Anti-virus

[245T]

I gave up Norton years ago for the same reasons as the other ppl. I use avg, spybot.

I run raid and have another hdd that is loaded with a clean W2000 and the programs that I use. So when anything goes wrong it is a simple matter of cloning the raid with ghost back to a clean start.

[mickey_gee]

I have used nortons for a long time with no issues. Usually finds more viruses and cleans most of them pretty easily. If your computer is running slowly it mighy need a mal ware checker. My sugrestion is to download Hijack This run it and turn off everything that isnt a virus scanner. Then download search and destroy, update it, and run it.

Hijack this is a powerfull tool and is a little complicated. Ive never wrecked anything with it but it does alter a lot on your computer (in a good way). If you are not up to using Hijack this then just use the search and destroy. It always works and Ive never wrecked anything with that either.

Disclaimer: At no time am I liable for any issues my advice causes....!

Hope this helps

MG

[Cro]

I've rolled out Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate to over 70,000 users.

Never once have I had an outbreak in a properly updated environment...

Trend Micro OfficeScan is pretty good, although I haven't used it in a few years.

[tab]

Any time I've had an issue with Norton at home, it's usually after a ms security update. Here at work though never had a problem with the corporate edition whatsoever.

[ZAP]

We use and recommend Symantec AV range and have done for many years.

However

I have just upgraded my office PC to Vista Ultimate and installed the latest SAV and it SUCKS. It uses u 25Mb of RAM and is always hogging up the CPU. I did a search and it seems that everyone is complaining about this problem. I guess I will need to wait until Symantec come out this morning and have a whinge to them about it.

I guess you need to pay the price to have the best, we have never had any virus/trojan/worm outbreaks with SAV.

[ENVY-T]

I have used Norton for nearly 4 years now and have no problems.

[shockF6]

I used to run SAV (norton corporate version) and had done so for years. After my update to Vista I decided to change to Kaspersky as there the only people who are giving you a 3rd party firewall option for Vista at the moment.

Long story short, Kaspersky found 8 email viruses on my computer during its first system scan that norton let through without any hassles at all.

so I guess im saying that its not only the system slowing down that norton suffers from. its also letting through viruses that kaspersky is catching.

I say go Kaspersky!!!

[Guest newl]

I personally avoid viri by using a GNU/Linux platform. However, there are win32 machines here in the house and they've all got AVG (free edition) installed and have never had any issues when used with Ad-Aware and Spy Bot S&D. At work, we use SAV and very rarely have any problems.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Vitamin C works well..............

[XR06T]

bitdefender v10..

works for me