Which computer antivirus is the best?

i use Norton. It's really good.

i use norton. i also heard mcaffe(dunno if i got the spelling right ) and AVG is good. AVG has a free edition which works but getting the full package is the best cuzz it contains other utilities like adware and spyware remover.

overall i think NORTON is d best.

Norton is a heavy antivirus, it's slows down the computer while booting and it is hard to update.

i just switched to avast recently and i think am liking it.

norton is not hard to update and it doesnt slow down my pc. my pc is always on and even when i restart, norto doesnt take much time to boot, it might be cuzz of your RAM memory. mine is 1giga, so it is pretty fast. if yours is 128 or 256, it might be slow a lil bit.

What about AVG Free Edition?

seun, u can see from the link u posted above dat getting the free edition is only useful to those people that dont know much about the pc and virus software. i dont believe everyone has the time to scan the computer manually. i plus many things are not available in the free software.

Norton is too top heavy, it is burning out your computer.


www.avast.com

It's free and unlike AVG, it actually works and is great in that if you have Xp it gives you the ability to scan the computer before it comes on and get rid of resident and memory virus.

I use Mcfee. It's the father of all. Seriously, it's awesome. Updates itself and protects the computer. I also use AOL spyware, and i use Windows defender. Yes oo. All of them.

hot_angel


how is aol spyware, how does it work?

AOL spyware, works fine. It just sometimes turns itself off, so u have to turn it on again. Weird.

And i think it only works when you r on AOL browser. It's not protecting the whole computer. Just the AOL browser.

I don't use any antivirus

I only disactivate java

if u deactivate java, u wont be able to run some programs and some websites wont work properly. dats kindda difficult for me to do.

diddy4dt:

if u deactivate java, u wont be able to run some programs and some websites wont work properly. that is kindda difficult for me to do.

Exactly wat i was gonna say!!!

U wont be able to play games on some sites like yahoo. And u know, java is life. lol

wonder how he deactivates java.

Symantec anti virus. It's pretty good.

Mcfee is what the Lagos State Government uses for her intra and internet facilities. the Lagos State Government won the global award for e-governance late last year for her huge Oracle infrastructure and e-service delivery. That speaks a volume for Mcfee- just as hot-angel called it: 'father of all'.

Someone just introduced me to Spybot "search and destroy .14" it is the most popular and and over 78 million downloads so far. I used it yesterday and my system is back on flight after 4 unpleasant and tortuous days of crawling and wallowing in viral infection.

I have used Norton since trhe first time I had access to  computers;then suggested Mcaffee but it was really slwoing down my system but like someonme mentioned earlier,I found out that it was a memory problem. With a IG RAm, it really did not matter much.

But I have only recently paid homage to Avast cos I had one of those virus that  work on your registry and replicate folders all over the place in your documsnts. It was Avast that dealt with it.

so basically u have two antivirus software, i tot dat is dangerous to the system.

Once used Norton. It's very okay.

Once used AVG. Shit software. It only detects virus, it never erases them.

Currently using Mcafee and it's serving me right.

I was told kaspersky is also good, even better than mcafee and norton. I don't know how true that is though.

diddy4dt, actually my ram is 1.5GB and i still feel the effect of norton

1.5 gig

damn wonder y its still slow.

well u can try mcaffe den.

i minimize my ram alot

I've been using avast for 3yrs now,complain.

so its avast good?

Avast is quite good,easy to install does not slow your system down while starting up and does not interfer with your work like other software do

Cheers

thanks

I don't use anti-virus software (I have my norton disabled). All you need is to you keep your firewall that comes standard with windows XP or from an nvidea mother board on at all times. Nothing would get into your computer that way.

Norton is nice but it is a pain if you do a lot of work online. Constantly having online access ports blocked for by some pathetic program that you can do with out is not worth it.

I have used Norton/Symantec, Avast and now AVG Free.

I will say AVG free pretty much does the work, its free, its regularly updated, it doesnt take a loda on the machine and work pretty silent. The AVG free version does match all you need with even more features than Norton.

If you want pretty much protection, you need three things - Firewall, Antivirus and Antispyware. I recommend not to use the native XP firewall,

here is my recommendation:

Firewall - [/b]Sygate Personal Firewall (Free, discontinued after Symantec bought Sygate over. The last edition works pretty fine) - http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160
[b]Antivirus - AVG Free (It has all the essentials, including a resident memory scanner, an e-mail scanner, and scheduled hard disc scans, regular virus definitions and application updates available from Grisoft) - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
[b]AntiSpyware - [/b]Windows Defender (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/default.mspx)

By the way, all the above are free. Make sure that if you have to pay, you are doing so for what is absolutely missing. For someone that pretty much stays online all the time, I will say the above pretty much does it all. No need to pay extra buck for features you never use.

I use Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic.

The interface is pretty neat, and it's got a light memory footprint. Plus it's free.

http://www.free-av.com/

I generally avoid Norton and McAfee because they generally increase your system's startup time, which is a very bad thing, IMO.

One more thing: Avira is extremely good if you have an older machine that may be a little slow. It is open source, has a version for Linux and Free BSD with prompt support. Was a time I had a nasty virus that Norton and McAfee failed to even detect. Avira not just detected it, it cleaned it up.

The best anti virus out there though is Zone Alarm. A bit heavy though, but that shit is the bomb!

Review

The reason I do not consider AVG to work is because of the fact that it's own files are constantly infected with Virus's.

I remember once watching it install and it installed a file called DarkAngel.

I was like what? I called them, they told me that someone had infected their installation files and they would soon have a cure.

If you can not protect your own installation files, what da , ?

Also I notice that if you have AVG and then switch to AVAST, AVAST immeadiately finds virus's on your computer, even though AVG was supposed to have you protected.