Which AV are you using right now?

Kav 5.0 for the past couple of months. I'm also have a licence for Nod32 and mcaffee 9.0. I can't run mcafee. It uses to much resources. I may install Nod32 in a few days just for a change.

 

GData AVK 2005

I really believe that I'll be hearing about a lot more people running this software in the next 12 months.

 

Why??

 

IMHO its superior to other AV software that I have tried or purchased.
I gave up on McAfee and Norton/Symantec years ago. Have a high opinion for KAV and NOD32 ... I've run 'em both for well over a year.

GData doesn't seem to load my computer nearly as much when running multi-tasks, and I like everything about the software, in particular the dual Kaspersky and BitDefender engines.

Ask people questions about AV software, you'll get all kinds of answers. When I tried GData on a 30-day trial, I went in a skeptic. I came out sold on it. My guess is that other people will do the same.

 

I just wanted to know what your answer would be. I have used It also, the only thing I didn't like about it was it does run a little heavy but not to awful bad. Kav and BD are good av's.

 

If you look at task manager, it is running a little heavy, but for some reason it doesn't cause everything else to get "bogged down."

 

KAV + BD is a pretty strong combination. Do you know what (if any) is the delay between getting database updates from KAV and BD? Are the scan/detection engines always up-to-date? (I believe KAV 4.5. and 5.0 continue to use the same scan/detection engine).

Thanks for any info that you can provide.

Rich

 

Don't know the exact delay between getting each database update from KAV & BD. So far database updates have shown a consistant 12:00 PM German time.

The updates also check for program updates which would include scan/detection engine updates. After the trial period, I entered my user name and password and received the latest KAV & BD scan/detection engines for GData. No information on the release date of these engines.

 

I am currently using Nod32. Prior to Nod32 I was using VirusChaser whiich I liked due to it used very little resources.....large trojan database, User Friendly GUI and scan engine and unpacking was handled very qucikly.

 

Thanks for the info digibits.

Rich

 

F-Prot 3.16c ^_^

Using 1,325 K of memory

 

KAV 5 - much lighter on realtime protection than NOD32, and unbeatable detection rate.

Don

 

Don,

I run both programs on the same PC/different partitions as well as on primary partitions for different PC's in the house.

I realize that a number of people comment that KAV 5 is light. Well, clearly it is either strongly machine or configuration dependent since I've never been able to get it to run nearly as light as NOD32 and I do know how to tweak the settings so that they are comparable. Based on what I see, I simply don't see "much lighter" as a physical possibility for KAV - at least not on my machines which are fairly vanillia setups.

With respect to detection, over the past year neither of these AV's has missed anything to be caught by the other on my machines. KAV certainly has great detection, but I run NOD32 realtime with complete confidence on my own primary machine.

Blue

 

Yep, same experience here...well sort of the same. Truely confident after two years (cause I never heard of it before) but me, my friends and family are very satisfied.

I truely felt I did a good deed

But Kaspersky is topnotch too. I liked the old pro version the most though...cause I like to have a lot of settings

 

Detection may be top notch, but if these reports on their support are typical, I don't think they will be attracting many potential users

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=86564

 

detection is topnotch but what a joke updates where three times a week at most (that was a year ago) and now when they got that sorted, something else begins again...and honestly: I do think that what's happening now, is definately not good.

That's the baddest thing a security company can do

 

Hi Blue.

For me, on this machine, they are both un-noticeable, (in terms of startup speed, application startup time, menu popup speed, etc), when set to their max protection levels, and my machine is lightly loaded.

But, when heavily loaded with a CPU intensive low priority task, like running setiathome, nod32 does not behave at all well. I'm talking minutes to pop open new applications, on my P4 - 2.4 gigahertz/512meg ddr400 system.

It is not IMON, disabling that does not help. Nor does excluding the seti directory from AMON's pervue. I think AMON either has a priority inversion problem, or something that essentially makes it almost deadlock, or starve for resources, when there is a low priority, cpu intensive process in the system.

I've asked support, but not gotten any insight yet.

KAV takes it all in stride.

Now, for sure, KAV's on demand scan is heavier than NOD's. But in both cases, the machine is pretty well useless, during a full in depth scan. I always do those scheduled at 4AM, so no worries.

Great forums you guys have here. Such a wealth of experience and opinions!

Keep up the good work.

Don

 

Don,

Interesting symptoms - and I don't have a clue as to what's up - do you run any other realtime monitoring processes?

Parts of my experience mimic yours, other parts of different. My machine is a 2.8 GHz P4 with 1GB RAM. Startup isn't inordinately different, although KAV does take a bit to kick in - generally I disable the startup scan as much as possible.

Surfing generally uses Firefox with about a dozen tabbed entries launched at startup of the browser. Background apps (aside from the normal office apps) are typically technical numerics for simulation and/or calculation in physical science type problems. Nothing huge - maybe an hour or two of CPU time per simulation or calculation exercise. If there is a lot of disk I/O going on, I'll typically see KAV lag quite a bit relative to NOD32. By quite a bit I mean a handfull of seconds. Nothing to get overly obsessive about, but it can really disrupt the flow of thoughts if you are context switching a lot or hopping between active browser windows.

On the indepth scan, I agree all around - although my start time is generally 3:00 AM

Blue.

 

I switched from just AVG to Avast! and Dr. Web.
Seems to be working alright...

 

I heard about NOD32 from a friend about 5 days ago. Dowloaded a trial version immediately and fell in love with it. Its right up there . Extremely fast and does the job to perfection. Though configuring it was a bit tedious for a novice like me but this thread https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=37509 by Blackspear made it all look very simple.

Was using Norton earlier.. But thats history now..

Cheers

Akshay

 

I switched from Panda Platinum Internet Security 2004 because lots of problems , almost no support (unanswered emails). I even wasn't be able to re-install the software it gave errors by the installation. Now I switched to(o) BitDefender Professional Plus.

 

Avast is great... it has many jaw dropping features not found on other programs.
It's WebShield and Network Shields are great and it also has an automatic detector to detect if there is any removable media or disk or floppy in your pc you've forgot to eject in case to try to shutdown your machine.

The updates is fast and customer support is fast.

 

AntiVir

 

You are joking or?

 

New developments since this post. A new machine with much more memory capacity. I am now using AVG (Free). AntiVir/classic has announced it's BETA testing, but already there appears to be negative feed back. The servers are still hunks of junk apparently, or the band width is totally insufficient. I don't know which an frankly I don't care any more. I doubt if H+BEDV will ever resolve these apparent problems. I do hope I am wrong however as this is still the only viable "free" program for individuals with older machines an limited memory capacity. If any of the other companies come out with a "free" program that is light on the memory use, I wouldn't be surprised to see AntiVir an H+BEDV bite the dust.

Thanks
Wildman