Recommend me an antivirus program

ejket · Nov 18, 2009

Poor Peter Norton. I used to buy his books on assembly language programming for the PC back twenty plus years ago. Now his good name is smeared by the crap produced currently by Symantec. Seriously, avoid this system rot.

I've used mostly Avast and AVG ... they are both okay but annoying at times. Right now AVG is bugging me to buy AVG 9; I only went with them because I was tired of renewing every year with Avast. Really I mostly depend on a properly configured NAT router, and I recommend that everyone else do the same.

Though I almost alway use Linux anyway except for games, so I don't have to worry about very much.

Seams · Nov 18, 2009

if you worry about keyloggers you can also use a virtual keyboard to key in any passwords or important data, saves people from knowing what they need not know. but still clean the logger off lol

maxmordon · Nov 27, 2009

Thank you, all!

JimmyB27 · Nov 30, 2009

Meh, I'd rather have the viruses for the most part. Anti-virus software, in my experience, tends to be bloated and overly resource hungry. On the cheap craptop (see what I did there?

) I'm using at the moment, system resources are at a premium, and I get a lot of slowdown, especially if I run something like a game.
Most viruses are pretty easily avoided by good practice. Don't open any suspect emails, don't download any dodgy torrents. As someone mentioned, firewalls are the important bit - they block out worms and the like, which don't need user intervention to spread.

And now someone's going to come along and tell me how wrong I am, and how my PC is probably chock full of viruses... :tongue

Seams · Nov 30, 2009

lol

for the longest times I never used a antivirus that ran continuously on my computer. As you mentioned, mostly from d/l's and such. The idea is to know what's on your system, know how it normally runs. I believe many get too over-protected.

I'm unsure about your system, but I know I don't have any lag on mine from the antivirus I have. Still I've found, each to their own, if you are cautious as you said you should be fine.

but without a scan, how do you know? I just had a friend try to send me that Bankers win32 trojan, I bet he thought his system was clean too

JimmyB27 · Nov 30, 2009

Seams said:
but without a scan, how do you know? I just had a friend try to send me that Bankers win32 trojan, I bet he thought his system was clean too

What I don't know can't hurt me. :tongue

Seams · Nov 30, 2009

lol its the other people you hurt that matters when it comes to viruses, my friend

TabithaTodd · Nov 30, 2009

Avast! Home is free (no license renewals)
AVG I don't like
NOD32

I prefer Avast! Pro myself but with Home edition I add the Spyware Terminator and S&D with tea timer (huerustic scanning module that didn't come with the earlier versions). ST is actually a pretty good fully free software...very nice and it's Clam Anti V isn't too bad (built in).

Seams · Dec 1, 2009

lol I've been to Elliot Lake a few times.

never did like S&D much, used CounterSpy(sunbelt) but stick with Kaspersky now(with side checks on sites like BitDefender's online scan, just to be sure

ejket · Dec 1, 2009

Seams said:
lol I've been to Elliot Lake a few times.

Retirement capitol of Canada!

Back when I was mining in the NWT some of my friends hired on down in Elliot Lake, but I guess all the mining there is history now.

(I've spent too many years in the cold already ... I'm aiming to retire in Montevideo!)

On-topic: to cut down on resource bleed with antivirus, shut off the background services, manually scan anything incoming, and run a scheduled system scan daily. That plus a NAT router is pretty safe practice.

Seams · Dec 1, 2009

Yay i never really trusted software firewalls.

but as you said, background services(though know what you are doing first lol, a bit lil playing with your registry at times)

I was up in Inuvik a few times, Hull Beach, Goosebay, even did some research up in Ellesmere Island.

it

ejket · Dec 1, 2009

Seams said:
I was up in Inuvik a few times, Hull Beach, Goosebay, even did some research up in Ellesmere Island.

I worked for the Town of Inuvik in 1971!

Talk about cold, dark winters.

Seams · Dec 1, 2009

i'm in a mining town now, of course they are on strike, but hopefully they get to work soon, bills pile high

ejket · Dec 1, 2009

Seams said:
i'm in a mining town now, of course they are on strike, but hopefully they get to work soon, bills pile high

Ugh. I wish you all the best.

My mining career ended in 1977. I ran a Bucyrus-Erie 85B, digging lead and zinc in a now-defunct open-pit mine (Cominco Pine Point Mines), about 60 miles from Hay River, NWT.

But this is too much thread drift, maybe. Hang in there. I wish you luck and a quick and positive resolution

mnboater · Dec 1, 2009

Ditto on Norton and McAfee. When a program has to have a removal tool (Norton) to get rid of it all, you know something is wrong. Check out this LifeHacker post for more ideas.

SLake · Dec 8, 2009

I have AVG antivirus and firewall, previously Zonealarm pro with AVG antivirus.

Even using both I'd do a scan with (free) MalwareBytes and occasionally it has picked up trojans - files I think the kids downloaded.

I'm not an expert, which probably shows. I want programs that I don't have to think about. AVG has picked up immediately on the occasional operational virus.

All up I've had no virus / trojan problems. I prefer the AVG package because it leaves me alone, and it does updates online daily.

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