Save a few bucks on Anti-Virus

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 11, 2004, 4:31 pm

nm.. Knew it was too good to be true.

Shit expires 30 days after installation.

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » July 11, 2004, 5:16 pm

http://www.free-av.com/

Free and works pretty well in my experience.

Rasspotari · Post by **Rasspotari** » July 11, 2004, 6:40 pm

avg also pretty decent.

Karae · Post by **Karae** » July 12, 2004, 6:41 am

Well, as an aside, I've found Norton to be pretty worthless. Might as well just go for the free ones.

Soreali · Post by **Soreali** » July 13, 2004, 2:10 am

I personally found Panda Titanium to work great. Only 30 bucks too so it aint a bad deal.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » July 13, 2004, 2:49 am

Panda antivirus still exist?
Remember back with Win95 i tried their demo once (back before i got a net connection), and that required a reinstall of Win95 to get my comp working properly again after that.

Post by **Xouqoa** » July 13, 2004, 11:34 am

Karae wrote:Well, as an aside, I've found Norton to be pretty worthless. Might as well just go for the free ones.

How so? I've never had a problem with it. Did you keep it updated?

Post by **Sylvus** » July 13, 2004, 11:52 am

Wait a minute, Norton isn't free?!

I keep it always up-to-date and have had Housecall find several things that Norton has missed. Can't hurt to use the two of them together.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » July 13, 2004, 12:00 pm

i've been happy with Norton myself for years running a constant internet connection not always with very solid firewalling/security.

noel · Post by **noel** » July 13, 2004, 12:24 pm

I work in an environment that is very virus prone and where there are multiple AV clients running. I have consistently seen Norton be the fastest to update their definitions for the newest viruses while others have fallen behind.

Not sure what you're basing that comment on, but I disagree.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » July 13, 2004, 1:01 pm

I find Nortons to be cumbersome.. it's interface is less than intuative, and it makes older computers (like say a P400) chug.

Do your multiple virus solutions update at the same frequency, which one has precedence? If both know a virus but Norton's hook into the API is at the head of the queue the other will never see it..

AVG seems to update as fast as any of the others, but the default download frequency is pretty low for the free edition (understandable, and configurable if you're the type of idiot that clicks on anything)

Anyway, they should all be a last line of defense.. like an air bag =p

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 13, 2004, 1:02 pm

Always using Symantec AV in conjuncture with Symantec Mail Security keeps my environment humming away happy.

My only beef with Symantec is their policy that they only push out definitions to live update once a week or with what they classify as a category 3 or above virus.

I find myself downloading the intelligent updater definitions and applying it with Category 2 viruses and above.

noel · Post by **noel** » July 13, 2004, 1:58 pm

Zaelath wrote:I find Nortons to be cumbersome.. it's interface is less than intuative, and it makes older computers (like say a P400) chug.

Do your multiple virus solutions update at the same frequency, which one has precedence? If both know a virus but Norton's hook into the API is at the head of the queue the other will never see it..

AVG seems to update as fast as any of the others, but the default download frequency is pretty low for the free edition (understandable, and configurable if you're the type of idiot that clicks on anything)

Anyway, they should all be a last line of defense.. like an air bag =p

I don't run multiple AVs on the same machine, but I work in an environment where different 'departments' for lack of a better term are allowed to use different AV software, and their update frequencies are not known to me. There's a helpdesk that deals with a lot of student users, and if a user is found to be infected with something they'll typically scan it with several different AV clients in an effort to clean it. So I'm basing my comments on what their findings have been in trying to innoculate infected machines. Those guys update their definitions when available on a daily basis.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 13, 2004, 2:16 pm

Pest Patrol Corporate Edition is great. I hear it's very pirate friendly for updates!...for the evil doers out there that would do such a thing.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » July 13, 2004, 9:39 pm

noel wrote:
Zaelath wrote:I find Nortons to be cumbersome.. it's interface is less than intuative, and it makes older computers (like say a P400) chug.

Do your multiple virus solutions update at the same frequency, which one has precedence? If both know a virus but Norton's hook into the API is at the head of the queue the other will never see it..

AVG seems to update as fast as any of the others, but the default download frequency is pretty low for the free edition (understandable, and configurable if you're the type of idiot that clicks on anything)

Anyway, they should all be a last line of defense.. like an air bag =p
I don't run multiple AVs on the same machine, but I work in an environment where different 'departments' for lack of a better term are allowed to use different AV software, and their update frequencies are not known to me. There's a helpdesk that deals with a lot of student users, and if a user is found to be infected with something they'll typically scan it with several different AV clients in an effort to clean it. So I'm basing my comments on what their findings have been in trying to innoculate infected machines. Those guys update their definitions when available on a daily basis.

Ah.. but you can still only find a virus once...