Antivirus decision time
entropy
Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
Alright. I've been using an illegal copy of BitDefender for years. Now they've got it set so that the key I'm using (and any others "out there") will expire June 22, 2005.
Let me start by saying I have never gotten a serious virus using this. Norton let most of them in, Panda Titanium was the only real contender to BitDefender in my opinion. The only virus that's ever gotten through with BitDefender (and consistently...) is Java.BytVerify.something. It's never done anything, and everytime I run a Java-based thing in a website, it'll come back, so whatever.
Now I have several options. I could buy this software. It's only ~$23 for a year. Or I could find something else. What do you guys suggest? And I'd really like to not use the free one that most people here use... I can't even remember it's name. It's small, "effective," and free. I tried it - it missed a lot of blatant virii (I had once downloaded a zip file full of them from a website designed to test your antivirus software. They couldn't infect unless they were run, however. BitDefender sucked them all up before the .zip was even complete. Panda got all but one. The free one GOT one.). IF, however, it's improved, OK, but other suggestions you guys have would be appreciated.
Let me start by saying I have never gotten a serious virus using this. Norton let most of them in, Panda Titanium was the only real contender to BitDefender in my opinion. The only virus that's ever gotten through with BitDefender (and consistently...) is Java.BytVerify.something. It's never done anything, and everytime I run a Java-based thing in a website, it'll come back, so whatever.
Now I have several options. I could buy this software. It's only ~$23 for a year. Or I could find something else. What do you guys suggest? And I'd really like to not use the free one that most people here use... I can't even remember it's name. It's small, "effective," and free. I tried it - it missed a lot of blatant virii (I had once downloaded a zip file full of them from a website designed to test your antivirus software. They couldn't infect unless they were run, however. BitDefender sucked them all up before the .zip was even complete. Panda got all but one. The free one GOT one.). IF, however, it's improved, OK, but other suggestions you guys have would be appreciated.
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If you're happy with bitdefender, just pay for it. Support software that you've stolen for years. I mean you probably spend way more than $23 a year on, say, Pepsi.
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Trogan: It's because they all have different techniques, and different ways of going, "Ok, this doesn't match exactly what I have here... but it's close, so we'll call it a virus and kill it." If they were all the same, there would be no point to different software. It would be nice, though, if each was as good as the next. Also, it has to do with how frequently the definitions get updated.
http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12261
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