What Anti-Virus Software do you have?

'lo

A good question to ask you all. What Anti-Virus do you use? The reason being, is that there are different ones out there, and they have different features and other functionalities in them.

At the moment, I use Norton Internet Security 2005.

Oh, and if anyone still uses Microsoft Anti-Virus, then I would say "Good Luck" with living with a virus in your machine.

McAfee Virus Scan (Brought to you by AOL) for Free, and then Windows OneCare.

Norton Anti-Virus (Not* Security Centre).

How come everyone else got OneCare; I filled out the survey too...

Myself, I don't have any anti-virus software installed on any of my home boxes.

I do, however, have Norton Systemworks 2003 and Norton Internet Security 2004 (I got Systemworks when I thought I needed it, and NIS came with my sister's laptop, but it slowed it down too much so I took it off)

As for firewalls, I'm content with my hardware firewall, works fine.

If I need to scan a file, I use Kasperly's online virus scanner, saves me installing bloatware just for scanning the odd file.

I regularly audit my system processes and services, however, so I spot anything going wrong.

W3bbo wrote:

Myself, I don't have any anti-virus software installed on any of my home boxes.

I do, however, have Norton Systemworks 2003 and Norton Internet Security 2004 (I got Systemworks when I thought I needed it, and NIS came with my sister's laptop, but it slowed it down too much so I took it off)

As for firewalls, I'm content with my hardware firewall, works fine.

If I need to scan a file, I use Kasperly's online virus scanner, saves me installing bloatware just for scanning the odd file.

I regularly audit my system processes and services, however, so I spot anything going wrong.

I could perhaps get away with doing that (I can't remember the last time Norton stopped a virus -- if ever); but I like to be on the safe side.

I also use TCPView to monitor outgoing connections and watch services / startup etc stuff. Not to mention googling rouge processes.

Norton Antivirus, without Internet Security Center.

I use Avast!

http://www.avast.com/

It runs fine on my PC and, best of all, it's free for home use.

Mac OS X

none.

I don't use one, only MS Anti-spyware beta.

I was running AVG for a long time, but the only *2* hits I ever got were some dodgy javascript files in my temporary internet files.

I keep a close eye on my processes/services etc, although with a *real* virus, it'll inject its code into other executables, so you can't rely on spotting some random "sysctrl32.exe" process

Work we use eTrust and Pest Patrol, Home I use AVG, MS AntiSpyware and ZoneLabs Zone Alarm Firewall.

I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i. I could probably run without a virus scanner, but I'm just not prepared to deal with the possibility of an anomalous infected download. And I occasionally still get warnings from floppy disks I haven't used in years that are infected with the Form or Junkie virus.

I do run without Anti-Spyware, never had a need for that.

JChung2006 wrote:

I use Avast!

http://www.avast.com/

It runs fine on my PC and, best of all, it's free for home use.

sheeeng wrote:

Norton always crashes my system after sometimes... I don't use Norton anymore.

I use Norton Corporate here at the office, but at home I just run regular scans at Trend Micro HouseCall.  It's free and I've always been virus free.  Plus it's a secondary spyware check.

jonathanh wrote:

sheeeng wrote: Norton always crashes my system after sometimes... I don't use Norton anymore.

If I recall correctly, poorly-written anti-virus software is the #2 cause of bluescreen crashes. #1 is poorly-written display drivers!

None. And the last virus I got was CIH... back in 1998 or 1999.
Last month I accidentally got a browser hijacker but which I disabled from "Manage Add-Ons" in Internet Explorer. That's my history of system infections. And I'm not using any firewall either (except the Windows XP one).