Good AV softwares, alternate to NAV
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Topic: Good AV softwares, alternate to NAV
Posted By: the boss
Subject: Good AV softwares, alternate to NAV
Date Posted: 24 May 2004 at 8:48pm
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i have always relied on norton antivirus but with newer version i seem to have problems according to the following routing first three months after installation is ok fourth month the NAV starts to behave strange and consumes a lot o memory and CPU fifth month the auto protect failes to load and when u try to load it manually NAV crashes and sometimes the OS too sixth month u will have a lots of problem with computer being damn slow and the explorer crashing frequenty or computer freezing up even when idle finally leading to corruption of explorer when u reinstallating the OS seems like NAV itself is a virus so what r the better alternate virus scanner outs there i tried Avast Pro and seems to do pretty good job consuming quite less memory and who needs all those damn annoying features of NAV anyway?? ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 24 May 2004 at 9:15pm
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I hate norton. It has only ever caused problems on the machines i have use it on. I now use Vet which is supplied from http://vet.com.au/ - http://vet.com.au/ all it does is sit in the system tray. Updates by its self and the only time i see any thing from it is when i get a virus. |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 24 May 2004 at 10:30pm
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i use Symantec Corporate Antivirus System... it's pretty cool, you configure it to download updates automatically and you install the child program on all the other computers you wanna protect. Never given me any problems... ever ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 6:06am
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I've tried lots as I get around 4,000 virus infected emails a day and
have found that most including NAV and Mcaffee let viruses through, NAV
being the worse and also slows your system right down and coursing
countless problems. I currently use Trend-Micro Internet Security ( www.antivirus.com ), which seems to catch all the viruses and automactically updates every few hours, which is useful as I often get viruses within a sort time of them being in the wild. It also doen't use many resources so dosn't slow down my computer. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 6:22am
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i agree with u in most of it however it is not what i would call a state of art network antivirus tho ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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pmormr wrote:Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 3:55pm
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doesn't necessarially need to be state of the art... just as long as it protects your computers ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 6:31pm
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A free one is at http://www.free-av.com - http://www.free-av.com . Works on servers too. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 10:06pm
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free av software... that's probably only a good option if you're a home user who doesn't care what happens to their computer ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 26 May 2004 at 12:46pm
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I have Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security 2002 and I'm quite
satisfied.. Most of my email viruses get caught by the server, but
those who reaches me get deleted by my AV.. I didn't get Sasser either,
even though my firewall was disabled, Windows wasn't updated with the
required patches, and I didn't have the latest Virus definitions.. It's quite good, and much better than Norton.. I installed NIS on my parents' P-III 500 w/256 SD and the whole computer just slowed and almost stopped when doing simple tasks like opening word, IE and my computer, even when launching the start menu! I uninstalled it and everything went as fast (  ) as before. Installed PC-Cillin and didn't notice any difference.. only in the startup.. but not much |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 27 May 2004 at 11:07pm
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Quite frankly NAV Corporate is like the name says for Corporations and if you paid the money for it you are ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
if not, well you use it illegally. I don't have a problem with NAV on my PC but am actually happy with Innoculate from CA.Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 11:35am
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Pirated anti-virus software is just a very very very bad idea... Kind of like... well... I'll skip the condom comparison... ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 11:36am
lol
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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 3:04pm
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believe it or not NAV is legal... my uncle works in the IT department of a company and he was able to get me some licences ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 3:05pm
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