----------------------------------- person Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:10 pm best anti-virus ----------------------------------- wat would be the best anti-virus? (cost/performance) ----------------------------------- wtd Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:19 pm ----------------------------------- Linux or Mac OS X. ----------------------------------- person Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:38 pm ----------------------------------- XP ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:39 pm ----------------------------------- I have Norton Antivirus 2K5. So far I've had no problems. Which is pretty strange considering its Norton.. McAfee 2005 is also really good. ----------------------------------- rizzix Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:48 pm ----------------------------------- Linux or Mac OS X. :P good one. :lol: ----------------------------------- zomg Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:35 pm ----------------------------------- XP wat the hell? :? XP is a virus not an anti virus anyway i choose NOD32 v 2.11 best thing ive seen ----------------------------------- wtd Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:04 am ----------------------------------- Linux or Mac OS X. :P good one. :lol: Only thing that works. You can layer on as much AV and such as you want and eventually something's going to slip through anyway and trash your system. ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:20 pm ----------------------------------- If u have to use windows, the best one i have found is AVG and it is free to.... Combind that with spybot and a good firewall and router with a firewall in it and i thik u are prity safe (for a windows user). Tho as wtd was saying the safests whould be a unix (or drived from) based OS. ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:12 pm ----------------------------------- PC-Cillin is a great Windows AV program. Otherwise, Linux. ----------------------------------- zomg Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:50 pm ----------------------------------- why is linux good for blocking viruses? is it because most viruses are made for windows OS? ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:22 pm ----------------------------------- all hail Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition! :D ----------------------------------- rizzix Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:17 pm ----------------------------------- yep norton is the best. ----------------------------------- rizzix Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:17 pm ----------------------------------- why is linux good for blocking viruses? is it because most viruses are made for windows OS? exactly,.. when linux gets popular.. u'll be asking similar questions again. ----------------------------------- wtd Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:51 pm ----------------------------------- why is linux good for blocking viruses? is it because most viruses are made for windows OS? exactly,.. when linux gets popular.. u'll be asking similar questions again. This is a myth that just refuses to die. There are fundamental differences in Linux and its communities which remove a lot of the root problems which exist in the Windows world. ----------------------------------- rizzix Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:01 pm ----------------------------------- thats true.. but that dosent mean creating a virus on linux is not easy. ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:27 pm ----------------------------------- The big reason is that, unless you are foolish enough to log in as root, a virus can't do anything to your computer. ----------------------------------- rizzix Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:14 pm ----------------------------------- yea, but its not too hard to grab hold of the root password. just take advantage of security holes in the one of the numerous programs available for linux.. and you're done for. (now dont give me bs, that such holes do not exist.. there are present.. and they do get fixed before they are abused.. but thats only cuz linux isin;t all that popular.) either way.. your not going to store your data as root.. it most likely would be in you home directory.. if you dont employ a good backup system you will have a problem when a virus deletes your won precious personal data files. also.. how secure are the distros available now-a-days? huh? they try to make things easier to use.. as a result the drop down degree of permissions on various directories etc. opening holes for viruses to settle. its not really all that safe you see. ----------------------------------- wtd Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:27 pm ----------------------------------- The biggest benefit is not technical but social. There are still huge numbers of "experts" on the Windows side of the world who will happily recommend software that's been known to carry malware for years. Other communities don't tolerate this. If a piece of software does something bad, it gets trashed pretty quickly, and if you obtain software from reputable sources, you can pretty much count on them removing such software from their repositories. ----------------------------------- Andy Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:18 am ----------------------------------- i've been using norton for 4 years, and it kinda sux.. i mean the av itself isnt bad, but it uses way way too much system resources.. i now use psc-cillin with zone alarm ----------------------------------- cool dude Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:59 am ----------------------------------- i use zone alarm and norton anti-virus. i don't know why u people hate norton so much but i find it to be good at finding and preventing viruses on my computer. it does use a lot of resources but i find it still good, i just hope thats not the reason my booting time slows down because of norton. ----------------------------------- md Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:13 pm ----------------------------------- Hmmm... maybe it's jsut that I have lots of free resources, but norton isn't all that bad on my computer... But then I've yet to use my swap space... EVER... ----------------------------------- betaflye Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:37 pm ----------------------------------- The big reason is that, unless you are foolish enough to log in as root, a virus can't do anything to your computer. It could trash /home/username which I'd call pretty serious. Or just boot into a livecd and chroot into your installation after mounting the partitions and have some fun. I use Avast! Home Edition on all the Windows machines here. Works great and is free for home use.