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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:23 am 
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Some dipstick has installed Norton at work and I am looking to remove thsi and replace with a decent anti-virus/protection programme.

Any reccomendations?
The only ones I have heard of are:-
1) Eset NOD32
2) AVG

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:10 pm 
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Kasperski is pretty good and not too expensive.
Thats what we use at home anyway.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:30 pm 
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NOD32 ftw, I'm never going to use something else. :)

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:20 pm 
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I use a combination of solutions on my PCs & laptops - so far I haven't had any issues having used Symantec products or (what used to be GriSoft's) AVG free. I usually combine SpyBot S&D with AVG free on machines I don't want to pay for a solution on and Norton's Internet Security on my other machines - what is it about Norton that's given you issues then JP?

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Mainly it has been attacked over the last year, failed to protect and promptly does sweet FA about rectifying the situation.

The only way to ressurect the machine was to manually bugger with stuff.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:07 pm 
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Norton has worked OK on my PC for the last 2 - 3 years but recently it hit an issue with some virus and didn't auto-delete. Doing it manually is a right PITA :(

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:17 pm 
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I can't recommend Kaspersky highly enough.
Had a rather nasty trojan doing the rounds recently, only 3 AV software packages would pick it up, Kaspersky, being one! Can't remember the other 2, but DO know it wasn't nortons or McAfee (which we use at work!)

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I use AVG with Spybot and Adaware on my machines.

With antivirus there's a new program every 5 minutes, most leave loads of crud in your registry when you try to uninstall. So I stick with AVG. Has regular updates.

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Kaspersky is reckoned to be the best at the moment... and I would agree ... read the reviews ;)

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I use spybot, hijack this and process explorer to look for little nasties


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I also use PC Tools Spyware Doctor which has top reviews and the updates are very regular. Not exactly antivirus but just thought I'd mention it.

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+1 Kaspersky

A worked for a company that did internet and email security solutions and they worked in-conjunction with/and used Kaspersky.

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oops, forgot another one
Malwarebytes malware removal tool

I tend to pick tools by lurking about on the hijack this forums and seeing what tools they tell people to run :lol:


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Kasperky all in one Security Suite - Anti Virus, Firewall etc... 3 licenses for 1 year £12 ish :)

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i use this http://www.spywaredetector.net/

and this http://www.maxregistrycleaner.com/

not really anti-virus though

I used to use the avg anti-virus but then found a couple of virus's it just couldn't deal with, so i binned it.

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