DrNo~SPARTA~ Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Hi Guys. ive been struggling with antivirus choices. I was running Trend micro AV 2009, but its kind of a hog and has ticked me off at work. I tried to run Bitdefender 2009 on my home computer now and it just dosnt work on this thing with Vista ultimate and im forced to put trendmicro back on. What is out there that dosnt require alot of processor time and works with vista. ..... mayby a dumb question lol. Thanks all. DrNo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoBoL~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I moved to EST (NOD32), as it won TOP AV awards beating all others, used to be NORTON which really dose suck now, catches the same Viruses but slows your puter down. Try NOD32 30 days free what you got to lose. www.eset.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cylawyer~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I use Norton Internet Security and have for 7+ years with no issues. I found the new Norton to be more user friendly for a nonexpert, but an expert may find it too dumbed down withnot enough easily findable custom control features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I use AVG...and best of all, it's free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNo~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 Thanks Guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I use Norton Internet Security and have for 7+ years with no issues. I found the new Norton to be more user friendly for a nonexpert, but an expert may find it too dumbed down withnot enough easily findable custom control features. Same here 'NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2008' Since 2004 no problems regular updates, never subscribe, bought in STORE & uninstall & reinstall every year when license runs out because it's cheaper by 50% than upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 NOD32 since it was recommended here with no significant memory drain. Happy. Have used AVAST and found it to be very good at picking stuff up as a free alternative. Have used the free versions of several. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoBoL~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ Nether, looks like Bit Defender won for 2009, Norton is last again this year. But if anybody would like norton the can have my activation, think its got about 6months left on it. Also was so impressed withthe performance on NOD32, I rolled it out to all customers servers and workstations. Thing that sold me was, I ran NAV for years, scanned drive and network drives with it. All came back saying ok. Tried nod32 it found loads of Viruses in, zip files. Mainly the stuff from Newgroups if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNo~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 just that bitdefender 2009 runs like crap on my vista machine lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 (edited) Vista has 2 fire walls 1 incomeing 1 out going. I run spybot and Ccleaner along with mosillia and had no problems. My friend likes mechanic pro says it works great. Edited December 11, 2008 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaiSan Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 AVG all the way here. I spend most of my day's uninstalling Norton and McAffee from machines so they run better ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 I have run McAffee for about 10 years now without problems. If you have comcast internet available, the entire security suite is free. The rates are still $49 per month for 12 meg connection. The suite contains virus scan, firewall, privacy, system backup and an internet access control for children. As Dai-san pointed out, it does however consume alot of pc power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adder360~SPARTA~ Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 i use pcgard on my main comp it came free with my internet, i use avg free version on my laptop, i used to have windows live on care cos i got a speical offer and it was the only thing that would work on prerelease vista lol, but its a peice of crap and in no way worth the cash they ask for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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