Antivirus discussion

[jen87]

I've read many bad opinions about Norton AV, so decided to create a topic to talk about antivirus softwares, what do you think?

I use AVG (FREE!!! edition) at home and Avast in my office.

Can you tell me what AV do you use and why?

I've made a list to help

Antivirus Software:
- Norton.
- AVG (free edition).
- Avast.
- Panda Software.

Free Online Scanning:
- infectedornot.com
- bitdefender.com

any other?

[SoftwareMS]

Here is what we use at work

McAfee Active VirusScan SMB Edition 25 Users by: McAfee - Software

But at home I use

McAfee Total Protection : Download

I'm sure the features speak for themselves.

Norton is also good but we found that the above protection suited us better, we supply Norton AV OEM for £24.99. We recommend Norton and McAfee to all users but some users may disagree.

[gkd_uk]

Welcome to the forum Jen87

I think Symantec Multi Tier Corporate Edition is really good for a business network

[SoftwareMS]

Multi Tier is quite good but try there support for this version.

Absolutely appalling

[RiverWire]

Norton is very good but uses alot of system resources, Mcafee is much worse in resorces and detection rates , if you have a hardware firewall (router) then the best by along was is Nod32 by Antivirus Software - Eliminate Spyware and Adware with NOD32 Antivirus from ESET , they've had the best detection rates for years ,are cheap and uses less resources than any other AV

[gkd_uk]

Originally Posted by SoftwareMS

Multi Tier is quite good but try there support for this version.

Absolutely appalling

I have used their support once but the customer who I was sorting this out for had gold support so they were Symantec were very helpful and my call was answered quickly.

That was a year ago though so i'm not sure what they are like now