Best Anti Virus Program?

bigbevo76

bigbevo76

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I tired Norton and McAfee but I have some viruses and trojan horses they cannot remove. Is there something more stout out there? My IE is also hijacked and has the porn page at my homepage and nothing I can do will change it.

Thanks
 
I havent run antivirus for the last 6 years and have never had a problem.(and I used to download a lot of porn and Warez) Firewall, on the otherhand shoud be standard.
 
I guess i dont get it. Dont download anything w/ an exe dll or ms office extention from a site you arent 100% shure of and you'll be ok. Even w/ anti virus if you are downloading stuff from bob's pirated software webstite and opening e-mails w/ attachments from folks you dont know you are 100 times more likely to get a virus than I am surfing unprotected.
 
BigBevo76 - Try this virus scanner off the Trend Micro website. It's free and may find stuff the others haven't so far. I run it myself every month or so as a sanity check.

I use Avast Home Edition as my anti-virus program. It's supposedly as good as McAfee, Norton, and Trend Micro, and it's free.
 
AVG Free has caught everything coming into my computer. I pair it with ZoneAlarm Free. Both came well recommended on Broadband Reports.
 
ps. Hooklahoma,
I'd be willing to bet you have one or more viruses that you're unaware of. Especially if you have a constant internet connection.

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I should just repost a copy of this post once a week....

Yes use a virus scanner, there are free ones (like AVG) that are every bit as good as Symantec/Norton or McAfee. At least as long as you update them properly.

Also, load up at least one or two of these:

AD-Aware

SpywareBlaster

Spybot

Hijack This (Be careful with this one, it only finds problems, it is up to you to fix 'em)

A good source for learning how to find and use some of these tools:

Major Geeks

More specifically for Hijack This usage (READ THE "STICKY" POSTS FIRST) :

Major Geeks Spyware Forum

Oh, and quit using Explorer (except for maybe your Windows updates). Get a copy of Mozilla or Opera. They're free, and much more resistant to malware and spyware than that POS known as IE.
 
I've never been infected by a virus and went years without protection. Awhile back, however, I noticed how stupid some people would look when they were infected by a mass mailer, so I started running AVG (which I highly recommend) to avoid being "that guy." To think you're more clever than a highly skilled virus writer is ridiculous, even if you have never been hit by one.
 
Schnarkle,

I downloaded, installed, and used that AV program, and it didn't detect **** (on my issue, anyway)

Maybe I have settings that have changed, or something. My computer freezes or gets REAL slow when my email program is open and I try to read an email that has internet data in it (i.e. trying to pull info from a site)

Example: even Golf512.com ads (that I requested) shut it down

any ideas?
 
I dont want to go contrarian on this subject, but I highly doubt any virus scanner would be able to pick up malicious code in a jpeg even if it had its signature.

Also, if I did download such a jpeg and it tried to access a port to download a trojan my firewall would ask me to approve the access, which of course i wouldn't. The main reason I dont run a scanner is that they always seenm to be well behind the curve with what out in the wild.
 
Oh, did I mention a scanner's abilty to sometimes do more harm than good. Case in point. As i write this i recieve a message on my work computer (where mcaffee is mandetory) that it has quarentined "cideamon.exe" because it thinks it's a virus. cidaemon.exe is an indexing service which catalogues files on your computer to enable for faster file searches.

If a newbie deactivates this file b/c they think its a virus it will take a visit from someone in IS to fix it.
 
According to users here slashdot Norton Antivirus stopped the new infected jpg virus heuristically. Not bad since it is just barely in the wild this week.
 
I'm particulary pleased with Trend Micro's antiviurs product. It's not a system resource hog like Norton and does a good job of catching the few viruses that my pc gets (mostly from emails). Check it out.
 
One time I clicked on a porn sight also found through Google and Norton automatically popped up saying it had detected like 3 different viruses and deleted them. I didn't know it was possible to get **** like that just from visiting the site, has that happened to anyone else?
 
I've used Norton, Mcafee, Trend Micro the past 7-8 yrs. I've just recently switched to Panda Antivirus b/c its the most unobtrusive of the others. It caught some stuff that Norton did not catch either.
 
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