anti-virus software

ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
edited February 2004 in Science & Tech
1)What is a good anti-virus/utilities software to buy?
2)What is the difference between Norton anti-virus and Norton Systemworks?

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  • ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
    edited February 2004
    I edited my post in Motherboards can anyone help there also entitled "Is it a motherboard problem"
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Norton SystemWorks has utilitites and Cleansweep. If you can get NSW for 1.5 times the price of NAV, same year, you are getting a good deal. NSW also has a process RAM use viewer bundled with it, and a decent overall system benchmark util.

    With the 2003 version, some of the utils do not work right with XP. With the 2004 version, I have not tried the ones that do not work right to tell you how well they work on XP.

    What I run for AV is F-Prot plus BitDefender, paid for F-Prot. I get one year of definition updates that so far have averaged 2-3 per week for F-Prot-- and it knows 104,000 plus viruses and malwares including trojans, macro viruses, and worms right now. NAV updates weekly. F-Prot cost less than the best price I can find for NAV 2004. F-Prot has found every test archive I have thrown at it and deleted it for me on arrival. Things like IECAR and ICSA test files, for instance. IMHO, it alone beats NAV. It is also a bit faster at scanning than is NAV. and its GUI takes up about 2\3 the resources that NAV does. NAV kills viruses fine, imposes more of a system load doing so than does F-Prot. F-Prot is active, Bitdefender is not the active defender on my boxes, it is a way to check things. Neither triggers against the other, which is nice. F-Prot and NAv do not play nice with each other, NAV and McAfee WQAR with each other, but I have not had virus attack one suceed on either of my XP boxes with a paid fro F-Prot. RAEInternet.com is the US distributor for F-Prot and BitDefender, if anyone wants to know, and RAEInterent specializes more in server AV than desktop. Michael Danziger of RAEInternet recommended paid Bitdefender and said that BitDefender was probbaly best overall. So far, I like the simple look of F-Prot, and its performance. BitDefender alone would not be a bad alternative, but I recommend an AV purchase adn not just a free AV. You can get a free tiral of F-Prot that will not update but will let you see the program's performance, and I recommend trying both F-Prot for looks and an idea of system impact before buying either or both. What I did after trying it out, since I needed AV on more than one desktop, was to pay $50.00 US for a one year 10-pack license. If I were to get 3 NAV 2004s, would have spent more than the 10-pack cost. You get the F-Prot and\or BitDefender desktop programs programs on the web, and the Windows trial gets replaced by the full version and you enter a customer key-code. My F-Prot is on a daily def pickup schedule-- it can be set to a 2 hour pickup cycle but I do not need that.

    F-Prot is at this link: http://www.f-prot.com/

    BitDefender is here: http://www.bitdefender.com/

    John Danielson
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Definetly Norton.

    However, unlike Ageek, I had problems with 2004 in XP, so I went back to useing 2003.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited February 2004
    CBDroege wrote:
    Definitely Norton.

    However, unlike Ageek, I had problems with 2004 in XP, so I went back to using 2003.
    2004 was a little cranky when it was first released, but now since all the updates, I've had no problem what so ever. Not that cranky means anything big problem wise. Norton definitely though. 2004 doesn't have much on 2003.
  • ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
    edited February 2004
    ok thanks u all
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