What was your first AV?

McAfee, it was with Win 3.1

 

My first AV was NIS 2003, afterwards NIS 2004.
Changed to Avast Pro because NIS gave me trouble.
Got some problems with Avast & Sygate, so changed to BitDefender.

Updating problems with BD took me to yet another and that was KAV, after some recommendations from a fellow moderator.

Recently using KIS 7 on my laptop and of course testing ESS which on release will be put on my second machine which has NOD32.

Also tried F-Secure, Avira, Panda & some others of which I don't recall the name.

 

My first antivirus was Norton Antivirus after that Norton Internet Security, Panda Platinum Internet Security (very bad support, you are also forced to call a very expensive phone number) ,BitDefender Professional 8 Plus. I am still using BitDefender at the moment.

 

My 1st (trial) AV was Norton... My 1st (paid) AV was McAfee... My 1st (free) AV was AVG...

 

I guess, that it was AVG replaced by NOD32 as soon as I have found out, that AVG was a junk.

 

My first AV was Norton 2002.

 

Me too. I think in 1994-95 at home.
Pc-cillin in 1995 at office

(The very first was for my Amiga in 1986 but I don't remember the name)

^Ale

 

Re-formatting floppies on an Apple IIe.

 

I used McAfee virusscan - back when it was good

 

Ontrack Fix-It Utilities.

 

1st av was Norton wich i used several years. I was very happy with it and although it demanded it's fair share of system resources i was very happy with it untill i started getting alot of trojans wich norton deteced but couldn't remove.

2nd av was NOD32

3d F-Secure, i really liked it's high detection,good cleaning,perfect tweaking but after a loyal time had to give it up because of gaming. It was too heavy.

4d Mcafee, luckyly ive ditched this carnival, purely mather of taste offcourse, notingh to do with detsction or other important stuff but i just can't take it serious when it looks like ad-central.

5d Avira, even though they used to have bugs, this program is top of the line now, these guys are gonna go far. Anyways plenty good tweaking,light on system, plenty updates, very high signature and heur detections, good gui, strong default settings,good website,good support forum.

6d Dr web, light on system,good protection,good removal of malware,cheap,good website.

7d VBA32, my personal favorite, even though there detectionrates isn't high in tests it kept me safer then the best. Light on system, Good Heuristics, perfect tweaking,cheap,great support forum.

Kaspersky unfortunetly never worked well here. Tried most of the others but couldn't keep my attention for 2 long.

 

What is/was your problem with Kaspersky?

 

Years ago: hangs during scan
Now: heavy on system, bloated.

Mind you i have only named the cons.

pros: outstanding forum support ( at least when i last visited wich is more then a year ago ). it seemed like with VBA32 now the user had a lil saying in where the product should go., adding fast definitions according to it's users here ( no experience with this as i never handed any samples), overall good protection ( high detection,pdm,great firewall).

 

Man those were the days, does anyone else remember when Panda first came out
Oh yeah and if you used MS-DOS, remember MSAV.exe

 

TBAV - ThunderByte AntiVirus for DOS

and even before that

Seek&Destroy (but that was in Commodore Amiga's times)

 

McAfee Virus Scan 4 pre-installed on my first computer...a Compaq Presario 5475 back in 2000.

 

Well everyone seemed to have Norton or Mcafee.

1. Norton
2. Panda or Bitdefender (can't remember which came first)
3. Avast
4. AVG
5. free antivir (Now)

I kept switching between Avast, AVG and free av after i was done with shareware.

Although i could easily get kaspersky through warez i like to stick to free and be true!

 

It was a long time ago that I used my first AV. It was Norton (not symantec) and it came on three floppy discs since cd's weren't invented yet. There were only two av's at the time that were readily available, Norton and McAfee which made the choice pretty easy. I am giving my age away on this one.

 

Mcafee on DOS...great antivirus (was!)
May be version 1 or 2.. can't remember.

Cheers,
Fax

 

From what I remember in my blurry past, it was PC-cillin. How time flies fast...

 

You're that old bigC?

 

The first one I used was that piece of crap Microsoft called an antivirus . Then on to F-Prot for DOS. For windows 95 my first was Touchstone Pc-cillin 95.

 

Panda (it came pre-installed on my computer)
McAfee (a present from my brother)
Norton Internet Security 2004 (disaster of disasters, my first conscious purchase)
KAV (I was given a black listed registration for good money)
Nod32, I don't think I will ever change.

 

My first one was Trend Micro Antivirus 98. I had Commodore II 64 before that so no viruses for me (yeah i was actually using C64 when all others were already using PI and PII systems)

 

Mine was PC-cillin 98 (or was that version 6)