Virus Shkanners

thewombleofdeath · Post by **thewombleofdeath** » June 30th, 2007, 17:08

i know its probably been done before but which virus scanner is teh best according to 5punk?

eion · Post by **eion** » June 30th, 2007, 17:09

Err, I think you forgot Symantec (which in my experience is site licensed by a lot of businesses and universities). It's also rather good, and it's what I use.

edit: pffft at ninja poll editing.

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » June 30th, 2007, 17:15

A poll wasn't the best Idea for this thread, I recommend using Avast, AVG free, A Squared for scanning, Sophos, Symantec and non-free Zone Alarm

EDIT* I use Avast! because it plays nice with x64 and is generally good at what it does.

Post by **deject** » June 30th, 2007, 18:12

AVG is not even close to the best, it's just free.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 30th, 2007, 18:48

I generally use simiantech, It's not the best IMO/E but I like it because it's not at all invasive under most situations (unless it sees a nasty) and never wants a reboot

Otherwise, I like Sophos and Kaspersky, both are very good, but fail a little by not being free.

Kaspersky is also a little too noisy for my liking, it needs reboots here and there, which is very inconvenient.

edit:

In the past I've tried AVG and panda. both were utter shite.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 30th, 2007, 19:03

Out of those I've heard the best things about NOD. I use Avast though, purely for the piratical connections.

Post by **FatherJack** » June 30th, 2007, 21:17

Didn't Symantec buy Norton?

Norton was all of teh fail, we had massive outbreaks at work from people who were only using that. Someone took the view that "Market Leader"=Best and we were stuck with it for a while, but we mainly use Kaspersky now, which we'd used since the Win 3.x days.

I've never liked either much, mostly from a memory footprint perspective. Avast was okay, if a little hard on slower machines until I tried to use NZB-o-matic - then it utterly failed as it couldn't monitor all the TCP connections and shut them down.

Might try NOD as people have said good things, I currently use AVG and recommend it generally, but it does miss a few - after an update its scans usually find something "new" in a browser cache or temp file.

eion · Post by **eion** » July 1st, 2007, 3:38

FatherJack wrote:Didn't Symantec buy Norton?

Yes, they did.

The Symantec-branded product is the fancier one (that most importantly, doesn't need a subscription to download updates) - it's the new and improved version of the corporate edition of NAV, I believe.

The Norton-branded product is the home user one. It is indeed utterly fail. We shall not speak of it ever again.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 1st, 2007, 12:56

I've recently dropped McAfee because I picked up a virus several months ago and by the time I got round to doing something about it McAfee still hadn't picked it up, despite several complete scans. I switched to NOD32 on CheesaAndHam's advice and it picked it up and removed it right away. I still have time left on my McAfee subscription, but I've completely lost faith in it.

Virus Shkanners

Which Virus Scanner is the bestest?

Virus Shkanners