Choosing internet security software - Top 10 system performance considerations

[Fearl3$$]

ESET NOD32 Business Ed FTW... You can Manage your installations and Configs to all your client machines, do updates from the local server on the network. Working,implementation was a breeze 0n 200+ Machines, even with updating to a new version. Buying this ESET product was a good choice, and I have not looked at any other extra spyware or AV since it was installed.

 

[Midknite]

-1 for Symantec.
The various Nortons became steadily more bloated from when I first started using them in 96' till they became absolute resource hogs without actually doing much. Switched to AVG and haven't looked back. I have endpoint protection on my work PC and got one of those autorun viruses, updated and couldn't get rid of it, finally managed to delete it myself cause Symantec couldn't find it. AGV found it easily every time I plugged a drive into my home PC. I managed to get rid of it myself and disabled autorun so it doesn't bother me, thing is endpoint protection still can't find it, this is something AVG has been catching since January. Utterly worthless piece of software. If I'd paid for it I'd be demanding my money back and if my company would let me I'd get rid of it and install something else.

On a side note, has anyone ever had heuristic protection catch a legitimate virus without having definitions. I have had warnings from heuristic software when installing legit software but it's never sniffed out a reaal virus.

Gonna try MSE though, sounds worthwhile.

 

[hyarion]

On a side note, has anyone ever had heuristic protection catch a legitimate virus without having definitions. I have had warnings from heuristic software when installing legit software but it's never sniffed out a reaal virus.

I've had nod32 catch viruses using only heuristic protection before. Can't remember the virus name, was about 2 years ago. Was quite a widespread virus that made headlines at the time.

I've personally found NOD32 to be my favourite and best AV - fast, efficient, excellent detection and least intrusive or annoying.
I sell it to my clients and it's now on probably over 2,000 pcs. Reduced the number of virus infections from dealing with 2-5 per week to dealing with 1-3 per month. Reduced the number of calls/callouts/problems with antivirus software itself (e.g. software wont uninstall, wont update, etc) from 10-30 per month to about 2-4 per month.

I've had the odd virus slip through with nod32, but I can guarantee there's no antivirus out there with 100% detection rate. Not sustainable at least. And the number of pcs where I've installed nod32 (sometimes 6 months out of date with defs on install) and picked up hundreds of viruses on a system with an up-to-date antivirus is just huge - and we're talking major antivirus packages and up-to-date on definitions.

 

[Asha'man X]

One thing I learnt today is that while Symantec Endpoint 11 looks better than the old Symantec Corp 9, it is an absolute pig performance wise on both client and server. Not to mention being pretty complicated to set up. Give me NOD32 anyday, I can have it set up and running on the network within 2 hours.
At home I simply use the Windows 7 firewall along with the one in my router, and MSE for AV duties. So far so good, no problems.

 

[griffinbradley]

Get a MAC. I don't even have my firewall on...BITCHES