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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Talium on 19 September 2004, 14:52

Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Talium on 19 September 2004, 14:52: I was wondering how other people protect their computers from viruses ,spyware ,dialers; and which antovirus programs you consider bast.
Personaly I have norton antivirus instaled and Agniotum outpost firewall. What I can say is that norton sucks . I think PC-Cillin and Avast are a lot batter ....and what do you think ??
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: WMD on 19 September 2004, 21:59: Two words:
Not Norton.

I'd say PC-Cillin is the best...my brother's machine has it. I don't run anything on my own box, but do run Trend Micro's Housecall Java thingy every once in a while.
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Canadian Lover on 19 September 2004, 22:24: AVG or Mcafee are good. But I use Freedom because I get it free with my ISP.
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Laukev7 on 19 September 2004, 23:01: The best antivirus? I would say Mac OS X.

Seriously though, as its name implies, this forum is about alternatives to Microsoft products, not palliative solutions. The best protection against viruses is an operating system that has less security holes and more inherent protections against unauthorised tampering with system files.

Sorry if I come off as annoying. But you will find us more helpful if you ask questions about alternatives. (http://smile.gif)

[ September 19, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 / BOB ]
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: WMD on 20 September 2004, 00:42: Heh, yeah, as a Slashdotter once said:

quote:
XP SP2: As secure as Linux...if every user were root.

:D
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Orethrius on 20 September 2004, 01:51: When I had Linux operational on my laptop, chkroot and cron and all that. I might actually consider using BitDefender Linux Edition (http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=16) once I get my Linux partition back up and running. Now that I'm stuck in hell every time I boot my laptop until I can fix the problem with a KP at the VFS load on Slack 10, I use BitDefender Free Edition (http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=24) - it's kicked NAV's ass so far.
:cool:
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: M51DPS on 20 September 2004, 02:16: Once one of my friends was having some problems with her computer, and desperately needed anti-virus (had none). I did a quick google and suggested this thing (http://free-av.com/), but it messed up her computer. Now she's using Norton, but is there some good, free software out there that I can recommend in the future? I think that ClamWin (http://www.clamwin.net/) is free and open-source, but I haven't had a chance to try it.

Or maybe I should go back to converting my friends to Linux....

[ September 19, 2004: Message edited by: M51DPS ]
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: worker201 on 20 September 2004, 02:51: This company http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php) offers free antivirus and free virus definition updates.

My Mac has no virus software.
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: JanusChrist on 29 January 2005, 13:02: Bringing this thread back...

I'm pretty happy with AntiVir from www.download.com. (http://www.download.com.) I used AVG 7.0 for awhile but it has way too many bugs. Norton and Mcaffee are both worthless system hogging ripoffs. I pretty much feel the same way about Norton as I do about Microsoft and AOL.
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: MrX on 1 February 2005, 22:58: everyone that uses Anti-Vir
http://www.free-av.de
knows that it is the best, and as soon as you know this norton and other big brand AV's are just bloatware shit.
i would say kapersky labs scanner, and then Anti-Vir would be tied for best AV you can get.
and AVG, it sucks.

Mr X
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Giorgi on 1 February 2005, 23:02: Yep, i gotta say that AntiVir is probably the best after Kaspersky, the only thing is that Kaspersky detects much more trojans, but it takes much more system resources if you have an old-lame PC :D
Ah and Kaspersky detected 33 viruses on my computer, when other programs that were installed just before (few hours earlier) detected none of em (I talk about F-Prot, Panda, Norton)
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Refalm on 1 February 2005, 23:09: Linux (http://www.linux.org/). No virusses guaranteed :D
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: MrX on 1 February 2005, 23:21: uh- haha (laugh )

BeOS has no malware, spyware or virus' ever written for it.
bow down to BeOS, because it is the super OS that nobody can argue against because it has none! so ha! ahahahahahahahaaahah

Mr X
Title: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Giorgi on 1 February 2005, 23:28: Well, telling people to use Linux is just like:
-I wanna play a game but my video card screws up :(
-Don't play at all! ahahahahahaa muahahah :confused:
:D
Title: Re: the bast antivirus software????
Post by: Refalm on 2 February 2005, 15:40: Quote from: Giorgi
Well, telling people to use Linux is just like:
-I wanna play a game but my video card screws up :(
-Don't play at all! ahahahahahaa muahahah :confused:
:D

- That is the case with ATi videocards. But then again, ATi sucks shit.
- :confused: