[Discussion] The Anti-Virus, Spyware, Malware thread

[Fried Rice]

need to use meh? i never use for any of my computers also no problems so far.

[iFocus]

ESET NOD32Below is the highlights on ESET NOD32.

 

Why ESET?

You don't need a multi-million dollar budget to get best-in-class security for all of your endpoints. With ESET security solutions you can have scalable, comprehensive protection that is easily deployed and managed across your system, whether you have 25 workstations or thousands.

Smart, proactive protection

ESET's award-winning ThreatSense® heuristic technology uses multiple layers of threat detection to deliver the most effective protection possible. ESET Smart Security detects and disables both known and unknown viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, rootkits and other Internet threats.

See for yourself. Compare ESET to other antivirus software. (http://www.eset.com/products/compare-NOD32-vs-competition.php)

Built for speed

ESET antivirus solutions are so fast your users won't even notice that they're running. Even disk-intensive operations like performing a "full disk scan" run smoothly in the background while your users work.

Easy on end users

ESET antivirus software will brighten your help desk manager's day. From its compact and intuitive user interface to its minimal use of alerts, your users will receive the best possible proactive detection against malware, without enduring excessive system slowdowns and alerts, reboots or annoying false positives.

Streamlined administration

Monitor all of your networks remotely from anywhere in the world, with the ability to push new updates to workstations independently. ESET Remote Administrator provides a single management console to control a network of tens to thousands of computers from a single screen, including installation, updates, alerts, and troubleshooting.

Compliance support

ESET security solutions provide critical features, such as external drive access control and scanning, Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) compatibility, as well as enhanced logging and reporting functions to support your compliance initiatives.

Comprehensive customer support

ESET provides an online user manual and FAQs along with a lively user forum as well as email and telephone customer support.

 

Cheers & Regards,

Kamal Affendey

Edited February 3, 2010 by redbeacon
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[Fritz]

NOD32 sure is good; comparable to Kaspersky, if not better.

[chuan.z]

Product comparison from the manufacturer's site?

 

Well, this should put things in perspective:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests/summary-reports

 

YEAR 2009 (AV Product of the Year: Symantec)

YEAR 2008 (AV Product of the Year: AVIRA)

YEAR 2007 (AV Product of the Year: ESET NOD32)

YEAR 2006 (AV Product of the Year: ESET NOD32)

YEAR 2005 (AV Product of the Year: Kaspersky)

YEAR 2004 (AV Product of the Year: Kaspersky)

[redbeacon]

Product comparison from the manufacturer's site?

 

Well, this should put things in perspective:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests/summary-reports

I've steered clear of Symantec and their Norton-family of antivirus software because they were pesky to have installed and to operate.

 

But now I noticed that they're cleaning up with regards to their footprint (no more slowing down the PC when it's installed), as well as User Interface, has anyone used it.

 

Question to the knowledgeable guys here: Is it as persistent as before? I know the previous versions would just nag and nag at you from whether you wanna do this or that, or better, every hour with a bloody popup in the center of the screen when your antivirus subscription has expired.

[Fritz]

From what I've been told by the people in Norton, they have toned down on the 'naggy' notifications, significantly increased their scanning speed, decrease the resources used and made it a heck lot simpler to install/uninstall with their new Norton 2010 product line. How true is that, remains to be seen.

[chuan.z]

Haha... those were the "good old days" of Norton. Hated them as well for slowing down everything you are trying to do with your PC to a crawl.

 

But from the Performance Test @ av-comparatives, it does seems that they have bucked up somewhat. My workplace PC is installed with Symantec Endpoint Protection, after the first few days of slowness caused by fingerprinting and all, things seems to be back to normal. So I guess there is some credit to their claim.

 

*disclaimer: I'm not advocating for nor against any anti-virus brands.

[Fritz]

Honestly, the new TV spot for Kaspersky; which includes Jackie Chan prancing around is a big waste of money.

 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRSQVsOX_Y[/yt]

[Paladin]

The following AVs i have used since 2008.

AVIRA Free - Good and Simple, one of the most resource friendly AV u can get. (ads during autoupdate)

AVAST Free - Good, Slighty more features thn avira (i dont like). Cartoon UI (IMO).

AVG Free - Getting bugged by more features... Have not used it since AVG 8, prefered 7.5

Norton - Slowed dwn my PC noticibly. Uninstalled since the 1yr evalutaion expired. (Not impressive imho)

 

my pc is an old hagged lady, so i always welcomed simplicity and resource friendly softwares.

 

One should not rely solely on Anti Virus to protect their data.

There will be instances where files damaged are unrecoverable.

Backups are good,

because i can take an instant stab (C:/fdisk) at the issue if things are out of hand.

If im a home user, i prolly get a free AV and invest in a one time fee of buying an ext harddisk that comes with auto backup features. In this way, i get a better protection with good value.

Save the hassle of renewing licences everyear with some Crab for $70-$100/ year.

[Cyanide14]

I finally installed Symantec on my lappie Vista...

Looks good so far......

[syihabuddin]

funny only 3 guys mentioned nod32. but i'd go for the total security version, eset smart security. really nice and quiet. you won't even know it's running until it quietly tells you 'hey! i've updated myself. but really you dont have to bother about me. i'm doing my job. now run along and just pretend im not here.'

[rage3114]

AVG is good enuff, along with MalwareBytes for spyware and malware protection.

[redbeacon]

On one of my computers in my home, running genuine Windows Vista Home Premium, one of the Windows update patches caused my internet browsing to behave funny.

 

Everytime I downloaded something from the internet, after it reaches 100% completion, the status window would mysteriously close, and the file would just disappear. As if no download took place.

 

Narrowed it down to AVG antivirus, uninstalled that bugger, and installed something else. Problem went away.

 

Hope Grisoft fixes their AVG antivirus in the next update, else it's over to another AV for me.

[Fried Rice]

just installed avg free anti virus

 

any updates on what u guys using now?

[lunloon]

Avast home ed.

[wanaero]

i using mac and don't see a point in buying anti virus..

[DarkPride]

Kaspersky over NOD32 anytime.

[Dafanshu]

any feedback on Bitdefender?

[Tanarthur]

Hi guys, where to download nod32 free software? The one i download only 30days trial.