Which Anti-Virus software ?

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject: Which Anti-Virus software ?

In your opinion, which is the best anti-virus software that is currently on the market - but preferably free?

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:07 am Post subject:

I use Eset Smart Security, as it has: Virus Killer and Firewall
But it is a paid one @ £39.95 per year.

Before that I used AVG free version and windows firewall.

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:11 am Post subject:

AVG here with the computer NAT'ed on the local network together with firefox + adblock + noscript. That should hopefully keep the nasties away.

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 11:24 am Post subject:

I use KIS (Kaspersky Internet Security). It's a paid one, but if you bank with Barclays, you get a free license for 3 machines.
It includes firewall, registry protection, privacy control and so forth.

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 12:20 pm Post subject:

Microsoft Security Essentials

See also: http://superuser.com/questions/2/free-antivirus-solutions-for-windows

Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:57 am Post subject:

NetHosted Staff Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 1021

Another recommendation for MSE here, I've been very happy with it and consider it as good if not better than many of the paid solutions I've used. Previously was a fan of NOD32 but feel it has become somewhat bloated lately.

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Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 10:17 am Post subject:

I recommend GNU/Linux.

My girlfriend runs MSE. It's liked by LifeHacker.

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject:

I have been informed that Unhackme is supposed to be very good as well for soughting out unwanted little nasties.....

NetHosted Customer Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 308

Hmmm well I've installed MSE and it did a quick scan

in about 20 mins but now MsMpEng.exe is running full tilt whenever the PC is idle. 45 mins of CPU used so far. This looks like it is something that came with MSE rather than MSE itself; when an MSE scan is in progress it is supposed to show this by changing its system tray icon...

[update] all seems to have quietened down now...

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 153

Never had a virus problem with Mac OS X! In fact, with Firefox and NoScript / AdBlock I don't think I've had any nasties even come near my hard drive (usual tell-tale signs are unrequested .exe files in the download folder).

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