The best virus scanner!

dannyhayes · 03-29-2005, 04:03 PM

Hi,

I was wandering what is the best virus scanner available I have tryed AVG free edition and i didnt think that was very good. I am now using Mcafee virus scanner and find it quite good.

What do you think is the best virus scanner.

JamieR · 03-29-2005, 04:15 PM

The best around I know of is NOD32 - http://www.nod32.com/. Followed closely by AVG and Sophos. However, I dont know how many people will agree with me. McAfee is supposed to be very good, but I have never tried it - Norton is total rubbish.

...{chris}... · 03-29-2005, 04:16 PM

The one thing I dont like about McAfee is that it uses so much resources to run at boot up.

-ChRiS

JamieR · 03-29-2005, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ...{chris}...

The one thing I dont like about McAfee is that it uses so much resources to run at boot up.

-ChRiS

So does Norton Antivirus

dannyhayes · 03-29-2005, 04:19 PM

Hi,

Thanks for your help weazel and chris

JamieR · 03-29-2005, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dannyhayes

Hi,

Thanks for your help weazel and chris

no problem

...{chris}... · 03-29-2005, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weazel

So does Norton Antivirus

I think they all do to come to think of it. Oh well.

-ChRiS

JamieR · 03-29-2005, 04:36 PM

Dunno really, they all have their resident shields to run on the system, so the only way around it is to install loads of physical ram...a gig plus I like

...{chris}... · 03-29-2005, 04:54 PM

Im stuck with my crap 256kb for now

I hope to get 1-2 gigs when I upgrade. Winamp/Firefox/Dreamweaver/Fireworks hates running with me

-ChRiS

JamieR · 03-29-2005, 04:56 PM

lmao I got a gig of ram in my desktop (which is a 700mhz athlon) and runs windows 2000 seriously fast

My laptop has 512, but I badly want a gig

dannyhayes · 03-29-2005, 04:56 PM

Hi,

I am temporarily running on a pentium 3 800mhz pc with 256ram and dreamweaver, fireworks, flash and all that work fine.

JamieR · 03-29-2005, 05:00 PM

I'm looking for a cheap 1.2-1.5ghz Athlon based system of which I can stick in two or three large hard disks, gig of ram, and then use it as a WAMP server and fileserver. I think I can get something like that on ebay quite cheap

Crake · 04-19-2005, 07:58 PM

AVG - better than norton anti virus - known fact!

JamieR · 04-19-2005, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Crake

AVG - better than norton anti virus

Well the reason that I sing AVG's praises is because compared to Norton, the free edition of AVG is, of course, free and does a decent job. It also uses less system ram than Norton (well it does on my machine

)

However, I am led to believe that Norton detects more than AVG free. There was a rumour a while back in Computer Shopper magazine that NAV didn't detect as many trojans as AVG - but I haven't gone and tested that theory myself.

Jamie.

Oh, and btw, I got my file server