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Grimster74
Grimster74 Posts: 2,576
edited March 2008 in The Clubhouse
I have to reformat my computer this weekend and reload everything. I currently have McAfee Virus Software on my PC and for the life of me, just don't care for it. What Virus protection are most of you guys/gals using on your home PC's?
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2008
    Trend Micro. Had McAfee and Norton, hated them both. Trend is less of a resource hog and found problems that the others didn't.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    AVG Free. Doesn't cost a dime, does a good job.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Refefer
    Refefer Posts: 1,280
    edited March 2008
    Norton Antivirus, Corporate Edition. Works great and unlike the conumser product counterpart, is fairly light weight and doesn't have a crappy interface.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2008
    Most people generally agree that AVG is the best free option available, and that ESET is the best paid option that is available. Kaspersky is also very popular.

    I personally use the ESET suite, and love it. I posted a similar thread here a while back, there's alot of good information in there if you can find it.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2008
    Here...

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61942
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    AVG Free. Doesn't cost a dime, does a good job.

    What he said. I just used it this past weekend on my father-in-laws computer and it found about 130 instances of spyware and a trojan virus. They also have a pay version that has some more features, but everything in the free version works very well.
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  • MKZ
    MKZ Posts: 1,068
    edited March 2008
    Refefer wrote: »
    Norton Antivirus, Corporate Edition. Works great and unlike the conumser product counterpart, is fairly light weight and doesn't have a crappy interface.

    ^^^ +1.^^^
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    We use Symantec Antivirus at work, which is the same as Norton (at least it's the same company - maybe it's a different product?). We use the Corporate version, and it's the worst resource hog I've ever encountered. Not sure what you guys are comparing to, but just the background virus service takes up 80+MB of RAM, and on slower machines renders the PC almost unusable.

    EDIT : Apparently the version we use is several years old (it has new virus definitions, but the scanner is an older version) so maybe they've improved. But the product we have certainly leaves a bad impression.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • John in MA
    John in MA Posts: 1,010
    edited March 2008
    Check out Avast! Antivirus. Also free like AVG, some folks say as good or better.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited March 2008
    +1 on the AVG free. We use it on some of our computers at work.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2008
    Zone Alarm Pro works good for me. Also look at Barracuda, expensive but good also.

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  • wizzy
    wizzy Posts: 867
    edited March 2008
    Avast

    www.avast.com
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2008
    Used them all. AVG Free is the least trouble.
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,781
    edited March 2008
    Fireman32 wrote: »
    +1 on the AVG free. We use it on some of our computers at work.

    Just so people know, it is against the AVG free license to use it on business computers, it is for personal home use only. The pro version is for business, and it's very reasonable at $129, for 5 copies with a two year license.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,846
    edited March 2008
    Refefer wrote: »
    Norton Antivirus, Corporate Edition. Works great and unlike the conumser product counterpart, is fairly light weight and doesn't have a crappy interface.

    The last time I checked, you could not buy single user copies of Symantec AV Corporate. Maybe this has changed, but I thought you could only get 5 user packs or more.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    AVG Free. Doesn't cost a dime, does a good job.

    Yet another vote for this as well
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited March 2008
    I like McAfee :(
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  • John in MA
    John in MA Posts: 1,010
    edited March 2008
    Shizelbs wrote: »
    I like McAfee :(

    I was wondering who that person was. :D
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  • jwhitakr
    jwhitakr Posts: 568
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    AVG Free. Doesn't cost a dime, does a good job.
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Yet another vote for this as well

    Same vote for me. You just can't beat freeware products like AVG that do a good job without being intrusive.
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  • cruzer
    cruzer Posts: 84
    edited March 2008
    I'm using AVG as well. It seems to get the job done, at least.

    This is one of my favorite posts that contains a whole bunch of useful tools and/or programs. All of which are free...I think...
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    We use Symantec Antivirus at work, which is the same as Norton (at least it's the same company - maybe it's a different product?). We use the Corporate version, and it's the worst resource hog I've ever encountered. Not sure what you guys are comparing to, but just the background virus service takes up 80+MB of RAM, and on slower machines renders the PC almost unusable.

    EDIT : Apparently the version we use is several years old (it has new virus definitions, but the scanner is an older version) so maybe they've improved. But the product we have certainly leaves a bad impression.

    It didn't seem to be a resource hog on my old desktop, which only has 256MB of RAM. I think it used some 34 or so MB of RAM, so it wasn't that bad. That was on a Pentium II 450 machine, BTW.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    I can't pretend to know how your PC reacted. All I know is the half-dozen or so slower PCs (Pentium 2s and 3s) we have here running Symantec Corporate are almost unusable when the antivirus is running, and are noticeably and significantly faster when it is not.

    I'm convinced they'd run better if they actually had viruses.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2008
    Might be that I was using a different version?? With the Enterprise edition, it didn't seem to use up too much resources on my PC.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    Yeah the version we have here says 2005, so I'm betting you have something newer. Version : 10.0.2.2000
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2008
    Symantec Antivirus
    [Oct, 25 2007]

    Version: 10.1.7.7000
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I can't pretend to know how your PC reacted. All I know is the half-dozen or so slower PCs (Pentium 2s and 3s) we have here running Symantec Corporate are almost unusable when the antivirus is running, and are noticeably and significantly faster when it is not.

    I'm convinced they'd run better if they actually had viruses.

    Doesn't seem to be a problem on my laptop either...
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited March 2008
    AVG or Avast. I personally use Avast, but I disable all but the Standard Shield, and Web Shield to clear up some resources. I really can't complain. It's been working great for me for a couple years.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    appadv wrote: »
    Doesn't seem to be a problem on my laptop either...

    You have a gig of memory and 20 processes (aka, nothing but windows) running. I'm talking about old work PCs that have 256MB of memory and are doing actual work, yet rtvscan.exe (the Symantec real-time virus scanning process) takes up anywhere from 50-100MB of memory. That's unreasonable. And ironically, the more you have running, the more memory it takes up.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2008
    On my other computer, the Pentium II, all I remember is that it took a LONG time to start up with Symantec Antivirus. So I would come home, turn it on, eat dinner, and then get to work. The only thing I did on that PC was word processing though...
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited March 2008
    I've been testing Avast for a few weeks now and so far I like it.
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