What anti virus software do you all use?

[Howard]

AVG sucks IMO. The interface seems really crappy.
I use Norton 2004 and it's great

[Moby-Dick]

I dont care about the interface - its how good it is at Stopping Viruses I'm fussed about.

The only thing I'll say for Symantec AV kit is its pretty easy to deploy over a LAN.

[PanzerKnight]

cool, installed AVG and runs a treat. Whats sweet is that when it does a scan it doesnt kill yer hd's

cheers for the help

[DeludedGuy]

I use Avast (another free one) and get people who's computers I sort to use it. Easy to setup and updates in the background or asks you first, depends what you want. Its great to setup and leave, as you wont go around somebodys place and find AC is 2 years out of date. Also it got rid of some problems on my parents PC that AVG missed. just installed in safe mode and schedules a full scan on boot.
Flibb

Avast are complete sh*t! I had it installed on my brothers computer, he began having problems. I quickly installed AVG and within minutes AVG had found 11 Viruses that Avast had missed.

AVG is not the prettiest thing to look at, but it gets the job done.

[floppybootstomp]

I've had it with Nortons, used it for four years, then a friend of mine bought NAV 2004. On his third OS re-install, Nortons would not let him activate his product online as they said he'd already installed it on two machines! He's only got one machine. He had to phone them three times to eventually sort it out.

Blow that. Nortons took me forever to uninstall, it creeps in everywhere, it's just bloatware.

So now I use Grisoft AVG, like most people here. I have that on two machines and Trend's PC-Cillin on another machine as it came free on a motherboard CD.

Both seem good, AVG caught stuff that Nortons didn't, I noticed before I uninstalled Nortons.

It's true though that as mentioned here previously, AVG is becoming very popular and it's sometimes hard to access their server for updates.

[Falcon2004]

Heh...I dont use Anit-Virus protection...its easy enough to avoid Viuses with a little common sence! I find that its quicker, easier and less fuss to just backup your data around once a week, thats where a peperate Hard Drive comes in handy. 10 mins and your done, with an Anti-Virus you gotta give it care and attention every f*****g day!

Anyway, when i DID use Anti-Virus i used AVG. If you have to use one, use that.

Falcon

[TooNice]

I've used Norton for quite some time, and I haven't had any major issue with it..

Its true that it uses a fair amount of resources, but not so much it gets in the way IMO.

[Richie]

I switched from NAV2004 to Symantec Anti-Virus Corp. Only reason was because NAV wont run on server 2003 but I am glad I made the move because -

1. It takes up hardly any resources like NAV does

2. It has the ability to auto-update on the DAILY updates that Symantec release

3. It pushes these defs to the client machines (2 of them) automatically. This is a big deal for me as my folks PC is never updated by them so forcing it on them silently is nice

4. Central Quarantine - Again it means I can deal with any viruses from 1 machine for the whole network.

[Craig]

Well, at work we used to use the latest Symantec Corp Edition on our 2003 Server. Untill we noticed our network was getting slower, and slower! We bought Panda BusinesSecure and it found THIRTEEN (Yes, thats 1 3) viruses that Norton had not caught, so we are now pushing Panda as our main AV software, i have also moved over to Panda Titanium on my home machine from NAV 2003, uses less resources and quicker updates I HIGHLY reccomend Panda to anyone

Cr4iG

[emul8]

Why is it nobody has mentioned Mcafee
is it that bad

[floppybootstomp]

Why is it nobody has mentioned Mcafee
is it that bad

No personal experience of Mcafee but general impression I get from looking around is that it's not exactly favoured. Dunno why.

[Gunbuster]

I used to use AVG, but was a bit worried by the not so frequent updates, so I tried avast! Seems ok, but I rarely get anything with a virus in. Although recently I got some dodgy mails but a combination of Foxmail and the mail server nutralised them before they even hit me. Used PCCillin before bit of a buggy bloat monger compared to either AVG or Avast!. Before that McAfee which promptly nailed both mine and a friends boxs more sucessfully than most viri.

[planetgong]

Kaspersky. Whenever I see a virus test it always seems to come near the top!

[Blub2k]

Blow that. Nortons took me forever to uninstall, it creeps in everywhere, it's just bloatware.

With regard to it creeping in everywhere, it is a security package.

[Blub2k]

strange how Richie says it uses few resources and the next post is Craig giving out about the resource intensiveness of SAVCE. Is it possible that both are right?
Other thing is that you will find that other companies put greyware and spyware in the virus category which is incorrect by definition. A virus is a virus a trojan is a trojan and spyware is spyware, classic example is sp.exe which some call a trojan called spooner, BUT it is spyware, it is sometimes down to an incorrect definition of a virus.

[MurphmanL]

I use Panda Antivirus Titanium (2001 i think) it still updates fine, and uses very little resources yet provides a good scanning option and hasnt let me down yet.