CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

im looking for a good antivirus program, ive been using nod32, but i wanted to know if there are any other good ones, i used norton, mcaffee, and f-secure

so what do you use?

Advice from avid PC gamer....


Personally, I don't use anti-virus software... A bunch of them... like Norton and Mcaffee suck up resource as much as XP in the background. Also, I'm not a fan of the software firewalls, either. In my opinion, the best protection is a stand-alone hardware firewall, like in the Net gear routers. A lot harder to hack or well less likely to be hacked. Also, a bit of caution is very helpful... such as not opening attachment in e-mail, clicking questionable links... etc. The basic, you know.

Like Ink, I use AVG... when I use one (I think my current version is out of date now).

I don't run it in the background... frankly it can make ya a bit lazy ("oh, my AV software will keep me safe"), and they all suck up resources, which on an old clunker like this one is something I can't spare.

Being smart can keep you alot safter than just relying on software (remember Ink's recent problem... wasn't caught by any of the AV software, as it's slipped by most of them for the others with a similar problem).

Voice of experience here. Do not install McAfee VirusScan on the same OS as Apache, or Apache will not start up -- even if you uninstall VirusScan. I had to eventually reinstall Windows. (Leave it to me to do things the hard way. )

i use norton, but i take it ou of the "msconfig", so it wont run on background... i use it when i think i need... but the best is, DO NOT OPEN E-MAILS FROM STRANGERS!!!

After an odd run in with some trojan virus that somehow got onto my computer whilst I was browsing about Gaia Online, I tend to keep my anti-virues (Norton) on while browsing sites. @_@

I pretty much just use AVG since it's free and somewhat effective while not using up a whole bunch of storage space. I use to have Norton and well it worked fine but it utlized a lot activity and as a result frequently froze my old computer up.

whats the difference between AVG 7.0 and AVG Free Edition?

I use Nortons.

>whats the difference between AVG 7.0 and AVG Free Edition?

I think one offers more features while the FE just scans and cleans viruses. Don't really remember for sure though.

I use to use Pand

i am now using f-prot it is very cool, one of the better ones imo

I use Norton...It saved my new laptop the other day !! It stopped a virus !!! Also for spy-ware (i know this is a anti-virus topic), I use SpyBot. It's very effective. It found and deleted a trojan that my Norton didnt find. So paired up these two are kick butt

i also use spybot, and i use spyware blaster with it

I dont use any, because I dont want to. But if a suspect a virus I download something or use some virus remover i all ready have... Norton, mcafee or some other more unknown tools...

Ever heard of a virus for Linux? Me neither. I don't bother, although our network does have a hardware firewall. And spyware, I don't need to worry about that either. On my vmware Windows box (which runs in Linux), however, it doesn't even have networking...no internet browsing, no downloading...just Macromedia.

actually master kenzo, there are viruses for linux, the scanner i have right now also has a linux version, granted, there is only like 450 viruses for linux compared to the 5000000000000000000000000 for windows

there is only like 450 viruses for linux compared to the 5000000000000000000000000 for windows

lol

Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition... and I got it free.

AVG Free saved my computer a few times.....where Norton dropped the ball more often than i care to count.....

as far as spyware.....Adaware 6 has always worked well for me (as long as you update often)