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Which Antivirus Software do you use? |
Norton Antivirus |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
Panda Antivirus |
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16% |
[ 1 ] |
McAfee Antivirus |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
Trend Micro Antivirus |
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16% |
[ 1 ] |
Avast Antivirus |
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16% |
[ 1 ] |
Kaspersky Antivirus |
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33% |
[ 2 ] |
AVG Anti-Virus |
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16% |
[ 1 ] |
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Blindside Contributing Member
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Northwest U.S.A.
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: Antivirus Software |
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What Antivirus Software do you use? Personally I use Panda Antivirus... but maybe something else is better--what do you think or suggest? Norton, McAffee, Panda etc. any better than other? |
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madda Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 309 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Avast antivirus all the way!!!
I have used all of the alternatives above, and the only 2 that i like are Avast and AVG, both of which have a small memory foot print and still do the AV job well! So thumbs up to those 2! |
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tigermonk Contributing Member
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 53
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:13 am Post subject: |
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i've already posted this here: http://www.ggmania.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=209 but since we now have a security forum i'll move it here.
i guess my whole problem right now is this:
also, the fact that AVG is only scanning 24066 files and my computer has a grand total of 44602 files, so it's only scanning 53% of the files on my computer. lame.
i'm about to uninstall AVG. after running several bootscans and updates for avast, i'm coming up with nothing. and AVG is coming up with nothing even after its resident scanner tells me it found something and to run AVG. WTF. you'd think that if the resident scanner found a virus that it would show up in a full virus scan right? right?!@? i'm about to just nuke my whole system once again.
and i entirely blame my asshole ex-roomate. his favorite website being www.freeporn.com. if he didn't move out when he did i was going to password protect my computer and ban that sorry SOB. |
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Blindside Contributing Member
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Northwest U.S.A.
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:41 am Post subject: |
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That sucks man--I'd password protect that fo' sure. If it's your computer I'd tell him to get the hell off it. |
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madda Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 309 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: |
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yea, passward protect it then go and kick his ass!!!
tigermonk: try Avast antivirus, its much better than AVG! |
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ace Contributor
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 32 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Am running AVG 7 Pro on my main rig, with avg 6 free edition on my laptop and second pc.
Have had no problems at all with either version |
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tigermonk Contributing Member
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 53
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Blindside wrote: | That sucks man--I'd password protect that fo' sure. If it's your computer I'd tell him to get the hell off it. |
madda wrote: | yea, passward protect it then go and kick his ass!!! |
haha, password protecting in the bios is the best thing ever.
it's kind of funny, i installed titanium free version of panda antivirus after uninstalling AVG and i'm still using avast also. the funny thing is, avast is finding "viruses" in some of panda's .dll files and panda in some of avast's. i guess that's a smart way to get rid of the competition.
ace - run "cmd" and go to the root dir of your harddrive(s) and do a "dir /w /s" to see how many actual files you have on your computer. then do an AVG scan and see how many files AVG scans. on my computer, AVG scanned 24066 out of 44602 files (that's only 53% of the files on my harddrive). |
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ace Contributor
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 32 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tip, I'll have a go with it |
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maga Junior Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 211 Location: HERE, NOW
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Kaspersky all the way ! |
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madda Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 309 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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tigermonk wrote: |
ace - run "cmd" and go to the root dir of your harddrive(s) and do a "dir /w /s" to see how many actual files you have on your computer. then do an AVG scan and see how many files AVG scans. on my computer, AVG scanned 24066 out of 44602 files (that's only 53% of the files on my harddrive). |
That is because AVG only scans EXEs, DLLs, and other files that are normally infected. There is no point in scanning TXT, JPG, WMA etc files because viruses cannot be executed from these files! You can configure AVG to scan all of the files on your hard drive, but its a little pointless! |
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ace Contributor
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 32 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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I ran that command line, and having all the latest updates, virus, program etc. AVG 7 Pro scans every single file, so doesn't miss anything at all, could be something just to do with the free versions, and yes, I am running a paid version |
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madda Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 309 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:48 am Post subject: |
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ace wrote: | I ran that command line, and having all the latest updates, virus, program etc. AVG 7 Pro scans every single file, so doesn't miss anything at all, could be something just to do with the free versions, and yes, I am running a paid version |
paid for by urself?? |
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ace Contributor
Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 32 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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madda wrote: |
paid for by urself?? |
Correct
also selecting 'scan all infectable files'
I have about 74000 files, which I checked using the command line again, which turned up having the identical number of files which avg 7 pro scanned. |
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xxxx Elite Member
Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1755 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:40 am Post subject: |
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AVG, small, doesn't get in the way of games or other things, though the detection could be better. Sometimes you don't know if the virus is still there. One time I deleted a culprit file and then AVG saw a virus in it. As the file was gone cuz I deleted the file, AVG got all messed up and still thought there was a virus. Couldn't delete or anything. I did a full scan and it found nothing and the warning went away. This is on 7.0, on 6.0 the same would happen but it would handle it better. I still find 7.0 pretty good, otherwise. |
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