Ari Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Right, I've finally got rid of Norton using the Norton removal tool, seems to have gone ok as far as I can tell. So what's the best thing to replace it with? I've heard sometihng called AVS (I think) mentioned, any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 AVG is what you need. Some months some can be better than others but it hasn't let me down. Just put AVG free into google and download it and you will be fine. It updates every day and won't cost you a penny. Its won reviews in the past, not bad for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I've found viruses all over PC's "protected" by AVG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 It's Here . Great peice of s/w IMHO We've used it loads and yet to have any issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 [ QUOTE ] I've found viruses all over PC's "protected" by AVG. [/ QUOTE ] What by other pieces of software that like to find things they think might be viruses that aren't. AVG has found viruses for me no problems. Not once have I found it not to work on any of the machines I've supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppetboy Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 try Eset, it's great... you can download a 30 day trial version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I've found viruses all over PC's "protected" by AVG. [/ QUOTE ] What by other pieces of software that like to find things they think might be viruses that aren't. AVG has found viruses for me no problems. Not once have I found it not to work on any of the machines I've supported. [/ QUOTE ] No I mean like McAfee VirusScan Enterprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bounce Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I use AVG and i've found it fine on my own laptop, but i have put it on a couple of computers that mainly kids used and they both have had lots of viruses on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 [ QUOTE ] try Eset, it's great... you can download a 30 day trial version [/ QUOTE ] Use this one myself and love it cos its light on resources. Costs around £30 a year. Was one of the very few areas that I felt I didn't want to skimp on. Use it with a number of other (free) pieces of security software to keep things nasty free. As far as 'best' goes then I have been hearing very good things about Kaspersky - best detection rates etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted May 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 AVG sounds like the way to go then, especially for a tightarse like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 [ QUOTE ] McAfee VirusScan Enterprise. [/ QUOTE ] Which is a massive pile of bobbins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunty Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 Other free alternatives are: http://www.clamwin.com/ http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html ClamWin is interesting, I found it from my exploits with Ubuntu Linux it seems quite good but has very little penitration into the Windows arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 ClamWin comes bundled with SpywareTerminator (real-time anti malware utility with decent on demand scanner). ST is a great product but Clam is not really well thought of and most don't activate it. That's what I do anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] McAfee VirusScan Enterprise. [/ QUOTE ] Which is a massive pile of bobbins! [/ QUOTE ] And why is that then? We've just replaced Sophos with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 We've just moved off it due to it missing tons of viruses and causing a lot of PC's to hang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 [ QUOTE ] We've just moved off it due to it missing tons of viruses and causing a lot of PC's to hang. [/ QUOTE ] Unfortunately that's been our findings too. AV is an odd one - ask ten techies which they prefer and you'll get lots of differing answers all slating the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 We've only had problems with low spec PC's. We've now rolled out to approx 50k PC's & servers. Corporate managability is far superior to what we had with Sophos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 Well yes, I can imagine that's true. 50k plus desktop is a bit of handful I only have 7 or 8k to hand but the principal is much the same I guess. Only we don't have your IT budget If you want to throw some our way please do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 I think a lot of problems we had were low powered Dell business machines. The HP ones seem better, but the AV still saps them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted June 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 I'm confused, where's the free one on here? http://www.grisoft.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 [ QUOTE ] It's Here . Great peice of s/w IMHO We've used it loads and yet to have any issues. [/ QUOTE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 [ QUOTE ] I'm confused, where's the free one on here? http://www.grisoft.com [/ QUOTE ] Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted June 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Many thanks, finally got around to this. Downloaded it but it's asking for "license/sales number". Says I will find this within the email or product registration card or packaging, none of which I have of course as I've just downloaded it direct. Any thoughts..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Thoughts are you have downloaded the full version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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