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What's the best antivirus?

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by Reemr, Mar 15, 2008.

  1. littlesooty

    littlesooty Member

    Nod32 is the best imo compared with many others such as norton, avg, pccillin etc..
    norton install damn long with their crap cdkey activation thingy plus their anti virus scanner took too much space.
    avg is free not bad, but Nod is better(30 megs)

    it's best to use nod with spyware doctor, both compliment each other.

    nod32 pick up real virus and trogen unlike the other anti virus which always think that cracks are trogen.
    spyware doctor help nod32 pick up spyware counterparts.
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    thats because they often are trojans...
     
  3. Sacker

    Sacker Well-Known Member

    I use Avast Home edition with TeaTimer by Spybot. Works very well and both are free :D
     
  4. Lechongbaboy

    Lechongbaboy Well-Known Member

    I use kaspersky antivirus (bit pricey) but does the job well done.
     
  5. littlesooty

    littlesooty Member

    why don't you say that nod32 is more sensitive in picking up the real trojan while other antivirus scanner is always having false alarm?
    you need to read more on the web dude..
     
  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    You need to realise that the web is not an infallible source.
     
  7. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    One thing several MMORPG players playing games using INCA's GameGuard about Nod32 is that it doesn't recognize GameGuard as a "trusted" application. Because of this MMORPGs using GameGuard becomes inacessible as they can't be run properly.
     
  8. fallenleader

    fallenleader Guest

    i use avast because i thought it had less cpu demand, of which is important since i can;t afford high performance pc's and am running base model's from many years ago, and it doesn't give me as many false positives when running cracks. cracks that i've used many reliable online scanners and other virus programs to scan.

    problem is, a crack generally works like a virus? but is actually doing the good things in a method that is related to the normally bad things.

    i have used avast's full high detection, whatever highest options are called, scan's before and have had scans lasting 3 hours.
    other than this, malewarebytes, highjackthis, spybot with registry monitoring, easycleaner and robovac.
    last resort i've ever used was combofix
     
  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I'm not sure about avast! resource usage, but its about the slowest AV around (in terms of scanning speed). I'm currently using kaspersky.
     
  10. drew44

    drew44 Well-Known Member

    my choice kaspersky or norton 360
     
  11. fallenleader

    fallenleader Guest

    ??? well, i may switch but i -need- free, free is better because it proves that you DON'T need to pay for it to be good. i'll go have a look at system requirements.
     
  12. ClydeOne

    ClydeOne Well-Known Member

    I've been messing around with the new NOD 32 Antivirus. I find that it's easier on my computer and the scan time is pretty quick compared to the other anti viruses that I've used previously.I'm going to use this one for a while and see where it goes.
     
  13. diskjocki

    diskjocki Well-Known Member

    Is Trend Micro-cillin Internet Security any good? It came with my laptop.
     
  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I don't know about that specific product, but trend micro are generally highly regarded.
     
  15. fallenleader

    fallenleader Guest

    here is a partial list of system requirement links
    note that some of these antivirus programs are asking for 256-512mb ram. that is a significant amount

    http://www.avast.com/eng/system-requirements-avast-home.html
    http://www.avira.com/en/products/avira_antivir_premium_3.html
    http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition#tba3
    http://www.eset.eu/support/system-requirements
    http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-Free-Edition.html#requirements
    http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/anti-virus.php
    http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-products-antivirus.html
    http://www.zonelabs.com.au/minfo.htm
     
  16. kryz

    kryz Well-Known Member

    "this computer is being attacked"

    with the blue background and its magical want...

    --------------------------

    any antivirus that could help me with this is a good antivirus... :s

    have researched quite awhile in the net and found that there is still no cure for this curse...

    anyone having the same problems?

    i did a system restore and fixed the problem but lost quite a few applications in the process...

    i want an antivirus to cure this program so i dont have to resort to system restore... >.<
     
  17. BloodVayne

    BloodVayne Well-Known Member

    NOD32 2.x.x has a great detection rate and is particularly light on resources. Right now, it's using no more than 3 MB of RAM. It's not free, though, but you just have to look for the right opportunities ;)
     
  18. fallenleader

    fallenleader Guest

    the system specs for nod32 are in my links.


    * CPU 386 or higher (Pentium recommended)
    * 30 MB available disk space
    * 32 MB RAM (depending on OS)
    * VGA or better graphic card

    Note: Full functionality requires Winsock 2.0 minimum, graphic card with 64k color resolution and Internet Explorer 4.0.

    it is good but not free. can someone please make a post listing all the free ones.
     
  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    AVG, avira, clamWin (scans only, no resident shield) are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
     
  20. medostix

    medostix Active Member

    no wat i meant was that it doesnt detect virusus well