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Author Topic: Looking For Recommendations On Anti-Virus Programs Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-21-2004 12:40 PM                     I need to install a good anti-virus program in a PII 233mhz machine (100mhz front speed bus) with 128 megs of DRAM that won't bog the machine down bad, and yet have a good firewall protection. Mcafee does not "cut the mustard" - it not only slows the machine down, but sometimes cannot figure out if a file is a virus or not. Norton Pro just lunched a few system files and broke the Windows 98SE. Any suggestions? Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-21-2004 01:50 PM                     Paul, you've got an itchy trigger finger. I'm sure that some moderator will come along and delete your douple post. I've had good luck with AVG and the price is right. There is a free version. Home Page Free Version  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-21-2004 01:57 PM                        Duplicate thread deleted!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-21-2004 02:18 PM                     I run Norton Anti-Virus 2004 on my home machine. But I have had problems with NAV Pro 2004 on my computer at work. With that particular machine it turned out the power supply was going bad. I had backed up everything and formatted the hard disc and was getting Windows blue screen of death messages upon install. I had a local computer shop order and replace the power supply, and they put the free version of AVG on there. So far it works fine. But I may dump it and reinstall NAV Pro on there since it was already purhcased. It should be said anti-viral software alone is not enough. You need firewall protection and anti spy ware applications. My home machine is behind a Linksys router which gives one level of firewall protection. Then I have Zone Alarm on the computer itself with it set to high. I also run Ad Aware and Spy Bot Search and Destroy. Spy Bot seems to uncover more threats. On the basic level, if you use Internet Explorer go in and change the Internet security level from low to at least medium or medium high. Tell Outlook Express to only read e-mail in text form, not HTML (that option is under the "read" tab in the Tools>options dialog box). Also be sure to check that box under "security" that says "do not open or save any attachments that can potentially be a virus." Leave that on by default. Only uncheck the option if you absolutely know an e-mail attachment is safe.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-21-2004 03:19 PM                     Thanks, Bobby. BTW, I don't know how the double post came along. I made an edit on a typo, and somehow it came up with a double post I didn't even know it was there. Sorry.  |  IP: Logged Aldo Baez Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 02-21-2004 03:53 PM                    I've found panda antivirus to be really great. Constant updates, not much resources used, great interface.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-21-2004 05:10 PM                        For corporate use, I really like Sophos. It's light on resources and easy to keep updated without requiring an NT server. It isn't cheap, though, and they don't really sell to individual end-users (but they might if you ask nicely).  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-21-2004 05:45 PM                  Like Bobby, I run Norton Anti-Virus, Ad Aware, and Spy Bot Search and Destroy on XP Pro. All are excellent performers on all my machines. I have tried to use Norton NAV Pro 2004 with NO luck! Nothing but problems EVERY time I try it. I tried it in 4 different machines and every time it crashed the system or was just toooooo GD hard and confusing to use! I finally gave up on it and used the CD for skeet-shooting practice. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-21-2004 08:05 PM                     The weird thing about NAV Pro is that it seems to work well on some machines and then like crap on others. I have not had any problems at all with my home version. But the "Pro" version on my machine at work kept glitching out. When booting the machine, it would give me this error "Norton has encountered a problem. Please reinstall Norton Anti-Virus." etc. I would get variations on this error, but it always led to me having to reinstall the damned thing. It would run fine for a few days and then crap out all over again. I'm not sure if the failing power supply was the culprit in causing the problem. But it did give me some scares on occaision. Once, it glitched out and when brining up the NAV screen it listed a bunch of modules in the program as "tampered." Remote virus scans and other stuff uncovered no infections or other threats. Just a anti-viral program freaking out. I may try reinstalling the thing now that my work machine is fixed. If it screws up again, I can always reinstall the "free" version of AVG. It doesn't really matter all that much I guess. That work PC is getting old and I always do redundant backups of my art files on multiple PCs and disc. So computer vandals can eat my shorts. My data is safe. And they need to do something legit for a living.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-22-2004 12:30 AM                        I can't say enough good things about Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security : a/v, firewall, and more rolled into one package that just works. I work with a bunch of very fussy programmers who won't tolerate problems with this stuff -- they'll disable it on the sly if it interferes with their work. Norton and McAfee are unacceptable for them, but they can live with the Trend product running all the time.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-22-2004 01:40 PM                     Thanks for all the input. It is very much appreciated. I'll probably have to re-install Norton so I can remove all the other superfluous programs that I can't uninstall because the main program is gone. I don't know enough about hacking into the registry to remove all that crap manually. Again, thanks to you all.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-22-2004 10:49 PM                     You'll need to look at doing some registry editing for doing a proper reinstall of Norton Anti Virus (along with deleting a couple other folders, etc. the uninstaller does not remove). Symantec has fairly easy to follow instructions for doing this.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-23-2004 12:39 PM                     Actually, I discovered that there was an "Uninstall all" on the orginal disk. I did just that, and all the programs (such as live updates, etc) were removed. The computer seems to run just great, has plenty of speed, no conflicts, etc. I think part of the problem was it had PC-133 DRAM. Even though the guru I asked said it should run just fine in that thing, it didn't. A 256 meg stick came up as 130 megs, and the computer seemed to be not feeling so well. I replaced it with PC-100 and lot of ills went away. The only problem left is I can't defrag it. ??? Cow Hum?  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 11-04-2008 02:44 PM                 It has been 1716 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-04-2008 02:44 PM                     My ISP is discontinuing their free security suite before the end of the year. Does anyone have any recommendations for (totally) free anti-virus software? Has anyone used Avast!4 Home? ---Rick  |  IP: Logged

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