Looking for a New Anti-Virus

Wishmaster · 26 Nov 2010

I use Norton and it has done an excellent job so far. (Been using it now about a year and a half)

No nastys and no false positives as of yet on all 3 PCs its on.

EchoX860 · 27 Nov 2010

So it's a lot better than the older versions which basically everyone said to stay away from?

Phone Man · 27 Nov 2010

Starting in 2009 NIS has been vastly improved and has been rated as one of the best in competitive tests. I am running NIS 2011 and really like it. It has a feature called Identity Safe where it will store your logins and passwords and makes it easy to login to your sites. I trust it more than the browser password feature.

Jim

Ciara · 27 Nov 2010

Hi EchoX860 :), I use Vipre Premium (its retail) and only had it about 3 weeks and its blocked a lot of stuff and quarantined some (from Tracking Cooke's to Trojan) and I will be renewing the subscription

marsmimar · 27 Nov 2010

Seems like every few weeks (day?) we get someone asking what is the "best" AV program. The "best" anti-anything program is the one that works best for your computer. Whether you select a freebie like MSE or a paid version like NIS, just make sure it passes some basic tests like the EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File and the Spycar test files.

eicar | THE ANTI-VIRUS OR ANTI-MALWARE TEST FILE

Welcome to Spycar

In particular, make sure your anti-malware of choice can detect and isolate the bad stuff in a .zip file. If it can't pass either of the tests, dump it for something that can.

Phone Man · 27 Nov 2010

marsmimar said:

Seems like every few weeks (day?) we get someone asking what is the "best" AV program. The "best" anti-anything program is the one that works best for your computer. Whether you select a freebie like MSE or a paid version like NIS, just make sure it passes some basic tests like the EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File and the Spycar test files.

eicar | THE ANTI-VIRUS OR ANTI-MALWARE TEST FILE

Welcome to Spycar

In particular, make sure your anti-malware of choice can detect and isolate the bad stuff in a .zip file. If it can't pass either of the tests, dump it for something that can.

I am running NIS2011 and when I clicked on the Spycar link NIS blocked the site and showed 73 malicious files. I like the idea that it blocked me from going to the site.

Jim

evil c · 28 Nov 2010

I've used Norton, McAfee, AVG, and latterly ZoneAlarm Extreme. I installed MSE yesterday and it's using a lot less space on my hard disk, doesn't slow down the system performance, doesn't hassle me with messages about what it's checking or that it's time for an update and I should do it NOW, and was very easy to set up. It's available as a right click in context menus, carries out a 'quick scan' quickly and so far so good.

Maxwell · 28 Nov 2010

You really can't go wrong with Microsoft Security Essentials. It gets the job done, and for me I feel like i never know that it is even there.

malexous · 29 Nov 2010

EchoX860 said:

So it's a lot better than the older versions which basically everyone said to stay away from?

In my opinion, yes. I wonder why you didn't ask before buying Norton.

Have you uninstalled Kaspersky and installed Norton yet?

yowanvista · 29 Nov 2010

Ciara said:

Hi EchoX860 :), I use Vipre Premium (its retail) and only had it about 3 weeks and its blocked a lot of stuff and quarantined some (from Tracking Cooke's to Trojan) and I will be renewing the subscription

Some members said Vipre has a very bad customer support service