Antivirus etc...

[leehack]

It happily detects the virus's it tells you about, but misses 30% of all the others out there - You might as well turn off your A.V software for 8hrs a day and hope for the best.

That is a great way to explain the problem, makes much more of a point on how bad that really is.

At 98%, unless backhanders and brown paper bags in carparks were afoot, i think you'd have to be pretty mad to consider anything else.

[NormanRouxel]

The best way to uninstall Norton is via Symantec's Norton Removal Tool. Somewhat scary that they admit that the programs own uninstaller isn't up to the job!

[pnagames]

from what i have read you MUST uninstall the norton first and THEN use the removal tool otherwise it causes loads of problems

[los_design]

Kaspersky is excellent and very low on the resource overheads.. highly recommended.

Agree with this 100%

Nuff said...

[Mark H]

Norton 360

For future reference, a major problem with Norton 360 for average/advanced users is that you can't ask it to scan individual folders or files (eg files you have just downloaded etc) - you have to do a scan of the entire PC

[george]

Yes it worked very well for us until outlook preview tried to preview an email with a virus in it - AVG just didn't spot it at all, we switched to Norton and it found it straight away. I figured one that worked badly was better than one that didn't work...

And I switched to AVG after they found a virus that Norton missed... lol.

[completerookie]

any port in the storm is a good port,

but once you know there is a problem with one AV product, and you then get it fixed by using another, scout around and see if there is more complete products out there.

[Stereo Steve]

Good thread. We use AVG on all machines and it's protected us so far I think! Would not touch Norton or McAfee ever again. Back in the Win 98 days it used to kill PC's to the point where FORMAT C was the only option. It's just too big and tries to do too much. Nero is going down the same road, it wants to be involved in everything.

I will definitely check out the above mentioned, it sounds excellent.

[Duncan Rounding]

I recently loaded Kaspersky AV and it seems good from what I can see but I do have a couple of 'funny' issues since installing it.

I use Avant Browser mostly as my browser (it's an IE based skin that I find far better than IE), I usually have at least 10 to 15 tabs open at any time in it. Since installing KAV I notice that sometimes not all images are loaded on the page that I requested - in this forum for example I might see that the avatars or small graphics are not loaded - a refresh always loads them. I tried proper IE7 (althouh as I say Avant is IE7 skinned) and it shows the same issues. FF on the other hand never shows the problem. I have tried disabling KAVs protection and it helps make it less frequent but still happens sometimes.

Another thing I notice is with Outlook mail - I have many email accounts that are checked frequently (probably around 30) and I see that some timeout or show error - again only since loading KAV - retrying always works ok. Again I tried disabling KAV protection and it helps but still happens sometimes.

It seems strange that this has only occrued since loading KAV. I also run ZA but have disblaed it's Mail and Spyware checking.

Has anyone else any experience of this happening?

[TraceyHand]

in this forum for example I might see that the avatars or small graphics are not loaded

that's a bad thing?


I was going to take a look at Kaspersky myself (currently use AVG and find it serves the purpose ok) as I want a more sturdy AV....so I'm watching this thread with interest

[Sean Williams]

NOD32, or as it is now, ESET Smart security.
Good value over 4 units for three years.
Good support.
Updates two or three times a day.
No noticeable overhead on the cpu
Doesn't mess up the PC, unlike Norton which as Lee says should be banned.

It hasn't missed a threat yet in two years.
Always comes top in the industry category for finding wild virii heuristically.

It took the best part of a morning to fully eliminate Norton from the machine.
The last Dell we bought had McAfee on it - that took hours to remove too.

[Mark H]

A vote for ZA here - great improvement over Norton, which would stop you getting out of bed for your own safety if it could.

PS it is just me, or are some avatars smaller today?!?

[andym]

nod32

thats all im saying

Snap - updates constantly throughout the day and when you run a scan you don't even notice your machine slowing up. Norton is like carry a sack of tatties around all day.

[Sean Williams]

Norton is like carry a sack of tatties around all day.

I wondered why my back hasn't been hurting since I binned Norton

[party_pete]

Users of NOD32

How do you deal with Spam, do you use a seperate filter outside of NOD32?

I quite like the Norton Anti Spam that puts spam in a spam folder within outlook express but NOD32 does not appear to do this, and unwated spam still end s up in the inbox.