5punk

So, it's that time of the year where my antivirus subscription runs out.

So anyway, having a look around and I can license 5 windows workstations for 1 year for 24 notes with Kaspersky Antivirus.
This is going to work out cheaper than licensing 1 workstation with nod32. I am ofc gonna give it a test drive first, but I thought I'd also ask if any 5punker has had a bad experience with it at all, or I've missed something equally as good and cheap?

Ta muchly.

it's probably the best for value...5 PC's for 24 squid is pretty cheap, even if it is just for anti-virus (the whole shabang is only £34). I don't have any experience with it though. I've only ever used norton, McAfee and AVG (AVG probably being the best).

I would think Kapersky would be pretty decent as it is a well known and much-used product, but then again the same could be said about Norton *shudder*

Kaspersky is pretty good, IME.

my other options paid-for wise would be nod32 and sophos, but they're not as cheap.


Theft wise, I like Simiantec, it's not perfect, but it's light and stays the fuck out of the way.

also. AVG is evil.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote: also. AVG is evil.

I generally use Avast! or NOD32, both seem to do the job fine.

This is for my company so it has to be above board, sadly.

I'm curious as to why you aren't a fan of AVG, as, after all, it is free.

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Kaspersky is good if you need a full security package. Its virus scanner is one of the better ones. NOD32 is arguably the best anti-virus scanner you can get, but it is more expensive.

Kapersky's the official one at work - I imagine it's been tested for things like detection rates and analysis against the others as the guy who selected it is very, very thorough. I found it to be a bit heavy though, and slowed things down too much.

The only ones of the free ones that didn't piss me off with yearly registering and were sufficently light were Avira AntiVir, Avast (with animated system tray items off) and AVG.

AntiVir used to have the occasional spack and not autoupdate, Avast couldn't cope with all the connections NZB-O-Matic opened, and AVG tends to be a bit slow at recognising new threats - it detects stuff that's on a disk, that it shouldn't have allowed there in the first place, breaks games sometimes with false positives and doesn't play nice with other products.

Despite this, I use AVG for resident, but do web-based scans as well as the ones on the Windows Ultimate Boot CD periodically, rather than trust a single product.

Oddly I've never considered paying for one, if I did it would probably be NOD32, but I never get around to trialling it.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

^ this place tests 10 or 12 popular Anti-Virus programs. Click on the "Comparatives" link.

Basically, Kaspersky, NOD32, Norton, F-Secure, AVG, and a few others catch pretty much everything.

Fear wrote:I'm curious as to why you aren't a fan of AVG, as, after all, it is free.

Last time I used it (admittedly, this time last year) on an infected machine, it pretty much failed brutally, AVG was saying the machine was clean.

Everything else I tried (sophos, kaspersky and simiantec) complained about stuff and, while it was a fairly persistent set of infections, cleaned the machine very well indeed.

to be honest I haven't really had any problems with AVG so far. I've got the paid version and although it's not very cheap, it does tend to stay out of the way. I can't really compare it to many others as I haven't used that many. It's better than Norton but then again, Norton is about as good as 'calpol 3+ months' at getting rid of viruses, and doesnt taste as nice.

also, check this report out: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/100900

I recommended Avast to someone after reading about it here. Apparently after installing it she got loads of spam emails that had never been a problem before.

Latest Virus Bulletin Comparative Test - http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/2007/12
Summary - http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/r ... ay=summary

Kasperskys Test History - http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/r ... endor=VE15


Login details for Virus Bulletin to save you registering - http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.virusbtn.com

That's rather handy that is.

Also interesting that nod32 and simiantech seem to have fairly good history.

Pffffft, the price of norton 360 on their own uk site is fucking silly!

But narf, I'd not shell out for all those 'features', I'd just buy the £25 one that does everything the £40 one does, and more, but for less monies.

simiantec corp is free, always has been

Does anyone know how to regedit so the avira popup thingy can be told to fuck off?

Although I may move away from it anyway, it's very detection lite and as much as I love the lack of intrusiveness, I also feel like it's doing nothing, I think a bit of for simiantec is needed. You got a good sauce berk?

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:That's rather handy that is.

Also interesting that nod32 and simiantech seem to have fairly good history.

I'm using NOD32 and it's all fine. Recommended. A short notice: Most of these crappy modern anti-viruses (McAffe, etc) use online registration and I've yet to find a way to correctly sweep those. NOD is easily sweepable AND reliable.

Hmm, nm on the previous post . I've been supplied with some corporate monkey knowledge.