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Hi Everyone,

I need some help please. I want to buy an anti-Virus, anti-Phising and all the rest software program but I am not sure which one to buy. Norton seems to be great since you can buy a package for three users but it slows down you PC. BitDefender is cheaper but single user and my girlfriend has problems to get it to download updates and after several attempts to contact customer support she still did not solve the problem. XoftSpy, Spyware Terminator and Spyware Detector I can not find on the shelves. I did run test editions of the last three packages mentioned and all three detect different unwanted programs. A package that will give me protection against Phising, viruses and Spam is the most important to me. Kaspersky is also not rated too bad and I heard the name McAfee, which is a good thing for someone like me who is not that much involved into computers.
Any suggestions?

Thank you for the advice!
 
There's a lot to choose from, but Eset's NOD32 has been recommended numerous times on the forums though. :)

EDIT: feo beat me to it... :D
 
Stay away from Norton - it's a piece of ****.

Kapersky ftw :cool:
 
Do a search for something like "best anti-virus" on these forums and you'll get the thread I started some time ago where everyone expressed their views about the various anti-virus products available. Hope this helps you :)
 
http://computersecurityassociates.com/awards/awards.htm

"ESET has achieved 41 Virus Bulletin VB 100% awards, more than any other vendor. In Virus Bulletin's comparative tests, ESET's product has not missed an 'In the Wild' virus sample since May 1998."

"The antivirus program that clearly distinguished itself from the rest was NOD32 […] NOD32 was the antivirus program that stood out the most in our performance tests. A full virus scan of the whole harddrive only took two minutes and two seconds, compared to the majority of the other antivirus programs that needed between five and seven minutes for accomplishing the same task."

"For more than six years, NOD32 remains the only antivirus system in the world that has not missed any 'In the Wild' virus in the prestigious tests performed by the international magazine - Virus Bulletin. Out of the 25 antivirus products tested on Windows XP platform, NOD32 was one of the 3 that have achieved a clean sweep detecting all the viruses in all the test sets in both on-demand and on-access tests without any false alarm. However, NOD32's scanning rate of the executable files was more than 3.8 times higher than the second best product and 21 times higher than the third of the products with 100% detection rate."
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Nothing else compares.
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
Do a search for something like "best anti-virus" on these forums and you'll get the thread I started some time ago where everyone expressed their views about the various anti-virus products available. Hope this helps you :)
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Great idea. I was just afraid that due to the fast pace of the electronic world that this Threat mentioned, might be outdated because last years best anti-virus might be this years second worst package. Will pay it a visit for sure.

Thank you.
 
Red Hat said:
Great idea. I was just afraid that due to the fast pace of the electronic world that this Threat mentioned, might be outdated because last years best anti-virus might be this years second worst package. Will pay it a visit for sure.

Thank you.
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NOD32 has been the best since 1998, so you can be sure that it won't be the worst in years to come ;)
 
Yikes, but you people do not waste time when it come to response time.
 
Red Hat said:
Great idea. I was just afraid that due to the fast pace of the electronic world that this Threat mentioned, might be outdated because last years best anti-virus might be this years second worst package. Will pay it a visit for sure.

Thank you.
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No problem :)
 
Norton Anti-Virus, best you can get.....

Uses 93% of your RAM and CPU and finds 13% of all viruses on your infected PC...
1 year subscriptions are expensive, most expensive prices you can find on the net...
 
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lexor said:
Link to their site : http://www.eset.com/
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Just when I want to ask where my I buy NOD32 since some shop in Greenstone, Edenvale do not have it and I do not have much time to search for it when I visit Guateng because there are always a lot of business to take care of. (Located somewhere near nowhere and far from Gauteng)
I guess I will be able to download it from the net also. Will look into it tomorrow.

Thank you all for the help. Great info. Just a pity my girlfriend decided to buy before doing some research.
 
They have a local site where you can purchase it from http://www.eset.co.za/

I'm sure that would be a better bet, since you'd be paying in rands and not USD ;) Support should also be more convenient via the local channels
 
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Avoid Norton/Symantec.

Furthermore using a security suite (an all in one solution) is generally a bad idea because if any one application withing the suite has a security hole the entire suite can become useless.

All you really need is an antivirus and a firewall (and a little common sense so you don't open attachments from some nigerian telling you you've won the lottery, and don't goto address like www.hackmypc.microsoft.com).

NOD32 is a great antivirus. Outpost firewall is good once you disable it's none firewall related features.

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Also don't have more than one antivirus application installed at once, there's many reasons for this.
 
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I've been using AVG and NOD32 side-by-side for many years and haven't had any negative side effects :)

And no, I'm not going to uninstall one of them ;)
 
I'm glad that more people are finally seeing the light with anti-virus software.

I ditched AVG for almost a year already - it's good, but not as good. It also started becoming too bloated (aka bloatware), updates were becoming larger and larger on a daily basis, eventually slowing things down. NOD32's updates are almost always <60KB, and it's far lighter on resources. Right now my NOD32KRN.EXE file is using a measly 6,524KB of RAM and NOD32KUI.EXE only 2,588KB :)
 
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Highflyer_GP said:
I'm glad that more people are finally seeing the light with anti-virus software.

I ditched AVG for almost a year already - it's good, but not as good. It also started becoming too bloated (aka bloatware), updates were becoming larger and larger on a daily basis, eventually slowing things down. NOD32's updates are almost always <60KB, and it's far lighter on resources. Right now my NOD32KRN.EXE file is using a measly 6,524KB of RAM and NOD32KUI.EXE only 2,588KB :)
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My Eset Security is using 31,348KB (ekrn.exe) and 3,988KB (egui.exe) :) Not bad for a 3-in-one product.
 
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