The Official Antivirus Thread

[IT Idiot]

Bit useless thread. I think the new mod wanted to have a sticky thread of his own. Anyway cool topic dude.

By the way,
Use Linux = No Virus

 

[Cool Joe]

Bit useless thread. I think the new mod wanted to have a sticky thread of his own.

withdraw ur statement dude! u won't like feelin the wrath of Indyan!
btw, i have decided to try out avira. i have tried out avast and avg in the past.

 

[Indyan]

Bit useless thread. I think the new mod wanted to have a sticky thread of his own. Anyway cool topic dude.

By the way,
Use Linux = No Virus

Unfortunately things dont exactly work like that over here. You should have known that by now. This thread was created as many people were requesting an AV sticky.

Anyway, getting back to the topic :

VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware is now released

Today, I’m pleased to announce that after a very long development and beta testing effort, we have released VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware. This is the consumer version; the enterprise version will be shipping next week. Company propaganda here, earlier beta announcement (with more information) here. Some reviewers also took an early peek at the beta — including Robert Vamosi at CNET and John Hawes at Virus Bulletin.
Those who have been following this blog may have read some of my prior postings, which started out with a blog post early last year entitled Evolving the Antimwalware Technology Model. In that blog post, I discussed how antivirus products have had to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Deep research intelligence a cornerstone to VIPRE's powerful threat protection VIPRE's ability to provide powerful threat detection and remediation is supported by deep research intelligence from Sunbelt's Malware Research Labs (SMRL). SMRL includes some of the industry's leading malware experts, as well as broad capabilities in automated malware research and analysis. In addition to its proprietary research, SMRL works extensively within the security community, through cooperative relationships with other security companies and groups; and participation in VirusTotal, the largest online malware submission site. SMRL also provides technology to the security industry, with its Sunbelt CWSandbox and ThreatTrack threat data in use by some of the world's largest telecommunication, government, education, search engine, and security organizations.

 

[Micheal]

KUDOS to indyan from me
Great compilation man. Really helps us guys hu do not spend time researching on security software. (Thats y we r dependent on u guys like u)

 

[speedrider_100]

I am using Microsoft's Live One Care, and It works like a Charm. Freely Available for 224 Days!

 

[The Conqueror]

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

 

[nikhilpai]

Paid: ESET NOD32
Free: Avast

 

[samudragupta]

i'm using kaspersky internet security and it's a wonderful av, also the virtual keypad in it is wonderfull for online bankers and shoppers. will get it once it expires....

 

[thewisecrab]

hi guys
My NOD32 Antivirus License is about to expire (yes..legal copy )
Can you'll recommend a free alternative?
I'm stuck between AVG & Avira......
PS. The Kaspersky "free copy from barclays" prob has already been detected
So no KIS for me too

 

[Kl@w-24]

hi guys
My NOD32 Antivirus License is about to expire (yes..legal copy )
Can you'll recommend a free alternative?
I'm stuck between AVG & Avira......
PS. The Kaspersky "free copy from barclays" prob has already been detected
So no KIS for me too

Avira is better. As for KIS (Barclays edition!), I'm still using it, no probs whatsoever... yet (touchwood)

 

[thewisecrab]

^^
Thanks Kl@w-24
I meant that KIS website has detected the flaw on their website and doesnt allow random numbers to be used any more, not that my KIS has been discontinued

 

[Kl@w-24]

^^
Thanks Kl@w-24
I meant that KIS website has detected the flaw on their website and doesnt allow random numbers to be used any more, not that my KIS has been discontinued

Oh, you almost scared me!

 

[in_ankit]

Free n best:

Avast: Light on system...

 

[Sumeet_naik]

I too use avast..

 

[thewisecrab]

Heres a list of Online Scanners which can be used when the PC is infected and your Antivirus Software is unable to detect it:

BitDefender Online Scanner

Kaspersky Online Spyware And Virus Scanner

ESET Online Antivirus Scan

Trend Micro's online virus scanner

 

[Cool Joe]

^^ thanks for that. will it use up too much bandwidth?

 

[thewisecrab]

Yes it will
But hey, its a "small" price to pay for last-minute PC Salvation
Nevertheless, it will definitely help

 

[eureca_eureca]

Why doubt KASPERSKY IS THE KING , i ve not got infected with a virus ever since kaspersky served me

 

[JojoTheDragon]

^^Thats right. I'm using kaspersky 2009 now and the interface is really easy to conduct with and it detects the virus before the virus even knows it. And it provides all rounder protection and the update virus definations are of small in size and so it is very helpful to people who have low internet speed to update(like me).But i would strongly recommend people to use AVAST ANTIVIRUS if the user has ram lower than 1gb as it will slow down the speed of the system becoz it performs a scans at startup,installation packages,and of various types and very often.

 

[Indyan]

I have switched back to KIS from AntiVir. AntiVir has a better detection rate but it has a lot of token detections and I hate its annoying notifications and auto-update which cant be disabled.