Who Gets More Viruses and Who Gets Through Them

[Tarka Dal]

I try out everything at least once or twice. So I get viri and that kinda cr>p everyday. Over the last few weeks I have had:

Virus 6
Trojans 10
Riskware 36
And 90 intrusions all told.

I very rarely have to re-install as I find that after testing all the antivirus out there except NOD 32 I found that the only one that keeps me safe is ? No point in saying as too many people want to knock them down. If you want the answer PM me.

Nobody ever PM's me for what AV I use. So you are all happy with what you use. Great!

 

[Paarkhi]

I use Norton Internet security 2011 Beta

 

[Dinesh]

I have removed thousands of nasty viruses on client computers. Mostly I use Avast boot scan, mbam, hitman pro and SAS.

 

[kucing13]

NORTON? i left it along ago because i'm not satisfy with it

 

[merkat106]

I know many of you think Norton is crap, but in my experience, Symantec has turned themselves around. It isn't a memory hog anymore except for Norton 360, and it does a decent job of protecting my computer from viruses and helped me clean quite a few client computers. It seems effective against most viruses/malware.

I also use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware 2010.

From experience, I've learned not to trust freeware antivirus programs. I've been burned plenty by AVG, PC Tools etc. I have gotten viruses with them.

And, in m experience, all Windows based OS can get viruses.

 

[kucing13]

different user with difference experience i suppose

 

[spinifex]

I know many of you think Norton is crap, but in my experience, Symantec has turned themselves around. It isn't a memory hog anymore except for Norton 360, and it does a decent job of protecting my computer from viruses and helped me clean quite a few client computers. It seems effective against most viruses/malware.

I also use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware 2010.

From experience, I've learned not to trust freeware antivirus programs. I've been burned plenty by AVG, PC Tools etc. I have gotten viruses with them.

And, in m experience, all Windows based OS can get viruses.

We used norton from the early days of Peter Norton, but stopped using it some years ago.
I recall the problems trying to uninstall Norton, as it left trails all over the registry.
A reformat would have been quicker.

Burnt too many times to try them again.

 

[kucing13]

Yes,my experience with NORTON was that they eat memory which i could say a lot.

And i've changed to AVG,but that time AVG was still inferior to virus and brontok past through.

Try NOD32 which works well but I need to update it online while my internet connection is slow

Changed to AVIRA free and use it until now(avira's very sensitive especially to patch file etc)

 

[Lanthus20]

One virus. Destroyed my HDD and was what caused my fascination with computers. Since then no major ones, but the odd little one that was quickly found and eliminated before it did anything (by my anti-virus)

 

[manhunter2826]

Over approx. 8 yrs I've been infected maybe four times -- usually intercepted by Avast and/or resolved with a System Restore, and on one occasion a complete reinstall was necessary. The latter was partly my fault as I deleted the boot system files in Windows ME during the recovery from the infection

 

[kucing13]

the most strangers that past through my windows so far in XP

Ravmone.exe

But not in 7

 

[ForeverZero89]

the reason why mac os/linux doesn't get viruses is cause hardly anyone writes viruses for them.

 

[kucing13]

the reason why mac os/linux doesn't get viruses is cause hardly anyone writes viruses for them.

i'm sure you're referring to THIS

 

[ForeverZero89]

nope, if people were as diligent as other are at making stuff for mac and linux, they would be just as susceptible to viruses as windows is.

 

[kucing13]

i mean the lower page on that thread

 

[Dinesh]

the reason why mac os/linux doesn't get viruses is cause hardly anyone writes viruses for them.

i'm sure you're referring to THIS

:roflmao: