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hpguru
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Re: AntiVirus Poll 2006

KAV and Avast!, neither of which run resident.
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Granted, it has a GUI vs. the Windows command line...
You haven't used Windows in what - ten, fifteen years? Never?

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I have been through NortonAV, Trend Micro PC-Chillin and AVG over the years.
I am now using Avast and I love it. Easy on the system, easy to use and covers all the bases. If I had to buy it I would, but I don't...so I won't

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I noticed some people use two anti-virus programs, is that necessary? Do they conflict with one another?

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Some people have different AV's on different machines. Not many have 2 on one computer. I run KAV on one, and NOD on the other

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Not advisable to run 2 AV's in real time, but you can have more than 1 installed, and just disable all but 1 with msconfig etc. You can flip back and forth like that, which is useful for comparing different ones. Some AV's might complain though, so you could be unlucky. I never have been though, and i've got 2 in right now.

You can of course run an AV + AT together in real time, which is what quite a few of us do, including myself, with NO problems. In fact it's another sheild in the armormont against nasties.

Spanner

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Yea I figured that wasn't a very good idea, I guess I misunderstood.

Thanks!

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said by hpguru:

KAV and Avast!, neither of which run resident.
said by Homunculus:

Granted, it has a GUI vs. the Windows command line...
You haven't used Windows in what - ten, fifteen years? Never?
Actually, I used XP Pro a few seconds ago. This KVM is pretty nifty.

BTW, there is a GUI version of Clamav.

»www.clamwin.com

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Panda Hands down is the best

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said by ePCdoctor:

Panda Hands down is the best
You really should declare your bias: You work for Panda!

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said by ePCdoctor:

Panda Hands down is the best
You really should declare your bias: You work for Panda!
That would be true saying that I do work for Panda Software, but really being honest I have seen all the ones mentioned and still would say that Panda is the best out there doing what its designed to do. This may not be true for everyones because of the situations and software that they run on their machines will be different. There is not one Antivirus out there that will detect 100%, but the technology behind what Panda uses with its TruPrevent keeps the unknown threats at bay.

See how TruPrevent works
»www.pandasoftware.com/ab ··· _tec.swf

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So far, I'm only using Kaspersky.

Dustyn
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Avast Professional Edition (Licensed)

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said by ePCdoctor:
said by John2g:
said by ePCdoctor:

Panda Hands down is the best
You really should declare your bias: You work for Panda!
That would be true saying that I do work for Panda Software, but really being honest I have seen all the ones mentioned and still would say that Panda is the best out there doing what its designed to do. This may not be true for everyones because of the situations and software that they run on their machines will be different. There is not one Antivirus out there that will detect 100%, but the technology behind what Panda uses with its TruPrevent keeps the unknown threats at bay.

See how TruPrevent works
»www.pandasoftware.com/ab ··· _tec.swf

Come on, on most of the latest tests, Trueprevent has not been on par with one of the trully best Heuristics , and this comes from Bitdefender.

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said by Diazruanova:

Come on, on most of the latest tests, Trueprevent has not been on par with one of the trully best Heuristics , and this comes from Bitdefender.
hmmm
rb2006
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Voted both AntiVir and Avast.

AntiVir has worked great for the past few years on my XP, but I don't like the v7 update. I've also seen it b0rk on a few Win98 systems, so for those I've replaced it with Avast (with all the extras turned off). Avast seems to work well even though it didn't have the greatest detection rates last time I checked.