Best Anti Virus

[hampy]

Folks, My Norton AV expires in a few days time, so I was wondering if there is a consensus on which is the best AV to replace it with.
Antivir seems to get good press, but the link to free-av.com hasn't been working for the last few days.
Suggestions appreciated,
Cheers, hampy

 

[Soya]

Folks, My Norton AV expires in a few days time, so I was wondering if there is a consensus on which is the best AV to replace it with.
Antivir seems to get good press, but the link to free-av.com hasn't been working for the last few days.
Suggestions appreciated,
Cheers, hampy

I use AVG. It seems to do the job, updates itself regularly to catch new mutants and best of all, it's free. Just google AVG for the website.

 

[nicos]

Peculiar things seem to happen with that site. I just managed to get onto it but it was very slow loading. Then my back button did not want to get me back to the previous page (t2w). Last week it was also slow but I managed to download it with disastrous consequenses. I must admit that I did not remove AVG (although I disabled it) before I installed Antivir. Then I couldn't uninstall AVG and Antivir didn't work anyway. AVG kept coming with a message "language file failed" (or something like that) both on boot up and when I tried to uninstall it. System restore did not solve the problem.

I know this doesn't answer your question hamps but I thought I'd say this anyway incase someone else, not least Oatman has any ideas.

 

[options]

Kerio is another excellent one. Again free, and does all that Norton does.
Zone alarm used to be good a few years back, but some isp's like aol gave rise to all sorts of probs, don't know how it performs now though.

 

[LevII]

Try http://www.avast.com/

Free and seems good

 

[rossored]

Agreed. Avast is brilliant, gets used on my private PC and never any probs. I've got Norton AV corporate on my work PC and thats also very effective - as you'd expect.

 

[TheBramble]

I ditched AVG a while back on it's relative c*rapness (compared with others).

Have been using AntiVir with no problems. Regular updates (at least daily).

The site is unsupported at weekends (it would seem) and response dies away to nothing. But apart from that (and hey, who gets viruses at the weekend anyway?) it does the job - very well.

 

[Racer]

You can do free scan at pandasoftware .com (which is updated daily)., which has picked up things that AVG didn't.
So I use AVG for everyday use and run the online free pandasoftware scan frequently . I use this method because my ISP scans email for viruses anway.
And I am too mean to pay for anything

 

[oatman]

I'm still very happy with AntiVir http://www.free-av.com/ (this link worked for me just now) and Kerio http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html
Very easy to configure

Nicos, you could try uninstalling AntiVir then AVG, and use a registry cleaner, then reinstall AntiVir. I don't know what else you've been fiddling with though

 

[nicos]

Thanks oatman, goodmorning
That was following upgrading my computer so there wasn't much to lose by reformating which I have since done. I installed AVG to keep me going although I prefer Antivir. I tried their site which is slow but not kerio. I wwill try that.

Bytheway I called my local registry, but they don't have any cleaners right now....!. How do I find out about about this process please? Thanks.
best regards Nicos

 

[oatman]

RegCleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html
Mind how you use it :!:

 

[bbmac]

Ian,

I use avast.com (4) and find it very good, better than avg in fact, and use in conjunction with z/a firewalls, spybot and lavasoft, see www.wilders.org and www.majorgeeks.com , www.virtualdr.com good links for security stuff/opinions/advice,



best.

 

[hampy]

Cheers folks,
I have just installed Antivir, the link is working fine this morning.
Interesting to note it ran a full scan after installation, and discovered the VBS/Newlove virus which my Norton had missed

 

[cashmir]

Isn't it funny how each AV finds something the others don't, Call me a cynic but I reckon they either misreport or deliberately install a harmless mimic virus to say "Hey look what we found on your computer, I bet no other AV program found it. Aren't they rubbish"
By the way I use AVG with no problems for at least 3 years

 

[oatman]

Whatever your AV set up, you should run some different online scans from time to time.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/indexie.php
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
Just a small selection, you can't be too careful

 

[rglenn]

Thanks for those links Oatman

I have just found a few Trojans on my system downloaded by my son.