What do you use for antivirus protection? - Page 2

None.
No reason to.
Fully patched, I dont open random crap from people or download warez.
No real reason to worry.
Even if someone DID infect me...I dont have anything that important that I cant backup from a dvd.

IMOP NOD32 is the best, its really lite on resources. I use sygate for my firewall, zonealarm is good but also takes up resources. When I received my 9300 it came with free macfee anti virus and also firewall, I uninstalled all this crap and put these two programs. Runs great. Been using Nod and sygate for almost a year. Sygate firewall is free but Nod32 is not i think its around 40 bucks a year, buts it worth it.

System Suite 5.0 has worked for me, never had a problem and built in utilities and firewall are very nice...not a resource hog like Norton so you never know its running in the back ground.....

Specs 8600 1.7

nothing

1. Adaware SE Pro
2. Webroot Spy Sweeper
3. Spybot
4. SpywareBlaster
5. Nod32

Webroot and Spywareblaster run in background, keeping an eye out for spyware. For those that think you're safe if you stay aware from warez and porn, think again...so called legit sites can deposit trackers on your machine. I'm very careful where I surf and the spyware proggies typically pick up a couple bugs. Nod32 is pretty solid and isn't a memory hog.

As others have said...keep everything updated.

I personally use AVG and Sygate Firewall. I've tried the free AVAST but it makes my system slow and eats extra resources compared to AVG.

Nod32

Avast (AV) and Sygate (firewall).

I currently use Norton, but I will use one of the free versions of something when my current subscription runs out. Norton seems ok, but deos seem to hog resources.

I use to use McAfee 7x and 8x simple cause it is free for me since I use ePolicy at my work. Personally I like and love nod32. Very very small footprint does what it says and does it very well. I have purposely tried to infect my test box that runs nod32 with things I know gets past mcafee and symantecs b loated crap. I use ad-aware and spybot from time to time just to see what things I miss when I clean out the bloated crap myself. I also let MS new anti-spyware run in the background it is nice and does not bog down my laptop.

I dont use a software based firewall cause to me it is really a joke. I have a segment of my network at home behind shorewall and my other segment behing a pix. Cant tell a diffrence from either free or exspensive. If I do run a software based firewall on a system it is ISS blackice. It is transparent does what you need it to and does it passively. I cant stand popups and if you are worried about a program sending info out on the internet then buy it next time instead of warezing it.

If you use a broadband router at the house then you really dont need a firewall on your system unless the IP you use is the IP you have set as your dmz on your router. Since everything is NATed behind the router there are no ative port scans unless you have a lot of port forwarding going on.

Dont bog your system down with useless crap. Keep your system clean, dont install every shiney piece of software you come acorss in emails and the inTARDnet and you will be set and will not have to worry about setting up and configuring multiple piece of software.

Just my $0.02 I cant tell you the last time my production systems ever got hacked or had a virus on them. I go anywhere on the internet and I dont have 99.999999999999999999999% of the problems I always read about others having.


Firefox with adblock is the best way to browse the web unless you go somewhere that has to be viewed with IE.

Antivirus - AVG
Firewall - Zonealarm

My honest personal opinion. If you've got the $40US to spare, go with NOD32. The site is www.eset.com. They are the best I've seen and they have one of the smallest footprints. It's not all needlessly flashy like many of the other AV programs out there. It got its start as a strictly for servers AV solution, but they've branched out and made versions for individual PCs. It awesome. I've been quite happy with the purchase.

Kaspersky, Kaspersky, Kaspersky for AV.

I was comparing the two programs and KAV coughed up more trojans that NOD32 in a scan. NOD32 was uninstalled promptly.

Trend Micro PC-Cillin is a fantastic product. I use it on all four of my computers. I can not even express how happy I am to be through with NAV and MAV. DONE! Highly recommended.

I'm suprised at the number of folks who are running around the web naked.
Are the claims by testers at universities of freshly installed OSes getting serious infections within less than an hour online false?
I run Norton 05 and it really is a pig on system resources.

I'm running McAfee, just because it's free from my University.

Usually between the dual firewalls, three spyware programs, and McAfee active scan I don't get many virus warnings. But somehow I do believe that many people can get the virus in an hour, if they don't have the proper updates.

I HAD norton systemworks but it made my system slow down alot. So then I moved BACK to what I had before which is Norton AV 2005 and Norton Firewall. I have xoftspy for spyware and its incredible. I also have all that other free spybot, ad aware, ect. I justdownloaded antivir. Its scanning. I dont know what to do about the norton stuff because i constantly have 60 processes running on my system and I bet you 3/4 of them are from norton... Can someone give me advice? BTW, I really dont want to get another RAM upgrade(if that would help)

Thanks,
jcll2002

Kaspersky is great but AVG is pretty good and it's free.

Using Sophos, has hourly updates.........free from my University........and yes, viruses (virii, LOL) are rife at school!