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What AntiVirus do you use on your iXPS2/i9300?

post #1 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:29pm
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Which AntiVirus software you guys use on your iXPS2/i9300?

I'm presently stuck between Kaspersky AntiVirus Pro & Symantec AntiVirus, of which Kaspersky is has the best detection with hourly updates while consuming quite a bit of resources and cause my i9300 to be kind of slow whereas Symantec AntiVirus is fast but only daily updates...

Care to share a few thoughts on the best AntiVirus software you guys came across?
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post #2 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:34pm
I have tried Kaspersky, Panda, AVG, Avast, McAfee, and Symantec. In the end...I found myself back with Norton for my new 9300. Yes, it sucks resources, but really not much more than the others...less than Kaspersky, I think. I am familiar with it, it is pretty reliable, has mgood support, etc. Heck, I just went ahead and used their firewall, as well.
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post #3 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:37pm
Nod32
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post #4 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:41pm
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I never used Norton before, only the Symantec AntiVirus which consumes far less resources than NAV, Kaspersky is good, but kind of resource hogging...

NOD32? Is the viral update for NOD32 hourly or daily?
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post #5 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:43pm
Norton 2004 on the desktop and Avast! on the lappy.

I am going to try trend-micro next.
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post #6 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:43pm
isn't NAV made by symantec?
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post #7 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:44pm
what is the best free one?
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post #8 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:45pm
I use Avast. It's free, and it works.

www.avast.com
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post #9 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:46pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinji_U
NOD32? Is the viral update for NOD32 hourly or daily?
Hourly by default. You can change it to whatever you want.

Besides the low system resources usage, this sold me:
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archiv...s.xml?eset.xml
The best results on there.
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post #10 of 49
4/25/05 at 10:48pm
Thread Starter 
Hmm.. its hard to find a really good antivirus software that does not hog resources... presently Kaspersky has the best detection rate and fastest viral update... anyone know of any site that has antivirus software shootouts?

Must protect this i9300 with all I have... I even have ZoneAlarm Firewall Pro installed... haa haaa...

EDIT: found an interesting read:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seite...se_2005_02.php
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post #11 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:04pm
Symantec Antivirus Corporate here (works just fine, i cant notice performance difference with enabled/disabled autoprotect) and Sygate Firewall Pro , i had Kaspersky before and maaaan - its like having Doom 3 running in the background
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post #12 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:10pm
I liked the McAfee that came with the computer. I think Ill prob keep it, except for that privacy thing, but now I wont be rebooting every 30 seconds anymore!
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post #13 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:14pm
none, if u know what ur doing u dont need any of that bs. AVs are so resource demanding.
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post #14 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:26pm
McAfee Viruscan Enterprise is the best. Very powerfull with low low resource use. But.... You can't buy it. Only big businesses can buy it. So… You have to look in dark places for it.
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post #15 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:31pm
AVG

Seems to work pretty well.
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post #16 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:37pm
trend micro
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post #17 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:50pm
Trend Micro, works great.
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post #18 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:50pm
norton system works
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post #19 of 49
4/25/05 at 11:50pm
Trend Micro Virus Update Freezes PCs - Security vendor Trend Micro distributed a faulty virus definition file on Friday that slowed thousands of PCs worldwide to a crawl, the company admitted Monday. The virus definition file was released Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PDT to both the Trend Micro Web site (where users could retrieve it manually) and to the firm's automatic update servers. The file was to update Trend Micro's OfficeScan, PC-cillin, ServerProtect for NT, Client/Server Suite for SMB, and Client/Server/Messaging Suite for SMB. Rather than simply update the anti-virus files, however, the new definition brought machines to their knees by chewing up virtually every processor cycle.
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post #20 of 49
4/26/05 at 12:33am
I only run SAV 8.1 Enterprise Ed. The definitions never expire, and there is very low overhead.

Of course, it is ideal to have no anti-virus. If you use a non-outlook email client that is a definate possibility.
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