The shield safe av versus grisoft av

From: owl (owl.1syfps_at_pcbanter.net)
Date: 07/29/05 

Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:15:47 +0000

David H. Lipman Wrote:
> From: "owl" owl.1suqds@pcbanter.net
>
>
>
> | Have just unistalled norton av, I think, and have been on websites
> to
> | compare different av's. the top 2 recommended seem to be
> | The Shield Pro av and
> | Grisoft
> | any opinions please, as at present, I have no av protection,
> | early replies would be greatly appreciated.
> | many thanks in anticipation-- owl
>
> You should ask such a question in a virus News Group.
>
> microsoft.public.security.virus
> alt.comp.virus
> alt.comp.anti-virus
>
> I would NOT recomend The Shield Pro ! It has zero following in
> alt.comp.virus and it has a
> small library. ~33,000 even ClamAV which is junk has more. Good AV
> software should be 2.5
> to 5 times that size.
>
> AVG v7.x is a better choice. CA eTrust is even better than AVG.
>
> AVAST -
> http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE
>
> AntiVir -
> http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE
>
> AVG -
> http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE
>
> CA eTrust -
> http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
> { Free offer ends 8/1/05 }
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Thanks for your advice, I have downloaded AVG free edition, and
amazingly it found 9 trojan horses, yet I have subcribed to Norton for
2 yrs and it never picked these up. Avg has put them in a vault, do not
fully understand this, do they just stay there? Have consulted their
help notes but do not fully comprehend them either, but anyhow based
onthe fact that it detected these, I will probably subcribe to the paid
version, do you know if it user friendly to people that are not that
experienced with computer termonology?
Once again thanks for your time, help and advice, so many things with a
computer are a minefield, but i'm still learning and practicing! 

-- 
owl