AntiVirus Software
 

Anyone have any recommendations on a good antivirus software (perhaps with
integrated firewall). I am wanting to avoid Nortons and Mcafee, due to the
amounts of resources they take up. I have tried NOD, which looks quite good.
I am also looking at AVGs paid version, but am not sure how much resources
it uses. I am wanting to use it on my desktop and my portable laptop, so a
single licence that allows installtioon on both(like macromedia do) would be
preferable.

TIA

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

"Rob" <donotspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139010363.804928@ftpsrv1...
> Anyone have any recommendations on a good antivirus software (perhaps with
> integrated firewall). I am wanting to avoid Nortons and Mcafee, due to the
> amounts of resources they take up. I have tried NOD, which looks quite
> good. I am also looking at AVGs paid version, but am not sure how much
> resources it uses. I am wanting to use it on my desktop and my portable
> laptop, so a single licence that allows installtioon on both(like
> macromedia do) would be preferable.
>
> TIA
>

Ive used AVG Free without too many hassles, although quite often itll find
viruses but not do anyhing with them until I boot into safe mode and
rescan...most likely due to files are in use etc which is fair enough....
Now using NOD32 for a while to see what its like. Havent had any resource
issues with it but also havent had any viruses to test it with :)

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

XPD wrote:

>
> "Rob" <donotspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1139010363.804928@ftpsrv1...
>> Anyone have any recommendations on a good antivirus software (perhaps
>> with integrated firewall). I am wanting to avoid Nortons and Mcafee, due
>> to the amounts of resources they take up. I have tried NOD, which looks
>> quite good. I am also looking at AVGs paid version, but am not sure how
>> much resources it uses. I am wanting to use it on my desktop and my
>> portable laptop, so a single licence that allows installtioon on
>> both(like macromedia do) would be preferable.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> Ive used AVG Free without too many hassles, although quite often itll find
> viruses but not do anyhing with them until I boot into safe mode and
> rescan...most likely due to files are in use etc which is fair enough....
> Now using NOD32 for a while to see what its like. Havent had any resource
> issues with it but also havent had any viruses to test it with :)
Hi
There is a test page at http://www.eicar.org/

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Re: AntiVirus Software
 

http://www.free-av.com

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

Thanks for the recommendations. I should have also said that I don't mind
paying, and I am going to use it for partly business use. The problem with
the free version of AVG(which I have found to be good), is that it puts a
footer message saying taht I am using the free version, which I want to
remove.


"Rob" <donotspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139010363.804928@ftpsrv1...
> Anyone have any recommendations on a good antivirus software (perhaps with
> integrated firewall). I am wanting to avoid Nortons and Mcafee, due to the
> amounts of resources they take up. I have tried NOD, which looks quite
> good. I am also looking at AVGs paid version, but am not sure how much
> resources it uses. I am wanting to use it on my desktop and my portable
> laptop, so a single licence that allows installtioon on both(like
> macromedia do) would be preferable.
>
> TIA
>
>
>

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

"nick" <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote in message
news:1139011969.366801.20810@g47g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> http://www.free-av.com

Which has just gone through big changes with the release of version 7.
Updates on it were shocking until just recently. Extra servers were added
and the new version 7 program was removed from the update files which
overloaded the update servers with all the big downloads for it.

E. Scrooge

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

"Rob" <donotspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139012410.848656@ftpsrv1...
> Thanks for the recommendations. I should have also said that I don't mind
> paying, and I am going to use it for partly business use. The problem with
> the free version of AVG(which I have found to be good), is that it puts a
> footer message saying taht I am using the free version, which I want to
> remove.

When I tried it a few years back the release version info could be removed
in the settings of it.

E. Scrooge

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

Rob wrote:
> Anyone have any recommendations on a good antivirus software (perhaps with
> integrated firewall). I am wanting to avoid Nortons and Mcafee, due to the
> amounts of resources they take up. I have tried NOD, which looks quite good.
> I am also looking at AVGs paid version, but am not sure how much resources
> it uses. I am wanting to use it on my desktop and my portable laptop, so a
> single licence that allows installtioon on both(like macromedia do) would be
> preferable.
>
> TIA
>
>
>

I've found NOD32 excellent as far as resource use goes and have been
using it for a few months. It hasn't detected any viruses yet, but I
guess that's a good thing.

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

In article <1139010363.804928@ftpsrv1>, "Rob" <donotspam@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Anyone have any recommendations on a good antivirus software (perhaps with
> integrated firewall). I am wanting to avoid Nortons and Mcafee, due to the
> amounts of resources they take up. I have tried NOD, which looks quite good.
> I am also looking at AVGs paid version, but am not sure how much resources
> it uses. I am wanting to use it on my desktop and my portable laptop, so a
> single licence that allows installtioon on both(like macromedia do) would be
> preferable.
>
> TIA

Mac OSX ?
ZERO viruses after 6 years
ZERO spyware after 6 years
ZERO adware after 6 years

And it can still run MS office, Photoshop, Macromedia, Adbobe products.

Re: AntiVirus Software
 

"Rob" <donotspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139012410.848656@ftpsrv1...
> Thanks for the recommendations. I should have also said that I don't mind
> paying, and I am going to use it for partly business use. The problem with
> the free version of AVG(which I have found to be good), is that it puts a
> footer message saying taht I am using the free version, which I want to
> remove.

Turn that off then :)
Can be done via the email scanner options.