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Anti-Virus

RhettRhett (Not even a monkey)
in Zocalo v2.0
Well my mom just got a new Dell, and it came with McAfee virus scanner... I have used AVG in the past (and I have a Norton Anti-Virus disk/subscription sitting around here), and am wondering which is the best to use? Or is there another option I should look into? Thanks!

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  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    I use a combination of Symantec and AVG... They work well together.

    I hear horror stories about anything Norton.

    I haven't used McAfee in a long time myself.
  • RhettRhett (Not even a monkey)
    Wait why do you use Norton (symantec) if you have heard horror stories about it? Anyone know if McAffee and AVG play nicely with each other? And is the McAffee built in firewall any good or should I go to something else? Thanks.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    I have right now a Norton Antivirus version on my parent's comp and my system is running Norton Corporate Antivirus. My school still hasn't figured out that when students graduate they can still use the Corporate version the school gave them so long as they don't reformat :D

    My experience with Norton:
    Norton for home computers SUCKS. First thing you will want to do is exclude your Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird inbox dir. I have had it completely delete entire inboxes when it thinks it finds an e-mail virus (none were even there) becuase it can't understand the file format!

    Norton Corporate is great. Works well, never had a problem, and doesn't seem to have a problem with Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird inboxes.

    Amazing one company can put out two so dissimilar products in how they actually work in practical use.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by rhett [/i]
    [B]Wait why do you use Norton (symantec) if you have heard horror stories about it? [/B][/QUOTE]

    Yeah ok, I use the Symantec Enterprise version like Random Chaos does. When I say Norton, I guess I am refering to the newets Norton Tools/AV thinga-majig that is available to the general public. It appearantly messes with just about everything else you have installed.

    My tools of choice:

    Ad-Aware
    SpyBot
    AVG
    Symantec AV 8.x (Enterprise)
    RegChecker
  • RhettRhett (Not even a monkey)
    So does NAV Professional fall under the "bad" catagory? If it does then Ill prolly just keep using the free McAffee until it runs out. Might install AVG in addition to that- anyone know of any compatability issues?
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    I use avast! (also a free product) but I've used AVG in the past. I'm not sure how they compare but avast! seems to have more features.
  • the_exilethe_exile Kupo!
    I don't use anything, and that seems to work.

    However, I would use AVG or BitDefender were I to bother with anti-virus software.
  • RhettRhett (Not even a monkey)
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by the_exile [/i]
    [B]I don't use anything, and that seems to work.
    [/B][/QUOTE]

    You're either very brave/lucky, or very stupid :D ;)
  • the_exilethe_exile Kupo!
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by rhett [/i]
    [B]You're either very brave/lucky, or very stupid :D ;) [/B][/QUOTE]Well, I'm also hoping to motivate myself to reformat my hard drive one of these days. :D
  • RhettRhett (Not even a monkey)
    That would be good motivation, I assure you :D
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Well... If he waits long enough...

    A trojan will come along and do it for him... :p :D
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    I've been using NAV ever since v4.0. While it has become extremely bloated over the years (the services it installs alone eats up over 100MB of my page file) it has never done [b]anything[/b] remotely what JackN described.

    Lately, I've been running with "Autoprotect" and the services it installs disabled and I haven't noticed any ill effects (I can still run NAV if I want to, its just not running all the time in the background). I'm half-tempted to just uninstall it altogether since in all my years of computing I have [b]never[/b] gotten infected with ANYTHING. You could sit there say "something will get you eventually", but it all has to do with how you surf. I don't crawl around p2p networks (anymore), I don't use IE other than for windows update, I use Mozilla Suite for my general surfing, and FireFox for when I surf my usual pr0n sites. (Software installation is disabled in both) I don't download and open everything in sight, and anything I get over Miranda IM gets scanned automatically so I seriously doubt anything is going to get through. Anything I download gets scanned immediately before I open it, and I've yet to encounter anything that shouldn't be there.

    Now for computers that I service, if they don't have any anti-virus protection, I install AVG for them. However, I generally just burn a CD of "tools" (which contains FireFox, unless they use Outlook, which in that case I just install Mozilla Suite. It also contains AVG, XP SP2 if they're running XP, any necessary plugins and extentions for Moz/FF that would be useful to them. Obviously they get a copy of the latest build of Adaware and Spybot S&D. If I know they're slightly comp savvy, I'll include Tweak UI as well.) so they'll have a copy of whatever I give them. (I also give them a quick walk-through of everything on the CD and how to use the programs.)
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