A what works best for you thread...

[likuidkewl]

I decided to start this due to the fact people always ask what is the best AV, and the answer is what works best for you. So I figured why not start a thread with what you use, what platform, and what the hardware specs are. That way when someone wants to know what AV will work with a win98 pII550 with 32mb of ram they might be able to get a good list to start with, without having to ask the same questions over and over.
**If this has been done before I apologize, I didnt see it, remove if necessary**

All systems running XP Pro SP2
System's AV's
1. Presario v2010 1.4GHZ Cel 512MB -- KasperskyPersonal 5 & BD 7.2 free
2. AMD AthlonXP 2000+ 512MB -- GData AVK 2005 (dual engine)
3. Presario 2195US AMD2500m 512MB -- McAfee 8.0i patch 10 & BD 7.2 free
4. Optiplex P3 800E 128MB SDRAM -- McAfee 8.0i patch 10 & BD 7.2 free

[stefan_c38]

AMD AthlonXP 1800+;256Mb - Kaspersky Personal 5.0.227+Kerio 2.1.5

[Arup]

Dual P-III, 1GB RAM, Avast, Dual K-8, 1GB Ram also Avast but this time the 64bit version.

[chia]

AMD AthlonXP 3000+, 1GB RAM, WinXP SP1 -> GData AVK 2005

[WYBaugh]

AMD AthlonXP 3000+, 1GB RAM, WinXP SP2 with NOD32

[NAMOR]

For now I have NOD32, TrojanHunter, and looknstop running on both machines.

Notebook:
Fujitsu Lifebook S6210 Series
1.6 Intel Centrino
Integrated Intel PRO/wireless 2200BG
Intel EXTREME graphics chip
13.3" Crystal View XGA TFT LCD
512 MB generic
SigmaTel ST9751T Codec, 6 channels sound support
40 GB Harddrive
4 lbs

Handrolled:
Intel P4 2.6
Lian Li pc60 case
Kingston HyperX PC4000 (1gig) @ 2-6-3-3
2x Western Digital 80g HD (RAID 0)
Ati X800Pro
Enermax 400W PSU
Abit IC7-G Motherboard
Creative Audigy2 zs
NEC 17inch LCD
Logitech MX510 mouse
Belkin Wirelless G card
WINXP Pro SP TWO

[m.oreilly]

amd64 3500+ 90nm
windows xp pro x64
dfi nf4 ultra
x850xt pe vivo
gig ocz plat. rev. 2
4x raptors raid0
pc power and cooling 510 express
lian-li v1000
WAITING FOR NOD64!!!

[shek]

Destop---winxp pro sp2, celeron 700, 256MB RAM
Laptop---win2000 pro sp4 P3-650 256MB RAM
AntiVir Personal Edition + EScan toolkit Utility

[CyberMew]

Zonealarm Security Suite + NOD32 works well on my winxp pro SP2 computer
all drivers updated

people say NOD32+Kaspersky works fine but I havent tried it
I tried NOD32+Kaspersky+ZASS=hangs at startup. maybe it is due to kaspersky+ZASS not being compatible. anyone have a simliar setup?

[WSFuser]

i use NOD32 + Avast + Outpost on both my WinXP Pro SP2 computers. 1) Athlon XP 2000, 512MB ram 2) Athlon 64 3200, 512mb ram.

[Jarmo P]

Avast home edition, Sygate, AMD 2400, 512 MB, XP SP2

[Detox]

I use NOD32 on a custom built machine running WIn2k. It has an AMD 3200+ and 1028 MB of PC3200 RAM and a 40 gig 7200 rpm Hitachi which has nothing but the OS installed on it. It has 2 120 gig WD 7200 RPM drives as well - one for applications and one for data storage. Nod has never had any problem whatsoever on this machine but has only been run on it for 2-3 years. The first year or so that I used NOD32 the RAM was 1028 MB of PC2100 and the CPU was an ADM 2000+ - the 2 120 gig drivers were also the only drives installed and were striped.

[Chris12923]

MSI K8T Neo-Fis2r
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
256 Megs Memory
2 WD 120 Gig. RAID 0

I switch between NOD32 and ArcaVir_2005 anti-vir and Trojan Hunter 4 and Ewido anti-trojan.

Thanks,

Chris

[Howard]

Pentium 4 2.66 GHz 1.5 GB RAM I switch between NOD32, VirusScan 8 and GDATA AVK 2005

Leaning toward AVK at present as it scans IMAP email and much of my mail is via IMAP and I like the feeling of security this gives me.

[Firecat]

AMD Athlon64 3000+, 1GB DDR400 RAM, dual OS - ArcaVir 2005+McAfee Internet Security 2005

I'd say that ArcaVir works best on my rig :)

[Sputnik]

{QUOTE-> AMD Athlon64 3000+, 1GB DDR400 RAM <-QUOTE}
Damn me jalous at your system :P ;)

[Sputnik]

Epox EP-8RDA+ (nForce 2 SSP/400)
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (Thoroughbred-A)
Samsung DDR3200 256MB
Infineon DDR3200 256MB
Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 (160GB)
IBM Deskstar 120GXP (40GB)
Gigabyte ATi Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB)

Running both Windows XP Professional SP2 US and Debian GNU/Linux
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security v5.55.11080 remains the king here, avast! is on-demand scanner :)

[Firecat]

{QUOTE-> Damn me jalous at your system :P ;) <-QUOTE}
Oh yeah...Here's the full config:

AMD Athlon64 3000+
1GB DDR400 (Kingmax 'Hard-core')
Asus K8V-X Motherboard
Maxtor 6Y120P0+Samsung SP4002H
Asus V9950 GeForce FX 5900 128MB
SoundMAX AD1980+5.1 speakers

So how do you feel now?

:P:)

[Sputnik]

{QUOTE-> Asus V9950 GeForce FX 5900 128MB

So how do you feel now?

:P:) <-QUOTE}
Well, you can't beat my graphics card yet :P ;D

[viking313]

MSI KT7 AMD 2200+ 768 PC3200 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ 2 WD80 gig Memorex 52x CDR-CDW Win XP Home SP2.Trend Micro 2005,BOClean and Spywareblaster

[rdsu]

Intel Centrino Mobile 1.7GHz, Cache L2 1MB, DDR 166MHz 512MB, Hard Disk 60GB on WinXP SP2 Pro

On-Access: ProcessGuard | Outpost Firewall Pro | NOD32 | WinPatrol | Ad Muncher
(sometimes I use avast! Home Edition on-access to test it...)

Others: avast! Home Edition | ewido security suite plus | a² Personal | Spybot - Search & Destroy | Ad-Aware SE | Hosts File Manager | IE-SPYAD | SpywareBlaster | Safe XP | xp-AntiSpy

[Benvan45]

Amd Athlon XP 1800+ 512 Mb Ram
Windows XP Pro + Sp2
Behind Draytek Vigor 2200 E Router

Dr. Web AV
For me best combination so far.....I've tried the lot, but Dr.Web is the one for me!

- Spywareguard
- Spywareblaster
- Ad-aware SE Personal
- Spybot Search & Destroy

;)

[Firecat]

{QUOTE-> Well, you can't beat my graphics card yet :P ;D <-QUOTE}
Well, sometimes I can and sometimes I cant (Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 are classic examples) :'(

[WSFuser]

{QUOTE-> Well, you can't beat my graphics card yet :P ;D <-QUOTE}

would a GeForce 6600GT PCI-E beat it? cuz thats wut i have on my Athlon 64 rig

[Firecat]

{QUOTE-> would a GeForce 6600GT PCI-E beat it? cuz thats wut i have on my Athlon 64 rig <-QUOTE}
No, most of the time the 6600GT is on par with it and sometimes it beats it thouroughly :)

[bigc73542]

P4 3.2
1028 ddr ram
120 gig Hdd 7200 rpm
Intel MOboard
and a few more trinkets

HP comp.

[flyrfan111]

NOD32,ZASS,BOClean, Ewido free as on demand, Spysweeper, Spybot with Teatimer active on 2 systems a PII 450 desktop with 512MB, 64 MB GeForce II and P4 1.7 Laptop with 512MB, 64MB GeForce II.

[likuidkewl]

{QUOTE-> P4 3.2
1028 ddr ram
120 gig Hdd 7200 rpm
Intel MOboard
and a few more trinkets

HP comp. <-QUOTE}
So what AV are you using BigC ??? ;)

[Randy_Bell]

Computer: Compaq Presario, 2.40 GHz Pentium 4 [dual CPU], 1024 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM, 120 GB [EIDE] + 160 GB USB backup; also a Zip 250-Meg USB and a 15.3-Gig USB drive for archiving and backup storage; CD-RW and DVD-ROM too.

Security Software: Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier, ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5.x, TrojanHunter 4.2, Spy Sweeper 3.5, Spyware Doctor 3.2, SpySubtract, Ewido Free Edition, BitDefender 8.0 Standard Edition, Kaspersky AntiVirus 4.5 -- {Also the free AdAware SE and SpyBot S&D}

I run NAV as resident and the others as manual backups. Hey, it ain't popular on this board but I'm a NAV man! Hehehe .. :-D
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That is my main PC which is the gateway-host for Home Network sharing DSL via ICS. I have two older Win9X PCs which run similar software, only older versions of it. They are ICS clients sharing the DSL via my host.

[bigc73542]

{QUOTE-> So what AV are you using BigC ??? ;) <-QUOTE}


well i just switched back to nod about ten minutes ago ;D

bigc

[solarpowered candle]

well on my toy ( and it is compared to you dudes )- beachcombers cant be chosers) being a Pentium (R) 4cpu 2-40 GHz 2.39 GHz , 256 MB of Ram
Today as I type I am running lite with
Look n stop firewall
Process guard
Safe n Sec
Benign (email protection)
Spywareblaster
WWDC
thats it and it runs like silk.

[hollywoodpc]

{QUOTE-> Zonealarm Security Suite + NOD32 works well on my winxp pro SP2 computer
all drivers updated

people say NOD32+Kaspersky works fine but I havent tried it
I tried NOD32+Kaspersky+ZASS=hangs at startup. maybe it is due to kaspersky+ZASS not being compatible. anyone have a simliar setup? <-QUOTE}
NOD and KAV do not work together . Even with NOD OFF , it still causes some problems with me . If Amon is enabled , it will hang , FOREVER !

[TAP]

Laptop

IBM ThinkPad, Centrino Pentium-M 1.3 GHz, 256 MB of RAM, Windows XP Pro SP1
- avast! Professional Edition

Home Network

Celeron 2 GHz, 256 MB of RAM, Windows XP Home SP2
- avast! Home Edition

Celeron 1.7 GHz, 128 of RAM, Windows ME
- avast! Home Edition

Office Network

We're now using Trend Micro products on various type of machines and we've been looking for new solution that fits our needs so we've tested so many products such as NOD32, McAfee, eTrust, ViRoBot but when Trend Micro's subscription expired we will move to Kaspersky Business Optimal or avast! Distributed Network Manager (ADNM) or Grisoft AVG products (related low price).

[SDS909]

System 1:
Intel P4 3.4Ghz
1024MB PC3200 CorsairXMS
BFG 6800Ultra-OC
200GB Maxtor ATA133
Audigy 2zs

System 2:
Intel P4 3.06Ghz
1024MB PC3200 MushkinXM
BFG 6800GT-OC
160GB Maxtor ATA133
Audigy 1 Gamer

Both systems have nearly new Acer AL1912 19" 16ms LCD's. Both systems run Dr.Web and Safe'n'Sec exclusively.

I have 2 other machines here as well, a 2.6ghz and a ancient 2.4ghz. Nothing worth mentioning, but they both run Dr.Web + Safe'n'Sec, the best combo i've found for my needs.

[SDS909]

Gah, forgot to mention the 2 laptops. Both of course, running the same combo as the machines. Both laptops pretty old and sucky, but I use one for word processing and spreadsheets, and the other to play Ultima 7 and older PC games. Hehe

[zfactor]

p4 3.2c oc'ed to 4.0 on water (danger den)
western digital sata 160 x 2 (raid 0)
western digital sata 120 x 2 (raid 1)
ocz gold rev2 1gb enhanced latency
asus p4c800-e
ati sapphire 9800pro flashed to 9800xt oc'ed with radlinker on water
pioneer 16x dvd burner
asus cd burner
thermaltake psu 550 watt

about to go vapo chill and upgrade to 3.6e which will clock out with the vapo chill to around 5.0 ghz (pretty close anyway)
and go ati x850 on water
and add another 1gb of ocz gold rev2

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