XP SP2 AV Recommendations

I am installing a clean install of XP SP2 on a friend's computer. Resources should not be an issue (over 1 ghz and 512 RAM). Trojan detection has to be considered as i do not have the luxury of installing a resident AT on this computer (will probably use ewido though). I have narrowed it down between Mcafee and Panda, though am open to further suggestions.

Mcafee
Also are there any differences between MCafee 7 and 8 (mainly in regards to detection)?

Panda
As far as Panda goes, what is the difference between titanium and platinum? Is Panda Platinum only free for three months? Does it have a good unpacking engine?

I also have a 5 user license of DrWeb, one of which is not being used. So I am considering of putting that on the computer, but will probably have to turn off its heuristics to avoid FPs.

Does anyone have any experience with these 3 AVs with XP SP2? Any compatibility issues?

 

Just regarding Panda...
Titanium is only antivirus software,Platinum is internet security suit (antivirus+firewall).

 

Bad choice.

I did the same yesterday but I think that tomorrow will be another OS (win2k) installed on my computer.

Hint: WinXP SP2 = crap

 

Care to elaborate on the statement that xp is crap? or is it just sp2?
I'm no fan of anything M$crosoft but I'll put my hands up that xp is a pretty good operating system.

 

Well, from my experience i did the following... Backed up everything, did a clean install of XP, and then installed SP2. I have not seen any problems thus far..

 

SP2 works great for me. No problems at all. ICF is cool and avast! works perfectly with Security Center. Also all games and programs work just fine.

 

Does NOD32 work fine with SP2?

 

New beta (ok not so new hehe) works perfectly.

 

I'm having good luck/success with Command AV V4.92.0 running XP home and SP2. This new release was made available just a few days ago, but it has been rock solid on one of my XP SP2 laptops, and it has full integration with the new XP Security Center.

I had no initial success with F-Prot for Windows, however. It installed OK on/under SP@, but the XP Security Center either thought that my virus definitions were not up to date or that F-Prot was not functioning properly. All this in spite for F-Prot's website "splash" detailed how well F-Prot would work great on XP SP2.
Good luck.....

 

just tried panda platinum on xp w/sp2 works fine, although as mentioned in previous posts, when you reboot the machine the firewall will loose the rules you set, which is a pain but if you are like me and u dont need a firewall then great.

Matty G

 

I'm very dissapointed with Windows XP + SP2. When I put on it so many things as on Win2k it has just broken. eMule works bad on it, Security Center is a stupid thing ...

 

Aside from a very serious issue in SP2, i will likely go ahead with its deployment (mainly for the security updates).

To my understanding SP2 security center can be disabled or configured not to warn you with event notifications, so to me this is not a large concern.

I still would like to go with Panda but am mostly concerned with its 3 month free period.

Rejzor - Thank you for the input about Panda. Do you happen to have any experience with using this product?

kdcdq - Thank you for the input about Command and F-Prot.

bob_man_uk - Thank you for your input on Panda Platinum.

I will be trying DrWeb on XP SP2 soon, will report back unless someone beats me to it

How about Mcafee?

 

Yes,i was using Panda Platinum for a while and high memory usage (over 30MB) and not too good firewall (it left open ports no matter what i did) plus not scanning incoming mail in Thunderbird didn't convience me. Although it looks a good AV program but there is simply too much cons. I assume Titanium has much lower memory usage,but i'm not sure about mail scanning...

 

I'm a beta tester and other than a couple issues with NOD32 beta 2.11b and DIVX, I've had zero issues with every build.

The whole SP2 is crap comment is a bit out there IMO.

 

McAfee has dectetion rates second to only KAV and also not as hard on resources. Currently using the VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i (which also has buffer overflow protection) release candidate and have had no problems with SP2.

 

I have sp2 installed and am useing mcafee virusscan ver. 7.03.6000 and it works very well on sp2 and it is recognized by the sp2 security center. see scrn. sht. I am also running command antivirus ver.4.92.0 and it also works just fine with sp2.

 

Mcafee internet security 6, which has mcafee virusscan 8. And no problems what so ever. kloshar the reason emule dont work to good since you have installed sp2 is cuase of http://www.warp2search.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19021 here is a fix http://www.lvllord.de/

 

Thanks for the info everyone...

Might reconsider my choice of Panda, with the release of the new DrWeb and seeing how well Mcafee is doing with SP2.

The latest version of DrWeb doesn't seem to be detected by SP2's Security Center on my computer. But installation went smooth. It would definitely be nice to see DrWeb integrate better and be detected by default with some programs.

 

Ok, maybe a little off topic, but am I the only one who doesn't have SP2? I have my Windows Update set to notify me of any updates. No SP2 notification yet. Where are you people getting SP2 from?

 

Dont know when or if they already have released on windows updates. I do not install a sp2 through windows updates waste of time to me. Every time you reinstall xp you have to redownload it. So I get the network install. Here is the link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
here is the homepage of sp2 if you want to look around http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.mspx

 

Thanks for the links dread. I am downloading it right now. I will probably install it tomorrow or the next day. I see that it says it's for computers on a network. No problems using it on just a single computer? Can I install over SP1?

 

Why isn't F-secure recognized by SP2?

 

Panda has a 1 year free subscription on this site
http://www.pandasecurity.com/survey/

fill it in and you have a 1 year free subscription

 

Yes, you can install it over XP SP1. After you get it installed, if you go look at add-remove programs list, you will see that it mopped up all the patches that's been installed.

 

I tried F-Secure Internet Security 2004 since my ISP offers it to me free. XP SP2 did detect it in Security Center.

F-Secure was a pain in the butt to uninstall. The reason I uninstalled it is because I had around 15 extra running processes in task manager. Call of Duty PC game would not run unless I excluded it from the scanners of F-Secure. I was dissatisfied at this point, and I uninstalled it.

As a matter of fact, I could not get F-Secure to uninstall completely. Even after running the uninstaller, the XP SP2 Security Center was still detecting that it was installed. I deleted every F-Secure everything, and I also ran RegSupreme registry cleaner, and F-Secure would not go away. The uninstaller routine is horrible with F-Secure. I ended up formatting to get completely rid of it.

NOD32 beta and KAV 5.0 are recognized in the Security Center, and they uninstall properly with XP SP2.