Antivirus review (whats been working and not)

Forefront Client Security works as well, FWIW. But you have to jump through some hoops.

I recently tried Windows Live Onecare, a friend told me to download it after my PC was acting up and AVG free wasn't finding anything wrong. It immediately picked up a trojan and got rid of it. It has a 90 day trial and so far its been going well on my machine with xp, doesn't hog resources like AVG free did. However its not compatible with windows 7...aroo?

holo88 said:

which version? because i used the latest trial version (32-bit), and it would not update.
so i switched to 4.0.3xx and it works fine.

Maybe it was some bug, that Eset has to iron out?

They did have that updating bug during the trial but that was fixed early on and has not returned.

Kaspersky Technical Preview for windows 7....da best

Could not get it to install. The Dell Mini 9 was not listed as tested with this product. But what the heck I thought, The Mini 9 is a netbook. I hope they support it soon.

After trying AVG and having problems with Firefox I decided to try Norton 360. It has a lot of different components. Even after a clean install of Firefox it still is slow loading and sometimes freezes on launch. I don't know if this is a problem with Firefox and virus scanners or not.

I used the backup file feature to a remote HD and it worked fine. I could not get the Internet back-up to work. There was a help module that offered to get me online with a Chat session. I declined for now.

For a Windows newbie like me there seems to be a lot of fine tuning needed by the end user. Right now I'm using the Norton Insight module that supposedly blesses files so that they are identified as trusted and not require repeated scanning.

I may be having some Firewall issues as test uploads and download via SpeedEasy Speed Test are showing me slower figures than my other computer that is a Mac (at one time the Dell Mini 9 was equal to the Mac in speed using this test).

All in all I will probably buy this thing. Does anyone have any longer term use of Norton 360? What do you think of it?

Eset NOD32 Antivirus v4 32-bits works. Flawless.

If you are looking for good free AV's, then I would recommend these:

1. ALWIL Software Avast 4.8 Home Edition Download FREE antivirus software - avast! Home Edition - if you download and torrent alot of stuff (scans P2P files for viruses and stuff)

2. Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Free antivirus - Avira AntiVir - if you dont download or torrent that often.

Both are real nice, but I myself prefer Avast cause it digs way down deep into each extractable file and scans for anything hidden inside, while AntiVir just scans the individual files.