What Antivirus are you using now?

i hope i can remove f-secure fully soon because im thinking of switching when bitdefender 10 comes out

 

It will be interesting to see how folks like BD10, and if there are many conflicts with other programs.

Jerry

 

good point jerry only time will tell

lodore

 

Good thing about BD10 is that it doesn't restarts itself after updates which was the main pain in the ass of BD9. Apart from this it's pretty much the same as BD9. Plus cosmetical changes.

 

So those of you using F-Secure will not remain with it as soon as the new AV's come out? It is still a top competitor at detection with other top AV's right now ain't it?

dja2k

 

I'm currently trialing (90 days) Norton AV 2006. I haven't bothered with it in nearly 2 yrs. So far, in the month I've had it, I like it. No complaints about the AV once it's set up this time around.

It's big, almost 33MB, but not as big as some others. I notice no slowdown whatever during its scan. Can't comment on the uninstall. The last trial a couple of years ago uninstalled without a problem. Hopefully, if I decide not to keep this one, it will uninstall as smoothly.

 

NOD32 which has very good detection rates & no suite. Perhaps I'll try the new NOD32 Security Suite as soon as it is out.

 

KAV 6 on one computer, NOD32 on another (older one).

This is my first year using KAV and my second year with NOD, before that you dont want to know

 

Online Armour AV+. Best support ever.

 

NOD32 here, and I'm not going to change.

These days not only it is recognized as a top notch AV almost everywhere, but the company seems to be expanding only because of their terrific software (marketing doesn't seem a big priority with Nod unlike other well known players).

I only hope that Nod will still be available as a single application when they introduce the suite.

 

had used Kis06 & Nod32 but Nod32 let through a 2 nasties I found on a web page scan so am in the process of converting the other 2 machines to Kis06...I do happen to like suites as a whole theirs measures up the best, I had used Nod32 because of it's lightness & it's rep...

 

I'm come from CHINA,I use Kingsoft Antivirus 2006.

 

FSAVCS 6.02. Looking forward to giving BitDefender 10 a look when it's released.

 

im looking forward to trying bitdefender 10 and nod32 3.0. kaspersky 6.0 is good thou but i will choose after tryd the others

 

I do not intend to change it. I am using it on my laptop, and KAV6 on my desktop. I am satisfied with both, and have no intention of changing either. When the subscriptions expire, and if there are some excellent reports of new versions of other AVs, then I might consider it.

Unless the compatibility issues with BD change/improve in V10 that one is not under consideration.

Jerry

 

Laptop switches between Antivir Classic, They have redeemed themselves of late and VBA32(Not so much anymore)
Desktop #1 - Always has been KAV, V6 now.
Desktop #2 - Also KAV6, was eTrust 7.1r (because it is old as dirt Duron 900 256MB.)

 

Today AntiVir realtime with AOL-KAV on demand. Next week it might be different, like to try new av's and fw's.

 

Avast, try out others but somehow keep coming back to it for some reason.

 

most av's on there right click menu have a quit or unload option some such as avast say" warning this will allow viruses and other malware through are uyou sure you want to do this" but bitdefender and kaspersky have a quit option and when you click it with out warning yur not protected its quit now that i really really dont like because you could turn it off in one click by mistake i know you can password protect it to stop that but i still dont like it. nod32 doesnt even have right click menu.

 

I am back to using only Online Armor AV+ as my main AV. Have Nod32 and Antivir as on-demand backup antivirus scanners.

dja2k

 

what AV does online armour use ?

 

Online Armor uses the Kaspersky Engine.

dja2k

 

so many antivirus programs use kaspersky engine

 

Online Armor AV+, F-Secure AV, AOL Antivirus, Gdata AV, PC Tools AV, etc all use the KAV engine. Also take a look at this nice article about Online Armor and Kaspersky.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Engine-integrates-with-Tall-Emu-security-solution-32596.shtml

Kaspersky is one of the best if not the best engine right now. It keeps getting better.

dja2k

 

yep sure is a great engine I got f-secure atm aka kav clone. but i want something lighter so might get kav. but bitdefender and nod32 are also on my list right now. i cant wait till it gets its new heristic engine. then it will have it all hourly updates of signitures, proactive defence and great heristic detection