.

I used McAfee b/c it came free w/ my Comcast also but a few viruses slipped thru to my son's thinkpad & my lap top in the same week. McAfee, Micosoft & Comcast kept passing the buck leaving me on the phone for hrs. till we finally realized we had been hit by a few vicious viruses which McAfee missed & no one had a patch for yet. Later in life I get a HP Home Editon Desk top. McAfee missed the virus AGAIN & I ended up w/ the crappiest tech support who didnt tell me to turn off my system restore, etc. The 2nd tech was very upset at the 1st tech & HP ended up having to send me new CD's for a system recovery. I was having a heart attack b/c it was right in the middle of finals & I couldnt even get in my computer by the time I hung up w/ the 1st McAfee Tech! So HP rushed it & it came the next day. I'm now using Trend Micro Security Suite 2007. It slows down my pc while scanning but it catches the bad guys, has security for web browsing & email. Im going to try ZoneAlarm when my yr is up. I hear it's real good.

After reading reviews from PC World magazine, I downloaded & installed Avast. It is free, seems to do a good job, & updates are frequently downloaded.

ZoneAlarm Security Suite is the best for my money (at home). It has a great firewall, decent AV and AntiSpyware combination, along with other features. I used to be a Symantec snob, but I do not like their [Symantec's] firewall product at all. And you have to have at least the triumvirate - Firewall, AntiVirus, and AntiSpyware, to operate on the Internet in relative safety (if you can call it that).

I'm running Windows Live OneCare on the kid's PC, which, for the price (free), was fine for that machine. They don't have email, just games and approved (by me) websites.

I've used CA AV and I've demoed BitDefender and Trend Micro. I wasn't too impressed with any of them, either because of interface, feature set, or functionality.

I still consider Symantec and McAfee to be the standard by which all others are measured.

For corporate AV, I'm still on board with Symantec.

I Use Nod 32 form Eset.com
FIRST Norton's and MC Afee both are HOGS. I have gotten three free PCs from family and Friend from the fact that Norton's and Mc Afee are system recourse HOGS. So in a way I am grateful for those two as they have given me three PCs that are only two to three years old. I offered to fix them like about a dozen other family and friends that had the same problem but they wanted a reason to upgrade and still run the hogs on those PCs. They did listen to me and got 3 gigabytes of ram on them. One gig for Vista and One gig for Norton's and one gig of ram for the rest of the programs. The ones I fixed were easy, put Nod32 on them and they ran like the wind.
Nod 32 owner is part of the experts that are leading the charge to deal with the Bot-Nets and more. REMEMBER the RATINGS done by many a review rate Anti-Virus programs MORE for their beauty than for their ability to keep root kits and spyware and viruses off your pc! Personally I do not think beauty will protect my PC!
I am now using my old PC that uses a 750 Mhz Pent. chip and Nod32 runs so well on this old PC that I can still use it for my main PC. I use one of the death by HOGGING Norton's PCs for gaming.
Jim In York PA