Free antivirus Which do you use?
#1
Posted 19 February 2005 - 11:55 AM
So I'm curious what experiences anyone else has with antivirus software. It doesn't have to be free, I'm just looking for something that does its job without killing your computer, have a nice simple interface, and some good features. Others I've looked into but never tried: Kapersky, Panda, the Zonealarm one (since I use their firewall), F-Prot, Anti-vir.
#3
Posted 21 February 2005 - 02:16 PM
[TEMPT FATE]Personally I haven't really been using an anti-virus. I think I do a pretty good job of steering clear of things that would cause virus.[/TEMPT FATE]
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#4
Posted 21 February 2005 - 05:03 PM
On my personal computer, when it was on the internet, I did the same as Chefelf. Avoid any places where viruses might be.
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#6
Posted 27 February 2005 - 02:46 AM
#7
Posted 08 August 2005 - 06:18 PM
We use an extreamly old version of F-Prot at school and i think it did a good job back in its day, I don't think our version has been updated in a few years though.
I've worked on computers with AVAST and didn't really like it, it wouldn't remove the virus and I had to go into DOS and delete the file that way.
I've never know anyone to use Norton past its free trial that comes with stuff.
#8
Posted 10 December 2006 - 03:04 PM
so, does anyone know of a good free firewall I could install next time I'm at home? preferably one with a straightforward interface that my not-particularly-technophilic mother could figure out when I'm not there. we had norton, but it was a royal pain in the ass - I'd prefer to install something that is smaller and free. also, are AVG and Avast still good free antivirus programs to use? I was tempted to just install Ubuntu instead which would solve that problem but I decided not to because I was worried that she would have trouble with Windows attachments she gets in emails from work. Any advice on this one?
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#9
Posted 10 December 2006 - 03:46 PM
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#10
Posted 10 December 2006 - 03:59 PM
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A year ago I got a trojan from a no cd patch from a game from a website. I had Macafee 7 home but that was useless as it worked on a browser setting but that was the very thing it was embedded into. I didn't like their demeaning idea of home. Macafee Enterprise 8 caused huge delays when opening up folders on the file server.
AVG Anti Virus demo/trial in 2002 was shoddy from my experience. Someone brought me their computer to look at. Upon detection it says something like "We recommend you put this into the virus vault" and didn't give me the option of deleting it. After that some error message about not being able to move the file and it stopped responding each time.
It was only a trojan and I took out the links from registry. Then tried an experiment. I did not delete the file, instead I did a scan for it and the same thing about only putting it in the virus vault without being able to move it but did not stop responding that time. Simply I deleted it. I tried that AVG anti virus trial again with a bunch of loose trojans I stored up from a cd in 2002, virus vault as the only choice and the same message. Well I am sure they moved on from there on their demo's to take deletion seriously. Unless of course it was paid for.
For a free firewall I have found one a while back but haven't used it yet:
http://www.programme...al/firewall.htm
Just saw:
Sygate?
I thought it wasn't free years back.
I'll take a look at that.
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 10 December 2006 - 04:29 PM