natimage Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 What's the best virus protection program out there? Zone Alarm, Norton, McAfee??? I'm just looking for opinions before I decide to buy one. I'm running a free trial of Norton right now...I have 14 days left before I have to make a decision or get another free trial!!! Thanks, Tracy Quote
cmuskett Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 Right now I'm running Zone Alarm which is good to stop someone from hacking into your computer (firewall). I'm also running a free anti-virus AVG which is very good. I was running Norton's too, but AVG works just as good if not better. Quote
TCH-Rick Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 I really like AVG as well. I've been running it for a long time now and it has worked very well. Here is the download location for the free version. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted July 6, 2003 Posted July 6, 2003 I just got AVG and it found some files Norton missed. Time to make the switch. Quote
stevevan Posted July 6, 2003 Posted July 6, 2003 Anyone know of any that work on various flavors of Unix? Quote
Mav2u Posted July 7, 2003 Posted July 7, 2003 I've run Norton for the last 4 years, and I've never received a virus on any of my five home computers. The Government computers and network where I used to work never got a virus either when running Nortons. Nortons autoupdates, and runs very nicely on XP and 2000. I have never had a problem, it's always stopped the virus before it had a chance to even think about doing anything. I also run Zonealarm and Notorns Firewall on the computers at home. I like both, they both work great to me. I do like the added level of control that Nortons Firewall gives me, but for simplicity you can't beat Zone Alarm. I also am very paranoid so I run a hardware firewall. Software is good, but hardware is the best for firewall protection. Mcafee, well, my opinion is it sucks! Sorry if it offends, but every friend or family member who has installed has had nothing but problems, not to mention they get viruses. Their update for software and virus is confusing to people. Mcafee just isn't a consideration in my book anymore. I have most all of my friends and family running Nortons products, so needless to say I don't receive any "Please come fix my computer I think I have a virus" phone calls anymore. There are other good progs out their but I like Norton and Zonealarm and think any combination of the two are perfectly fine choices. Mav Quote
natimage Posted July 7, 2003 Author Posted July 7, 2003 Well...I happily now have ZoneAlarm and AVG 6.0 running on my puter. As soon as I installed AVG, it found 2 viruses that Norton hadn't caught. With ZoneAlarm, I also got Pest Patrol. It informed me of several "threats" and a "keystroke logging" file/program/whatever that was on my computer. I must say that for the past two days, my computer has been running much more smoothly! It actually hasn't locked up one time. And I love ZoneAlarm...it has blocked many attempts of probable legitimate traffic and 2 events of malicious stuff! Thanks for all the input and advice...my computer is much healthier now thanks to all of you. I do have one question regarding AVG...I'm assuming (can't remember from my reading...) that it is protecting me with something similar to Norton's "Auto-Protect" feature!?!? Is that correct?? Everybody have a great day!! Tracy Quote
doc Posted July 7, 2003 Posted July 7, 2003 Tracy, AVG has "Resident Shield" enabled by default I think, but if you click on "Start", "Programs","AVG","AVG Control Center" you can check to see what options are enabled. I use a Linux firewall with AVG 6 and auto-updates and have never had a virus. Works for me! Quote
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