what anti-virus do you use?

Anti-virus >>>> AVG free edition (never had a virus problem with it installed)
MS AntiSpyware (found some things Ad-Aware didn't)
MS SP2
 
I don't get the Anti Virus stuff.
I've been running for 10 years plus without any anti-virus sw, and no problems.
My better half is running av sw and she gets into all kinds of trouble with worms and stuff.
Damn - i've just jinxed myself.
Anybody else doing the same ?
 
Touche stoke. I dont run any active antivirus either. I have NOD32 installed and maybe run the on-demand scannner once in a while while doing some "warez'ing". I used to use VMWare for that but I hate all the low level drivers it installs.

I dont get it either though, active virus monitoring is just well... gay. Sorry it is. Never used it in 15 years of using a PC. There is no replacement for common sense.

1/3 of our dialup support calls are caused by antivirus screwing with the SMTP connection or whatever.
 
Dominic Rooney said:
Nortom Antivirus 2004 ( I had) but it firstly messed up my machine and NIS is a system hogger - no doubts about that.

That's why I chose AVG 6.0 - Free and easy.

Running around, catching a cheetah (without a gun) is like resistance against Telkom - futile.
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Rather go for AVG 7 now. tis free and they are stopping all support for AVG 6 very soon, it will be unsupported software. AVG 7 will have support.
 
My first line of defence against viruses is common sense, my second line of defence is to regularly run stinger to scan my machine for viruses.

I still belief that spyware is a bigger threat than viruses. Spyware opens the door for viruses to infect you machine, if they are limited and your machine has the latest patches it is reasonably safe.
 
I 'use' AVG 6 free although I don't actually use it, I just install it and then disable it from starting. Habit I guess. And I never get viruses or spyware. A firewall though is essentail and I use Zone Alarm.

A friend got a new pc which I helped install that came with a modem. 2 months later I had to clean-up his moderately infested machine. He couldn't tell what was an ad and what was the site. He'd just click and install everything because it looked cool. He had all sorts of weirds cursors and things which inevitably all come with spyware.

Another guy who's pc I cleaned up was the worst I've ever seen. I think his sons were on warez and porn sites because he had it real bad. He'd just dial into the net and immediately a page full of child porn would pop up. He had a dialler installed that would dial premium rate sex lines using the modem which worked in all major first world countries, but fortunately not South Africa.

Buts its true what stoke and wamatt say. Just a bit of common sense is all thats needed to avoid 99% of the nasties. For the pc illiterate though anti-virus/malware is essential and a good firewall. I tested this and it takes about five minutes for an unpatched, unprotected Windows XP box to get 0wned.

For antivirus I would recommend AVG 7 Free. I once tried another free one called Avast Personal which had spyware removal as well but it turned out to be the most annoying software ever written. Besides adding about 5 icons to the system tray every time you went online it would pop up a little window and a voice would say 'Virus database has been updated!'. No thanks.

I'd never use Norton Antivirus because it's too much of a system hog and seriously affects your system's performance. Also a vulnerability has just been discovered in Norton which could cause it to execute the virus its scanning.

For a firewall I'd recommend Zone Alarm. I've never had a problem with it and it seems to work perfectly once you've trained it.

Also be sure to dump Internet Explorer and Outlook / Outlook Express and use Firefox / Opera and Thunderbird / Eudora instead. New security problems are continuously being found in IE and Outlook because of their integrated ActiveX technology, which other browsers / email don't suffer from.

For spyware removers I use a combination of Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, Spyware Guard and Spyware Blaster. I've been meaning to check out the MS one as well. Always check up on a spyware remover before you install though because half the ones out there just install a new batch of spyware after they've cleaned up the ones they found.

Alternatively just use a recent Linux distro or Mac OS X and you shouldn't have a problem :)
 
Yes, I also use Ad-aware SE which is good.

On the topic of Spyware removers - I had the up-to-date S & D and I scanned for spyware etc...brought up a few things so I removed. Installed MS Anti-spyware and found alot more spyware and it is in a nice-looking package. I highly reccomend it.

Download MS-Anti-spyware here
 
I like the functionality to see exactly which process are running as well as which ones are known and which ones aren't.
 
Okay...could someone please tell me how this thread became a sticky!!
ITS SO COOL

Now back on to the topic:
1. i just renewed my e-trust antivirus and it is working beutifully...
2. has anyone else had the problem of uninstalling f-secure antivirus 2005.


PLEASE REPLY

cheers
 
mini itch said:
Okay...could someone please tell me how this thread became a sticky!!...
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I asked Antowan to make it stick bcos it contains some really useful info when read from 1st to last post & antivirus & firewall is essential for any internet connection - especially broadband :). Thanks Antowan.

PS: I got an email from eTrust advising me to upgrade - I still haven't found time to do it...
 
Try Nod32. www.nod32.com.

There is a local distributor and you get a discount if you say you are moving from another anti-virus.

Gotta be the best virus scanned I have ever used.
 
Best Anti-Virus IMO - OsX :) I let my subscription to Virex lapse about 4 years ago. Sure there are some threats out there but as long as they continue to concentrate their efforts on bringing Micro$oft down I'm pretty safe.
 
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