Virus

[billyminor]

Nod32 crashes for fun

Been using Nod32 for years on xp to win7 x64 and never seen it crash once for fun or any other reason as for false positive it doesn't just delete the file like most but warns me it maybe a virus
Bottom line is no AV is going to get everything everytime if you think AVG is any different your going to get a shock one day ,I spent a whole day cleaning up a friends computer that was protected by AVG free last year so it's not perfect either but your right about the bloat & slowness of the others
Why put up with it when they are no better than something like AVG free that runs faster and use's less resource's , I can't understand for the life of me why whenever you buy a new computer it comes bundled with norton don't these manufactures turn the computer on after installing that and see what a boat anchor it just turned their product into, between Norton running and the UAC turned on it takes 1/2 hr to fire up the computer to check your email providing norton didn't delete it all
If you have teenagers in your house or in your life somehow your going to get good at hunting down viruses no matter what AV your installing for them cause some how they are virus magnets
if your looking for all free than these 3 are good at cleaning just about everything I've run across, the bottom 2 can run resident but I only run them when I need them (less bloat ) but there very good
AVG Free
SuperAnti-Spyware
Malwarebytes

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[Maverick]

add Microsoft Security Essentials to the list, its free and works very well supprisingly and doenst hog resources ,, again M$ are making it harder for me to detest them slowly but surley ; lol

AV's always seem to shoot emselfs in the foot for some reason by bloatwareing

Norton once upon a long ago was a good AV
Kaspersky was ace in its time, light weight thorough and fast ,, I have had to get rid because now its bloated and has a tendency to kill your OS from time to time an I hate reinstalls
Panda was good in its day

They all seem to get to a point and go mad ,, probably the point where they are took out of the hands of software engineers and features are dictated by managment and the likes of PR consultants and pencil pushers ,, who knows.

[billyminor]

I was going to put M$ there because I have heard nothing but good things about it ,but I never personally tried it
like you I tried all the above and left them for the same reason , sooner or later they swell up into something which bog's my system down to a crawl the only exception being Nod32 which seems the same through 3 major upgrades to the program while I'll admit there are better AV's out there it's doing what I want and I don't notice it doing it's thing at all

[pverburg]

For my corporate clients its still Norton its like windows it has its problem but still better then the alternative, I have been responsible for many company's with many PC's and never had an outbreak and for large scale maintenance 's there management front end works well, yes it slows down the system you just build in a bit more grunt to compensate. In NZ/Australia a mayor bank was of the air for 24 Hours because of a virus flooded there whole network estimate the cost of that o by the way they didn't use Norton ;-)

Have a look at viper it's something I have recommended for private use and so far so good.

Paul V.