Meh! AntiVirus Software

[mejinks]

Having become infected a while back with a Trojan that Norton missed, I swapped over to NOD32 and now find that Panda scan picks up three whereas I did a full in-depth scan with NOD a few hours ago.

Are all antivirus products universally ****e or is there one less ****e than the others?

BTW, AVG didn't pick any of these up either.:(

[Mark]

It's all down to how recent the viruses are. If they're very new or very old, they're all ****e.

NOD32 is supposed to be one of the best and Panda isn't rated very highly. What does that tell you? :)

[Davey_Pitch]

Avast is my AV of choice. Works well, auto updates itself every day when I switch my PC on. Hasn't missed anything yet (that I'm aware of). I recommend it :)

[Mark]

NOD32 usually updates several times a day (or at least it has been doing that recently).

[Mondo]

NOD32 usually updates several times a day (or at least it has been doing that recently).

Me too, and i dunno about you, when i am watching something in WMP it updates like a mofo ! the little bubble constantly popping up.

[Mark]

If you leave the PC alone a while it does that. Just click the X on the bubble until they're all gone.

[Justsomebloke]

Avast is my AV of choice. Works well, auto updates itself every day when I switch my PC on. Hasn't missed anything yet (that I'm aware of). I recommend it :)

I've used Avast for about a year. I have it on manual updates as i like to be in control, can't have no updating going on when i am gaming. Good prog, easy to set up & instal & configure. Same as Dave as far as i am aware it hasn't missed anything & considering how sensitive i am to gaming/system performance i am pretty sure it hasn't let anything in. I do run ad-aware & S&D daily aswell.
Best of all Avast is completely Free :cool:

[Admiral Huddy]

AVAST for the win :)

Incidentally, I've had a sales rep call me from AVG asking if I could exclusively sell AVG with commision.. I'm not sure that's a good idea tbh.

[Daz]

Particularly when the customer finds out they could have downloaded it for free.

[Admiral Huddy]

Particularly when the customer finds out they could have downloaded it for free.


This is true but I've found that some people would see "free" as "no-good" and are quite happy (for some reason) to pay for Norton, for example. It's the same for PC repairs, people pay double the price because consumers confide in a brand name they are familiar with. People are fickle.

[LeperousDust]

I've used Avast for about a year. I have it on manual updates as i like to be in control, can't have no updating going on when i am gaming. Good prog, easy to set up & instal & configure. Same as Dave as far as i am aware it hasn't missed anything & considering how sensitive i am to gaming/system performance i am pretty sure it hasn't let anything in. I do run ad-aware & S&D daily aswell.
Best of all Avast is completely Free :cool:

Don't really want to start this argument again, but going what i've heard before you've got a pretty fast internet (faster than my 2mb anyway), my last NOD32 update was within the kb range, and took literally seconds to download. Now i know i can set it to manual, but surely with an internet like yours an AV updating isn't really going to affect anything, i mean according to benchmarks or whatever it may show a 3 nanosecond difference, but real world performance as in actually missing a shot or lagging surely isn't going to happen? Unless your getting up to date on a few months worth of definitions (like when i install NOD its more like a 60mb download!).

Excuse me if i'm wrong though...

[Mark]

It could well cause a brief lag spike (both from the albeit brief download and the CPU cycles used to process that download). Won't be long, but long enough for a hardcore gamer to notice no doubt. :)

[mejinks]

I just can't believe NOD missed three virii in the end.

[Mark]

Me neither - might be worth having a look around their virus database and/or support site(s).

[semi-pro waster]

I use Avast and have done for years now, in fact most of my mates use it on my recommendation because it is good, free and regularly updates.

Leperous Dust - the update could be enough to slow you down, when mine updates I get maybe a couple of seconds where the system just slows down then the annoying voice telling me Avast has updated, now granted I'm still on a single core (A64 3400) but it might be enough to affect anyone and these things can count. :)

//edit I'm with Virgin/Telewest or whatever they are called now and it is a 4mb line I think.

[Robert]

I use kaspersky here and fine it to be top notch.