Virus stuff

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OK so what are the best ways to tell how your anti virus works or if its not up to scratch. Im all in favour of if its not broke dont fix it.

Than a mate of mine took norton off my computer, he slated it saying that this new program called antivir is very much better. After a scan it found spyware and 2 trojans. So i got rid of norton. But all was not well, i still had a trojan i couldnt get rid of even though id done the disable windows restore and cleared my temp files etc. Then my keyboard started playing up, making the cursor jump so when i tried to type it would make it apppear like this pourserp , the word is purpose.

So how can i be sure what is good and what is not, currently im with trend micro but again how can i know if its as good as it says ??

Eddie

 

Cheers AJ, but is there anyway for these viruses to be put against each other like a survival of the fittest etc ??

Eddie

 

Cracking link AJ!

Looks like i rest my case : NOD32 for two years and not a single virus problem... look at the comparisions they have done..

 

The only two ways I can think of to compare AV programs is either to find a review from a reputable website or magazine or deliberately infect a PC with several viruses and try each AV to see how many each detects.

 

You might want to check out this mamouth thread in the wonderful Aussies Whirlpool forum.

You won't need to real all of the posts to realise that downunder NOD32 is the AV of choice to the uni geeks here.

 

Sparky are you using copies on each workstation or are you using that Network console where you can control it from the server?

the two of us should phone eset up and see if we can get into their marketing department!

 

Alright.. cause its alot cheaper!

 

Has anyone used AntiVir PE Premium, seems to score slightly higher than NOD here. http://www.av-comparatives.org/

 

Scroll down, look for the link that says..

AV-Comparatives Summary Report 2006

It's a pdf doc but you will see NOD32 as the winner for most things.

 

Thanks, that feedback is very enlightening!

 

Still use Symantec at work. It's a dog and cripples the older PC's. Why do we still use it? A site licence costs us £5 per year through the LEA.

At home I run ClamXAV.

 

LOL.

 

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