film Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Hi i was wondering what you think is the best Anti-Virus for a Windows Computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 F-Prot F-Secure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I like AVG for it's low-resource usage, effective virus/trojan removal and simple interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 where is linux? :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I voted for norton, but only because I am used to the corporate version of SAV. The consumer version sucks royally, and I would not recommend it. For customers that I deal with I recommend AVG. The Symantec AV Corporate Edition is nice because it is relatively simple and straight forward. -Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hmm I have only ever used Norton. It seems to do the job for me. Will be interesting to see the end result in this poll though, might make me rethink my anti virus choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equerm Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hmm I have only ever used Norton. It seems to do the job for me. Will be interesting to see the end result in this poll though, might make me rethink my anti virus choice Only problem with norton is that it's not freeware and it sucks your computer dry of resources :( Other than that it's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest K1u Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 where is linux? Smile HAHAHAHAA PWNED!!! NICE MAN NICE!!! I use zonealarm 3 in 1 protection and a physical firewall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainchick Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I picked Nortan also becuase i use the corp. anti virus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Where is the "no anti-virus, I know what the hell I'm doing" option? That is to say *keeping ALL software, services, drivers up to date **that includes windows, firefox, any internet client or server software *using at least the most basic windows SP2 firewall *having a perimiter firewall (smoothwall, monowall) or at least a NAT router *not using IE (duh) *not opening unknown attachments (or in my case, gmail's built in AV) *not running shady programs (think keygens, game cracks, stuff like that) *testing new software in a virtual machine before using in a production env. *disabling LM hashes (or 15+ chr pass) *turning off non-essential services *using third party instant messanger clients (IMHO AIM is a virus) And if you want to get a little nutty about privacy there's always *disabling cookies *never using personally identifiable information online *routing through a P2P proxy like TOR I'm sure I've missed a few things but this is what came to me off the top of my head. Feel free to add to this list, in fact it'd be pretty easy to migrate it to the wiki as a "secure computing (windows) tutorial" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I like that option but I have AVG running anyways just in case I screw up... I sometimes play with viruses/malicious code outside of a VM if I'm feeling exceptionally lazy so I like that safety net ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Where is the "no anti-virus, I know what the hell I'm doing" option?That is to say *keeping ALL software, services, drivers up to date **that includes windows, firefox, any internet client or server software *using at least the most basic windows SP2 firewall *having a perimiter firewall (smoothwall, monowall) or at least a NAT router *not using IE (duh) *not opening unknown attachments (or in my case, gmail's built in AV) *not running shady programs (think keygens, game cracks, stuff like that) *testing new software in a virtual machine before using in a production env. *disabling LM hashes (or 15+ chr pass) *turning off non-essential services *using third party instant messanger clients (IMHO AIM is a virus) And if you want to get a little nutty about privacy there's always *disabling cookies *never using personally identifiable information online *routing through a P2P proxy like TOR I'm sure I've missed a few things but this is what came to me off the top of my head. Feel free to add to this list, in fact it'd be pretty easy to migrate it to the wiki as a "secure computing (windows) tutorial" hmmm. notice how your thing requires 14 dot points, whereas "using an anti-virus program" requires only one. *using an anti-virus program see, only one point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 hmmm. notice how your thing requires 14 dot points, whereas "using an anti-virus program" requires only one.*using an anti-virus program see, only one point Yeah, your right. Why learn to drive safely when you can simply get a car with airbags. (not quite an exact analogy but I like it). Anyway, it may seem like a lot, 14 points, however it's good computing practice anyway and really something I've been doing for years so I don't really think of it as being a daunting task. If anything watching some segments on Hak5 should make you realize that we're all[1] vulnerable to hacks if we're not actively protecting ourselves. [1] Windows users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Nah, its not just windows users. A badly sercured *nix box is still a risk. Personally I use a 15 point plan. Everything Darren said, but with a firewall as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Nah, its not just windows users. A badly sercured *nix box is still a risk. Personally I use a 15 point plan. Everything Darren said, but with a firewall as well. *using at least the most basic windows SP2 firewall*having a perimiter firewall (smoothwall, monowall) or at least a NAT router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 No. I mean a literal wall of fire around my house. Fucks with the wifi a bit but no hackers so far... /slopes off for a reading leason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 For windows I say ZoneAlarm Pro Suite!!!!! I LOVE IT! It detects everything you could think of and even things that (from what i have found) Very few other virusscans/firewalls catch at all. For ex. the encrypted pwdump... I havent found anything that catches that BUT ZoneAlarm does catch it accessing lsass and doing its thing. Try it out! My vote is for ZA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Kaspersky is OK but you don’t really need an antivirus. AVG is free, so if you have to use one go for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeGrijze Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 On my windows box iám making use of Antivir antivirus prog:. Its free and Windows XP knows and run's with it with out slowing it down like MCAfee or Norton. Gerard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WM_Hunter Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I personally use Nod32. Just my personal preference. I would run without but Nod is really low on system resources and it's always nice just to have an extra layer of protection just in case. Why it is ranked lower then Norton in this poll I don't know. The scanners are at least equal, if not advantage to Nod, and Norton hogs resources a lot more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 I really dont use antivirus or firewalls. I like AVG when i do use AV, and nvidia firewall because it works on the hardware level, (supposedly) and hardly uses any resources. I do have a m0n0wall running as well as kerberos running, so im pretty well locked down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 I just ditched Zone Alarm (to many utorrent/zone alarm not liking eachother problems) and got Comodo. I must say, I really like the program, best of all it's free. Its does have a xp-fisher price look to it but in terms of functionality, it performs quite well. Rates very well on the memory-leak test and uses very few resources. In all, it's my new favorite firewall to date (of about 10 or so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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