Virus scan software advice.

[poonsies]

Looking to get my hands on a decent piece of anti-virus software. Ive tried Norton and wasnt too impressed. Ive heard Nod32 is a good one but there seems to be so many, can anyone recommend one ?

Thanks,

Sean.

[chrestomanci]

You might want to check out F-Secure.

Unlike all other major antivirus vendors, they will correctly treating the Sony Rootkit as malware and remove it from your system. The others are acting as appoligists for the media cartel and leaving it alone fearing the DMCA.

[poonsies]

I read about that, so only F-Secure recognises that Sony's master creation is infact glorified spyware ?

[nvening]

nod32 .

[zulander]

NOD32 is good but i prefer Kaspersky but you wont go wrong with either. Both come very high in most reviews and tests. Avoid Mcafee and Norton if u can both resource hogs and both rubbish. F-secure is good as well but it used to have compatibility problems with Zone Alarm I dont know if this is still the case or weather it would be an issue for u

[Lee H]

I'm currently testing Bitdefender.

Nice piece of kit really - at the LAN I went to at the weekend, when I was scanning peoples drives for a laugh as soon as I looked in the //$sharename$ folder, if any virus or SPYWARE or MALWARE was present in any file the program reported it on screen and blocked my access until I put a password overide in

It's definitions are updated every hour or so, mines set to update every 2 hours and it does this with no detriment to my ping in gaming whatsoever.

CPU usage is low. I can do various things without slowdown and even watch some HDTV stuff without lagging.

Bundled with this is a backup solution where you have 32 Mb of secure encrypted space and you get the software to schedule uploads to this space.

Overall - much better than Norton. Better firewall, better scanning and brilliant malware detection - something norton never really got working.

[Pdog]

Another vote for NOD32