Re: Anti-Virus Recommendation

From: Mike Jones (admin_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:56:33 GMT

Ver Eecke Siegfried wrote:
> I am looking also for a new antivirus because my norton licence gonna
> finish.
> I tested a few antivirus (demo versions) the past month.
>
> NOD32: did not work with me, found it strange but got endless
> problems with it ... ok, it is like that; but I have no doubt it is a
> good product
>
> Kaspersky: How is this possible ??? This guy is an old viruswriter
> and he still continue in this style. He write something in the header
> of each file in order to scan faster. After uninstalling his product,
> my whole NFTS filesystem was corrupt... thanks Eugene, but no more
> with me.
>
> Bitdefender: Excellent product, light on resources, fast updates -
> good detection. But the only problem was how to clean zip files, He
> cleaned it but the zip file came corrupt. I doubt about the realtime
> protection of this scanner. He give warnings about infected files,
> but he let them trough... even with the option 'deny access and
> delete' But this will sure improve in te future
>
> NAV 2006: Good, a littlebit bloatware and popups, warnings here and
> there and requires a newer system. Excellent if you have a strong
> computer and enough memory.
>
> F-secure: too heavy on resources... very slow scanning
>
> F-prot: This is what I gonna buy - This fits the best for me and I
> enjoyed to use it - simple but excellent. This is really the scanner
> for me !
>
> Avast ! - My second choise ! Excellent and he does everything the
> right
> way - realtime protection works flawless
>
Anyone have views (but preferably based on experience) on WinClam (free)?

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